Positive Influences On Your Self Improvement Success

There are things you can do to ensure your success when making self-improvement goals this year. They all have to do with having a positive attitude and positive energy. Positive influences are those things that we do or say that make us feel good about others or ourselves. Positive influences can shape good personal character. Influences can come from home, church, school, peers, co-workers, friends.

Home

Our parents usually have a major influence on their children. They model behavior for their children to follow, good or bad. As children grew they become more aware of how our parents handle various life situations and good outcomes positively influence their kids to follow in their footsteps. Bad outcomes will cause kids to avoid following in the same footsteps.

The environment we grew up in can have a positive or negative influence on us. A loving, stable home life will provide the kind of positive reinforcements that will enable children to grow up healthy and strong in character. An unstable, or violent home life will have a negative impact on the psyche and ability of kids to mature or cope with situations. Positive influences from your home, whether that be from your parents or from the home environment help to shape the positive attitudes necessary to feel confident about achieving self-improvement goals. Peers, co-workers and friends

These people in our lives can create positive influences for us as well. They encourage our efforts at self-improvements. They support us when we fail, or when we get lost along the path. We confide in them, our self-improvement goals and discuss with them how to go about achieving them. We value their input and are uplifted when we receive positive encouragement.

Church

The church environment will positively affect our spiritual and moral character. A lot of our self-improvement goals center on moral issues. Usually these goals involve behavior. Inappropriate behavior can create uncomfortable relationships, or have unhealthy consequences for our bodies. Behavior that may cause us to desire to make self-improvements might be: having multiple sex partners, being involved in crimes of violence etc. Some of our bad habits start when we forget what is good for us and become entrenched in doing what is harmful for our bodies and or our minds. The church can have a positive influence on us to understand how such inappropriate behavior is harming us and others, which leads us to set goals for self-improvement. Positive influences in the church can be found from congregational members, pastors, church programs and in the faith doctrines that are taught and followed by church members.

School

School officials and teachers as well as fellow students can have a positive influence for those who attend the school, as well as the community. Positive influences can come from teacher-pupil relationships, extra-curricular activities, curriculum and the friendships that are fostered in the school environment.

Just like the home, the school environment can have both negative and positive elements depending on the people and factors that exist in the school. The community members can choose to contribute to the school programs through volunteer positions (cafeteria aids, teacher helpers etc.) The community also can have a positive influence through monetary donations that support positive programming in the school.

Children learn values in both the home and school that can affect the choices they make in life; including the choices concerning self-improvement. Positive influences form home and school reinforces the idea that we can succeed at what we set out to do. We learn how to believe in ourselves by the positive reinforcements awarded to us in school and at home when we attempt to accomplish tasks and succeed. Even our failures are opportunities for positive reinforcement and encouragement.

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