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  Identity             One of the essential building blocks of our acts and thoughts is who or what we identify as. While this identity is formed by our experiences and upbringing, it is largely dependent on how we talk and feel about ourselves. When talking to different people, you tend to find that people with positive self-talk and an overall positive attitude typically have a positive self-image. This positive self-image may manifest itself as self-love or the ability to hold oneself to a higher standard and achieve that standard. To elaborate on this, let’s say there are two people. John is happy, grateful, and willing to learn. Overall, John is stable but has low points just like anyone does. On the other hand, Mark is angry at the world, jealous of others, and extremely set in his ways. For the sake of example, we will say Mark has slight, but not clinically diagnosed, depression in addition to the traits prior. John will undoubtedly have an easier time doing the things he bel

My History and Why of Self Improvement

  Why Self Improvement             This post is basically going to recap my self-improvement journey and kind of lay out my why for self-improvement (not directly because I am not comfortable speaking on that just yet). The aim of this blog is to serve as an inspiration of sorts. More importantly, when I first embarked on this journey, I did not find much talking about improving in high school and college. While older influencers would mention it, I could not find people of this age group keeping track or speaking on it. In a way, I want to fill that void with this blog.   Self-Improvement History:             The vast majority of my journey started in high school. I never really felt like I fit in high school and just in life. There was a multitude of reasons for this but the primary one being, I had to become mature at a young age. This isn’t an attempt to diss my parents but it just so happen the time I was born, my family had a rough patch. Not going to go into great detail