The best way to improve yourself
Let me guess, the new year is coming and with it, new goals in your life, maybe learn a new language or play an instrument, perhaps go to the gym or even better, learn how to cook poached eggs. Wow, sounds really complicated! But you can see the people on the television, surfing on the internet or even around you, like a familiar, look at him/her playing that instrument so perfect or speaking perfect Spanish. Ok, you make your mind up, this year you will start to learn from 1st January.
You almost see fulfilled yourself, but wait, this kills can be not easy, it needs time, so much time and start having any clue when other now how to do it already, ufff… what a bore! you find it out a little bit more and you see yourself 1 year in advance and you will not even get the objective you have in mind. So much stress… “I think, perhaps I will do as the other years and I will try to start it”, you say to yourself, but I will see is harder than I have thought and I let it go, anyway I have been living without it since now and I had no troubles.
What about if I say to you that is not tedious or stressful as you imagine it, even you can make your dreams true and you need just one thing, obviously now one will give it to you but is not as painful as you imagine it, actually, maybe after a while you will see that you advanced and it can motivate you more to continue. But, what is that thing I am talking about? That magic secret which everybody could yield good results and enjoy developing him/herself. Well, everything you need is a habit, easy, is it not? But… how can I get it? To be honest, perhaps you have a lot of habits already and you do not even know it; go to work, prepare a coffee after arriving at work or leaving home, 5 minutes playing with the mobile before going to bed o say to your love how much do you love him/her before going to sleep.
Habits, that things that you do without even realize it. But, how have you made it? When you born, you had no habits at all, it does not exist something defined that we have to do, we just cry when we are hungry and sleep. Whenever you grow up we see the people around and we imitate few routines; wash our teeth after lunch or make the bed when we wake up. It was not hard, painful neither. Then let’s see how can we get it to improve yourself at any point in your life.
Let’s say we want to learn a new language and you want to start the next year how we were talking at the beginning. Why the next year? Why not right now? You do not need a right day to start to learn! But it is a bit suffocating, a language is hard to learn and it requires a lot of time, so we can make it easier, you are going to start today and it will not be painful! Right now meanwhile you read this you are going to a dictionary or translator and you are going to search a word in that language, perhaps the dictionary or translator has the word pronunciation, so hear it and repeat it 10 times.
There you go! You started to learn! You know a new word in that language! You think is not much but is more than you knew 1 minute ago, what about if before going to sleep every day you search and you go over to not forget it? Well, that could be, 7 words per week! And, what about, in the second week, instead of 1 word you search 2? Would be 14 words per week! And at the beginning of the third week, you learn 3 every day? That would be 21 per week, 84 per month, 1008 per year! You could make yourself understood in that language in 1 year just learning 3 words every day, less than 5 minutes.
Even with that, if you can make it for 20 days you have not even made any effort because of your brain will create an association before going to sleep to find a word and your brain will remember it to you.
As you can see, learn is easier than you believe and it requires too much effort as we think, is a healthy way to train your brain and motivation. Come on, the world is waiting for you!
