Hi everyone!!

In this first post I'd like to introduce you to self help and more precisely how to sort out and integrate the informations you're and will be learning within self help procducts. So what is what is self-help? Self-help or self-improvement is simply a mean of making yourself and your life better. That's a simple definition and it should be because self-improvement should not have to be long and hard! But nowadays there's so much self helps books, dvds,CD's, seminars and whatever that's for many people it can be really confusing, I mean you read one book that say ''do that and that and you'll be happy forever'' and then you read another that say '' no no no! don't do that you'll never be happy that way! Do this and that and this... ''. Anyway you get the point, with so many conflicting ideas out there it's hard to find whats really true and working for you.

So how do you incorporate these informations to your life? There's three principles I've listed that will help you with that. Here they are :

Number 1 : Take action and find what work for you!

- Let's face it, you can't be 100% sure of what is the best way to go if you don't try it! Experiment with different ideas, don't be fanatic about some gurus ideas, be scientific about it, view yourself as an experimentator. Also remember that what your friend or whoever say work best doesn't mean it's what work best for you!

Number 2 : Balance is best!

- There's something I like to call the self-improvement pyramid. It's made of three equal triangles of equal importance. They are the basic areas in which you should direct your efort to improve yourself. These three area are ; physical improvement, psychological improvement and financial improvement. Let's make a quick overview of each one.

Physical improvement

- Physical improvement is based on your health, fitness level, and physical appearance. This is probably the most underestimate area of improvement for most people! Don't make the mistake of underestimating this area, it's really important because it allow you more success in the others two areas.

Psychological improvement

- This is the category where most self help program fall into, it's about your emotional health, hapiness, stress management, spiritual practise(s), etc. It's really important for the other two areas.

Financial improvement

- I won't go into detail about this category because I'm not the person to ask about financial improvement! I'm beginning my journey toward this area, so you won't see so much post about it in this blog! But keep in mind this area is of great important! Can you be healthy,maintain a good level of fitness, stay happy and improve yourself without money? I don't think so...

So the second point is all about being balanced in your attemp to improve yourself, all improvement in any of these areas will affect the other two. You can go out of balance in one or two area but only to help in the other area of improvement, also remember that you'll need to go back to a more balanced way the sooner you can!

Number 3 : You need to set goal and set them the right way!
-Now that you know about the ''Self-help pyramid'' you need to set goals in each category (if necessary).

Here's some general guidelines about writting down your goal.

- State goals in the positive, you want to focus on what you DO want not what you don't!
- Be specific about your goals, don't hesitate to go in great details.
- Take into consideration what achieving your goal will have as an effect on your life, and life of others aroud you.
- Ask yourself : ''Am i in control of how I will achieve this goal?''. For example, winning the lottery would not be a realistic goal... but losing weight is because you're control about your weight.
- Write down how you'll know that you achieved your goal, what diference will it make in your life.

That's about it for how to set goals, I'll go in more details on goals setting later on in this blog.

Now that you're armed with three basic but efficient principles that will help in you search of self-improvement you should be well on your way!

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Thank you

Seb.