Welcome, welcome, welcome to the self improvement community!
Well it's official. We are finally live and to those of you who have joined already it is amazing to have you here.
Although I am a regular dude from England, working a regular job with a regular family and a regular life, for many years I have had a dream. I have always had a yearning to help those who have that niggling feeling that keeps them awake at night or plagues them as they are trading away their precious, irreplaceable time away from their 'real life' working for a boss...
That feeling that they are not living to their full potential, that they were destined for more.
I have spent a significant amount of my life reading books, listening to audio programmes, watching video programmes, attending seminars. I have seen some of the greatest speakers in the world speak about excellence, goals and achievement.
When I was young I branched out in to many money making ventures, small time self employment opportunities and learned about sales and marketing from joining several network marketing opportunities to utilise the world class training offered for free. This was also where I got to see some incredible speakers at the companies annual event for the face price of the ticket.
My favourite speaker was Darren Hardy the former editor of Success magazine. I got to see him explain the core principles behind his best selling book The compound effect. The basic premise was that tiny, insignificant changes that are imperceptible to most people actually have a compounding effect as we practice them over an extended period of time. Many of us have stumbled across such principles before but the research and data he had collected regarding these tiny changes practiced every day was utterly compelling to say the least.
This fostered a belief in me that absolutely anybody can start a journey of continuous self improvement with one small change if they were committed to seeing it through and making this a non negotiable action in their life.
This has the vastly underrated ability to create a self reinforcing success mindset leading us on to one more change then another, and so on, each compounding several ripples of achievement in our life.
Many of my friends are not avid readers, not willing to pay to attend seminars or invest time in to video or audio programmes BUT now I had a strategy to help them transform their life if they were struggling in any area be it financial, relationships, health challenges or simply a nihilistic feeling that their life lacked meaning or direction.
Needless to say I have gotten such a thrill from helping people to develop over the years, it is still my favourite endeavor by far. When I joined the community here almost three years ago I resolved to create a community here that did just that, enabled people to support, empower and cheer each-other on.
I suffered a period of great challenge in my life during that time and was not nearly as active as I intended to be. I have written many posts detailing strategies for becoming better than you are today and they are still by far my favourite posts to write.
When Hive was born I resolved to make the community idea a reality. I have found many here with a similar will to become more and many who write posts in that same genre and I thought 'WOW! What if we all pooled our collective knowledge together to help and support eachother, thus creating a library of content for those looking for a way to change things they are unhappy with in their life.'
That's a massively inspiring and rewarding collective aim, right?
You may be wondering why I didn't start this community as soon as communities became a thing on Hive, simple! I believe I needed to wait until I had made a significant investment in Hive, thus building up the reward I was able to offer active community members. Once I thought about this seriously I realised something profound.
Those who are looking for a way out of their situation, people who may even be desperate to make a meaningful change need these resources, they would be ecstatic to find them, so the reward for them would be the tools, tips and strategies and maybe even mentorship to help them find a better place in life. It's far cheaper than buying a book or paying a success coach, right?
Those who write content to inspire others to reach a little higher and achieve what they wish to from life are usually not doing it for financial reward anyway. Such people are genuinely interested in making a difference to those who need it most.
It suddenly dawned on me that there was no reason to put off launching the community any longer.
So here we are, at the start of the journey to support each-other on to greatness. I gotta tell you I am massively excited about this.
So share your very best ideas to help others along to success in the 3 key areas for an amazing life.
Health Wealth & Happiness
Also don't forget to checkout the strategies others have shared in the community, you may just discover the one gold nugget that helps you make that next quantum leap that speeds up the journey to success.
My own posts here will be in the fields of;
- Escaping the debt trap and learning to manage finances in a more efficient way.
- Learning to become an investor for the long term, no matter how small an amount you have to start with. I started with just £10 and almost zero knowledge of investing.
- How to choose stocks and shares that pay you an income whether they are going up or coming down.
