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Self Improvement

Self Improvement

Written by: Bijibilla Rama Rao
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I am an active blogger in LinkedIn, Substack and Medium platforms by sharing my articles to the viewers with a view to learn and improve my own and others as well. Consequently, it gives immense pleasure and satisfaction. Sharing is caring. It allows us to learn and improve on our own. Self-learning is the main criteria and it motivates to inspire and empower our personality to the next level in reality. It keeps on updating information required to live and let live is the main cause. Unity gives strength. It creates team spirit. Teamwork is vital. Let us rededicate and redesign with new ideas to empower youth. Youth empowerment is need of the hour. Young minds will have creative energy with determined willpower in an innovative and dynamic way they prove and perform to sacrifice and focus more on growth and development. Effort is the base for everything. Effort will never go waste. It has its own value. Keep on doing. Never drop out under any circumstances irrespective of the obstacles and hurdles that occur in middle till you reach your goal. Goal setting is ultimate like thought process. Create positive mindset. Positive attitude allows us to reach positive people to acquire positive thoughts and attain the positive results.

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  • A Journey of Consciousness
    Feb 1 2026

    Home is my heart’s land, Home’s where I am. Nothing can dim the light of my soul. Home then, we can say is a state of consciousness — a state of being.” — Swami Kriyananda

    The journey of consciousness refers to the process of understanding and evolving one’s awareness and understanding of one self and the world. It encompasses various states of mind, from the awareness of thoughts and emotions to deeper insights into spirituality and existence.

    “The awakening of consciousness is the next evolutionary step for mankind.” — Eckhart Tolle

    “The level of your consciousness depends on the calmness of your mind.” — Consciousness Quotes

    “Consciously select what you do every day because that will influence your life the most.” — fivver.com

    “The soul’s journey is a pilgrimage of self-disovery, where each step unveils a new truth within.” — Quotes for spiritual journey

    “I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It is a journey of recovery. It’s a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It’s already there.” — brightdrops.com

    Awareness: It involves recognizing oneself as an individual, separate from others, and experiencing subjective realities.

    Self-Discovery: The journey often includes practices like meditation and reflection, leading to greater self-awareness and understanding.

    Philosophical Perspectives: Different philosophies such as Hinduism, explore the relationship between individual consciousness and the universal spirit, emphasizing the importance of self-knowledge for enlightenment.

    Spiritual Growth: The journey can also involve moving beyond ego consciousness to integrate personal and collective unconsciousness, leading to a more holistic understanding of life.

    Overall, the journey of consciousness is a multifaceted exploration of who we are, why we exist, and the meaning of life.

    Paramahansa Yogananda explains that human beings experience five specific states of mind. We all travel through these states on an inner journey that takes us from darkness to light, from illusion to illumination, from ego to soul, and from a foreign land to our true eternal home.

    Happiness : Take a good look and think in positive direction will allow you to understand better and the best in all respects at all times on all occasions. It creates power and generates energy within abundantly. It also makes you to be active, practical, action oriented, zeal and enthusiastic to move forward with one step to reach miles and miles in your journey. It makes to reach your destination safely and securely well in time is the right way of living.

    Sorrow: We have plenty of desires and come out one by one slowly after fulfilling the one and the next one occupies its place like this they are uncountable. If any of them were not happened or delayed we slowly deterioriate and feel discomfort to think and try to overcome it as soon as possible with our own effort is the most common thing happens in reality.

    Indifference: It is neither happy nor sorrow but we are in different attitude and stay in middle. It is like an intermediate between the above two and looks dull, boring, tiresome, and uninteresting in our activities during the day and its happenings. We are in a bored situation.

    Peacefulness: Peace alone gives us an opportunity to find the state of mind, where we are, what we do, how we comeout from sadness, or ill feelings will help to discover the experiences in practical manner makes sense and keeps us active and alert to move forward with pleasant movements gives joy and pleasure in every step by creating inner peace will help effectively.

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    9 mins
  • Mental Courage
    Jan 28 2026

    Mental courage is defined as the ability to face fears, confront difficult situations, and make tough decisions while maintaining emotional and psychological well-being.

    It cultivates inner strength for life’s challenges. Mental courage transforms life through improved confidence, problem solving skills, and resilience. It is also described as the quality of mind that enables one to encounter danger and difficulties with firmness or without fear.

