In order to have balance and wholeness in life, we must know what we are balancing and what makes a whole life. We must discover anew what we want to balance, and how to balance these activities with the precious time we have. Different activities require different methods to accomplish them. Some easy and simple activities (that we might procrastinate on) often simply require immediate action, eliminating delays. Other activities require long-term commitment and intense effort, and all of the different parts of the human person must be engaged in the activities. Begin to comprehend your wholeness and attaining your balance through Optimal Integrity: integrate all of the parts of your life optimally by creating your own personal self-improvement system.
Seek beauty first. Create the aesthetic theme of your system of Optimal Integrity. Your theme could be almost anything, though.
As long as you can quickly refer to each element in your system, you can use just about anything to record your system. Your medium could be your own mind, and nothing more. Or, it could be a log book, a wiki, a Facebook group where all content is just your system, a Pinterest board, a mind map app, your journal, a blog, a vlog. If you want to keep everything in chronological order, you can create a TweetStorm. For me, it's this website.
Be willing to change if you find something that works better for you.
Explore goodness next. If collecting begins before some categories are put in place, the system will just be a random collection of items. When this happens, your system will rapidly become a huge mess. So a pattern must be selected. Relatedness must be expressed and set into place near the beginning. Everything in your system needs to be set in rhythms or rhymes of usefulness and priorities. These are sometimes called dimensions of self-improvement, or sometimes the Wheel of Life.
Be willing to change if you find a system that works better for you.
See Sample Categories. . .
Find truth. Explore and find your useful elements and add them to your collection. There are tons of self-improvement resources online. Also, you can talk with helpful people you know, ask them how they deal with problems, how they improve. Books, magazines, newspaper articles, academic journals, YouTube channels, documentaries about great people. The resources at our fingertips now are almost limitless. Test anything you might deem worthy of your pursuits, keep what you find useful. Be on the lookout for anything that can enhance your efforts.
Be willing to change if you find something that works better for you.