Points For Self-Evaluation That Will Make You Better

Whatever it is that you're blessed with that is your natural strength will become greater when you add to it by building up your opposing weakness. It may not be easy, some of it may be downright unpleasant. But it is the job of a man to be the best he can be. This includes well roundedness in every area of his life. We're only here for a short time. There's no point in wasting it on mediocrity.

Here are some points for honest self evaluation you may want to think about.

1. Ultimate Priorities. Since the physical is only a veil for the spiritual it must follow that ultimately the spiritual must take top priority. If you don't know God, regardless of how good you are at the rest of it, it's pointless.

2. Where The Rubber Meets The Road. Ask yourself what area of these things do I have to improve in? Be honest. Be specific. Realize that this is just scratching the surface of this subject and that each of these areas will be completely specific to you.

3. Develop A Plan. We spend lots of time planning training cycles, but do we really plan for complete development of all of your total man? The next time you spend time writing out your training, write in a plan not only for what you will do physically, but for what you will do spiritually and mentally. Remember to balance it for effort and recovery, strength and endurance and technical knowledge and real life application.

4. Specializing. Specializing short-term to bring up a weakness is an effective way to quickly build up your balance. Your ultimate plan must contain balance work for all the areas of your development, but if you see a glaring weakness and want to improve on that, then you must work it. Once you have a base built of all of your areas it is much easier to maintain ability than it is to build it in the first place. This applies across physical, spiritual and mental lines.

5. Use the discipline that you built through physical training to push you to greatness in every other area. It wasn't easy for me to get strong. It's not necessarily easy for you to get anything else, be it smarter, kinder, whatever it may be. But once you get in the groove of doing the workouts, they get much easier. The same applies in building mental and spiritual strength.

6. Fear Keeps us Out of Balance. Fear of failure. Fear of effort. Fear of pain. Fear of giving up something you've come to rely on. Most everybody reading this has conquered at least to some extent the fear of building strength. Use that to build the belief in yourself then you can become a truly spiritual and intellectual person.