Self Improvement and Self Confidence: It's All About Efficiency

While I talk a lot about self improvement and self confidence, I rarely talk about one important area in which their power becomes so effective for the purpose of achievement. This area is efficiency.

To improve your self confidence and improve your ability to get things done is to make yourself more efficient. Self confidence implies that you have very little doubt, worries, and fears taking up space in your mind. This makes your brain free to operate at a very clear level. This boosts your efficiency.

Having few doubts and worries eliminates hesitation. By acting with a sense of self confidence you are capable of acting quickly and decisively. This means you will not over-think situations. You will not make mountains out of mole hills. You will take action when action is needed. This boosts your efficiency.

Self improvement often includes an improvement in productivity skills such as reading, writing, and memory. By improving these three skills you will be able to read more, write more, and remember more in less time. This gives you more time to do something else. It gives you more time to create new experiences in your life. Perhaps you can even learn to improve more skills.

Yes, self improvement is all about efficiency. It is about getting done the things that you need to get done in a timely manner so that you can experience as much life as possible.

No one wants to spend their lives working. But no one wants to spend their lives idly, either. Lives are meant to be lived. They are meant to be full of exciting experiences. Each day is a new opportunity. Each moment holds new treasures.

By focusing some of your time on improving your efficiency to get stuff done, you are buying yourself time. This goes against all the old sayings that you can't buy time. Perhaps you cannot literally buy time, but you can make better use of the time you have in order to have more time to experience new things.

So it is my advice to you today to spend a little bit of time each day working on making yourself more efficient. Think of the things you do on a repeated basis. Think of ways in which you can get them done faster without losing effectiveness.

Think of ways you can better spend your down time. Do you really need to watch that episode of "Friends" for the seventeenth time? Do you really need to play 45 minutes of "Angry Birds"? Do you really need to read about what all your friends had for dinner?

Or could you find ways to make better use of your time?

Perhaps you can use some of that down time to take a speed reading course or work on your communication skills. Maybe you can take some time out to meditate, clearing your mind of worries and frustrations.

Or maybe you can use your time to experience something new. Whatever you do, just try to get the most out of your life. For one thing is certain, once a moment is gone you cannot get it back.