Human brain is the most complex organ in the human body. Mental activity, such as thought, reason, and abstraction, is consciously controlled by the brain.

Do you want to know the secrets of your brain? Do you want to be more predictable about yourself? Self-subversion is the answer to the above questions. It helps us to understand and know about ourselves better. It the process by which an individual can understand his/her thoughts and reasons.

This can be achieved either by analyzing your past experience or by being aware of your reactions to the things that happen around you. Were you scared to ride a bicycle for the first time? How did you overcome it? By analyzing from past experience, we can find answers to many of such questions. You can know your fears, joys, apprehensions and mainly the cause of it all.

We can learn not only from past experience but also from events that happen around us everyday. Unfortunately, we are exposed to events that more negative than positive. We can gauge our reactions to these events and form a pattern, which will suggest our likes and dislikes, our aversions and attractions. Once we know the cause-effect of each reaction, action and behavior, it is time for us to decide how best it can be used to improve our life.

Once we have analyzed and found the reasons and answers for our questions, then we have to make a determined effort to implement these results to improve our life. Each of us strives to be the best in whatever we do. It is a basic tendency and an urge that we try to fulfill.

Propensity to self-subversion will help us to become better individuals. We can use the results of our analysis to overcome our fears and apprehensions. For example, if you are afraid to swim for fear of drowning, then you can overcome that fear by knowing how you overcame your fear to ride a bike for the first time. Similarly, you can remove all the negative influence of external forces by closing yourself completely to it. You can either decide to respond only to positive events and keep the negative events out of your life or you can try to draw positive inferences from negative events.

You can become a very confident person capable of achieving anything. When you address your fear and remove your negative thoughts, all that remains in you is positive and feel-good thoughts. These will propel you to a higher level of achievement. It will lead to self-reliance, where you become independent of external forces. They cannot affect you in any way.

A person with a positive frame of mind always has an optimistic outlook towards life. He/ she are highly motivated and are capable of doing anything and everything under the sun. Such people radiate happiness and motivation that is infectious. Others are drawn towards them.

Self-subversion is a sure way to improve life. When you are optimistic and happy, you can face any problem with utmost confidence. Everyday will be a joy that you will look forward to. Your life would have improved rapidly and you will countless reasons to live for.

Such an upbeat person can help others to follow his/her path. Others can be motivated and helped to lead a better life. People can be pulled out of depressions and suicides. The rate of crime, violence, sex and abuse will reduce drastically. People can share and help others with their problems. Is that what is called, a paradise? Let us all join together to improve our lives and to make this a reality.

A vision is a foresight of the future. Though the mental image is that of oracles, of prophets and Nostradamus, a vision, in daily life, is just a grand plan of what you want to do with yourself. It is your series of goals leading to your ultimate goal, which is backed by your mission in life. When we have a vision for what we want to do with our lives, our steps will be guided with purpose. We are then driven to do everything with the vision in mind.

If you have watched or read Memoirs of a Geisha, you must have noted that Chiyo, from the moment she fell in love with the Chairman, planned her steps to get to see him again, with the dream of becoming his. Her childish vision turned into a life mission: she became a celebrated geisha, and she ultimately got her man. Vision is the backbone and the main driving force of our lives. Without vision to go back to, all our micro-goals amount to nothing. Why, then, is vision key to personal development? When a person finally emerges from the stage of confusion and exploration, he then yearns for direction to his life. But where does he turn to?

All his experiences, insights and realizations could all be funneled into a vision for his life. Vision is the result of our insights turned into realizations turned into goals for change. Vision is a result of learning from mistakes and channeling the energy into productivity. If you want to turn your experiences into a vision for your life, simply do the following. List down the major life lessons you’ve learned up to the present moment. Go through them, and analyze how you can sum up everything in a single statement. Make the statement. This statement will define your current and future dealings, and the steps you are taking in life should be driven by this one statement.

After you have made the statement, take a few days to be in touch with yourself and think long and hard what you really aim to do with your life. Elaborate this aim to include what you believe is your purpose in living, and there you have it: the backbone of your existence. Actually, the importance of vision in self-development cannot be stressed enough. One cannot progress from adolescence to adulthood if he does not have a clear direction in life. The mark of a made man is his sense of purpose. He does not live life randomly. Rather, each step he takes is a step closer to his goals, a step closer to success.

