#self-improvement

[in-tenebris-et-in-solitudine]

#forgiveness #self-compassion #self-love #self-acceptance #personal growth #healing #moving on #letting go #new beginnings #fresh starts #personal development #self-improvement

[yousaveeveryonebutwhosavesyou]

If you are reading this, you have survived your entire life up until this point. You have survived your traumas, your mental health, the heartbreak, the devastation, and the different phases of life and here you are. STILL ALIVE AND FIGHTING, I HOPE YOU ARE ABLE TO CONTINUE YOUR JOURNEY IN LIFE, JUST MAKE SURE THAT YOU, TAKE EACH MINUTE, EACH HOUR, OR EACH DAY AT A TIME. I BELIEVE IN YOU. STAY STRONG.

#mental health #mental illness #depression #anxiety #bpd #bipolar #ptsd #cptsd #trauma #traumatized #suicide #suicide prevention #mental wellbeing #positivity #reminder #self-care #self-love #self-improvement

[blackswaneuroparedux]

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

- Ernest Hemingway

#hemingway #ernest hemingway #quote #masculinity #nobility #character #self-improvement #men #icon

[389]

Observe Accept Release Transform ♾ Project Lobster

#graphic design #art #poster #posters #wisdom #self-improvement #project lobster #yung pueblo #u #z #v

[michaelbogild]

The human mind has an eternal attraction to conclusions

...that are often but confusions. And that is why we suffer.

“Question your thoughts. Question your stories. Question your assumptions. Question your opinions. Question your conclusions. Question them all into utter emptiness, stillness and joy. The keys to freedom are in your hands. Use them.” — Adyashanti

#self help #self-help #self improvement #self-improvement #psychology #spirituality #motivation #philosophy #quote #quotes #selfcare #self care #logic #reason #intelligence #iq #psych

[a-girl-reborn]

stop saying beauty is pain; it's not

beauty is work. beauty is effort. but it is not pain

if i had known this when i was wee, it would honestly serve me so well. i twisted myself every-which-way for beauty. it's human nature, i think, to want to be beautiful

if you want to be beautiful, absolutely gorgeous? drop the diets and rigorous exercise and what not. start eating (actually) healthy - eating nutritious, tasty foods without calorie counting, start hydrating, start sleeping enough, exercise as much as your body let's you, take care of your hair and nails, stay moisturized, and most importantly, focus on being a kind, wise, happy person; beauty will come to you on its own

#self-improvement #wonyoungism #it girl #coquette #doelette #dollette #girlblogging #girlcore #beauty #glow up #2024 #self help #self care #self love #self improvement

[needtobeehealthy]

#self care #self love #self help #self-improvement #self improvement #note to self #freakout

[8thhousegoth]

Unless you learn to face your own shadows, you will continue to see them in others, because the world outside of you is only a reflection of the world inside you.

Carl Jung

#psychology #occult #shadow work #self-improvement #carl jung #magick #witchcraft #manifestation #quote #quotes

[moonlit-tulip]

I think it was probably very good for me, in my childhood-to-early-teenagerhood, that I was able to be one of the most skilled / competent people within my social sphere, for one of my social spheres.

Specifically: there was this browser game site, Funorb, that used to exist. And I played games on it a lot, and was pretty competitive about it. There weren't official all-time highscores, but there were official records of who'd done the best at achievement hunting across the site's games, and there were unofficial all-time highscores, and I did my best to climb towards the top of several of these. I never got #1 anywhere, but at my peak I was somewhere around #10 on the achievement-hunting scoreboard, and there were several games in which I was able to get to the #2 or #3 slot on the all-time highscores.

And this helped me a lot, psychologically, on multiple axes. It let me develop a sense of what it's like from the inside to be an expert in a field, and to chat with and learn from the other experts. It let me build an intuition that getting really good at a thing is possible, that it's an option available to me, even if it might be hard and take practice. It let me learn how to become good at things, on the practice-techniques level. In general, it... trained me in what it's like to be more successful at something than most people are? Which is a useful thing to be trained in, for almost any goals a person might want to pursue!

(Not the only useful thing, by any means. Most of my particularly-ambitious projects post-Funorb, thus far, have mostly fallen down for reasons such as lack of project-management skill, executive dysfunction, the projects taking long enough for me to lose interest and go off to do other things instead, and so forth. But a useful thing. One important one among many, good for building momentum and un-greying options.)

The question, then, is: how can we scale this? Funorb had ~300,000 accounts with at least one achievement unlocked in at least one game, of which at least a few thousand were reasonably active for a reasonably long time, and the impact of being among the top players would have been much less if the pool had been smaller. But then what about everyone who wasn't one of the top players, who just played casually at the mid-tier of a handful of games? How can we arrange things so they, too, get the chance to have that experience of Unusual Competence?