- How to start building a financial safety net, to protect you and yours in the event of, not just a rainy day but an economic monsoon season.
- Strategies to achieve a greater sense of happiness and transform negatives to positives.
- Top tips to hold yourself accountable to your goals and build a sense of discipline.
- My favourite productivity hacks, these have served me incredibly well over the past few years.
- Cultivating a sense of gratitude even when life seems at it's bleakest.
- The most powerful ways to turn internal self talk from a bully to a success coach and mentor.
- Nature's finest medicine. The simple dietary supplement that can give you everything your will ever require except vitamin D, which is freely available from sunlight.
- Power foods for beating disease, illness and building a robust immune system.
- Side hustles to help you improve your financial net worth and start to live the life you really want.
- Techniques to turbocharge your relationships.
- Improving social skills and confidence and becoming a person that others aspire to be like.
- The top traits that anyone who wishes to become a leader must develop.
I have so many other topics that I wanted to mention here but I am certain you get the picture by now. I am brimming with ideas for helping you achieve transformational success traits to serve you well on the journey to your better life.
I believe this is a community that has the very real potential to be a force for great positivity and optimism within the Hive community and I am certain we will attract a little curation from some quarters of the blockchain that love to see others aspiring to be more.
All the while I will be sharing my goals, achievements and failures with the community. I shall be holding myself accountable in a way I have never quite achieved before.
I will be sharing my journey to try and pay off my mortgage quickly, the mortgage hasn't even been approved yet but when it is I intend to attack it and document exactly how I am doing. I will be trying many side hustles along the way, I will be sure to let you know how those are going too.
We don't have a logo yet, no fancy banners, tokens or any other bells and whistles but what we do have is each other, a veritable cornucopia of combined knowledge to share, the nucleus of a thriving community and the ambition to become better tomorrow than we are today, one decision at a time.
THE SELF IMPROVEMENT COMMUNITY has an incredibly bright future, I know it with every fibre of my being.
Thank YOU for taking the time to read my post and if you're one of those amazing people who like to hit the comments section... Then I doubly thank YOU!
Either way I want you to know that you are appreciated!
Keep taking the time to connect with each-other both here and in the so-called real world and try and look after each-other, because as you already know...
Very interesting to join this community. I am very pleased to have found it because sometimes I didn't know where to publish my content on personal development, communication and interpersonal relationships. Thanks @acidyo for the recommendation.
I identify with you in some things: I like content that helps me to improve myself, to be better every day, to grow in every way that human beings can grow. I also like to help others, to live my ikigai or life purpose which is: "to motivate, inspire and reflect through my words. " For that reason I get up every day.
I look forward to meeting many great people here. A big hug from Maracay, Venezuela.
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Wow, so amazing, two tears back still sounds like yesterday, i just discovered the community and as a young lady who is passionate about becoming a solution to many problem around my society. i do believe that this amazing community is the best place to grow into my desired me. thanks so much. for the opportunity @stevenwood, I will do well to enegage the community to derive maximum impact.
Thank you so much. Wonderful to have you within the arms of this wonderful community.
Wishing you all the very best on life's journey and in your pursuit of constant self-improvement, it is such a worthy goal and a wonderful path to venture down.
Thank you so much for stopping by
I hope your journey is filled with fun, friends and fulfilment. 😎
I am new here and glad to be in this community, though I made a first post last week if not mistaken but nice post my friend but I will try to view your post at all times and support.
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Excellent proposal my friend, I love that you lead a community with such an important topic.
I will always stop by to read you and leave you my opinion, all the items you bring are good and I hope to learn a lot.
it calls my attention "to cultivate a sense of gratitude even when life seems more somber" , since in life there are always falls, but the important thing is to get up and learn from what happened, thousands of successes my great friend!
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thousandmillion successes to us ALL Rafael!I love this blockchain, this community and the amazing people I have met ((some of them are called Rafael :D )) I love the idea of us ALL working together to help eachother along, in exactly the same we ALL know the world should work.
