Raise your 'Standards!'

We normally set our standards right from childhood. When you try to do some thing more than you are expected to do you are warned "No No it is not for you, you wait for few more years to do this" and you are put back to your own scale convinced that these things are not meant for me at the moment. Parents and Teachers always keep our standards set according to our grades in the class and whenever we do well they expect us to do better and then it goes on expecting more and more from you. In short, you are always required to raise your standards up and above.

But here we are simply not only talking about our academic standards or capabilities as a person in general we are talking about how do we always keep raising the bar of expectations higher and higher for ourselves. You normally compare your progress or success to other people and then you feel that 'okay this is my standard and I need to increase this to the next level', but how do you do it actually?

We need to inculcate strict discipline within yourself first, you have to decide that you can't fail and you can remain where you are and therefore you need to be constantly on the urge with higher level of achievement and performances. You make up your mind that I will be hard on myself and will not allow any mistakes to happen with me. We decide to downplay whatever little success you might receive and think that 'this is nothing I can always do better.' When you always want to do better you automatically work for the same in your mind.

It is all the mindset that needs to be changed and whenever you have the real, substantial standards set for yourself, the quality of your life will improve because you are finally able to ACT on the realisation that your 'mental health is more important than your job'. The high expectations/hopes/dreams/plans that your family and friends have for you are then becoming your Gold standards. Your relationships with them will improve for better.

Relationship standards are minimum requirements. That is, a person feels certain qualities must be present or must not be present, in the case of unwanted behaviours or the values and failing to meet these requirements results in a “deal breaker.” On an emotional level, these standards are quite inflexible and require high level of commitment on our part on daily basis.

Therefore to sum up, set a high standard you set for yourself to live your entire life that 'I am a person who is always positive and I will never stop the activity I am doing till the task is completed and the goal is achieved by me with my own efforts.. To raise the quality of your life, set higher standards for yourself and also for others to emulate you.