5 Qualities To Be a Better Person

If you are looking at developing your personality, then there are some highly essential qualities that you should certainly not miss out on. In your quest for personal development, these traits can go a long way in making you successful.

Manage Your Time Well

People who respect time are the ones that get respect from others. Time is a limited resource—the richest person and the poorest person have the same amount of time to spend. You should understand this. The people who are successful are those who have managed their time well. Learn how to prioritize things and how to allocate the right amount of time for every task that you need to accomplish.

Always ‘Be There’ for People

You have to always be there for people around you. Help them in their times of difficulty. Even if you cannot help them materially, give them your personal support, some words of reassurance, whatever you can. And when you help people, don’t do it with a selfish intent. You will get reciprocation surely, but you shouldn’t do a good deed thinking about rewards.

Be Passionate about the Right Things

Humans are differentiated from animals because they can be passionate about things. You need to have a hobby, a special fondness for something, an activity that you zealously pursue. This could be anything from collecting stamps and reading to gardening and traveling. You should use this passion to develop yourself personally through knowledge and in a spiritual manner.

Focus on Your Work

You should be completely devoted to your profession. Your work is what defines you. It gives you an identity and a proper place in society. Hence, you owe your unstinting dedication to your work.

Realize that Life Is a Learning Process

Treat life like a learning process. There is so much that life teaches you, and you have to make sure that you learn all these lessons along the way. Even your failures enrich you, because they teach you what you should not do. A successful person isn’t one who doesn’t ever fail; a successful person is one who realizes his or her mistakes and then learns from them.

- Power of Mind 

Self Talk - Your Way to Success

There are many things that drive people to success, and a key factor is what is known as "internal dialogue". This is the dialogue that is constantly playing inside your head. It’s the voice that starts talking as soon as you do something, meet someone, or think about anything.

In many cases, this voice can be destructive and knock you down, though it is possible to quite easily harness his internal dialogue and use it to propel you to the success you desire and deserve.

You may notice that on occasion the voice is negative in what it says. For example, you see something you really want to buy and it says, "You can’t afford that." Or you see someone you are really attracted to and the voice says, "They’re way out of your league, they’ll never go for someone like you."

Quite obviously, this does nothing to make you life any better. Therefore, why not change the content of the voice? When it says something negative, counter it with a positive suggestion. For example, when the voice says, “You can’t afford that.” Respond mentally in a firm and positive voice with something like, “How can I afford it?” A question that empowers you and propels you into positive action.

This may take some time, and you may notice initially you do not always catch the voice and correct it. However, keep it up and before you know it, you will have changed the negative dialogue into a positive, empowering one.

You can also change the tone of the voice. What would happen if instead of the usual tone of voice saying, “I can’t afford it” you hear the voice of Homer Simpson, or Donald Duck, or any comic character saying it? You certainly wouldn’t listen to the voice and take it seriously, you would laugh at it and it’s power over you would be broken.

This technique can be extended to helping you motivate yourself to do something. When faced with the washing up, what do you hear in your head? Do you hear a whiney voice saying something like, “You really ought to do the washing up or you’ll get into trouble” or a commanding and scary voice saying, “Wash up NOW!”?

What would happen if the voice were a soft and really seductive voice speaking in your head? The sort of voice that gives you shivers down your back. What if it said something like, “Let’s do the washing up big boy.”? How would that motivate you?

Stephen King, the author, uses this technique with his writing. When he has to write he hears this very loud and powerful voice shouting at him as if through a megaphone saying something like, “WRITE NOW!!!!!” It almost scares him in to writing.

However, you don’t need to scare yourself into action. You can change your internal dialogue to be anything you want; whatever works best for you to motivate you and help you to get where you want to be.

Listen to your internal dialogue and play with changing the tonality, volume and tempo to find the type of voice that works best for you. Create a number of different types of voices, one for motivation, one to stop you doing things, one to make you feel loved, one to make you feel happy and so on.


Mastering your internal dialogue is a major key in mastering your life!














- Power of Mind