Self Improvement Made Easy

Everybody gets frustrated every so often. Others’ behaviour drives us to distraction, we get frustrated by our own lack of progress, we get frustrated over things over which we have no control – like the volcanic ash or the weather! But how about those of us who are trying our best to live a better life, or even change our lives, who get frustrated because nothing seems to be happening, we don’t seem to be making any progress?

Newsflash! – the one sure way of holding yourself back is wondering why you’re not going forward! Frustration is a waste of our precious attention and energy. Wondering why what we want to happen hasn’t happened yet is a useless, negative, self-defeating thought – you might as well say to yourself “well, I kinda knew that it wasn’t going to happen anyway!”

You and I have a finite amount of energy available to us and your personal development goal must be to marshal that energy and target it, like a laser beam, on getting on with both what we have to do now and heading in the direction of whatever it is that you want out of life. Frustration, worry or even wondering about when, how or if something will happen is a dangerous distraction, a self-destructive use of your energy – it’s like you’re targeting your powerful laser beam back on yourself! You have to be so careful where you point that laser beam because it can be equally constructive or destructive.

Unfortunately, if you’re normal, your laser beam isn’t turned on at all. Psychology informs us that the average person pays little or no attention to anything and invests a mere one percent of their energy in doing what they’re supposed to be doing. And if you’re not doing what you’re supposed to be doing now, when are you going to start? The only place and time that you are is now – the only time and place that you can focus your energy is now. Wishful thinking, daydreaming, wanting or needing are destructive uses of your energy because these mental ramblings have nothing to do with the scientific reality that everything only exists now.

Therefore, if you’re frustrated that you don’t seem to be making progress, it’s your frustration itself that’s tying you down. If you feel that you’re stuck in a rut, it’s that very feeling that will perpetuate your discomfort. You must to direct your attention to the urgency of living in the here and now. Now is the time and place that demands your focus – not some of it, like normal crazy people, but as much of it as you can marshal. The very input of an abnormal amount of energy into the present moment will trigger an abnormal response from universal energy. This is how abnormally successful people are so successful – they put their energy into the present and, as a result, they have presence. This must be your goal also.