10 Self Improvement Activities

These self improvement activities will help you become more productive, get into the positive state of mind and achieve better quality of life.

In this article you will also find out how to use your energy effectively, what is the quickest way to achieve personal growth and how to excel in every activity.

1st Self Improvement Activity: Use your energy on important things

If you want to succeed in life, you should not waste your energy on activities that do not bring any benefits.

Such useless activities include surfing the Internet without any purpose, watching TV, worrying and wasting money.

When you are involved in such activities, you have no or little energy left for activities that can create a better future. It is worth prioritising and accomplishing important tasks first, and then if you still have enough energy, you may decide to do the unimportant.

2nd Self Improvement Activity: Focus on one task at a time

If you want to get perfect results, you should only concentrate on one activity. This way all your energy will go into it and you will accomplish it perfectly.

If you waste your energy on several things at the same time, you will get average results because you will divide your energy between the activities.

3rd Self Improvement Activity: Control your thinking

To avoid chaos in your mind resulting in chaos in the outside world, you should try to observe your thoughts. Once you start doing that, you will notice how many negative thoughts you get daily.

By observing negative thinking you will be able to emotionally disengage from it. As a result, negative thinking will affect you less and you will notice that your days are getting more peaceful and positive.

4th Self Improvement Activity: Get organised

When you live in an organised manner, you do not suffer from stress and your life is peaceful and balanced.

To start living this way, you should start planning your day in advance. This will eliminate any stress caused by being late to a meeting or forgetting to complete some task.

You should also live in tidiness because by keeping your home clean you also keep your mental state clear and peaceful. Such mental state will benefit you in many ways, including improved memory and less negativity.

5th Self Improvement Activity: Live in the present


Although this self improvement activity may seem strange to you, it is a very important activity that many ignore. The majority of people do not live in the present. They either dwell on their past or daydream about the future. They seem to forget the most important time of all - the present.

You should enjoy every present moment because your current state of mind always manifests in the outside world, creating your future accordingly.

Therefore if your main mood is very positive, you will experience only happy days. However, if you dwell on negative thoughts, you are sure to encounter many obstacles and misfortunes in the present and days to come.

6th Self Improvement Activity: Complete each task in a perfect manner

Whenever you are working on some project, try to accomplish it in the best way possible. Always ask yourself 'Is this project turned out as perfect as it could possibly be?' If the answer is no, try to correct or add something to it until there is nothing that you can improve.

This way you will make sure that each single task you accomplish is done in an excellent manner. By doing this you will create successful future because you cannot possibly fail if you only get perfect results.

Also, when you entirely focus on one task excluding everything else, you will notice that you start enjoying the task. If you concentrate on the task but still do not enjoy it, that means that you probably see the task as a means to an end rather than the process.

You should start focusing on the process itself to find enjoyment in the task. Such enjoyment will fuel motivation and you will accomplish everything quicker and better.

If you enjoy your work, you will put only positive energy into it. As a result, your completed tasks will bring you success.

7th Self Improvement Activity: Challenge yourself

Nothing develops you more than challenges. Challenges force you to shift your comfort zone, experience new situations and make you grow. Without challenges life would be very boring and depressing.

Challenges are necessary for every human being who is seeking quality life. Only through trial and error you realise who you really are, which activities you like and what preferences you have.

You can easily measure the success of a person by the amount of challenges s/he had.

8th Self Improvement Activity: Read personal development books

There is nothing more important than searching information about self improvement. Without reading any self improvement books or articles you cannot improve yourself.

9th Self Improvement Activity: Socialize only with positive people

Positive people can inspire, empower and make you happy. It is so much worth to be at least once in a while with positive people rather than constantly spend time with negative friends or relatives.

If you spend your days with, for example, lazy people, you may notice that you are becoming lazy.

If all your friends' main qualities are negative, try to avoid all of them. This way you will not be affected in a negative way and after some time will start attracting positive people.

10th Self Improvement Activity: Exercise


Daily exercise develops determination, focus and patience. It improves your health and strengthens your body. It makes you more active, positive and invincible.

People who exercise every day are always perceived as strong-willed and disciplined.

Conclusion

These personal improvement activities are sure to put you on the track to success. I hope that you will apply the steps in this article and, as a result, will greatly improve the quality of your life.

Seminar on Forecasting and Lean Inventory Management

This program aims to discuss the best business practices which help in minimizing the total inventory in the supply chain. In this full day program the participants learn why it is necessary to forecast and apply different inventory control techniques to manage the stocks differently thus enabling to improve the overall efficiency of the supply chain.
It is expected that at the end of the program, the participants will have a good understanding of the various aspects that affect the supply chain efficiency which will help in their decision making process relating to forecasting and inventory management.
The various topics that would be covered are:
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Introduction
• The context within which modern supply management systems must operate.
• The role of stocks in the supply chain.
• The types of distribution system to be controlled
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Forecasting
• Classification of Forecasts
• Forecasting requirements for stock management
• Short-term forecasting techniques
• What can and cannot be forecast
• Short term forecasting methods using time series
• Forecasting error
• Factors in a successful forecasting system
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Supply Management
• To  understand the  factors that affect the supply management efficiency
• To  understand the need to change the way the purchasing function is carried out to improve the flow
• To understand the new methods of measuring the supply performance
• To understand the new methods of measuring the purchasing efficiency
• Case studies
• Performance measurements
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Inventory Management
• Pull vs. Push system
• Virtual stock management
• The effect of order quantity on stock levels
• Practical constraints in setting the order quantity
• The key cost elements
• Economic order quantity
• Coverage analysis
• Setting buffer stock levels
• To  understand the  factors that affect the inventory management efficiency
• To  understand the need to change the way the inventory management to be carried out to improve the flow
• To understand the new methods of measuring the inventory management efficiency
• Case study
• Sample data analysis to identify ABC classification, pick classification, frequency analysis, excess stocks, risk-of-run out , slow moving , obsolete / dying stocks

How to Build Trust to empower relations

 During my recent training on Management, the course of discussion slightly moved to the subject of Building Trust. Our trainer (my mentor as well) draw our attention to some important aspects of building trust. Since the idea of writing this article was originated during the training so I dedicate this article to my teacher, Georgie Collis, as she sowed the seed in my brain to produce this article.