We ALL have different skills and knowledge to share and if we put all this knowledge together with the intention of helping not just ourselves BUT everyone, we could create something magnificent here.
Gratitude is so, so important especially during hard times when it not so easy. It is quite an easy habit to form though, let me help with starting a spirit of gratitude by sharing some of the things I am grateful for.
I am grateful for my family and friends.
I am grateful for this community.
I am grateful for my body and my health.
I am grateful for meeting an amazing cool Venezuelan dude named Rafael a little while back and watching him grow and progress.
Love this
Nathan I know I am replying to a guy who understands community and thriving together in his bones so I know you will know exactly what I mean when I say the following.
The day of critical mass here will be the day that 51% of people realise the true way forward is helping eachother, growing together and thriving when we see others move and grow, even when it is faster than we are growing ourselves.
Sometimes John will be in a position to reach out a helping hand and pull Sally further up the mountain, sometimes Sally will be in a better position to do the same for John. When the people within Hive feel this in their bones, in their spirit and in their very soul, maybe, just maybe we will be in a stronger position to take this ethos and nurturing, caring belief system out in to the world and live life the way we know we should!
I live in a place of optimism, I see the problems here and in the so-called, real world, I am not naive at all but I choose to believe that enough of us are waking up to how we as humans should be, to amke it happen.
The future is bright my friend :)
@stevenwood
I'm glad this community is a part of Hive.
Thank you my friend. May we all take it to heart and use it to help ourselves to improve those aspects of life that we wish to BUT also a way to help everyone else too. That is a beautiful vision and the very reason I call this community...
OUR community! :D
Congratulations on the launch of your new community - it sounds awesome! I will join up as well 😁
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Hey Ghost! Thanks man. Just like we spoke about before I see the communities that support eachother's values in an empowering way being exactly the way communities are meant to work!
I am 100% certain many, many Hustlers will be born from this community as people investigate ways to strengthen their financial future and protect themselves from the tides of government, financial systems and bosses.
The future's bright man :)
Im into this. Subscribing!
Hi Dave! Oh wait am I greeting you or tagging your name... I'm confused as ever!!!
That's awesome, fabulous to have you on board. From day ONE this is OUR community. It is designed to be a resource for those looking for inspiration and as a toolbox we all add to with our own knowledge gained from experience we have had.
Let's create at least one small piece of the world that operates the way we know it should from a spirit of helping eachother along to a better life always offering a hand and a pull up to friends we meet along the way.
I am incredibly excited about the future :)
Bienvenido amigo, me encanto su publicación y estaré atento a su comunidad. Felicitaciones por el lanzamiento de su comunidad. Paso a suscribirme. Saludos desde Venezuela
Hey there. Welcome my friend :)
Congratulations to us ALL! We now have a place to help eachother and ourselves towards success. This OUR community and always will be. Let's share and help eachother onward the way we all know works best of all.
Together we are better and so much stronger too :D
Congratulations on the launch of the community, may you have many successes. Greetings 👍
Thankyou my friend. May we ALL have and share many successes along the way.
Let us ALL help eachother along to bigger and better things in our lives and always display a spirit of caring for eachother and not just ourselves. Together we are so much better!
Loving the vibe of #selfimprovement community! I have a feeling you'll be seeing a lot of me. Congrats on getting this dream of yours afloat!! ❤🎶🌻
Oh I do hope so. People filled with positivity and wielding all the best emojis are exactly what we need here to get those energy levels up where we need them to be.
This is and will always be OUR community. Let us all work together to inspire eachother on to bigger and better things. Success is a journey best travelled with cool friends we meet along the way.
There will always be a particular emphasis on offering a helping hand to those that need it most, I always thought this was exactly how the world was meant to be and how humans were meant to be toward eachother.
As we progress, develop more skills and a stronger mental toolbox we in turn become able to help others grow faster too.
Best wishes for the journey my friend :)
Thank-you Steven. Same to you ✌
It has left me imbued with good energy, motivation and a desire to succeed.
