Why do persons accept as truth the notion that living a disciplined life is monotonous, and why do individuals allow these beliefs to guide them to feel trapped in a mundane life? I believe that having self-control is NOT tedious, but more exactly the road to personal freedom. Discipline can lead you to what you are truly yearning for in life. Every day, the most successful people in life practice discipline. Boundaries lead to greater freedom when the discipline we establish allows for spaciousness in life. When we say yes to one thing, we are saying no to something else. Life is all about making choices. Discipline provides a person with the tools to control one’s urges, emotions, and behavior. Self-restraint allows a person to turn down instant gratification in favor of gaining the long-term satisfaction of achieving meaningful and lasting goals.

Discipline and personal self-restraint are fundamental principals for a healthy and functioning society and without them, communities around the world would be in complete disarray. As modern society continues to move faster and faster, people are increasingly susceptible to and unable or unwilling to look at the long-term effects of their actions. This further demonstrates why this is such a crucial skill to have in life. Next to having a life vision, self-discipline is the most critical component to achieving a goal. It provides you with the tools to overcome any obstacles that come your way on your path to achieving your life’s purpose.

Discipline as a key component to achieve happiness is a universal truth for all people and all beings. Spending money frivolously without financial self-control leads to uncontrollable debt and a life of scarceness. However, living on a budget and saving a portion of your income will eventually lead to feelings of abundance and freedom. Eating without limitations leads to health issues and excess weight, both of which will eventually limit your freedom. A daily schedule without any structure leads to idleness and inactivity.

A part of living life on purpose is developing self-discipline to achieve greatness. It takes hard work and determination to accomplish anything worthwhile. Deciding to be conscious of our habits, actions and behaviors leads to true lasting freedom. Creating unnecessary burdens by living life without care only leads to further hardship. Luck happens when hard work and self-discipline meet opportunity.

Mindful living, at times has the potential to be difficult and challenging, thus providing an individual with an easy excuse to point his or her finger towards other people and other social groups as the blame for their suffering. It is much simpler and quicker to look at external factors as the root cause to a person’s hardship, rather than the more difficult choice to gaze inward and examine a person’s own action and behaviors that lead to adversity. People can only control three things in life; how an individual thinks, how a person feels, and how he or she behaves. Every other event in life is an external factor that is out of his or her control.

What role does kindness and compassion play in bridging a world that is growing increasingly fragmented? At a pivotal point in a persons’ life, when hardship and difficultly causes feelings of despair and anger, in a reality that has less opportunity for comfort of living, it feels easier to be unkind; especially when a person feels that the universe is working against them. Being assertive or speaking an opinion does not have to equate to being mean; there are ways for an individual to standup for his or her beliefs while remaining polite, compassionate, and thoughtful towards other people and other beings.

Having money doesn’t equate to success. People who behave horribly for the pursuit of financial reward do so because they’re hurting and using money as a tool to heal their pain. However, Financial wealth does not ease suffering. Truly successful people, who live life without continuous suffering do so by being kind towards all beings, knowing how to give and receive love, live joyfully, and attract abundance through unselfishness. Kindness is a good habit that has a lasting effect that supports and reinforces the quest for the good life. Helping others bestows a sense of satisfaction, and over time people who do good deeds develop a friendly and joyful personality that attracts and magnetizes those they associate with and brings kindness their way.

Selfless acts of giving, be it a smile, a word of encouragement, or the offer of a helping hand, result in an emotional uplift not only for others, but also for the individual. When a person is healed and living a meaningful life filled with kindness, abundance flourishes and success manifests in all ways. It may be a bit less complicated than what think but to a happier life lies in a person innate power to be kind. People cannot afford to continue with the negative habit of being unkind toward other people and other beings. The easiest most real solution for supporting personal growth and healing the world is being kind towards others without exception. May all beings be happy and free may all peoples thoughts words and action contribute in someway to that happiness and to that freedom for all. Peace, Peace, Peace.