    “Courage is knowing what not to fear.” — Maya Angelou

    “You can choose courage, or you can choose comfort, but you cannot choose both.” — Brene Brown

    “Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill

    “We gain strength, and courage, and confidently by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face…we must do that which we think we cannot.” Eleanor Roosevelt

    “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” Winston Churchill

    It creates confidence to determine and dedicate to sacrifice and focus more on our desired goals. It generates power within. It also makes us to put a step forward to reach miles and miles in our journey to reach our destination in time. Obstacles and hurdles will happen in routine still we should make up our mind to face them with our courage to win with a positive mindset. Mindset is ultimate. Cultivate a positive mindset to create an environment and make it possible in given time with available resources makes sense and gives meaning. It gives ability to prove and perform better and the best with proper planning. Commitment will create personal values to grow in right direction in right time at the right place for right cause is an art. Identification of courage is essential in daily life to face whether it is physical, social, moral, emotional, intellectual, or spiritul. Each one has its own value. Mindfulness keeps strong in this process and allow us to face in each situation to get the results in our favour and prove as a successful individual in this journey. Application is crucial to find the ways and means in general. Situation plays vital role to take a decision and manage to handle it with proper planning keeps us in safe zone. Safety and security are the top priority. Once you are safe you can handle efficiently. Efficiency is key to play a role in day-to-day life. It makes us smart and active to meet our needs in time. Timely action gives timely results. Results are ultimate. An idea can change this world to great extent. Social courage helps to encourage the leadership activity. Collective strength gives the best results. You become a great orator. You can mobilize the people in large scale to gather at one place to win the task assigned. Moral courage helps to bring the values high and high to do the things. Intellectual courage is willing to learn and improve on our own in day-to-day life. It also helps to widen the wings and spread it widely all over the world. Spiritual courage is the courage to face the spiritual questions raised by different people on different occasions can apply the logic and ventures into phylosophical questions that often unanswerable. It is similar to intellectual courage. Courage is a central theme to apply and overcome the challenges that occur in real life. Then only we can move forward to reach our targets in time. Courage is something that is hard to do. To be courageous you should push through fear and uncertainity. Then only you can achieve anything in this world.

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    7 mins
  • Learning Experience
    Jan 27 2026

    Learning experience is any interaction, course, program, or other experience in which learning takes place, whether it occurs in traditional or nontraditional settings or formats.

    A learning experience refers to any situation, activity, or event in which an individual acquires new knowledge, skills, insights, or understanding. It encompasses interactions in both traditional academic settings, like classrooms, and non traditional environments, such as outdoor activities or interactive software. Essentially, it is a holistic experience designed to help learners achieve meaningful outcomes.

    “While it is wise to learn from experience, it is wiser to learn from the experience of others.” — Rick Warren

    “Everything that is past is either a learning experience to grow on, a beautiful memory to reflect on, or a motivating factor to act upon.” — Denis Waitley

    “Remember that experience creates internalization. Doing things repeatedly leads to internalization, which produces a quality of understanding that is generally vastly superior to intellectualized learning.” — Ray Dalio

    “Loosing is a learning experience. It teaches you humility. It teaches you to work harder. It’s also a powerful motivation.” — Yogi Berra

    “Not only do we learn more from failure than success, we learn more from bigger failures because we scrutinize them more closely.” — Shery Sandberg

    Transform your life in an innovative and dynamic way in every aspect at every stage at all times on all occasions gives you energy and strength to boost and inspire makes an impact on you and others as well. Transformation is key for everything. Change alone find the ways and means in reality. Embrace the day. The day has its own value. Everyday is a new opportunity. It keeps on changing. It brings new ideas, new opportunities, new hopes and aspirations to shine and focus more with sunlight gives brightness by throwing away the darkness in the form of knowledge keeps you alive and active in every step of your journey. Life is like a journey. Enjoy every moment and keep on doing your job with great respect. If you respect your work it respects you through favourable results and encourage you to move forward with one step to reach miles and miles in your journey. It inspires and empowers you in all respects at all times on all occasions. It shoulders to feel more responsible and accountable to get the recognition with due respect. Life is covered with full of struggles, obstacles and hurdles. We have to remove one by one with our sincere effort and move forward with full confidence and courage to set an example to others. Our effort should be higher than our goal. Then only things will happen in reality. Consistent effort gives consistent results. Results are ultimate. Happiness is the way of living. Help ever hurt never is the style of approach. Silence is gold. Do your duty quitely and calmly. It generates positivity. Positive attitude makes us to reach positive people to attain positive thoughts and acquire positive results. Believe yourself. Belief gives courage and confidence. It also generates power within. Do your best. Give your best. Hope for the best. You will get the best. Your life is your experience. You are the best judge for yourself. Be happy and enjoy your journey.

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    8 mins
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