Self-Improvement Archives

Accepting Your Emotions: Give Yourself Permission to Feel

Do you give yourself permission to feel what you feel? Do you allow yourself to struggle and even fail? Clinical psychologist and management consultant Susan David promotes emotional agility. That means having objectivity about what happens and how you feel and then deliberately responding in a healthy way. Part of emotional agility is accepting your emotions as they are. Read more to learn about the importance and the process of giving yourself permission to feel.

Ask “Why?” and “Why Not?” to Learn, Create, and Discover More

How often do you ask “Why?” How can asking “Why not?” lead you down exciting new paths? In A More Beautiful Question, Warren Berger highlights the fundamental questions (or question starters) “Why?” and “Why not?” He explains how these words form the basis of questions that can increase your knowledge, challenge your assumptions, and invoke your creativity to solve problems. Continue reading to discover the power of asking “Why?” and “Why not?”

How to Improve Your Self-Awareness: Exercises to Practice

How can you improve your self-awareness? What are good journaling exercises for self-awareness? According to The Source by Tara Swart, self-awareness is what helps you identify and take advantage of opportunities for change. She describes several journaling exercises that can increase your self-awareness. Let’s look at how to improve your self-awareness below.

How to Increase Neuroplasticity and Rewire the Brain

What are ways to rewire your brain? How can you increase neuroplasticity? Neural changes in the brain don’t happen easily or quickly. They require you to actively and regularly devote your whole brain to establishing and reinforcing these changes. Here’s how to increase neuroplasticity and rewire your brain.

How to Understand Your Feelings: Be Objective About Them

Are feelings experiences or truths? Are emotions connected to personality? How should your emotions about the past be understood differently from what you’re feeling right now? Susan David explains that most people react instinctively to their perceptions of events. She argues that you can break free of these controlling narratives by practicing emotional agility. She shares recommendations for understanding both your present and past emotions. Read more to learn how to understand your feelings by being objective about them.

Warren Berger’s A More Beautiful Question: Book Overview

What if you asked as many questions now as you did when you were a kid? What if you asked “What if?” more often? Warren Berger’s A More Beautiful Question urges you to recapture your childlike curiosity and inquisitive nature. Berger contends that, if you ask more questions (and the right questions), you’ll get more out of life both personally and professionally. Continue reading for an overview of this book that will help you be more reflective, insightful, and ultimately successful.

The 4 Fundamental Questions: Why, Why Not, What if, and How

Are you always that one person in the room who’s asking all the questions? Should you be? In A More Beautiful Question, author and journalist Warren Berger highlights four fundamental questions: Why, Why not, What if, and How. He calls them “beautiful questions” and contends that they form the basis of larger questions that can help you succeed in life both professionally and personally. Read more to relearn how to raise the questions you almost certainly asked all the time as a child.

How to Determine Your Values: Envision Your Ideal Life

Are your values based on the truth? Are they truly your own, or have they been imposed on you? Susan David advocates cultivating the skill of emotional agility, and she outlines four steps you can take to get there. The last step is to choose your values. It starts with figuring out whether your current values are based on reality and whether they’re truly your own, and it culminates in envisioning your future. Read more to discover how to determine your values with David’s process.

Immediate Action: Book Overview (Thibaut Meurisse)

What’s Immediate Action by Thibaut Meurisse about? Do you procrastinate on important tasks? What can you do to improve your focus? Procrastinators put off tasks that aren’t enjoyable, even when they know there are likely to be negative consequences. Personal development writer Thibaut Meurisse argues in his book Immediate Action that procrastination prevents us from reaching our goals. Read below for a brief Immediate Action book overview.

Tiny Tweaks: 3 Ways to Grow Through Gradual Change

Do you want to change but don’t know where to start? Does it seem overwhelming to you? Susan David says that emotional agility includes living by true values rather than false narratives. To shift in that direction, she recommends making tiny tweaks. This means making successful, gradual changes regarding your belief in your abilities, your attitude toward change, and your routines. Continue reading to learn about the tiny tweaks principle and how it can work for you.