42个提升自我的实用技巧

Are there any bad habits you can lose? Oversleeping? Not exercising? Being late? Slouching? Nail biting? Smoking? Here’s some help on how you can quit a bad habit.
你是否有可以戒除的坏习惯，比如睡懒觉、不运动、迟到、懒散、咬指甲或抽烟？赶快了解如何戒除坏习惯吧。

22. Cultivate a new habit.
养成新习惯。

Some good new habits to cultivate include reading books (#1), waking up early (#8), exercising (#9), reading a new personal development article a day (#40) and meditating. Is there any other new habit you can cultivate to improve yourself?
读书、早起、锻炼、每天读篇个人成长文章以及冥想都是值得培养的好习惯。你是否还能养成其他新习惯、从而提升自我呢？

23. Avoid negative people.
远离消极的人。

As Jim Rohn says, “You are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with”. Wherever we go, there are bound to be negative people. Don’t spend too much of your time around them if you feel they drag you down.
正如吉米-罗恩所言：“你常交往怎样的人，你就是怎样的人。”世上各个角落都有消极的人存在。当你感到这类人在拖你后退，就赶紧远离他们吧。

24. Learn to deal with difficult people.
学会应对刁蛮的人。

There are times when there are difficult people you can’t avoid, such as at your workplace, or when the person is part of your inner circle of contacts. Learn how to deal with them. These people management skills will go a long way in working with people in the future.
有时你确实无法回避刁蛮的人，比如在办公室或日常交际圈中。既然如此，那就学会面对他们。这对将来与人打交道很有帮助。

25. Learn from your friends.
向朋友学习。

Everyone has amazing qualities in them. It’s up to how we want to tap into them. With all the friends who surround you, they are going to have things you can learn from. Try thinking of a good friend right now. Think about just one quality they have which you want to adopt. How can you learn from them and adopt this skill for yourself? Speak to them if you need to – for sure, they will be more than happy to help!
只要我们用心观察，人人都有出色优点。身边朋友也有你值得学习的地方。现在就想想某位朋友有哪个品质值得你学习。你将如何学习并养成那个品质呢？必要时可以跟朋友讲讲——他们肯定乐意帮助的！

26. Start a journal.
开始写日记。

Journaling is a great way to gain better self-awareness. It’s a self-reflection process. As you write, clarify your thought process and read what you wrote from a third person’s perspective, you gain more insights about yourself. Your journal can be private or an online blog. I use my personal development blog as a personal journal too and I’ve learned a lot about myself through the past year of blogging.
日记是提高自我认知的好方法。写日记是自省的过程。写的同时也在整理思绪，而当你从第三者角度再读日记时，会有不一样的感悟。日记既可以是私密的，也可以是网络博客。我的个人成长博客也是个人日记。过去几年，写博客让我获益匪浅。

27. Start a blog about personal development.
开设个人成长博客。

To help others grow, you need to first be walking the talk. There are expectations of you, both from yourself and from others, which you have to uphold. I run The Personal Excellence Blog, where I share my personal journey and insights on how to live a better life. Readers look toward my articles to improve themselves, which enforces to me that I need to keep improving, for myself and for the people I’m reaching out to.
若想帮助他人成长，你先得身体力行。因为不仅你自己，别人也会对你有所期待，所以你必须能够驾驭得住。我开了个人成长博客，就如何过更好的生活分享个人历程与见解。读者期望我的文章能帮他们提升自我，因此我必须鞭策自己不断成长，这样才能达到自己和他人的期望。

28. Get a mentor or coach.
找个导师或教练。

There’s no faster way to improve than to have someone work with you on your goals. Many of my clients approach me to coach them in their goals and they achieve significantly more results than if they had worked alone.
如果有人帮助实现目标，那无疑会事半功倍。我的很多客户都希望我指导他们，结果实现的目标远远超过了个人努力的成果。

29. Reduce the time you spend on chat programs.
减少使用聊天工具的时间。

I realized having chat programs open at default result in a lot of wasted time. This time can be much better spent on other activities. The days when I don’t get on chat, I get a lot more done. I usually disable the auto start-up option in the chat programs and launch them when I do want to chat and really have the time for it.
我发现挂着聊天工具太浪费时间了。有这个时间还不如去做其他活动。哪天我要是没怎么聊天，必定能完成更多任务。我取消了聊天工具开机自动启动的功能，只在确实需要且真正有空时才登陆使用。

30. Learn chess (or any strategy game).
学会下棋（或其他益智游戏）。

I found chess is a terrific game to learn strategy and hone your brainpower. Not only do you have fun, you also get to exercise your analytical skills. You can also learn strategy from other board games or computer games, such as Othello, Chinese Chess, WarCraft, and so on.
我觉得下棋对学习策略和磨练大脑很有帮助。下棋不仅有趣，还能训练分析能力。你也可以从其他棋类游戏或电脑游戏中学习策略，比如奥赛罗棋、中国象棋、魔兽争霸等等。