Although change is a natural state of life, coping with it can be difficult. When a person stops growing, they begin to die. Individuals need to constantly develop intellectually, emotionally and spiritually. A person grows and changes physically as they develop from infancy to adulthood and old age. They also grow and change emotionally with every experience, and grow intellectually as they respond to events and to the world. The challenge with change as a way to facilitate growth is learning to cope with transition.

Transition is a point in life when a person or individual changes from one state of consciousness or conditional understanding of the surrounding world to another state or condition. Every person goes through numerous transitions: graduating from high school, going off to college, entering the workforce, changing jobs, getting married, and having children. Change in a person’s life can be difficult. However, by developing the skills to navigate through periods of transition a person lives more mindfully and finds peace during difficult periods. Any transition that is permanent requires a person to alter their definition of the self, and a skilled person finds periods of transition to be rewarding and enjoyable. The ability to adapt during points of transition leads people to live more satisfying, enriched lives.

A person cannot control every facet of life and he or she cannot stop change from occurring. How a person responds to change will affect their overall life experience. We can only control three things in life:

1. How We think
2. How We feel
3. And How We Behave or React

 

Most people fear change. They prefer routine and stability, and with any kind of transition, this change disrupts self-confidence. Fear inhibits people from taking risks. When fear relates to a positive change, it is usually linked to a fear of not being able to achieve success. Some are overly concerned about not being capable enough or of being judged, as if dignity is only measured by their concept of success or winning.

 

Here are a few tips on how to deal with transition:

 

1. Acknowledge the change. The most important thing to do when change is happening in the workplace is to acknowledge it. Recognizing and accepting change is one of the first steps towards managing it.
2. Face your fears. When you fear change, take some time out for yourself. Writing down these fears in an objective form can stop you dwelling on them. Go through each fear and write down what you would do if that fear came to pass. Knowing you have a back-up plan can really help to defuse the emotional anxiety.
3. Break it down. Do a task analysis to break the transition into smaller steps so you can figure out where the problem is. Let’s take moving from computer time to another activity as a quick example:
4. Make the end obvious. Moving on to a new activity is difficult if you don’t realize that the old one is finished. Find ways to make it clear when a task is over – pull the picture from the schedule and put it in a ‘completed’ basket or have photos of what the finished task looks like.

Every person needs to express their feelings from time to time, and it is healthy for a person to have people in their life who will just listen and be supportive, even when a person is going through a hard period. However, there’s comes a point when an individual with good intentions can talk about their problems way too much, and even become addicted to negative experiences and emotions.

Every person sends out a conscious vibration, comprising of a person’s predominant thoughts and beliefs. As a result high vibration people have positive thoughts and feelings, and individuals who have negative thoughts and feelings emanate low vibrations. A person’s thoughts, words and actions become their reality, and every individual has periods of hardship. The process of living life on purpose and being a mindful individual occurs when a person no longer focuses on negative thoughts and beliefs, but rather consciously radiates high vibrations and understands that the current stresses of life are only obstacles on the path towards true happiness.

High vibrational consciousness establishes a healthy positive energy force that promotes healing and makes every person more beautiful on all levels. This vital healing energy supports a person’s physical, mental and emotional well-being and makes them stronger as well as happier. Low vibrational consciousness establishes harmful energy patterns that create stress and unhappiness, negatively affecting a person’s health and making them age more quickly.

The more you feel the need to share your problems with others, the more you are feeding into that negativity and pain.

• Towards yourself creating low self-esteem
• Towards your future prospects and relationships
• Towards current people in your life
• Towards events and activities
• Towards people’s actions
• Towards general groups and social circles
• Towards larger, more abstract organizations

All life is a pulsation of high points and low points. When a person’s vibration is low it will be evident and a simple solution is to bring awareness to this situation and then work on increasing a person’s vibration. Low vibrations are associated with darker qualities such as hatred, fear, greed and depression. Perhaps money no longer flows, a person’s health is poor, or negative people surround an individual. However, life is ever changing and with hard work and effort a person can shift their consciousness even in difficult situation and create a high vibrational life. When a person’s vibrations are high there is a beautiful sense of living in harmony and a person is generally associated with positive qualities and feelings, such as love, forgiveness, compassion and peace. Opportunities begin to flow freely into a person’s life, they surround themselves with high-quality people, and it becomes simpler to find happiness in life.

