The 7 Best Self Improvement Articles on the Internet

First off, I’d like to welcome you to Memory Strategy. This is my journey to become a better, more productive person, and while the name suggests that it’s centered around improving your memory (which is one aspect that will definitely be covered) this blog is dedicated to self improvement. Of course, that may seem like a relative term. As Tyler Durdon, in the legendary film Fight Club, states: “Self improvement is masturbation.”

While I love the movie and the book, and find it hard to disagree, I realize there are things I need to adjust in my life to make things better. Better for what, you ask? Well, that may well be a subject we delve in to on this journey to improve ourselves.

Rather than act like I know what I’m talking about, I thought I’d introduce to you some of the articles I’ve read that have really influenced me in embarking upon this task.

1. The Courage to Live Consciously (Steve Pavlina)

This is a long one, I’ll admit, but I printed it out and read through it and it was amazing. Pavlina had some motivation and he accomplished a lot with it. This will inspire you to at least want to improve your life, because he’ll make you feel like you’ve been the least productive person on the planet.

2. 14 Ways To Procrastinate Productively (Pick the Brain)

Pick the Brain is one of my favorite blogs and resources for self improvement. This article is great because procrastination is something everyone can relate to and it gives you ideas on how to use your procrastination productively. Pretty clever.

3. 8 Destructive Thinking Patterns and How to Change Them (Change Your Thoughts to Change Your Life)

This one really hit me hard, because I’m quite the pessimist. I feel like nothing ever works out so I pile on the self-pity and let all these horrible thoughts come crashing down on me. This article gave me some perspective and helped me start to think more positively.

4. 20 Ways to Elimnate Stress From Your Life (Zen Habits)

I’m so stressed right now. I really am. I hate my job, I’m financially unstable. I needed this article. It’s practical and provided techniques that I could actually put to use to reduce my stress.

5. The Now Habit (Litemind)

I’m trying to grasp the method of mind mapping and how it can actually help me retain information and learn more. This is a flash based mind map of the book The Now Habit and, whether you fully understand it now, it’s pretty damn cool to play around with…

6. The Power of Yes: A Simple Way to Get More Out of Life (Get Rich Slowly)

I’m afraid. I really am. Sometimes I seem really outgoing and retarded funny, but I’m pretty scared of a lot of things. This article helped me recognize that and the more I read it over and over the more it helps me work on facing those fears and working through them.

7. 10 Skills You Need to Succeed at Most Anything (Stepcase Lifehack)

I have some of them, but not all of them. A good thing to do is write these skills down, check the ones you have, and work on the ones you suck at. These are basically the fundamental skills you need to succeed in today’s society. You know what they are, and knowing is half the battle…

Don’t go out and read all of these at once. Pick the one that relates most to your situation and read it, study, take notes on it. You’ll just get overwhelmed and give up. You need to focus on one thing at a time in this business of productivity. That’s at least one thing I’ve learned, and I think it’s a pretty damn good lesson to start with.

If you know of any articles that have helped you be more productive, live life better or just made you a happier person, please comment below and let me know. Also, go ahead and bookmark this post if you’d like. You’ll need to in order to come back to it to finish reading all the articles. Thanks for visiting and I look forward to improving myself and hopefully helping others do the same.