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6 Underrated and Kind Ways to Self-Improvement
Personal growth doesn’t have to be a constant internal struggle
Nobody promised it was going to be easy. This life, these challenges, the path to becoming better, more and enough.
The possibilities are endless; and no matter how liberating it might sound, it can also bring you down just by its weight and responsibility. But as much as it isn’t supposed to be easy, it shouldn’t always be hard either. And most importantly, it shouldn’t be us making it more difficult for ourselves.
These days, every single thing is about self-improvement. How to be a better parent, a better partner, a better and more productive businessperson. We want to get better, we want to grow, we obsess about productivity, creativity, relatability and assertiveness. We finetune our morning routines, perfect our business plans and scrutinize our parenting and relationship behaviours; and in the meantime, we put a lot of pressure on ourselves, we suppress our emotions, we grit our teeth, we show up, we ‘just do it’ and keep on doing whatever it takes, we worship discipline and we build habits that we believe will make us happy in the long run.
But it’s tough and it can be tough on our minds, souls and bodies. We sometimes forget to be human and treat ourselves as machines, with…