While there are other components to self-development, like developing a winning attitude, vision underscores everything. That when something in the process of reaching for your goals goes wrong, when you go back to your vision, you will have something to redirect your steps and put you back on your life-path. True, there are so many things that distract us from our goals. It may be circumstances, financial difficulties, or even other people. But when you have a vision for yourself, all these are trivial. When you will be faced with duress of a great magnitude, just go back to your vision, take a deep breath, and walk on. Vision will help you counter discouragement. When you put your focus on what you reach, obstacles become immaterial. Hence, if you want to develop yourself fully as a person, you have to have a vision for yourself. These tips teach you how to do so. Now, get a pen and paper and get to work!

Developing your character as a person is a step to developing your whole self. Character is made up of your values, your morals, and the basic way you react to situations. Character is who you are when you are caught off-guard. When you are stressed, when you are caught in traffic, your character shows with how you react to these situations. Character is what is left when all the trappings that serve as eye candy to other people: possessions, influence, and power, are stripped away.

Character is who you are when faced with situations that require you to compromise. It is who you are when you are tempted to do the wrong thing. To have character that worth commending, you have to learn and practice it on a day-to-day basis. Though they say that values and morals are being learned during childhood, a person has the capacity to learn and unlearn well into old age. Further, there are a lot of people who have had negativity programmed into their systems ever since childhood who have learned to go past that in their adult years. Their secret is that they have chosen to reprogram their thoughts.

Thus, if they have been able to unlearn negative things and learn positive ones, you can unlearn your old values and adopt new ways to look at and deal with the world. In this regard, there are three areas that are helpful for you develop the character you like as an individual. The steps may not be the easiest ones but they sure are fulfilling. Once you get the hang of these, your whole self will improve.

Leading the long list is integrity. When you are honest to the hilt, people will learn to trust you for your unwavering and uncompromising honesty. But you have to keep in mind that honesty needs to be tempered with discretion. You have to learn when not to disclose certain matters, and when to do so. Your motives have to be pure and good when you do decide to use honesty and integrity in making strategic decisions.

A component of Integrity is being you. Who you are when others are not watching is a sign of integrity. Living a dual, hypocritical life is dishonesty and worse is that, you are only hurting and fooling yourself. You also lead people to lose trust in you because of the dubiousness of your character. Having integrity means being able to stick to your convictions no matter what.

Consistency is also an integral part of one’s character. When you act in a consistent way, when you are productive in a consistent manner, you then earn the trust of people, and you also impress your bosses. Consistency is an important part of a career, and it is what would define the line between keeping and losing your job. The last area I suggest is the area of compassion. Compassion is the capacity to extend grace to, or to have mercy on people who are in dire need, who have wronged you, or basically are in a place that requires your mercy. Without compassion on others, you are nothing more than a robot. Without compassion, our world will be a place where productivity and money are the only things that run it.

To have compassion on others is not restricted to giving street children money. Compassion could also mean giving your mother a lift home because her car broke down. Compassion could also mean giving your wife a back rub because her pregnant belly is straining her spine. Character in a person is one of the things that would get others’ respect. It is a component that occupies a huge part of the personality, and it is what is left when everything else is stripped away. Develop your character, and consequently, you will develop your entire self.

Holistic living is the trend today. With people wanting to live integrated lives, with peace of mind foremost on their needs, self-development has become a commodity. Self-development is not a matter of adopting new Eastern techniques to be at peace with the universe. Self-development is a lifestyle you choose to lead, shaped to your needs.

Self-development starts with unlearning old patterns of thinking. You have to teach yourself to avoid negativity and instead focus on what you can do; focus on what steps you are to take with your life and correct your wrongs. Unlearn all the self-condemnation and flagellation. Learn how to praise and have confidence in yourself. When you have unlearned, you can now start adopting values that are congruent to your being. Values are not chosen randomly. They are adopted over time, through your learning, through your experiences in life.

Self-development develops as you gain knowledge, find your voice and learn to express it. When you find your voice and build your confidence through gaining mettle and credibility through knowledge and wisdom acquisition, you also grow as a person. When you realize all of these, you can now synthesize a vision for your life. What do you want to be? Where do you see yourself years from now? What do you want to make of your life? What is it that you want to underscore everything that you do? Your vision should answer these basic questions.

