December 2007


ash.jpgDuring the journey of life, we meet so many people that we pick up some of the habits from them. Some of the habits are good and some are bad but we tend to pick them up irrespective of their being good or bad. The habits can be developed from training, influence of other people, observing the people and practice. The Good Habits can be quite useful and the same can be developed and practiced. But if you have found yourself a bad habit you would need to change that or get out of it. Getting rid of bad habits however is not easy, if an addiction is involved. For this reason, we need to take few steps to learn how to change your habits.

Making excuses:

Most of us wander through life making excuses. Anytime a person meets up with some complications they would often make excuses and find way to excuse them on why they cannot deal with that problem. “This is just the way I am.” The problem is very common all over the world, which is heard many times over and over. If you want to improve the life you are living now, you need to say “This is something that hinders me from achievement and I have the power to change it.

The first success to key is to stop making excuses. Tell the truth and that is the only answer that leads you to improve your personal life. Once you learn to tell the truth, you will need to commit self to learning new behaviors and habits.

The choosing of a good habit can be committed every day. You can make like plan to drink more water. Some of us hate water, yet the water is the way of living healthier. So, instead of hating something which is so precious to our life should not be hated. By making such small changes you can have a healthier life and can develop some good habits.

Other reason to develop a habit will be you can make the mistake of judging others which can become a good habit like today I will stop judging other and myself and change the way you see the world. It is like you make your bed, you must learn to sleep in it, which is why you should change your ways. Judging is only for our Master in the sky.

Think negative. You can change that by consciously changing the way you think and making all the negative into positive into your lives and change the way you see the world. Why me is a common question, which no one knows why, yet we have to accept it, make better decisions and move ahead. If you feel persecuted, ask you what you are doing that makes you feel this way. If you have friends or family members who are making your think negative, then make them understand that the life is not worth suffering for you or anyone. You have the power to make changes, yet you do not have the power to change other people.

It is not easy to leave the bad habits behind and make changes to improve your life. You can start from the scratch, and take small steps towards the goal. If you try jumping the gun, then it will lead only to frustrating.

When you are working to change your life and habits make sure you seek support and feedback. You do not have to walk the road to success alone. Feedback is found at your library, the Internet, at colleges, and so on. You will find support along these channels as well. Ask someone you trust to support you and give you feedback when needed also.

help1.jpgWorking with others gives you a feeling of well-being and helping them makes you feel good about yourself. Many people are not very forthcoming when helping others; people interested in helping others often take the nursing field where they get the chance to help many people in getting back to health and back to their life.

Now days, people tend only to look towards themselves and do not even know who their neighbors are. But, there are many ways where you can help others without them being a burden over you. There are some ideas which can help you in such endeavors. You may need to ask certain questions to yourself.

1) What are some ways I can work with people?

You have many options available and it solely depends on what you like to do. Every person has a different child. Some of them may like to work with troubled children. This can be a way of enjoy living. You can work at the call centers working with troubled children and be their volunteer.

If you are interested in working with elderly people you can visit old age home and volunteer for help. For this you can work as a nurse’s aide if you have the qualifications. You can also work for doctors as receptionist.

2) How will working with people help me to improve my life?
Working with others, and helping them in life will make you feel good about yourself. You will like a new person. You health will improve each time you help others. The people whom you work with you give you strength to help them and yourself.

3) How do I develop qualities to help other people?

If you are planning to help others you do not require special skills and for the other skills you will find qualities inside which will help you help others. You can use self-awareness and observations to develop these skills. When you take time to observe people you will get the idea about their needs and wants. This will give you the ability to help them the way they want. Like for instance, if you observe a person struggling carrying a bag you can move and help them by carrying their bags till their cars or home.

You can help elderly people climb up the stairs or in stores etc.This is the cycle which comes back to you. In other words someday someone will help you too when you start to grow old. It is just not physically that you can help others. You can lend them your ear and listen to their woes and make them find the right answers to their dilemma. Many times answers are in front of us, yet we fail to see them too often. When you help others, those answers come to light.

In life, we all need to take some risks and that means trying new things in life and helping others is the thing which you can do. Now that you have got an idea how to help others why don’t you observe and see where people needs help and try and help them.