10 Habits to Embrace for Becoming
the Best Version of Myself
Making the best version of myself is not a destination but a journey with the need of a lot of discipline. By being the version of myself, I will find what are the things that I want to improve. Having a self-awareness is a big help to know what to change and improve.
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1. Being Consistent with the process of reaching my goals.
I love planning and imagining the things I want to make and achieve especially another year has started. In dealing with the journey of this, I always got a problem with inconsistency. I make a carefully structured plan - for example, a one month - plan with he steps I should do to reach the certain goals. I tend to be good at first but on the next days or weeks, I failed to do the tasks I need or planned.
In dealing with this, I need a discipline. A proper routine could be a big help too before starting the tasks. It's about getting ready like making dure that I have rested well and motivated to do the tasks. Having a good breakfast and doing a small exercise will be a great help.
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2. Prioritize Self-Care: A Key to Personal Well-Being
Prioritizing self-care includes physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual wellness. In physical wellness sector, I will start doing light exercises as I should to at the very first place because of my chronic illness. I will start my morning walking at the neighborhood while getting enough sunlight too. I already started eating healthy, but I still need more to lessen eating unhealthy foods. When the weather is getting cold too, I forgot drink water sometimes. In terms of mental wellness, I want to start by finding a new hobby that doesn't need to be excellent with - just enjoying like for example, a calming game like farming or building a house game. In that way, I step away from stressful events to take a break. Meditating or going out to nature will help too. For emotional wellness, I usually keep my feelings by myself but lately, I found out that sharing it with others or by at least journaling will make it at ease. Being knowledgeable with healthy boundaries will give an inner peace too. Enjoying and making a time with families and friends will help our social wellness. My social battery tends to drain very quickly but having a time with them gives me relaxation and learn new things from them. Since, I used to want to be alone, I will make sure to have time with them even in a short period of time. Last but not the least, my spiritual wellness, being active on church. Mostly I attend to church if there's only occasion, but I will try to be active as much as possible. Praying a rosary in our house become already a habit that should keep consistent.
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3. Practice Gratitude
Most people focus on negative happening around them and let's be real, it is hard to be positive all the time. In many things happening around me, I always start reminding myself with hope. With that, I can have patience that events around us are just temporary and better days will come. I want to be thankful for even smallest things in my life like still being a live, have food to eat, and I'm still with my family. Even rejections and failures make me be thankful as it will lead me to learn new things and do better next time or the universe is leading me away for the things I am not meant to be. Being thankful for the life we have makes it light or at ease.
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We have the choice to choose people around us, especially when it comes to friends or content we want to watch. The first thing we need to do is become self-aware how other people influence us. In my case, it's not just about feeling comfortable with them but being also aware about the impact they are doing in my life. Good thing, I have a good friend who knows my limitation and doesn't force me to the things I can't like drinking alcohol if there are events or even respecting my personal space. When it comes to contents, I try as much as possible the posts that stressful especially when I can't handle it depending on the situation I am in like for example, news. It gives negative impact sometimes if it's too overwhelming. When it comes to family, we tend to have family members that give negative impact to us so practicing ignorance specially for those nonsense things is a must.
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5. Learn New Things Everyday
Learning new things everyday doesn't need to be grand. Even scrolling in social media, I learn a lot of new things but only take the helpful things. Socializing helps me too to learn different kinds of people and help me to understand them so when I encountered another stranger again, I won't judge them but understand them first.
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6. Accept Failures
Failures are disappointing especially when we worked hard for that certain thing but one thing I learned and should be consistent with it was to continue seek failures and accept it. Instead of being disappointed and just be sad, learning from it will be great weapon for my next moves in the future.
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7. Build Emotional Intelligence
This has been open lately especially when it comes to romantic relationships and this has been I've been practicing recently, not just for romantic relationship but for also friends, family, and strangers. I honestly can't control my feelings nor understand what others came from if they did something, but we know that the world has been harsh to all of us, and we need to understand each other with proper approach. I'm trying to be patient, calming, and be comprehensible when it comes to communicating.
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8. Having a Growth Mindset rather than Fixed Mindset
We have our own beliefs and knowledge, pride, and dignity that we always hold. When it comes to having a growth mindset, I allow myself to always accept and respect what other believe in and acknowledge if there is something I know that doesn't make sense at all or something I believe in was wrong. This helps me to be better and gain more right information.
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As a student, I only have limited resources, so I started making contributions by creating handicrafts for my family and friends. However, in the future, I want to volunteer for a community and help them. Volunteering not only provides a sense of fulfillment, but it also allows me to focus on helping others while gaining valuable knowledge, experience and diverse living of people.
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None of us are perfect and surrounding ourselves with different people allow us to learn and grow by being open to their feedback and constructive criticism, we can identify areas where we need to improve or change. This is especially important when they want us to guide towards to the right path. Embracing the idea that we’re not always right helps us remain humble and receptive to learning from those around us, ultimately leading to personal growth and self-improvement.