7 ways to raise your vibration.

1. Be mindful of your thoughts. Every thought, word or action becomes your reality. Change those negative thoughts for the positive, and your reality will likely become positive.
2. Appreciate the beauty in life. Beauty is all around us. Stop rushing from one moment to the next and take the time to stand in the sun, smell the roses and appreciate your surroundings.
3. Be conscious of the foods you eat. Some foods vibrate at high frequencies, and some lower. Foods covered in chemicals and pesticides, or foods found within plastic packaging will have you produce low vibrations. High-quality organic food will produce high vibrations
4. Drink water. Always ensure you drink plenty of water (filtered is best) to assist your body in flushing out toxicity day to day. Toxicity has a marked impact on our vibration, so we must do what we can to reduce its impact within us and around us.
5. Meditate. Meditation helps to calm your spirit down and put you in a peaceful state of mind. Just 10 minutes of meditation a day can change your life forever.
6. Be grateful. Making a gratitude list shifts your vibrations from focusing on what you don’t have to what is already abundant in your life. There is more to be grateful for than you could possibly imagine.
7. Practice acts of kindness. Giving to someone else (without expecting anything in return) shifts your thinking. Abundance is a high vibration. In the same vein, being kind puts you at a high vibration. Gossip or treat others badly and your vibration will suffer.

Personal growth is a lifelong pursuit to understand a person’s true higher self and their true purpose in life. When we stop growing, we die. We need to continuously develop intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually. We grow and change physically as we develop from infancy to adulthood and old age. We grow and change emotionally with every experience, and we grow intellectually as we respond to events and to the world around us. Anything that you want to remain in your life – your money, your health, your relationship, your happiness, love – must be cultivated, developed, and expanded. Otherwise, it will degenerate. Some people satisfy the need to grow by working out physically or by reading books. Others need to study and learn constantly in order to feel that they are truly growing

Growth is about personal investment in a person’s self and improving his or her skill set in order to manage life effectively and provide value to the community. Personal development allows a person to be proactive. Setting goals that are time sensitive causes a person to achieve their dreams in life. Luck happens when hard work meets opportunity. An individual is not born lucky but rather possesses the habit of personal development, continuously learning new skills to achieve the desired result in life. Truthfully, a person may not always achieve their vision in life, but he or she will experience a richer and more rewarding life when dedicated to regularly pursuing new goals and learning new skills. Making that commitment to personal development is the first step on the path to personal fulfillment.

Personal development is not achieved overnight and requires continuous effort and appreciation. With renewed self-confidence and the desire to seek more knowledge, you can hone your skills and become a successful individual, whether in your personal sphere or your professional life. With the right life skills, you can improve the understanding of who you are, achieve satisfaction, and live your life with awareness. May all beings be happy and free and may all our words thoughts and action contribute in some way to that happiness and to that freedom for all.

Here are a few Personal Growth Tips

 

1. Find your why. Your why is the purpose, cause, or belief that inspires you to do what you do. It is the thing that motivates you to get up every morning and work a little harder to get a little better. It is the thing that motivates you to get up every morning and work a little harder to get a little better
2. Find inspiration in others. Build relationships with role models or other successful people. Remember that you are the average of the five people you surround yourself with, so build relationships with leaders in your community and model your behavior after these thought leaders. Recognize in yourself the strengths you see in other people
3. Develop the habit of practice. The reality is that excellence and greatness cannot be achieved without hours and hours of practice and hard work. There are no exceptions to this rule. None. Personal growth and learning new skills is like physical strength, is something that develops slowly, almost unconsciously over time, given the right stimulus.