Becoming the best version of you necessitates practicing empowering habits in your thoughts, beliefs, perspectives and behaviors. In this article, I’ll be sharing 8 practical ideas on how to be the best version of yourself – ways that can help in moving toward being your best, tapping into your highest potential, and radiating your core happiness and light, one habit at a time 🙂
1. Commit to constantly learning and growing.
Carry out the commitment that you will continue to invest in yourself by prioritizing the inner work and growing yourself to become better and better. Go all in for exploring new opportunities, discovering your passions and interest, feeding your childlike wonder and excitement, and continuously reaching out for more, stretching and expanding yourself from who you were before. This will allow you to be moving forward with life and avoiding the stagnation of your true potential. Serving your appetite for constant learning will fuel your soul for greater aspirations. You will be radiating true happiness as you serve your own growth and empowerment first.
2. Practice kindness whenever you can.
Whenever there is an opportunity, choose to respond with kindness. Choose to express the goodness from within you, and stay away from criticism and judgments because it isn’t who you authentically are. You are love and appreciation at your core. And when you’re expressing these core energies by giving away kind words, blessing thoughts and helpful deeds whenever you can, you are allowing that love to grow more from within you. You are increasing your own capacity to give and receive love. As you expand your heart, you naturally gravitate to more blessings, loving people, and wonderful circumstances for you to feel more love toward.
3. Adopt playfulness and do not take things too seriously.
Allow a more lighthearted approach to life by not taking things personally and by letting any negativity easily pass through you. When you refrain from letting bad commentaries and momentary hurts get inside you, those unwanted energies won’t linger in your thoughts and emotions any longer. As you carry a flowing and forgiving attitude, you are letting past wounds go and freeing yourself from being bounded by them. You will be traveling life in an easy and playful manner when you do not carry any excess baggage that weighs your spirit down.
4. Stop negative thoughts as they arise.
Becoming an attentive watcher of your mind will help in catching yourself early whenever there’s the tendency to go towards negativity. When you’re able to stop them at the beginning, you will eventually become someone who chooses to think uplifting, great thoughts about yourself and others, and you’ll naturally hold back on conversations that aren’t empowering in nature. Your energies will naturally rise up as a result of continuously thinking powerful thoughts. You will allow the best of you to shine from within.
5. Allow yourself to dream bigger.
Each one of us is a unique expression of life, and when you give yourself the opportunity to dream big, you are contributing a bigger perspective for this Universe to move forward to. Give yourself the gift of imagining and envisioning grander things for yourself. Expect the best because you naturally deserve to have all the good things you want in this life. Always know that you are worthy to receive the things you’re dreaming of because you are an essential part of this Universe.
6. Celebrate daily successes and achievements, big or small.
Practice daily gratitude by recognizing the little things and the big things that work out for you, no matter how trivial or minuscule it may be. Give yourself a high five or a friendly pat on the back for a job well done at the end of your day. You are empowering yourself in the process and appreciating where you are in your life right now. This will fuel more things to appreciate and be grateful for, and will train your mind to always look for things that are positive, pleasing, and in alignment with what’s good.
7. Take every mistake or failure as a stepping stone to becoming more enlightened about life.
What you might call mistakes are actually your sign posts to gain more clarity and to give you the opportunity to apply the lesson toward your next endeavor. No experience will be gone to waste as you treat every mistake as a step higher in your success ladder to becoming a better you. Make everything that you call mishaps in life a teaching moment where you can extract the valuable lesson it opens up for you. Mistakes are not a sign to feel discouraged or disempowered, but rather a significant part of your path to moving higher and higher in your evolution.
8. Think less and feel more.
Instead of being too much in the head as you analyze all kinds of things around you, choose to pay more attention to the way you feel and make feeling good a priority. The tendency to overthink things will just stress you out as you get more worried and unworthy in the process. Be more in your heart, and feel more at peace and in harmony with your true self as you quiet down the noises in the head and be more aware of how you’re feeling in every moment. Choose to be more aligned with the feelings of love, joy, satisfaction, and appreciation as you move along in your journey towards your best version.
Your Turn…
Which of these 8 ways on how to be the best version of yourself do you like most? Share your thoughts by commenting below!
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To More Light, Love and Happiness,
Iona Kristina 🙂