I really like the group of people who are in this new community. I joined thanks to a publication made by @galenkp and both his and yours are fascinating.
Thank you for thinking about the growth of others.
My own blog is about spirituality, prosperity and abundance, changing beliefs and focusing on success, putting tools into practice in myself by sharing it with others.
I could not miss, in this great idea, thank you.
My next post will be about gratitude and as it is vital to thank for success I will publish it from this community. Thank you
Awesome! We are in such a strong position to help both ourselves and others too when we feel this way. So often this feeling is the very one that fosters belief and confidence in our ability to move forward. further & faster and with more confidence...
This is the exact time we are at our most powerful and in the best shape to help others along too. Helping others along is where the real gold of this community is at. We have a chance to create something powerful, empowering here. Something built on discipline, personal power, achievement and love for our fellow travellers.
Wow! I am excited for us all to start sharing our successes, failures, tips, hints, tricks and strategies to help not just us, but EVERYONE else who seek it too.
Hi there. I am convinced that you already expected that I would open a door here as well ... I will make sure that I do not slam it too hard behind me. But kidding, this is the kind of community I love to be a member of ... So I clicked the subscribe button. I hope to find great challenges, with great tips ... Great move to start this community
Hey there lovely lady, great to see ya :)
Yes I thought of you and the last coversation we had about goals and I knew you would be up for this once it got going. As you see, this is my first ever post to flesh out exactly what the community stands for, the values it upholds and the sense of great integrity I hope we can all maintain on our way to a more empowered, fulfilling life ((yup... I still talk waaaay too much, but I have accepted and embraced this affliction now lol))
I am genuinely delighted you have chosen to join us Hetty, truly I am :)
So I have not started inviting those people I know would enjoy this idea yet. The response however has been magnificent, I think because we all want something more from life in at-least some area, deep down we all enjoy cheering others on when all comes to all. I hope that people embrace OUR community on both fronts and we create a resource and place for those who need a little help or inspiration and also the cheerleaders from the Hive community too.
I AM excited! :D
I feel your enthusiasm and I think that alone can lift up the motivation from other people ...
Sometimes it's hard to see what you're actually achieving when you feel you're only fighting and struggling around. Someone around to let you see what you're achieving and lift up your motivation at the same time is great to have.
Tips to better your life, no matter in what direction you're looking for is what everybody needs. And what is so hard to find sometimes in real life, because when you're fighting against many things it's more likely that people in your environment are fighting the same battle and with that it's easy to take each other down ...
I'm happy I saw your very motivating post and felt it as an opportunity I had to grab with both hands. Yes I am working on my goal, but need motivation to keep it up at a good pace because I can very easily get sidetracked by real life problems ... and I want to deal with that more efficient. Not letting it get to me and take away my energy, inspiration and motivation.
I have set that goal, I want to get there, and more ... because I don't want to start all over at zero next year!
Thank you for your enthusiasm and excitement. I'm ready to learn and go for it ...
Hi there. I am convinced that you already expected that I would open a door here as well ... I will make sure that I do not slam it too hard behind me. But kidding, this is the kind of community I love to be a member of ... So I clicked the subscribe button. I hope to find great challenges, with great tips ... Great move to start this community
Spreading a little awareness of Hive and of the self improvement community to those who may not know what an awesome space we have ALL created here on Hive 😎
#posh
Thanks for creating such an important community, this is actually need of this era.
Thanks again😊
I can not think of a better community for you to start! ❤️ Simply perfect.
Stoked to see your post! I'm new to Hive and I have been looking for a community that supports personal development and mental health content. I'm so glad I found one. I'll be sure to post in the Self Improvement community soon!
Excellent proposal, nice group! Happy to find a place to share interesting and helpful articles!
Hello there, @stevenwood, sorry I am so late to the party.
What a fabulous idea for a community and a great resource for everyone.