The answer, I think, is siloing. Don't just have a single metric of competence; have lots of them, such that a person can become an outlierly expert in a small handful while others do the same elsewhere, and thus everyone can get the experience of being an outlierly expert at something. Which Funorb, in fact, did! It had a few dozen games, many of which had multiple modes. I was one of the top players overall, sure, but the place where I had the most visceral sense of expertise wasn't for my overall rank but rather in the specific games and modes where I was one of the all-time top players. And there were relatively few such games! Only four coming to mind off the top of my head, and perhaps another few I'm forgetting right now, out of the ~40 on the site.

Actually implementing this at maximum society-wide scale—engineering the world to allow any kid who wants to to get to experience being a world-class expert at something, and have it be real and not a fake participation prize, because lots of other people genuinely have done that same thing in a non-expert capacity—seems likely to be hard. And it's not the sort of ambitious society-engineering project I myself expect to find my comparative advantage in, relative to various others that I've been scheming about over the past year or two. But it is, I think, a worthy project in the abstract, one that I hope someone figures out some way to implement.

#Archive #Self-Improvement #Gradient Ascent Towards Utopia #Funorb

[the-healing-mindset]

If you define your worthiness of love by the worthiness that others see, you will always find a flaw within yourself, when the simple truth might be you're looking for your worth in the wrong place.

Najwa Zebian

#self-help #self-worth #self-esteem #self-love #self-improvement #quotes #Najwa Zebian #life #living #worth #social interactions #social media #love #growth #healing #recovery #reminder #gentle reminder #value #values #principles #feelings #emotions #flaws

[lifeinpoetry]

Self-Improvement

It’s 52 o’clock & the Project of You has begun anew: quit drinking again, start jogging. Floss. Get a clue about what-it-all-means, what you mean to do. Wake before noon now & then. Mend the broken yolk of your mind; bail its sunk boat. Meditate. And for God’s sake, eat more fruit. See the dentist & proctologist; have some fun. Commit at least one unoriginal sin (with a condom, please, & without a gun). Go to the barn, burn it down, burn the day. Then you can see the moon, without yourself in the way.

— Rebecca Foust, from Only

#quote #Rebecca Foust #poetry #Only #out of my collection #Self-Improvement

[in-tenebris-et-in-solitudine]

#forgiveness #letting go #moving on #healing #peace #happiness #positivity #self-love #self-care #mental health #emotional well-being #personal growth #self-improvement

[rosewithsparkle]

What to do when you have a lot of tasks to catch up on

1. Deep breath

Sometimes it's stressful and really scary to just start. That's because you need to drink some warm tea and just take a deep breath. Take it easy and turn off all devices except the ones you need to work.

2. Isolate

If you are in this situation, you probably have a problem with distractions. Isolate yourself from any activities, no matter if they seem useful to you, you should concentrate on the most important things.

3. Start!

Get started, overcome that fear of taking the first step. Don't pay attention to the anxiety that arises, imagine that you are just on the sidelines. As soon as you start working, the unpleasant sensations will gradually recede.

4. Rest

Don't make it unpleasant by not allowing yourself to rest. Work as long as you have the energy, it's easier when you know that you will definitely have a rest afterwards. Always take breaks, but don't pick up your phone or anything else you might be procrastinating.

5. Congrats!

Now you're off to a great start, and you'll definitely accomplish some of what you've planned. It may not be a long session, but focus on productivity, not time.

Everything is possible ₊˚⊹⋆

#productivity 🐈‍⬛ ྀི #studying 🐈‍⬛ ྀི #self-improvement #study motivation #studyspo #productivity #study inspiration #study aesthetic #studying #glow up #productivityboost #motivation #girlblogger

[thelucidestofthemall]

Self-improvement has turned into a bizarre masochism ritual. Saw a YT short with a woman going through a "hard 75 challenge" and one of the requirements was TWO WORKOUTS A DAY. First of all, who has time for all that? Second of all, there is quite literally no point to a workout if you cannot let your body recover and grow. You actually may just be destroying it.

Then another requirement was reading, but only non-fiction books. Now I get that a lot of non-fiction readers consume over-glorified smut but there is a fine line between that and classics that enrich your life. And I would rather talk to a person who has read 5 classic literature books than a guy who slammed through 50 self-improvement books

#self-improvement

[namitha]

Acknowledge the aspects within yourself that require change, lest those very traits hinder your ability to transform.

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#change traits before they control #reminder to myself #self-awareness #personal development #transformation #self-improvement #inner growth #self-reflection #overcoming obstacles #change #self-acceptance

[raffaellopalandri]

The choice is ours

Everything we face or experience can be seen as an obstacle or as a great opportunity to learn, develop, and grow.The choice is ours.

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#awaken #Grow #Growth #QOTD #quote #Quote Of The Day #Raffaello Palandri #self-development #self-improvement #self-transformation #self-understanding #Stoic #Stoicism