Every day is a little life
One of the indisputable facts: major improvements take time. They do not happen quickly. But today, when everyone lives in hurry, and many products and services promise to solve any problem overnight, we expect to get an immediate satisfaction. We are discouraged and frustrated when it does not happen. However, if you take a commitment to learn something new every day by becoming a little stronger in a certain area, then, ultimately, after some period (it depends on you) you will achieve what you want. And it always happens, with no exceptions.
Mastering of any skill takes time. You have to keep practicing. You need to sharpen your skills through ongoing application. It takes years to gain a deep experience that will provide you with expertise, understanding and wisdom. Every book you are reading, each course you are taking, each experience you gain serve as construction bricks of your career and life.Do not steal from yourself, by refusing from the opening opportunity by saying that you are not ready.
Make sure you to do your homework and sharpen your skills. The actors have to pass a lot of trainings - acting classes, amateur theaters, performances, additional courses or classes of vocal and dances, studying martial arts, horse riding, execution of bit roles - until the day when they get a role of their dreams. Successful basketball players learn to make shots more accurately and stronger. Artists are experimenting with different techniques. Airline pilots pass trainings for each kind of emergency in a flight simulator. Doctors continuously learn new procedures and treatments. All of them are engaged in a constant and endless self-development.
Make a commitment to get a single improvementevery day by all available means. If you do, you will enjoy the growth of self-confidence, self-esteem, and the ultimate success following you everywhere.
Leonid Bugaev, former technical director at the Studio Art Lebedev and founder of the "Academy of Experts" and digital-agency «Nordic Agency AB», author of bestsellers on mobile marketing, advised me during an interview to combine hard planning of the day with flexible one, and thereby implement daily plans by 120% instead of 100%. How is it possible? Simply by doing more than was planned!
Practice
However, we will talk about planning and goals later. In the meantime, let’s briefly repeat what you should do for developing your mind and character.
Learn foreign languages, solve puzzles and mathematical problems.
Make it an everyday rule to read at least 20 pages of the book that is of interest for you.
Choose a topic, which you are not very good at, try to understand it yourself, and then try to talk to someone. This will help to continuously expand your horizons, learn new things instead of hanging up on same things.
Do a self-analysis. Write down your strengths and weaknesses. What traits of your character do help you in your life, and which don’t? Make a table with the columns "I'm real" and "I'm perfect" and relate them: what do want to change right now? Do not be afraid of changing, you will be getting only better!