How Do I Improve My Station in Life?

One of the questions I get on this blog is, “How do I improve my station in life?” This may be because of a post I recently wrote about How to Improve Your Stations in Life, but I don’t think this is what the person is actually asking. What they probably want to know is:

  • How do I get ahead in life?
  • How do I make more money?
  • How do I get a promotion?
  • How do I meet new people?
  • How do I make meaning in my life?

I get it. When you’re down and out it’s hard to see how things can ever be different. When you can’t see any possible way that you can get out of the hole you are in that feeling can be crushing. When you lose your confidence your mindset changes and it can be hard to get ahead. I’ve been there – I know how hard it can be.

So if you’re asking how to improve your station in life, you may be looking for specifics, not just happy sayings like “believe in yourself” and “pay yourself first”, but mindset does matter and procedures do matter. How you think and how you act help predict how things will turn out and can improve your station in life. Here’s how:

  • Be thankful for what you have now
  • Think about how you’ve improved or grown from two years ago until today
  • Imagine a place you’d like to be in the future
  • Do one thing today that will move you towards that future
  • Write down what you did today

So that’s pretty general advice, so let’s get more specific. There is an old saying that the longest journey begins with a single step, and that’s true, but sometimes you don’t have a long time to make a change. Sometimes you need to make a change now. If that is the case, here are some things you can ask yourself:

  • What you can stop doing?
  • What can I start doing?
  • What can I do more of?
  • What can I do less of?
  • What can I change?

Sometimes things don’t change unless you change them. The world is not going to hand you anything. Most of the time you’re going to have to work for it. Work is hard. I get it. And results don’t come fast. You may work on something for months without seeing results until one day something breaks your way – unless you:

  • Get out of the building / leave the cave
  • Learn a valuable skill that adds value
  • Ask someone to buy what you have
  • Help someone without expecting
  • Be willing to fail – be confident

How to Improve Your Station in LifeThink about it – once you change your mindset and believe you can be in a better place than you are right now you’ll start doing the things it takes to get there. And over time you will start to see yourself becoming the person you want to be. And then one day you will look back and realize how far you have come. In this way you will have improved your station in life. You will be thankful for what you have and look back to where you were and be happy. You will then look forward and see where you want to be – and begin walking into that reality – one step at a time.

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