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According to The Gifts of Change, the most ordinary of daily events can lead to a better understanding of oneself and inspire a new life perspective - the “gift” that comes with the change. The book asks three questions: Do you keep the promises you make to yourself? Do you have memories that nourish you and feed your soul? Do you really know yourself, what you’re capable of doing, all the people you are capable of being? In sharing her own answers as well as those of people she has interviewed, Nancy Christie offers readers a chance to evaluate and welcome change in their lives as a tool for growth. Individual chapters cover such topics as The Pantry of the Soul (stocking up for future needs); Yoga Stork Pose (keeping our focus); The Mouth of the Tiger (leaving the comfort zone); and The Danger of “Excessive Obligations” (refusing unearned debts).

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If you haven’t been able to find a lot of happiness in your life, maybe you’re looking in the wrong place. Our level of happiness is based on our thoughts and our thoughts are a reflection of what’s in our minds. We can begin the quest for happiness by separating our memories into three separate chests.

The Treasure Chest of the mind is where we put our most cherished memories. We open this chest when looking for happiness, comfort and contentment.

The Hope Chest of our mind is for our goals and dreams of tomorrow. As each is fulfilled it is then moved to our Treasure Chest.

The Dumpster Chest of the mind is for letting go of the hurts and trash of yesterday. Once in this chest they are dumped, to be forever let go. Once these memories are put in the Dumpster Chest you should never go digging them out.

Our thoughts are a reflection on who we are. Happy people have happy thoughts. That doesn’t mean that the happy person never has an unhappy thought, it means the happy person knows how to move these unhappy thoughts into the Dumpster Chest and then forget about them.

If someone speaks of you and is not pleasant or someone acts and is not nice to you, it is not a reflection of you but a reflection of them. Do you think they are happy? What is in their Treasure Chest or Hope Chest that should have been put in their Dumpster Chest? How sad for them, but don’t let it affect you.

If you want to be happy, take the time to sit and think about your thoughts. Put the good ones in your Treasure Chest or Hope Chest and the bad ones in your Dumpster Chest. Focus only on your Treasure Chest and Hope Chest for they are now full of the jewels of hope and joy.

Happy people spend their effort adding to their Treasure and Hope chests while unhappy people spend their time sorting through the dumpster. If you are serious about finding happiness, leave the trash behind and become a treasure hunter.

Inspiration - Being inspired is an essential aspect in self improvement since if you’re not interested in your own business you will never have high motivation and you won’t be able to remain interested for long so take a good look at your inspiration level.

You should get excited about working, and not feel that it’s just another thing you HAVE to do but you would be surprised at the number of people who choose a business that looks great but in reality isn’t something they really care about.

These people will get tired and lose interest very fast, because they have no passion to keep them going in the times where the need it their career. If you dislike you work then devise ways to change the focus of your business to suit your needs or perhaps morph it completely.

If inspiration is lacking people will have no motivation to better themselves.

Setting Aims - Setting goals is important for any business owner or individual and if you don’t make goals then you’ll lack purpose on which path of self improvement to take. Set aside some time to put your goals in writing and even though a plan may sound daunting, it is really nothing more than aims, plans, implementation and a budget. Record your business plan and keep it current every year.

Write down small goals that can be done in mere hours days or weeks as well as the more ambitious ‘grand-goals’ that may take years to complete then look back at the plan at points during the year.

The advent of a business plan can truly keep you motivated as written goals will make you feel more professional and let you feel that you have a better connection with your business. It will also make it so from having to reinvent your business goals every time the sun rises.

Networking - Another critical part of staying motivated is connecting to other business owners because when a number of people begin working together, the challenges will just be there waiting to be conquered. Actually, having to work along is of one the most difficult parts of being an entrepreneur because being able to have support from others makes it so much easier.

Make it easier on yourself be meeting others in your community because even when businesses are not related, you will often find common ground and ways with which you might work together. Many successful entrepreneurs have reported that connecting with the right group, be it a brick and mortar business or online, was the determining factor in the growth of the business. Working with a networking group can help its members generate better sales leads and solve problems with more efficiency.

Sharing ideas is also an important aspect and making improvements to one self. Your colleagues will help re-energize you when running your own business seems too much. With your team to rely on you can accomplish more in less time and you’ll probably have a lot more fun doing it and in addition, you’ll have more motivation to work on self improvement when you finally understand that you’re not in this alone.