Self-Improvement

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Have you ever felt like your circumstances were trying to break you?

Just when you’ve improved your finances, your car breaks down. You wake up on the wrong side of the bed, come to work to a nagging boss and go home to an indifferent spouse. Every time you take a step forward, you take three back. Inevitably, just as you’re on the rise, something or someone tries to knock you down. If only life would give you a little bit of a break, you tell yourself, you’d have enough energy to make an effort to become successful.

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Your odds of success increase if you stop abusing yourself.

So what’s self-abuse? It’s whenever you insult, bully, judge, punish, or even overly-push yourself. Where, if you were to treat someone else the way you treat YOU, most people would think you’re being an asshole – that’s self-abuse.

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I have found that when I want to do something I shouldn’t do I think “Do I want to be the kind of person who does this?” or if there is something that I should do but am not doing I think

“Do I want to be the kind of person that doesn’t do this?”

Which reminds me of the gap between who I am and who I want to be and helps me move towards who I want to be.

Try it next time you think you shouldn’t do something but ignore that feeling, think, “Do I want to be the kind of person that does this?”

So sometimes you aren’t being better because you feel like being better, but simply because you see yourself in the future as someone who is better