So true - in everything. Sometimes people feel thwarted or overwhelmed because they feel they have to do so much (paying off their mortgage 😁). Finding a small place to start, and starting, is the first step. It's one of the things I love about learning new things or starting new things, you just don't know where they are going to go, what new opportunities they are going to open. It's exciting!
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Hello @ stevenwood I want to be part of this family,I trust I am welcomed.
Hello! I am very eager to share resources & learn from a group of people willing to realize their true potential.
Thank you for allowing this.
i'm happy to be part of these
This is a great community. I am glad i am here
I love to be part of this community...i definitely suits here 🥰.. Thank you for introducing this to us
Glad I found this community.. Perfectly suitable for me haha..
Hello @stevenwood
Thank you so much for make this community. This is @alfazmalek02 and I'm from medical field. So I've a knowledge of many disease and I've heath tips. So if you allow so I can post health and wealth related topics as same as many diseases who affect life of peoples and how to we can prevent and how to treat. I would like to see your positive reply.
I am from South America and I would like to write in this community to share my ideas about personal growth and development. I would like to know if I should only write in English or if I can write in both languages. If it is only in English I have no problem because I use Deepl translator.
Soon if I am welcome I will be sharing my posts. I thank @galenkp who referred me to you with an article he wrote in that community ....
Thanks, I am happy this Community is here on Hive!
Good afternoon @stevenwood
It is an honor for me to be able to write in this community of personal growth and development.
I want to know if it is only in English.
I am writing from South America. Thank you.
For tomorrow with your permission and that of the community I will begin to post in this community.
Thank you.
Honestly it is interesting the objective of the community for the simple fact of contributing an idea of value, continue with that dreams.... Greetings 🙂
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This is very interesting, am impressed
This is one of the most outstanding posts I have read recently. I never cared to reading pinned messages but I was touched to read this and I felt that I had missed alot since I never read it . Now I see reasons to ask for mentorship from you please. There's no other way to transfer lives order than what you have presented here. I won't stop at one time reading this. Thank you for this impactful piece. It's two years ago but very new and active post needed for today living.
Thank you so much for your kind, inspiring words they are so much more than appreciated, my friend!
Sorry for the delay in responding, life is hectic but exciting for me right now as so many of the changes I talk about in this post are happening for me right now. I have achieved being fitter at 50 than I was at 40 and I am not even 50 till next month. I am feeling so much healthier and happier in my whole life than I have in many, many years. Small changes add together over time, create connections and one day they turn in to huge, life benefitting events.
Everything you could ever want is in your hands and in your heart right now, today, you are so much more powerful than you could ever imagine and capable of everything you could ever wish for. Make some decisions on what and who you want to be and write it down... WRITE IT DOWN, read it often to remind yourself exactly where you are going. Share your progress here.
Don't worry how many people read it, don't worry if nobody sees it, do it for YOU!
Show the world the superhero that lives within you, you've got this man! 😎
Thank you 💞 I'm lifted by these words.
this is an amazing community and i am glad to associate with the amazing activities that will be captured in the community. I am just joining the hive family and am already so excited about the things am seeing. i believe with you that together we can make it happen. Thanks for the amazing work.
"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together". Word! It's one of my favourite quotes really. Self-awareness and self-improvement go hand in hand and if anyone wants to go far, they better learn to carry people along, work with them and improve based on others' insights. No man is an island. Shalom.
Thanks to this wonderful community and my fellow hivers, this is amazing family to be, sharing new ideas and good thought together, am sure this community will bring great experience.
I am happy to join the community, I know am not in a wrong place because I really want to learn and improve my self in writing.
Happy to be here... I hope I can provide this community with some value from my self growth studies... Thanks for this group
Self improvement is a continuous process. Learning never end.
I love busines, skills and Health.
Is there any process of verification? Or we can post directly?
Good. I have pendulum and tarot card skills. Can I write about that in your community? Thanks.
Buenas. ¿Puedo escribir sobre las cartas del tarot y el péndulo en ésta pagina? Gracias.
Good. Can I write about tarot cards and the pendulum on this page? Thanks.