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I wanted to create something that could be used by anyone who wanted to become success in their lives. The idea came from my own personal experiences. When I first started college, I achieved success academically right out of the gate. I felt confident in my abilities to perform on exams and hit the marks for which I was striving easily. However, I noticed such a deep tinge of disappointment in other facets in my life that I urged myself to seek something with more foundation.
My relationship with my family was rather frail because I was withholding a lot of my own wants and needs from my parents. I was committed to becoming a chemist, whereas they were bent on me going through medical school. I also had a lot of emotional strain with my sister, who was also starting to move away from my family after she moved out of the house. My former girlfriend at the time and I would go through fight after fight, as I could very volatile when stressed from school and family.
I also suffered from carpal tunnel while I was going through my first research experience. It was a nightmare for me; I was not used to spending more than 4 hours on the computer typing up code, especially since I was a chemistry major. I enjoyed laboratory work far more than computational. I was constantly going through bouts of deep anxiety as a result of my fear of failure. And my health was deteriorating because I had no sense of diet, as I was living alone for the first time of my life.
I wanted more freedom in my life. I wanted to take back control of what I had lost. Even though my academics were superb, I felt like a failure. My life philosophy had been revolved around balance, and I found myself sacrificing a huge amount of balance for the sake of a few letters and numbers on a piece of paper. Don't get me wrong; the intellectual side of life is important, especially to me. But I wanted academic success coupled with good physique, strong relationships, and stable emotional health.
So what came out of my struggles was an exploration through life management, personal development, health regiments, and new perspectives. Through seminars, trainings, life groups, and work-out programs, I took back my life. And I'm still continuing to grow, continuing to learn, and becoming better each day.
Now what I decided to do was distill that work into a form that others could use to improve their lives. I felt that this Excel Spreadsheet of all the tools and techniques I've used since that time would be useful for the community here.
May this serve someone on their journey through life.
Best,
Bryan
I wanted to create something that could be used by anyone who wanted to become success in their lives. The idea came from my own personal experiences. When I first started college, I achieved success academically right out of the gate. I felt confident in my abilities to perform on exams and hit the marks for which I was striving easily. However, I noticed such a deep tinge of disappointment in other facets in my life that I urged myself to seek something with more foundation.
My relationship with my family was rather frail because I was withholding a lot of my own wants and needs from my parents. I was committed to becoming a chemist, whereas they were bent on me going through medical school. I also had a lot of emotional strain with my sister, who was also starting to move away from my family after she moved out of the house. My former girlfriend at the time and I would go through fight after fight, as I could very volatile when stressed from school and family.
I also suffered from carpal tunnel while I was going through my first research experience. It was a nightmare for me; I was not used to spending more than 4 hours on the computer typing up code, especially since I was a chemistry major. I enjoyed laboratory work far more than computational. I was constantly going through bouts of deep anxiety as a result of my fear of failure. And my health was deteriorating because I had no sense of diet, as I was living alone for the first time of my life.
I wanted more freedom in my life. I wanted to take back control of what I had lost. Even though my academics were superb, I felt like a failure. My life philosophy had been revolved around balance, and I found myself sacrificing a huge amount of balance for the sake of a few letters and numbers on a piece of paper. Don't get me wrong; the intellectual side of life is important, especially to me. But I wanted academic success coupled with good physique, strong relationships, and stable emotional health.
So what came out of my struggles was an exploration through life management, personal development, health regiments, and new perspectives. Through seminars, trainings, life groups, and work-out programs, I took back my life. And I'm still continuing to grow, continuing to learn, and becoming better each day.
Now what I decided to do was distill that work into a form that others could use to improve their lives. I felt that this Excel Spreadsheet of all the tools and techniques I've used since that time would be useful for the community here.
May this serve someone on their journey through life.
Best,
Bryan
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Now, to break down the Personal Development Strategy Guide, I want to introduce you to the themes of the guide. They consist of the following parts:
Physical - Areas of life that are related to the physical body.
Emotional - Areas of life that are related to feelings, emotions, and social spheres.
Mental - Areas of life that are related to the intellect.
Financial - Areas of life that are related to money and income.
Distractions - Areas of life that are related to the ways in which we "check-out" from responsibility.
Tools - Tools to give us more leverage in each area of our life.
Each theme is further broken down into 4~6 modules. After opening the Excel Spreadsheet that I've attached, you can access each of the modules by clicking on the colored diamond to the left of each of them.
Find the theme (Physical, Emotional, Mental, or Financial) that you feel may be your weak spot. Then make a commitment to complete the modules that you believe will be most beneficial to your health in that area.
