How To Navigate Your Skill In Relation To Your Dream And Focus
This is more factual and conceptual on how you can operate and control the course of your skill in accordance or towards what you want to become and what you are doing presently. It shows and reflects possibilities that your daily routines and work is or can be in alignment with your potentials realised.
Few criteria to consider are as follow:
MENTAL WELL-BEING
Life
Youth in Focus
Mind & Body
Self-Care
Conditions
Therapy
Maternal Wellness
Parenting
Crisis Support
How to Focus on Yourself —and Only Yourself
Get Acquainted
Focus on what you want
Make a self-care plan
Practice self-compassion
Do things you love
Avoid comparisons
Examine your values
Takeaway
When was the last time you stopped to consider your needs, without also taking into account what someone else wanted for you?
There’s nothing wrong with putting energy
into relationships with loved ones or turning your attention toward finding a romantic partner or new friend. People need love,intimacy, and companionship, so you are focusing on yourself by pursuing those needs.
It’s also pretty safe to say that if you never stop to consider others, your relationships probably won’t thrive. All the same,neglecting your own dreams and desires can still hold you back. A life lived solely in the pursuit of the happiness of others may not bring you much personal joy. Over time, you might begin feeling drained even a little lost. Focusing on yourself isn’t selfish. It’s an act of self-love.
But when you’ve been in the habit of focusing on others, it can be hard to shift gears. These 7 tips can help-
1. Get better acquainted with yourself
Buiding a strong self-relationship is a great way to return your focus to yourself.
Feeling uncertain about your identity can make it tough to get clarity on what you want from life. Without some familiarity with who you are as a person, you can’t do
much to achieve your goals, live according to your values, or get your needs met.
Significant events —breakup, career change, childbirth, personal crisis —can prompt growth and cast a spotlight
on ways you’ve already changed. This illumination may call into question things you thought you knew about yourself
as new aspects of your identity emerge for the first time. You may not immediately welcome this new self knowledge, especially, if it contradicts your existing
perception of who you are. But failing to acknowledge your growth can eave you feeing incomplete and unfulfilled.
This uncertainty can begin to affect trusted source your emotional well-being, sense of self-worth, and your relationships with others. Approaching these changes in
yourself with curiosity can help you acclimate more easily.
2. Create a selfcare plan
In its most literal sense, focusing on yourself revolves around self-care practices that meet your needs. Self-care allows you to turn your attention toward yourself in a fundamental way. Everyone has basic needs that play an important part in overall well-being, including sleep,nutrition,physical exercise, and relaxation.
If you neglect these needs, you’re probably not getting enough time to recharge from life’s various sources of stress. You might not notice much of an impact at first, but eventually, you might see some unwanted changes in your physical and mental health.
To get started with self-care:
- Make time for physical activity
- Add mood boosting foods to your diet
- Give Meditation a try
- Write or draw in a mood journal
- Read a book
- Aim to spend 2 hours in nature each week
You don’t have to do every single one of these. In fact, it’s probably wise to start small. Choose one thing to work on,
and gradually work your way toward other practices that make you feel good.
3. Examine your values
It’s not uncommon to lose sight of your personal vaues, especially when you find yourself in a rough patch or find
yourself single after a long relationship.
Taking some time to reconsider the specific qualities you value most can help you refocus your attention on who you are and who you want to become. If
you value community, for example, you might look for ways to share time or resources with your community.
Once you identify your values, you can begin to explore ways to incorporate them into your life in meaningful ways. Some values, such as bravery, optimism, or
adventurousness, might come naturally to you. Others, including honesty, accountability, or leadership, may require a little more work. This work is worth it,
though —research from 2017 suggests living according to your values could help improve satisfaction with life as well as mental health.
4. Practice courage
Do you know who was cut from their high school basketball team? Michael Jordan. Do you know who was cut from a broadcast for being too emotional? Oprah
Winfrey. The Chicken Soup for the Soul authors endured more than 150 rejections before their first book was published. Re-think and re-frame failure. This is what keeps us moving forward. When we set out to do something, and it doesn’t turn out as planned, we can learn to grow from that. Think of courage like a muscle. It’s something we build with practice, time and experience. When you’re trying
something new, it’s ok to take a healthy risk, even if you’re not sure you’ll succeed.
Action step: Think about a time in your life when you felt like you failed and re-frame it.
What did you learn from it?
How did you grow?
How did that experience shape you
into the person you are today?
5. Start where you are.
One of the biggest hold-ups in setting big dreams and bold goals is getting wrapped up in the “how.”We can always talk ourselves out of them due to things like time, money, etc. As the saying, attributed to Karen Ireland, goes: “Waiting until everything is perfect to make a move is like waiting to take a trip until all the traffic lights are green.” If you wait, there’s a chance you will be waiting a long time
or perhaps forever. What resources do you have at hand right now? Don’t be afraid to reach out for necessary support. Maybe that even means working with an expert—hiring a therapist, a coach or a personal trainer.
This is curled from the book “UNLOCKING THE POTENTIAL ENERGY IN YOU” written by Azeez Qudus
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