Strive to Improve: Learn, Take Action, Improve

12 Small Improvements You Can Make Right Now for Big Results Cultivating a new habit of improvement can be tough. There is always distraction in our life, with too much to do and never enough time. So how can you make the changes that will help you be successful? This may surprise you, but the answer does not lie within a drastic overhaul of your life but with small incremental changes. It's an approach that makes change approachable, accessible, and achievable. If you want to do great things the answer is to start, even if it is only starting out small. It is better to take small steps than no progress at all. Small steps have the tendency to build momentum and will catapult you to something bigger. Break them down into little, manageable actions and get started. You can work on one every day or try a new one every week. There is always great power with the willingness to change--begin breaking them down now today! 1. Improve your optimism. People who are happy are people who usually do well. Optimism is...

Our attitude shapes everything about our life and it determines how our life may turn out in the future. If you decide to live with a negative attitude, always expecting the worst and never enjoying what you already have in your life, you’ll find that your inner choices will reflect poorly on the outside. However, if you have a good attitude, you’ll be the kind of person who works hard, is a believer in the fact that life is for living, and you will live the kind of life many would aspire to.Attitude comes down to a choice, you can choose whether to have a good or a bad attitude and whether you allow things to affect it or not.If you truly want to be successful, your number one task should be to create and maintain a positive and healthy attitude. When you have a positive attitude, an attitude that expects the best, then opportunities will grow, and your problems will dwindle... For the full show notes visit... StriveToImprove.com Knox Richardson

How to improve your start - Just Start You do not have to try to be perfect in the beginning. This is your time to make mistakes and to learn from those mistakes and get better. This is your time to figure out what works and what doesn't. - Don't wait to be good to start. You're not going to get good unless you start. You can't improve on what you haven't started on. You don't have to be great to get started, but you do have to start to be great. You can’t get good at things unless you have done it over and over again. Each time you do it you tweak it and you get better. You have to start some place, sometimes you just have to go for it even if you don’t have it all figured out. Don’t worry about perfection. If you analyze things too much you are going to suffer from paralysis by analysis. You have to overcome the paralysis you create by worrying about perfection. You will never get started because you are waiting for things to be just right. So many of us do not start, because we fee

Improve with a Personal Development Plan This is a podcast about personal development, but….What is personal development? What does it mean to grow? Personal development is simply a process of improving yourself in order to achieve your goals and dreams. Without a personal growth plan, can you reach your full potential? No! I don’t think you can. Yes, you can still succeed, but not to your full potential. Personal development is about identifying your gaps in your skills and experiences and about creating an action plan that will fill them in, so that you start to move closer to your end goal.Anything is possible if you are willing to do the work to achieve it. To achieve something you have never achieved before, you must become a person you have never been before. The way to do this is through personal development. Ask yourself where do I need to enhance my knowledge the most? Once you answer this question then find the material you need in order to become a better you. Listen to podcasts, liste

8 steps to Change Anything in Your Life 1. You must Decide what you really want and you have to figure out what is preventing you from having it. Before you can change you must know what you want and where you want to go. This step is crucial. 2. Find your WHY! This is where you need to dig deep to find your reason you want to change. When things get tough your why will keep you from giving up. I promise you that there will be times when you will want to stop, when you will want to give up because change is hard, change is not natural. Remember why you want to change. 3. Get Leverage: Associate massive pain to not changing now and associate pleasure to the experience of changing now. In other words, think about the pain staying the same, of staying in your comfort zone and think about the pleasure of going out and accomplishing your goal. Use pain to your advantage. Use the pain of not achieving your goal to motivate the change. 4. Focus on where you want to go and not on what you fear. Run in the directio