Improving Your Personal Growth for a Better Living

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I believe that everyone has areas in their lives that need at least some improvement. This thought, of course, stems from the idea that no one's perfect. It's great when people notice this about themselves and take action that leads to personal development and fulfillment.

The sad thing, however, is that although it's rather easy to realize these shortcomings in ourselves, most of us are afflicted with negative beliefs that hinder us from getting any better. We don't even try: "I was born like this so that's probably how I'm supposed to be." Sure, there is professional help available somewhere out there but it costs money and you first need to spend time looking for it.

Now, I don't have any statistics on this, but I'm also pretty sure that a lot of people are skeptical when it comes to self-help books. "Come on. They're just books. How can a single book change my life?" It's true that books alone don't change lives, but a good book can challenge and thus change beliefs, which in turn can lead to life-changing decisions. That's the first and most important change of all.

In the recent years I've been thinking of a way to reach out to more people, and let them know that their lives are mostly limited by their own (negative) beliefs. What a huge difference it would make if open-mindedness toward self-development spread to the mainstream.

For example, how could we go from

"I'm shy and average-looking, so I'm never gonna have a smart and beautiful girlfriend,"

to

"I'm gonna do whatever it takes to make myself irresistible to girls."

I think one way is to start with friends and family. Rather than be locked up in your own mind (which is fine too of course), you could share your own ideas and success stories with those people that are the most open-minded but seem to be struggling with certain things in life.

You'll notice that involving your friends also creates reciprocity as your buddies start getting in-tune with these ideas. They will be positively charged with life-changing energy, and they will reflect it back onto you as well. It's like creating your own mastermind club. And if your friends start spreading the same practices to their friends and so forth, it means that we're on the right track.

I'd love to hear your thoughts.

Great thread!

I used to be sceptical about self-help and laughed at people who listened to the likes of Tony Robbins. I hold a very different opinion today.

I got on the self improvement trail a couple of years ago after a bad breakup. I read a book called "The Game" and was captivated by the underground world of "pick-up artists" and began learning more from the various 'gurus'.

I became a lot more successful with women in the following year and noticed dramatic changes in myself. From there I kind of adapted the self-help approach to all the areas of my life that were lacking or weren't quite where I wanted them to be.

One of my best mentors was David DeAngelo (Some of you know him as Eban Pagan) and I credit him with my love of self-help and personal evolution. He's an amazing teacher with some very profound ideas about personal growth and finding your purpose in life.

I kind of take it for granted now but if I compare who I am today, to who I was only 2 and half years ago the changes are quite frightening. And that's not to say I'm by any means finished. Self-Improvement and learning are a way of life for me now. In fact, they're what brought me to IM and this forum.

The best advice I can give to anyone from what I have learned is.. find your purpose in life. From there the other steps start to seem obvious and everything you do will have a strong sense of meaning and direction to it.