When you have unlearned, adopted values, found your voice, and synthesized all these into a vision, I believe, you are now in the heart of the self-development process. Self-development lasts a lifetime and does not stop when you reach 60. People have been known to touch others’ lives, live out their vision, well into their 80s. It is a matter of being driven enough to live on, leave marks on others’ lives, and pursue your vision, no matter what your age. Self-development is a journey that will stop only when the last bit of earth has been shoveled into your grave.

The heart of self-development is to strive to be a better person, no matter what the circumstance is. Abraham Lincoln had so many odds against him, suffered so much defeat in his quest for the presidency. However, he had a vision, and he had the positive outlook, the values, and the voice to back up his vision. In addition, today, he is remembered as one of the greatest American presidents. Lincoln termed this striving as the quest for self-actualization. For him, self-actualizers are those who have a singleness of mind, who are focused on their goals, despite the odds they face. Self-actualizers to him are those people who have compassion on others and have a general concern for the welfare of the world. Self-actualizers have a purpose to live out, and usually these are lofty goals.

You may not see yourself as a self-actualizer, but you do want to develop yourself. That is totally fine. Just follow the steps. You may not want to develop a lofty vision, but I still suggest that you develop a vision with which to live by. Vision, no matter how lofty or simple it may be, would still be your life’s backbone. If only for yourself, you need to develop one, to have a backbone of steel to guide your life. How you shape your life is incumbent on your decision just shape it. Do you want to be a drifter, going where the tide carries you? Do you want to be 60 and in dire need of guidance? Alternatively, do you want to be 25 and conquering the world? Your decisions are based on who and what you are as a person. Developing yourself is a start to making the best decisions you can make in life, and the consequences of these decisions, mind you, would be far-reaching. So take a deep breath, decide to realign your life, develop yourself, and be the next Abraham Lincoln!

Meeting new challenges in the development is stressful. Relieve this stress by meeting the challenges head on and by finding what you already know for the development of new skills.

Challenge you subliminal mind to find what it has been stored away causing you to forget what you already know. The subliminal mind stores things it has heard or teachings that you learned in the past. Challenge what knowledge you have stored away to be the person you are and want to be in developing new skills.

Jump in head first to discover knowledge you forgot for saving stress and time. Use your past knowledge has to grow and become stronger with confidence and trustworthy skills. With meditating and focusing, you will be guided in relaxation to take note of what you already know.

The subliminal mind stores energy as well as knowledge. Stress will use up this energy; so face challenges to relieve this stress in order to have room for what is around the corner. Practice meditation for relaxing to focus with confidence on each challenge as it appears.

With relaxing techniques start focusing and jump in to discover your inner knowledge that has been stored away to help in new skills for growing with strength. Look for communication skills and all other skills that will help give you guidance for the future.

Focusing on the challenges that you have run into previously will give you the advantages with ease of a new beginning. Practice with focusing on past knowledge to trust your inner thoughts. When you can trust what you already know voicing your opinions will help in guiding you to more and better challenges. Trust what you feel and be that real person inside your thoughts.

The more confidence you have will guide you to trusting your instincts. With confidence, you will grow with ease at a faster rate of speed for success. Confidence will help in meeting challenges for success in the development of self, voice and mind.

Meet your challenges with skill and confidence for strength to increase your mind ability for growth. Gaining trust in yourself will let you voice your knowledge to keep the mind active and happy. The mind needs exercise to perform with perfection to help keep you from losing memory and knowledge skills.

Expand you mind by voicing your opinions and sudden instincts that may keep you and others from danger. At what time we get a sudden instincts or gut feelings like someone stopping suddenly in front of you, you mind will instantly respond. We suddenly stop in our tracks to avoid walking into them. Our instincts can foresee what is going to happen that could be dangerous. Stay safe by facing the challenges ahead with trust in yourself.

Women are known to face the challenge of voicing there instincts more than men to keep themselves and others from danger. Trust and confidence helps in guiding them to focus on what and how they voice their opinions.

Keeping the mind active with challenges will keep your teachings on top to give you guidance in the future for what ever happens. Let your mind expand to guide the real person in you for the performance you deserve.

Face challenges head on for the development of self, voice, and mind to search the subliminal mind for what has been lost. Strengthen your skills to trust your instincts in voicing opinions and instincts to expand the mind with new skills. The world is taking a new turn of events, so it is time to consider propensity to self-subversion.