Curated Ideas on Self Improvement

James Clear is the author of the book 'Atomic Habits'.  Watch this talk where the author teaches us how to build the habits that we need to get the results that we want. Everybody wants a transformation - radical improvement on rapid success. But most people can't make it happen. We fail to realize that small habits and little choices are transforming us every day already. Atomic habits - the small improvements, tiny habits, little choices, are not just a cherry on top of our performance, not just like a nice thing to have, but actually can be the key that unlocks significant success. Many people think they lack Motivation but what they lack is Clarity. Give your goals a time and place to live in the world. Instead of waiting for a feeling of being motivated to do something on a given day we should instead take the 'decision making' out of this process by explicitly stating 'when, where, and how' we want to implement the habit. Eg: I want to exercise for 20 ...

Fears about failure, rejection, not being good enough etc, are the root causes of self-doubt, which is a story we tell ourselves that "we can't do something", "it's  not possible", "we'll get rejected and fail" etc.  This is the main reason why we don't get what we want.