Self Improvement Mandate Act Five

How ya doin’ Sledger’s?

Well it’s Friday so I hope this final enactment of the Self Improvement Mandate meets you in good spirits

Daily Self Improvement Routine

This final part is about pulling it all together and creating a daily self improvement routine. Most people that are striving for success fail to adopt the skills they have learned into a daily ritual. Self Improvement is like developing any other skill - it needs to become a habit and in a short time it will be on auto pilot.

Reinforce Your Subconscious Mind

When you start out on your self improvement quest, your subconscious mind believes that this will be another half hearted attempt to acquire new skills. This is especially true if you have a history of starting things and not following through on them - this used to be a massive problem for me The more that you practice self improvement, the more this reinforces the belief systems in your subconscious mind that you really do mean it and that your not dicking around as usual.

Daily Self Improvement Mandate

OK so here’s what you need to do:

1. Make sure that you live and breath your goals

You will of course have decided on your goals and written them down! What you haven’t Go back to the self improvement mandate act two and get some goals! Now you want to make sure that you get the maximum exposure to your goals - so stick them everywhere! In your wallet or purse, in the crapper, on your PC screen, on the fridge and most importantly on the f@cking TV set!

2. Create a list of actions just before you go to sleep

This is very important. By preparing your list just before you retire you feed your subconscious mind and it will actually help you to solve some of the issues on your list the next morning. “What have you been smoking Sledge?” Look this works OK. Just try it a few times.

Now I want to mention something about “to do” lists here. It really isn’t important to have hundreds of actions on your to do list. Size really doesn’t matter here What is important is that each day you do something - yes that means the weekends too. Now before you all start a hate mail campaign about how precious the weekend is and how I should be strung up by the testicles for even suggesting this let me explain further. As long as you have one action on your list for Saturday and Sunday that’s OK. I always choose thinking actions for the weekend - for example I will ask myself “how can I get more visitors to Ask Sledge”. Then I will get on with doing weekend stuff and answers will just come into my head. All I do then is write them down and take action on them on Monday.

Overcoming procrastination is essential here.

3. Get inspired every day

How do you feel each day when you wake up in the morning? Do you feel like you are facing a day of crap again or do you feel excited about the challenges that the day ahead will bring you? Now which one do you think that I am recommending here? Duh! You really need to get into the habit of starting your day off right. Be grateful for your stuff. Think about that when you awake. Play some inspiring music. Just get yourself excited! I will leave this to your imagination as everybody will find different things inspiring and exciting.

4. Shit happens

Some days people and things will conspire to totally f@ck up your day. You will be looking forward to steaming into your actions and suddenly your mother in law will turn up and want to monopolize all of your time complaining about her piles. Now this happens to successful people too and you just have to accept that it will happen to you sometimes and deal with it effectively. If your day has been totally lost to one of these events then don’t hate yourself, or the person that messed it up, for not completing your actions. Just resolve to work even harder the next day to catch up. Before you sleep read in your head each action to stimulate your subconscious mind to help you.

The important thing to remember is to keep your goals and actions in your thoughts and do something each day. Even if this is just revisiting what you couldn’t achieve today this is good. Keep the momentum going.

5. Don’t Give Up

Never give up your quest for self improvement excellence. “Well that’s easy to say Sledge but sometimes life gets in the way” Bullshit! Just don’t let it.

It’s your life OK. None of the things that I have include in this daily self improvement mandate are difficult are they? If you think so then you really need to go back to the self improvement mandate act one and start over. Come on - you know you can do this.

And that concludes the self improvement mandate series. I hope that you enjoyed them but that’s not really important - acting on the advice I have given you is what it’s all about.

So go do it my friend - make self improvement the most important thing in your daily life.

See ya’

Sledge

Posted on March 7th, 2008 by Sledge
Filed under: Self Improvement