How to Evolve Yourself Throughout Your Life

In order to evolve, one must learn. There are aspects of the earth, human existence, and

the Universe that you don’t know about. Maybe you have become so caught up in “adulting” that you have neglected learning.

Pinpoint a few areas of interest. Explore those areas and get your creative and curious juices flowing. Here’s how to get started:

1. Make a list: Grab a pencil and paper or use the memo or notes feature on your smartphone to keep track of random ideas or anything you come across that makes you stop and wonder. This is the first step towards exploration and learning.

2. Do something new. Make it a goal to try something new each month. Choose an activity that is unfamiliar and outside of your typical areas of interest. You may find an activity, hobby, or special interest in the most unlikely place. Don’t let the fear of being a newbie stop you. You may connect with someone else on his or her first time as well.

3. Expand from here. Once you find something that interests you, expand upon it. Learn more through research, asking questions, and being active within these circles of thought.

4. Pursue self-mastery. Mastering self should not be confused with perfection. The only perfect thing about self-mastery is knowing that you are perfectly imperfect. This is a wonderful place to be. It leaves room for growth, higher consciousness, and evolution.

To master oneself is to journey into awareness of your thoughts, emotions, reactions, likes and dislikes, subconscious programming, conscious choices, and relationships—all of which are often pushed aside to attend to your daily responsibilities.

While life brings many responsibilities, you must ask yourself how responsible are you when you are ignoring self? You must understand how your soul, mind, and body operates if you hope to make a positive change.

Ask yourself these questions to begin your personal journey towards self-mastery:

• When grocery shopping, do I buy food completely foreign to me or do I buy the same food cooked by my mother and her mother as well?
• When was the last time I read a book on a topic that I knew nothing about?
• Are my friends all of the same groups and circles?
• Do I state opinions based upon what I have heard or what I have researched?

These are simply questions; you may be surprised at the snowball effect of their answers.

Personal evolution of any measure requires self-awareness. Once you begin searching for the answers, hopefully you’ll find the joy of getting to know yourself again. This joy of self-mastery is an evolution of itself; it will grow and stretch out to all of your beautiful veins and layers of interest and growth.

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