[Note: I originally posted this article in 2018.]
For some years I’ve been making use of a planning system that includes a daily routine of reviewing and modifying notes about my self-improvement. I’ve learned many of the concepts by reading and listening to AV material by the self-help authors Tony Robbins and Stephen Covey.
I recommend listening to Robbins’ audio programs “Personal Power” and “The Time of Your Life,” and reading Stephen Covey’s book “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.”
(Robbins’ “Time of Your Life” program details how to have a planning system that ensures you give equal attention to all of the key aspects of your life, with it also helping to ensure that you most effectively move toward your most ideal goals.)
Following is the current state of many of my personal self-help notes that I review every morning. Some of the information is universal to anyone and some is personal to me. I don’t always live up to all of my ideals, but I always get back up on the horse and correct my course.
The text has been evolving over many years, and sometimes I’ve gotten out of the routine of reviewing it every day. For example that had happened when I moved to Florida at the beginning of this year. Now that my computers are set up again I’ve gotten back into reviewing the information and implementing my planning system once again.
Following is the current state of much of my daily review text:
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Trust in God, yourself, and others.
Your decisions determine your existence.
What you focus on is what you get.
A great irony is that your states of positivity are the most accurate perception of your situation.
Your attitude is the steering wheel.
Your plans are the engine.
Your will is the accelerator.
Key Aspects of Being
Pray every day and appreciate God.
Align your life with your highest calling, maximizing your effectiveness in improving the health and well-being of yourself and others through constant learning and communication.
Always think and act appropriately, drawing on healthy principles, habits, and skills.
Exist in a state of maximum appreciation and positivity, knowing the key fundamental truths and making use of the most effective systems of planning and action.
My Ultimate Vision
I want to live a happy, healthy, creative life of freedom, clarity, and communication with others. I want to establish new avenues of self improvement and build upon ones that already exist, applying my creative mind and actions toward becoming the best person that I can be.
I want to help others to similarly improve themselves based on what I learn through implementing creative projects including making videos and websites in order to inform others about unhealthy aspects of the world, and to offer ideas about how to alleviate or fix those problems.
I want to always be improving my spiritual connection for being a servant of God. I want to be comfortable and happy in a healthy, creative, sustainable way, and to help others to do the same in order to help make the world a better place.
Key Fundamental Truths
Righteousness is a naturally indisputable force of healthy effectiveness. At the roots of righteousness are respect of God, respect of others, and respect of oneself. A “righteous person” is someone whose thoughts and actions are habitually rooted in the most effectively healthy motivations.
Confidence that is caused by successes resulting from righteous effectiveness naturally purges dishevelment from your psyche.
How you interpret and respond to every situation defines who you are and it determines your reality.
You can consciously control the direction of your intellect, will, and actions to control your focus, which ultimately controls all of the other aspects of your life.
A great irony is that when you are in states of intense positivity you likely have the most accurate perception of your situations— or at least you have the most accurate perception of the positive potential of your situations that is attainable.
There exists an infinite core of how situations in reality actually are, with you having a potentially inaccurate or distorted “magnifying glass” view of your present focus that occupies your mind at any moment. Much of whatever negativity that you might be focusing on is likely insignificant or it might not even exist at all if you didn’t think about it. There exists infinite things that you could think about.
New positive experiences bring a boost of fresh motivation to all of the other aspects of your life.
Subconsciously earned self confidence and natural respect of yourself and others are among the highest ideals that you can achieve.
One of your highest duties to God, yourself, and others is to have a sophisticated knowledge of the subconscious workings of your human nature in order to consciously entrench the healthiest possible habits in yourself for bringing about your highest ideals and values.
Your spiritual connection, your subconscious mentalities, and your emotional states are at the core of your essence.
At every moment you are whatever your self-image is. How you subconsciously feel about yourself at any moment is a big determining factor in what you manifest for yourself.
Don’t underestimate how much or how little can be accomplished in a single day. Don’t let miscellaneous inconveniences derail your day by not being aggressively proactive to immediately make corrective measures.
Every moment of your time is sacred.
It is exponentially more difficult to be effectively productive if your personal environment is not clean and organized. It is almost impossible for real health and productivity to exist when that is not the case.
Every moment is the start of the rest of your life.
Ponder the mentalities of people who you have interacted with in your life who you have most respected. Always be visualizing and emulating models of the best examples of people, knowing the great reality of such people being everywhere.
Simply identifying issues with yourself that you need to fix is no guarantee that you will fix them.
Simply reading these Key Fundamental Truths is no guarantee that you will follow them.
Definition of proactive: “A person, policy, or action creating or controlling a situation by causing something to happen rather than only responding to something after it has happened.”
Every moment when you are not in the most optimum state should be a sign that your focus is most likely wrong.
You are always “on track” with however you are— you continually decide the direction of your rails. You should always try to consciously be in control of their direction.