     So, before we go in to the details on how to develop trust, let us understand what Trust is.

     Trust is the permanent certainty and confident expectation from someone for something. Lack of trust might lead to shattered relations so Trust is the most critical ingredient for strong relationship; the relation which can either be between Husband-Wife, Boss-Employee, Father-Son, Brother-Sister, supplier-customer and so on.

     Here are some recommended behaviours which you need to demonstrate in order to develop trust:

1- Being Responsible: ensure you are performing your day-to-day responsibilities and meeting the short-term and long term expectations by your dependants.

2- Listen: Listen, Listen, Listen. God has given you two ears and one tongue so you listen more and speak less. Effective Listening is a skill; develop this habit. Google it today and learn.

3- Being Truthful: Be honest and fair. Don't deceive someone. Remember the fact that building trust is tough but it takes seconds to have scratches-in-the-jewel which usually is very hard to recover.

4- Keeping Promise: your promise is your commitment with someone to do something, so don't break at any cost. In case you couldn't meet your promise, there is always a door for dialogue for re-consideration of things. In case of dialogues be fair, be truthful and be open. Confess the short comings on your end.

5- Consistent behaviour: the ever changing attitude is an indication of your non-predictive personality which is an anti-trust drive. So be consistent in what you speak and what you do.

6- Apologizing behaviour: Sorry is the best medicine in healing relationship complications. In fact, Sorry and Thanks are the two golden words which my Kindergarten going son has refreshed for me. Use them often and you will see massive improvements in your daily life.
 

20 Ways to Get Mentally Tough

1. When you face a setback, think of it as adefining moment that will lead to a future accomplishment.


2. When you encounter adversity, remember, the best don't just face adversity; they embrace it, knowing it's not a dead end but a detour to something greater and better.


3. When you face negative people, know that the key to life is to stay positive in the face of negativity, not in the absence of it. After all, everyone will have to overcome negativity to define themselves sand create their success.


4. When you face the nay sayer's, remember the people who believed in you and spoke positive words to you.


5. When you face critics, remember to tune them out and focus only on being the best you can be.


6. When you wake up in the morning, take a morning walk of gratitude and prayer. It will create a fertile mind ready for success.


7. When you fear, trust. Let your faith be greater than your doubt.


8. When you fail, find the lesson in it, and then recall a time when you have succeeded.


9. When you head into battle, visualize success.


10. When you are thinking about the past or worrying about the future, instead focus your energy on the present moment. The now is where your power is the greatest.


11. When you want to complain, instead identify a solution.


12. When your own self-doubt crowds your mind, weed it and replace it with positive thoughts and positives elf-talk.


13. When you feel distracted, focus on your breathing, observe your surroundings, clear your mind, and get into The Zone. The Zone is not a random event. It can be created.


14. When you feel all is impossible, know that with God all things are possible.


15. When you feel alone, think of all the people who have helped you along the way and who love and support you now.


16. When you feel lost, pray for guidance.


17. When you are tired and drained, remember to never, never, never give up. Finish Strong in everything you do.


18. When you feel like you can't do it, know that you can do all things through Him who gives you strength.


19. When you feel like your situation is beyond your control, pray and surrender. Focus on what you can control and let go of what you can't.


20. When you're in a high-pressure situation and the game is on the line, and everyone is watching you, remember to smile, have fun, and enjoy it. Life is short; you only live once. You have nothing to lose. Seize the moment.


If you think you can, you can.......

Do It Today

Will you one day look back on today and wonder

why you were so afraid to take action?

Will you look back one day and not be able to understand

why you let so many of life's trivial, minor inconveniences

 get you down and hold you back in such a major way?



Or will you look back on this day and be forever thankful

 for the way you spent it and the value you created by

making full use of the time available?

Will you look back fondly and see this day as a positive turning point

that launched you toward fulfillment of your most treasured dreams.



Today can eventually become a source of regret or it can

become a source of continuing value.

The way it goes depends entirely on how you live the moments

and hours that are yours right now in this day.



Time is the raw material for success and achievement,

and time is what you have this very day.

The time you need to achieve the life of

your dreams is coming to you even now.


No matter what has come before or in what circumstances you find yourself,

there is one thing you can always do. You can make the very most of whatever you have,

of wherever you find yourself, of the time that is available for you to use.

Do that today, tomorrow, the next day and the next,

and you'll have very little to regret and much for which to be grateful.

Never say never.

If you don't have anything nice to say... Keep Your Mouth Shut.

Never pass up an opportunity to shut your mouth.


Compliments Paid... Cost nothing. Pay everyone.


Faith gives you a path... Follow God.



Life is full of hurt, pain and crying.

It will help you appreciate the fun, smiles and love.


Most rules are to protect and keep you safe.

Follow them.


To double your money... Fold it half and put it back in your pocket.


Don't make an important decision in a moment of passion.


If you make a mistake, own up to it and move on.


If you tell someone you're going to do something... Do it!

The world is full of people who don't.


Give a smile to everyone you meet.


Never say never.

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