*IMPORTANT EDIT*
It seems that every time I open the Excel spreadsheet, it leads directly to the Ergonomics module. I've tried to upload the Excel a second time using a different version, but it keeps going back to that module. Will have to look into it later.
For the time being, please click on the "Return" button on the upper right corner and that should take you to the main page.
*END OF IMPORTANT EDIT*
Now, most of the modules generally consist of two parts, the instructions and the list.
The instructions will give you a brief idea of the concept behind each module. For example, if you take the "Diet" module, you'll click on it and read that it'll be about creating a list of foods that are deleterious to your health. Then you'll move onto the list itself, where you will type out a list of the foods that you eat, their benefits to your health, and their costs to your health.
For the Diet module in particular, my hope was to give people awareness of what they were eating on a daily basis, as I've found that just typing out the foods that I eat gives me more perspective on what's going in my body. When my father passed away from a second stroke during the year, I realized that some of the most harmful and dangerous diseases, such as heart disease, stroke, certain cancers, and diabetes, are caused by what should give you nourishment, energy, and vitality: food. Food is absolutely important for life, and yet the structure of our world has created an environment where food is nearly poisonous to your health. So the Diet module will help you get a sense of what you're eating and perhaps how it may be affecting your life on an experiential level.
So all of these modules are based off of my own experiences with challenges in my own life. They use concepts passed down to me by friends, family, self-improvement books, seminar leaders, and life coaches, and I have used them to great effect in my own life. You don't need to fill out the entire strategy guide, and you hardly need to follow modules that do not agree with your own life philosophy, but at least take a look at each module and see if you can incorporate it into your own life. Perhaps you can try it out and see if it fits in your lifestyle for a few weeks. Everyone is different, and no two experiences are ever the same. What works for me may never work for you. But at least experiment.
In the following steps, I will discuss what each of the themes are about and the modules that make them up.
Physical - Areas of life that are related to the physical body.
Emotional - Areas of life that are related to feelings, emotions, and social spheres.
Mental - Areas of life that are related to the intellect.
Financial - Areas of life that are related to money and income.
Distractions - Areas of life that are related to the ways in which we "check-out" from responsibility.
Tools - Tools to give us more leverage in each area of our life.
Each theme is further broken down into 4~6 modules. After opening the Excel Spreadsheet that I've attached, you can access each of the modules by clicking on the colored diamond to the left of each of them.
Find the theme (Physical, Emotional, Mental, or Financial) that you feel may be your weak spot. Then make a commitment to complete the modules that you believe will be most beneficial to your health in that area.
*IMPORTANT EDIT*
It seems that every time I open the Excel spreadsheet, it leads directly to the Ergonomics module. I've tried to upload the Excel a second time using a different version, but it keeps going back to that module. Will have to look into it later.
For the time being, please click on the "Return" button on the upper right corner and that should take you to the main page.
*END OF IMPORTANT EDIT*
Now, most of the modules generally consist of two parts, the instructions and the list.
The instructions will give you a brief idea of the concept behind each module. For example, if you take the "Diet" module, you'll click on it and read that it'll be about creating a list of foods that are deleterious to your health. Then you'll move onto the list itself, where you will type out a list of the foods that you eat, their benefits to your health, and their costs to your health.
For the Diet module in particular, my hope was to give people awareness of what they were eating on a daily basis, as I've found that just typing out the foods that I eat gives me more perspective on what's going in my body. When my father passed away from a second stroke during the year, I realized that some of the most harmful and dangerous diseases, such as heart disease, stroke, certain cancers, and diabetes, are caused by what should give you nourishment, energy, and vitality: food. Food is absolutely important for life, and yet the structure of our world has created an environment where food is nearly poisonous to your health. So the Diet module will help you get a sense of what you're eating and perhaps how it may be affecting your life on an experiential level.
So all of these modules are based off of my own experiences with challenges in my own life. They use concepts passed down to me by friends, family, self-improvement books, seminar leaders, and life coaches, and I have used them to great effect in my own life. You don't need to fill out the entire strategy guide, and you hardly need to follow modules that do not agree with your own life philosophy, but at least take a look at each module and see if you can incorporate it into your own life. Perhaps you can try it out and see if it fits in your lifestyle for a few weeks. Everyone is different, and no two experiences are ever the same. What works for me may never work for you. But at least experiment.
In the following steps, I will discuss what each of the themes are about and the modules that make them up.
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This could not have come at a better time for me! Thank you.