How to Begin Your Journey To Self-Development!

The journey to self- development should be fun and should also be a learning experience. It is the time to get rid of any heavy burden that has been weighing on you for a long time. If you have any guilt, remorse, etc. it is now the time to face the music and deal with it. You may have to go to a professional counselor, if you can't do it on your own. But it's worth it initially to get the hump off your back! There are many free online services that can help you with any personal problems. Another thing that may be one of the greatest challenges of today, addiction. Addiction comes in many shapes and forms and people are developing new addictions each and every day. Your journey to self-development should be a journey where you start will all kind of heavy luggages that you'll be dropping one by one to finally be a much better person toward the end of your journey. There should not be any confusion over mind body and soul as stated by the great guru Deepak Chopra.

I don't need to tell you about addiction because everyone of us have suffered through some kind of it. It could be an addiction to food, alcohol, gambling, playing the lottery, sex and you name it. Many time an addict will recover to slowly slide back to the very same addiction and then some. It may be easy to say, let's get rid of our addiction but it is easier said that done. When you have been doing something for years, it becomes part of you and it is not easy to cast it away just like that. It takes time and commitment. Well then, we'll have to find time and commit ourselves and get everything straight, won't we?

Some people may seem to get rid of an addiction just like that, as they say, cold turkey. In reality it may have been years in preparation to that final day where you say enough is enough. Kind of like an overnight success. A person may have been working on his gig his whole life then finally it happens, then they say he or she is an overnight success. The saying "no pain no gain" is true for whatever you want to accomplish and self-improvement is no different.

Why would someone want to go to the journey of self-development anyway? Well, a journey to self-development is a journey of enlightenment, where you learn about yourself and the world around you and good things like, the effect of cheerfulness upon the health as the Holy Book says " A merry heart doeth good like a medecine". The Master want us to seek knowledge from the crib until we depart from this world. Self-improvement will guide us to the answers of many great problems of life and give us a life of integrity, faith and happiness.

We have to stay grounded all the time because there will still be problems such as sickness of every kind and some sickness that will culminate into full-fledged craziness which will have impacts on all of us. The news that we hear about everyday bear witness to the fact that some person are committing vicious, heinous and insane acts and we have to assume that person must have suffered some form of mental illness. We still have to do our contribution to the world by improving ourselves and guide our fellow citizen to do the same. We have to guide by example as we like to be guided. You will not take advice from 300 pounds individual trying to sell you on the latest diet would you? Your fellow citizen will listen to you if you live by example. That's a good feeling.

As a child, I used to love watching the kung fu series with David Carradine, pbuh, as Caine. The series shows how Caine goes through self-development and enlighentment as an orphan and follows the path of righteousness and justice throughout the show. Can you imagine for a moment that we lived in a world where every human being struggled to be on the right path by pursuing self-development and spiritual enlightenment? The world would be a better one, won't it! Too many of us are not trying to follow in the path of righteousness and justice but rather the pursuit of wealth and happiness. There is nothing wrong in wanting some wealth for yourself and your family but not at the expense of others. The Bernard Madoff saga is a sad one. It is the pursuit of happiness by being dishonest and unscrupulous which ultimately brought much sufferings and will have a very big impact on many people's lives for years to come.

Would you like to live dishonestly in opulence with fame and fake friends or choose the path of self-development with just enough money to live but being gladly remembered in the end as someone who did his part to help his community and the less fortunate. We have to make a choice in life and we choose to be what we are, but is it the best that we can do? Our parents raise us a certain way, then as we become adults we can either used some of that education to guide us through life or we can totally reject it and become someone else entirely. People with good and caring parents usually turns out to be good people as well but sometimes they can be influenced by others and become the bad apple of society. What if your parents didn't like you and you grew up with very low self-esteem? Will you use that excuse and become a burden on society? Some people where abandon at birth grew up with foster parents and turn out to be great people! It's all about your own self-development and what you want to accomplish in life.

What is the duty of a civilized person? Do you see yourself as doing your duty as a civilized citizen? We want to do our part to contribute to the avancement of society. We don't want to be a burden or a social outcast who is using valuable resources but don't give anything in return. By improving ourselves with self- righteousness and by following the path of self-development and self-enlightenment we become a beacon of hope, life and happiness in our society and we become the measure by which anyone who has deviated from the path can correct himself to regain the rank of the straight and narrow. Do you want to be remembered as someone who has contributed to the destruction of this present world or someone who has tried to bring light and guidance into the world?