One year, you see, is representing the perfect time frame in which we can reflect upon success of any kind; time frame in which we can see personal development for the person it helped us to transform into; time frame in which it is hard to delude ourselves over what went right and what went wrong.
And while this way of observing the previous year calls forth for a parallel and almost symmetric expectation of the next, I have a slightly different idea.
With this year coming to an end I thought it would be interesting to make a recap of all the best material I stumbled across throughout the net. Following many blogs myself, I picked the 12 posts that had the biggest influence on me in this previous year.
Being a personal development junkie, running this blog and writing many articles on the subject, I thought that sharing these articles would serve both as a reminder of all the things that I, myself, should implement, as well as offer you a great resource for building your New Year’s resolutions, or just level up your self-improvement game.
For today we have a special guest here at Lifestyle Updated, someone who really walks the walk in terms of personal development and self-actualization, and one of the best personal development bloggers in the world.
A published author, blogger, entrepreneur, avid surfer, and overall a great guy I feel like there is no need for further introduction – we have with us Srinivas Rao, the author of The Skool of Life.
Aside of being one of the best personal development bloggers in the world, Srini is unique in the sense of working hard on the things that he love, as well as enjoying life full time – the two things which he advocates the most.
Learning from experiences is one of the ways in which we decide to cultivate more of what we like about ourselves as opposed to just randomly accepting every way in which we react.
Your habits, priorities, ways in which you interact with people and work that you love, even how your perception is being shaped… All of this partially came from learning from your experiences. We are sum of our experiences, hence they are priceless. What you and I are today is due to what we have experienced and how we decided to label that.
Everything that we do and everything that we are is partially shaped by what we believe is possible.
Try making a high jump without believing that you can reach the bar. I guarantee you that you will fail nine out of ten times. And this is only an apparent physical limitation that our beliefs bestow upon our body. The mind controls everything.
But what is more frightening is the fact that our beliefs also dictate what we are willing to try, what we are willing to accomplish. And this picture paints itself over the long run. Over the course of our lives.