Self-Growth & Management Tips

Self-management is one aspect of our lives                         
that requires a great deal of goal setting,
planning, and application of the set goals
with the sole aim of achieving a main
objective - happiness and a stress-free life.

In the course of this, we try so hard to figure
out the best and effective ways to manage
our time, energy and ourselves so as to live
happily and have fun along the way.

If you are able to come up with good and
effective ideas to develop a more productive
use of your time, energy and talents, you are
more likely to prevent stress or depression in
your life.

Staying productive and finding the right balance
between work and leisure requires effective
management of yourself. This means taking
account of your own energy, personal
preferences and arranging yourself so that you
can express who and what you are - in other
words, deciding for yourself how to organize
things so that there is time for different parts of
yourself - for instance, time for sport, quietness,
friendship, laughter, hard work etc. etc.

You also need to learn to take an objective overview
so that you can ask yourself the question ''What
do I need from myself in my life now?''

The tips and advice below could help you get the
best of yourself out of yourself just like it did to me:

1. Planning your daily life: One aspect of self-management
that you can easily arrange is the planning of your daily
life so that each day you have something to look forward
to. If you have a game, a drink with a friend, a dinner, or
anything else that you enjoy, arrange for the evening, you
will probably feel differently about the whole day. The same
way, if you arrange something that gives you pleasure at the
weekend, it can change the feeling of the whole week. It takes
practice to organize yourself enough so that there are things
to look forward to, but not to such an extent that the activities
become a scheduling pressure.

2. Give yourself the things that bring joy into your heart: It may
be sipping freshly squeezed orange juice at the beginning of the
day, it may be buying something for yourself that makes you
feel good, or listening to a piece of music you love. A good
party, a challenging sport, a moment of quiet meditation or an
intimate talk with a friend, may all, at different times, fill the
spirit. It is often such things that make life worth living.

3. Accepting change: Good self-management requires the
ability to recognise between the times when it is wise to make
a stand and the times when change is necessary. If you can
enjoy the process of change rather than focus on future results,
you cannot be depressed. May be, this is why young kids hardly
ever get depressed.

4. Keeping you inner vitality: To maintain an energetic life without
loss of enthusiasm, you may need to question some of your personal
priorities. For instance, do you run your work or does your work
run you? If you feel you are run by your life`spressure, then your
own force is depressed.

5. Keeping your spirit alive: Maintaining a life of enjoyable productive
requires a degree of hard work: it takes both effort and creativity to
keep your body in trim, your mind active, and your feelings moving,
and it is sometimes difficult to preserve when there are no clear routes
and no guarantees. However, if you are willing to look at and experiment
with your choices, you can discover the pleasure of your own vital style.
When you are enjoyably productive you can give from the heart, and the
more you give from your heart, the more energy you can feel within. The
vital energy cannot be depressed by any outward circumstance.

" Don't let your emotions control your personality; let your personality control your emotions." 
   Unknown Author.