To enhance self improvement we have to controll our thoughts.
Our life is often put into several categories. God, family, career,friends ect. The importance of each categories seems to vary from time to time depending on what is going on in our life from day to day.
One of the problems I have is when one area of my life is down. It can and does effect the other areas. When we spend eighty five percent of our life talking to ourselves if we are having a bad day you can imagine the kind of talking we are doing.
How do we know if we are having good thoughts or depressing thoughts, our emotions will tell us. If we are having a day where nothing goes right then we definitely have to work on our self talk.
It is essential for me to have some really great things to say about myself and my world. I don't believe that you can just say any thing, each area of your life you need to have several positive uplifting affirmations, so where ever the sadness is coming from you can counteract it. I never accomplish much when I'm in the dumps. Plus I don't feel good about myself.
There are many places where you can get wonderful affirmations for the different areas of your life. There many books and courses on affirmations. You can certainly make your own. Also you can go to the bible or other spiritual books. Or sing one of your favorite up lifting songs and sing it loud.
One authority on self talk says that it only takes thirty second to change our attitude, since we can only think about one thing at a time it doesn't take long to get ourselves out of the dumps if we have a good song to sing, or some great uplifting affirmations to repeat to ourselves.
We don't always realize that we are sabatoging our day when something gets into our head early in the day and before we realize our day is being ruined because of our thoughts. One thing we can do which takes no effort is get some subliminal tapes. There are a large number of subliminal tapes on any topic that you can imagine. Just google subliminal tapes and look at all your options order what you want you may even be able to get them from a library after you get the tapes then put them on a cassette or down load them to a one of the many small ipods or some thing like it and listen all day long they don't require any thought or concentration but they do get to your subconsious mind and I know they work for me.
Self Improvement doesen't have to be hard or time consuming it can actually be fun with the wonderful dreams you can create for your future life.