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I’m positive you heard this phrase at least one time in your journey trough this wonderful place we call Earth.

What journey you may ask?
The journey within each of us of course. You surely realize that we as humans have a purpose in life and to realize this purpose we must walk the journey of life. Your parents gave you the greatest of all gifts, life. Our main purpose as humans is to procreate and share the life that we were given to by our parents.
Now try imagining a life with the soul purpose of procreating, this may seem boring and sad, but let’s face it: We make our own choices and the way we procreate and give life is the thing that makes our journey enjoyable and different from others.

This is what we should focus on everyday, making our journey and life more enjoyable.

How can I do that you may ask?
Well I am no expert and I’m not trying to sell you anything, what I speak of is my own experience with life and things that helped me feel better. Remember that when I am talking about feeling better I am not referring to financial issues or general material things, I’m talking about things that made me feel better inside, as a person. Now that we cleared that I can go on and tell you about the things that made me a better person.

The hardest point in feeling better is wanting to feel better

I mean really wanting, a real desire. You see, most of the time I wasn’t even aware of the fact that with minimal effort I could end up feeling so better about myself, about the people around me and life in general.
One day I was watching a documentary about famous people that really got me thinking. You see this people are all dead and we make movies and documentary’s about them. As I was watching this I was getting more and more interested in how this people got so famous, I was trying to put myself in their shoes and really enjoyed the feeling of being talked about. This were really nice feelings that anyone would enjoy and feel better about, but what I was failing to understand was the fact that by not doing anything about it, nothing was going to change.

Make a decision

Remember as you are reading this words, this is the first day of the rest of your life. If you want to live better then really consider making a change in the way you live, there is no real secret to this, no real magic word that can change your life, you are the one in charge with your feelings and only you can change the way you are. The first step you need to take is decide that you need to feel better about yourself.

If there were to be a secret, feeling better about yourself would be it.

The next thing you need to realize is the fact that you are not alone, there are others like you, there are billions. What we are talking about here is the ones close to you, your friends, your family, your lover and yourself. These persons are the key element in our story here, they are the ones that help you feel better and that is what we are going to talk about next.

Respect the others around you, respect your self and you will be respected.

You can’t have one without the other.
From my view-point respect is the most important thing there is in personal development, nothing comes even close. With respect along comes trust, love, leadership, fear, appreciation, enlightenment and of course a better life.
Every action has a reaction, this is the way things work and will never change:

• To gain respect you need to give respect;
• To be a respected person you have to behave like one;
• To feel better you need to act better.

Again, this is the first day of the rest of your life, behave likewise.
You can start of by respecting yourself, feeling better about yourself. Go ahead, take some time off, free your mind for about 2 minutes, think of nothing, just relax, go on, I will wait for you.
Now that you’re back consider making a phone call to an old friend of yours, or someone you last spoke with a long time ago. Catch up on your friendship, talk about nothing, just talk, relax and enjoy hearing an old friends voice.
Now that you completed the phone call, get up and go to the window. Look at how busy people are, they don’t really take time of like your doing right now. That’s right, YOU ALREADY STARTED, you’re starting to feel better and you like it.

Now this was just a teaser, actually you may or may not feel better about yourself but heck, you’re trying.

Thank you for your time and remember to respect the others around you.

Carpe diem