Self Improvement

[zekko]

I've been thinking about self improvement lately. After all, the unofficial motto on this forum is "work on yourself", right? So I started thinking about the general categories that you could improve yourself in. This probably makes it easier to identify areas you can work on. Here's what I came up with:

1. Finances
2. Physical
3. Social
4. Mental/Spiritual
5. Hobbies/Skills

Then you could break these down into subcategories:

1. FINANCES
generate more income
work on career
spend less
budget better

2. PHYSICAL
diet/nutrition
exercise
manage any diseases (quit smoking for example), dental care, health care

3. SOCIAL
love life
sex life
relationships, friends, family
grooming, hygiene, style, appearance (improve your wardrobe or whatever)
converstaional skills

4. Mental/Spiritual
Inner Peace
Inner Dialogue
Reading to increase knowledge, either generally or specific areas, current events

5. Hobbies/Skills
improve skill in sports or hobbies you're interested in
create something, if you're into carpentry make a piece of furniture, if you're a musician write a new song, if you're a painter paint a picture, etc.


I think most everything you can improve can be put into one of those five categories. Anybody have anything else to add?

 

[PuertoRicanGuitars]

I have been wanting to make a self improvement journal for a while. You made the organization a lot easier! Maybe you could add places to socialize under social? It looked very dead on though, maybe there isn't much to add then?


Could you clarify inner peace and inner dialogue?

 

[zekko]

It looked very dead on though, maybe there isn't much to add then?

Thanks for taking the time to comment. I do think the five categories are pretty complete, but obviously it can be better organized into subcategories for sure.
I was thinking one area that a lot of people need to improve on is time management. I suppose that would go under Mental though.

Could you clarify inner peace and inner dialogue?

Inner Dialogue is just basically what they call Inner Game around here. How you talk to yourself, not being negative. Thinking "I'm the sh!t" instead of "I'm a loser". Being confident.

Inner Peace is trickier. Some people are generally happy and at peace and other people live their lives in turmoil. Some people don't know how to be happy, or calm. For some people, spirtuality is not very important - for others it's very important. So I wanted something to address that without getting specifically into one religion, because I'm sure people here have a wide variety of beliefs.