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1、 Ten Tips For Self-improvementWhile I do not always end up managing to put each of the following tips into practice,I do make a big effort to do so each day. This is a list of my favorite tips to improvingyour life. All it takes is a little bit each day and you will see wondrous changes. Feelfree to

2、 add your own tips to the comments.Get off to a Good Start10.This means getting up early and eating breakfast. You will have much more energythroughout the day to follow the rest of these tips if you do! If you are so inclined, youcan even include a little exercise in your morning routine. If you li

3、ve with otherpeople you can try to use this opportunity to get everyone together at the table to eatin the mornings. This is a nice way to start the day and a good way to ensure openlines of communication in a very busy household.Keep a Schedule9.It is a very good idea to write down the tasks you ne

4、ed to achieve in each day. As youcomplete them, tick them off. You should not, however, feel like you are bound toyour list. If you dont manage to do everything, it doesnt matter move anyincomplete tasks from today on to tomorrows list. This is also a great help if you area procrastinator.Take a Bre

5、ak and have Fun8.If you spend too much time in front of the computer, at your desk, or doing whateverit is that your occupation requires, you should take a break. This doesnt mean youhave to take time off work it just means you should try to make better use of yournon-work time to do something fun.

6、I always have difficulty pulling myself away fromthe computer and as a result I dont go out as often as I should on the weekend or inthe evening. But every time I do I wonder why I havent done it sooner. This is agood way to develop new interests, and friends and to break up the monotony ofeveryday

7、life.Be Generous7.Generosity has a tendency to come back. By generosity I am not referring only tomoney. You can be generous with your smiles, your advice, and many other things.Always try to find a way to help others. One day you may be in great need and peopleyou know will be more likely to come t

8、o your aid when they know that you would do the same for them. You might know someone that could use help around the homefrom time to time not only are you doing a good thing by helping them out, but youmay also make a great new friend.Accept the things you cant Change6.When something bad happens in

9、 our lives, we try to fix them or change them. Butsometimes we cant. Often this leads us to spend hours moping and falling in todepression. If you can make yourself accept the things you cannot change you willbecome a much happier person. Acceptance of these situations also allows us to startfinding

10、 a way to cope much faster. For example, you may realize that you have only$10 left in your bank account that has to last the next 2 weeks. Instead of gettingdown about it, accept that you have no money and work out a way to survive on thatamount. You can save yourself from wasting hours in a bad mo

11、od by just getting onwith life. You will find much more serenity in life following this tip.5. Learn a New LanguageLearning another language is one of the best ways to improve your grasp on English.In my own experience, learning French at high school taught me so much more aboutgrammar than English

12、class ever did. In addition, when I later started studyingAncient Greek, I learnt a lot about the roots of English words something I havefound very useful in writing in the years since. As well as improving your knowledgeof English, if you learn a living language you increase the number of places yo

13、u mightlike to visit or make those holidays much more enjoyable by being able to speak tothe natives in their own tongue.Break the Chain4.If you have a lot of patterns in your life, try breaking them do something differentevery day. Lets say you always order the same meal at your regular Friday nigh

14、trestaurant. Why not try something else this Friday? Not only do you get to broadenyour experiences of life, you open up many doors for the future. Not long ago I wouldnever eat oriental foods or seafood. Then one day I decided that I would just try it.Seafood is now one of my favorite foods and I w

15、ould hate to be without it. Because Idiscovered that I love Thai and Chinese food, I can eat in any restaurant I want. That first step also meant that I am now willing to try absolutely any food (except maybethe ones on the Top 10 most Disgusting Foodslist). My disliking for those foods had amuch gr

16、eater impact as well I would only holiday in countries that had foods I feltsafe with. Since then I have been to Oriental countries and loved it.Face the Fear3.Every day you should do something you dont want to do or feel uncomfortabledoing. This varies in degrees for everyone, but we all have littl

17、e things we can startout with. For example, you may not go to the gym because you fear everyone lookingat you do it anyway! In no time you will be so much more confident that you abolishthe fear entirely and can move on to the next fear maybe even something bigger.Living a fearless life gives you a

18、confidence that is visible to others. Instead ofbuilding walls around ourselves, we should be tearing them down.Forget Goals Live for the Now2.Lists of this nature almost always tell you to set and write goals. I am going to tell youthe opposite. A very wise psychotherapist once told me that if you

19、set a goal, andachieve it, you are often left with an empty feeling because the goal is not what youthought it would be. Not only does it not satisfy, you inevitably end up missing out onso much life by striving to reach something in the future. Having said this, I dontthink you should ignore the fu

20、ture it is worth having some idea of what you mightlike to one day achieve but dont focus all of your energy on getting it. A goodexample of the difference is this: I have a goal to live in France. I spend 10 yearstrying to save up all my money so I can acheive that goal. In the meantime I am sobusy

21、 scrimping and saving, that I cant afford to go out with friends, I cant afford tolive in a nice home, and I am miserable because I am not living in France. On theother hand, if I simply decide that one day I would like to live in France, the idea is inmy mind, but I continue to live and enjoy my li

22、fe. In living my life, I am happy nowand not focused on a distant goal. If it happens, great. If it doesnt happen, I haventfailed at anything. But who knows what wonderful things may happen in my life inthe meantime? A very good fictitious example of this can be found in the filmAmerican Beauty. Don

23、t Procrastinate1.This is one I struggle with a lot in my own life. This has been a great challenge for meas I work from home, but taking this job has really helped me to stop putting thingsoff and take control of my life. The feeling after completing a task you would normallyput off is a great high

24、and certainly a much healthier one than some of the otherhighs in our lives. When you put something off, you are putting yourself intotime-debt. You have to pay that debt back and almost always you end up having to dothat at the most inconvenient time. By putting off writing an article for the site,

25、 forexample, I end up having to write one at 7 at night when I would rather be watching amovie and having a drink! Your life will become so much more organized if youfollow this rule.Bonus: Read the List Universe every dayScientific studies have proven that people who read the List Universe every day livemuch happier and fuller lives. Okay I made that up but do it anyway!