How many ways have you bettered yourself in the past year?

[therisingsun09]

My spiritual progress started accelerating about 8 months ago when I started reading occult/religious/mythological books, and I decided to start logging the ways I've improved myself since, because I find that I kind of forget.

I have an old list with more on it but can't find it:

I...

• mellowed out
• get along better with everyone and accept them more
• am no longer weird about physical contact
• stand up for myself more
• am more clear about what i want to do
• am more aware all day long
• procrastinate less
• do yoga in the morning
• follow my own rules better
• am knowledgeable about many systems and religions
• better at manipulating external conditions to reach my goals (William S. Burroughs - The Now... must read).
• more self-disciplined.
• More productivity with laptop (from less procrastination and more focus
• am able to follow a routine more consistently
• No longer scared about situations in which I am the noob (e.g. going to muay thai, i have a history of making a fool of myself)
• able to control my weight, well getting there anyway!
• feel like dancing all the time!
• am unmistakably happy
• am more sincere and bring out sincerity in people more
• am closer to my friends
• am nicer to my friends
• am less of a drunken muppet
• am more responsible with drugs

Not bad eh? Didn't expect to come up with such a big list, I'm delighted with myself
Let's hear yours

[simonsta]

• Developed a winning attitude
• Became a father
• Learned patience because of it
• Learned how to think positively
• Unlearned how to think negatively
• Challenged myself and others around me
• Moved more calmly and carefully, so less clumsily
• Learned the importance of friends
• Learned that everyone has strengths
• And also weaknesses
• Survived Cancer, and became stronger
• Began writing and blogging
• Took responsibility for my success!
• Got rid of all the junk I didn't need (both physically and mentally)
• Began to focus on what I enjoy and love!

[therisingsun09]

No more takers?

[Eric Roosevelt]

I actually get up in the mornings and think about something else apart from going back to bed. It wasn't always that way.

[HealthyGuy55]

When I say something to myself, I will follow through with it and NOT compromise.

I always found a way to compromise.... but eventually, that compromise was like the sea, washing away the shoreline slowly: until the compromise was the norm.

[Liveformx64]

I slept in more, I got less work done, I have never been happier.

[Peaceflmeadow]

I have taken strides in many areas over the last year, hard to measure, but I feel I have made definite progress:

• Moved much closer to obtaining my future career goals
• Attained more mental clarity and balance then I have ever experienced
• 100% eliminated alcohol (had 98% eliminated it prior, but still struggled on rare occasions)
• Packed my lunch for work every day, period
• Reduced my reactivity to stress from my family
• Greatly increased my ability to see everything in a positive light
• Was very supportive to my husband while he worked on a goal that occupied months of his time
• Solved and improved some behavioral problems in my felines
• Increased my consistency on projects/to do lists around the house
• Eliminated Eggs and Soy 100% after allergy testing (in addition to wheat already)
• Developed and performed multiple large group training sessions at work that pushed my group speaking comfort levels
• Took my marriage to new and better levels through communication and awareness
• Traveled the farthest I have been outside of the continental US for a nice vacation

Hrmmm, thought I couldn't come up with much, but it wasn't a bad year at all for me now that I look back

Thanks for the exercise!

[therisingsun09]

Originally Posted by Liveformx64

I slept in more, I got less work done, I have never been happier.

High five