How To Become The Best Version of Yourself!

I guess the first thing you'll have to do is take stock of who you are. In essence, I think I've learned that more recently in order to move forward in life and really push the boundaries.

Feeling happy and helping others is really the first thing to slow down.

Recently I had my first seizure in over a year, and I think through that experience of learning it is far more important for you to strengthen your health than it is to help the world.

We have to be very happy with who we are in life, both consciously and subconsciously, now more than ever before. To be honest, I think sometimes we can get overwhelmed by the fact that we are trying to do so many things at the same time, especially when we look at all the media we receive on our phones and televisions.

For me, this is the first lesson here: sometimes we really need to slow down. As a result of my seizures, I've had non-epileptic attack disorder for 7 years now, and it is a very challenging condition to manage. When seizures are triggered by stress and anxiety, there is no way to predict the actual condition itself.

My condition cost me my teaching career, so now I'm in a safe place, but I keep using the word sadly because I don't know how else to describe it.? To be honest, I didn't see this one coming in some respects. This particular seizure frightened me and I think that it was not because of the seizure itself. I know how to cope with the seizure but I didn't see it coming from a stress point.

You need to figure out what matters most to you in order to become the best version of yourself, and for me at the moment, it's my physical health and my faith. The fact that I am a Christian and a born-again Christian is something I am very proud of. To my friends, family, and other people that I meet, I always say that I'm not a religious man, but that I know in my heart that I won't be the best version of myself. What I'm trying to say here is that I think in life in order for us to become the best version of ourselves we need help.

If you need help in life, there is no shame in admitting it to others. I'm reading a really good book at the moment called; Your One Wild and Precious Life by Dr Maureen Gaffney and it's really helping me shape how I want to live from now until my end of days. Even though I read the Bible every single day, sometimes we need a little bit of science, such as psychology, to help us manage our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

In order to become the best version of yourself, you really need to pinpoint and find new ways of developing your self-awareness to your own inner demons. The point I'm making here is that we can go through life, do different fitness classes, and eat healthy, but stress points will still exist. Those stress points can build up subconsciously in our brain and can literally bite us in the backside, which, as I learned from last week's seizure, isn't a pleasant experience.

I would like to summarise the short essay or personal development account as trying to find out where you are, your true self and also to become the best version of yourself is a meeting with the reality that you are never going to be who you are at any given moment.?

For me, the idea about life is that we are constantly learning and our brains are not always fixed on what is happening. Regardless of the fact that we see things and some of us have learning disabilities, health conditions, and many other things, what we all have is a good sense of knowing when something is wrong.

We all have that gut feeling sometimes if something is wrong despite medical and health conditions and the stress we receive in life. When you watched scary movies, you saw people walking in the dark and they sensed something was there, then they turned around and there he was, either a ghost or a vampire.

I'm not trying to promote horror movies here because I don't watch them anymore, but the simple thing here is that humans are wired to feel danger, and we must enhance our ability to manage danger, and I think one of the ways we can do that as humans and one of the ways I am learning is to constantly think about how fast we are progressing in life, and I think that's one way we can do it as humans.

Yes, I had a seizure last week, but now I'm in a state of dail back a bit and understand what's going on in my brain. Let me get a sheet of paper and write down all the things that I know I'm doing at the moment, and then maybe use a score system to see if I'm doing too much, or if I'm just keeping my head above water.?

Life can be so stressful and anxiety-provoking that we get surrounded by too much stress. As a result, we fall to the floor literally, and I had the seizure last week on my bed. We hit a stress point when that happens.

When you don't see stress coming and you have a panic attack or whatever health condition you have, you get a wake-up call that you're not really being the best version of yourself and you realize oh, yeah, I've been going at things too fast, I have to slow down.

The more I read the more I learn, but also the more life experiences I have about my own thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Sometimes we think to ourselves, ok, I'll just dial it back a bit. That's not enough. Think consciously and even subconsciously about what makes me happy and how good I can be if I do it.?

According to my own research, we all need to do much better at managing our mental health, and I've recently discovered that I'm still a long way off in terms of managing my own self-awareness.?

I look at signs and symptoms of danger points. Okay, I say, why am I doing so much? If something goes wrong and you are a bad situation, let me slow down. How do you solve this problem? Do you pick up the phone and ring the GP or do you find a friend?

In my social media marketing, I often say that there will never be enough doctors and psychiatrists to solve the world's problems. In spite of this, we do have conscious thoughts and the ability to organize them into chunks of learning.

Often, in the world of teaching and learning, a bitesize chance of microlearning is okay, but we don't have to learn everything at once. I am slowly but surely learning this more and more as I approach my mid-40s.?

This article was written today because I wanted to share my own thoughts, feelings, and behaviors with you.?

The more I experience in life, the more I want to share it.

It is possible that I share too much at times. The more honest I can be in my writing, and in my videos, the more I can help and inspire people to live better lives. I'll let you decide.?

"How can humanity ever learn to be the best version of itself if we keep all the learning to ourselves?"

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Enjoy the rest of your day Stephen Fahey ????

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Each day, I or another LinkedIn member writes an article for The Empathy magazine. This is actually the beginnings of an online digital magazine that I am slowly branding. Initially, I want to provide the best possible insight into Emotional Intelligence, then I want to grow subscriptions to help more people in their personal development journeys.