How to change your life for the better: 15 ways

Greetings, dear reader!

The desire to change your life for the better is a natural desire of each of us. And if now such a desire arises in you, it’s time to act. Routine, daily performance of the same monotonous actions makes a person think about why he lives. Often we are left with a feeling of inner devastation, constant apathy, and a decrease in vitality does not allow us to move forward. It's not laziness, it's just that your body tells you that it's time to change something.

If you don’t want to get up in the morning, and in the evening you go to bed not in the best mood, it’s time to decisively change your life for the better. Do not be afraid of this state, remember that you are at a new stage of development. It's always scary, but then life will sparkle with new colors! First, let's look at the reasons.

Where does this desire come from?

As a rule, the desire to change your life for the better does not arise out of nowhere - it is preceded by certain circumstances. Analyzing the causes is the first step to solving any issue. Let's think about what reasons most often cause the desire to change something in life:

1. You don’t feel needed . It’s one thing if a job brings good income, but a person understands that he is in the wrong place. It’s another matter when the salary leaves much to be desired and the work does not bring moral satisfaction. A person is in a state of permanent stress, afraid to leave his comfort zone so as not to get into even more stress. Most people at such moments think: “It’s better to leave everything as it is.” But you are not the majority, you are ready to change for the better and work on yourself.

2. Marriage relationships have outlived their usefulness. We live with our partner not because we want it, but out of established habit. Many people live this way, but they do not want or cannot change this situation.

3. Constant lack of finances . This problem is common to most people, and only a few can say with confidence that they live in abundance. But not everything is so bad - the financial situation can and should be improved, there are many ways to do this, if there is a desire.

4. Personal life suffers, or it doesn’t exist at all. Society imposes on us the opinion that before a certain age it is time to start a family, so that everything is “like other people.” A person suffers from such disorder and uncertainty, and his age is already running out.

5. Health problems and excess weight. The modern pace of life largely provokes people to pay less attention to their health, and instead pay more attention to their careers and everyday affairs. Of course, the body copes for some time, but at one point it can fail. Our task is not to wait for this moment, but to prevent it, which we will also work closely on today.

affects each of us to some extent And our main task today is to comprehensively work through each of the areas of life, which will help significantly change life for the better.
Today we will figure out how to do this. Moves on.

March 16, 2016

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Mikhail Kazantsev Psychologist, coach, writer, specialist in the psychology of prosperity. The creator of the “Live How You Want” project, the Visual Tools system for visual analysis of situations and decision-making, the author of hundreds of funny drawings and infographics with which he illustrates his articles and books.

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“This is the first article in a large series on how to change your life,” I wrote as an introduction. For God's sake, don't wince.

I understand that the Internet is filled with a huge number of mediocre crafts on this topic. Their authors shamelessly promise 100% working methods, magical changes in life and step-by-step recipes for crazy success. Under the slogan “Changing life for the better,” both experienced and wise mentors and rogues who enjoy the popularity of the topic work.

In my opinion, the vast majority of such articles are nonsense. In my experience, I have tested and tested a large number of techniques for managing productivity, changing habits, beliefs and life. The vast majority of them “didn’t work” for me.

However, I always remember an ancient but little-known Russian proverb: “Every freak has his own method.” The humor of the Lord God lies in the fact that any, even the most moronic method, can help someone.

Anything can change a person's life. Changes in the life of the hero of the film “The Diamond Arm” began after he slipped on a banana skin. Alice didn’t plan to change anything, she was just bored. But when I accidentally saw a rabbit in a vest and with a watch, I shifted my “assemblage point” forever.

For example, there was such a funny episode in my life: when I was doing martial arts, for a long time I could not “place my hands” in the right way. One day my master gave me an extremely strange recommendation. It consisted in the fact that I had to walk on all fours for 5-10 minutes a day. At the same time, I needed to imagine myself as a pregnant elephant and feel a chill in the anus. Crazy advice. Is not it? However, after a week of practice, I managed to achieve something that had not worked for three months.

Examples of changes can be given endlessly. Just like you can endlessly experiment with different techniques for changing your life. However, these experiments not only eat up your time, but more importantly, they can harm your self-esteem, health and motivation.

If you ask yourself the following questions: “how to change yourself?”, “how to change your life for the better?”, “how to change yourself and change your life?” etc., and want to change your life, then it is important to understand what methods generally exist, how they work, who is suitable and who is contraindicated. It is important to choose what is right for you.

This article presents techniques for changing yourself and your life. I, to one degree or another, have tried everything on myself. Most experiments were unsuccessful. I wondered why. I began to analyze the reasons for this not only on myself, but also on my clients. This is how this catalog appeared.

I’m not just listing the methods that are offered to gullible readers of the Russian Internet as 100% working. I critique each of them.

Why is critical analysis needed? Why is this so important to you?

1. It is important to understand how and why the technique actually works. All methods, as a rule, are packaged in an attractive advertising shell that has no relation to reality.

2. You need to make sure whether the method of change is suitable for you personally, whether it corresponds to the characteristics of your personality. Using methods that contradict you, your value system and psychological type, and do not take into account the characteristics of your character, is destructive. You lose time, faith in yourself and the possibility of change.

3. It is equally important to check to what extent the application of the technique is possible and positive in your current life situation. In general, no one seriously engages in situational analysis. Meanwhile, our whole life is, by and large, a situation. Not being able to manage it, take into account its features and, at the same time, promise changes is simply stupid.

What methods are most often offered for changing your life, and what can we see when looking at them with a critical eye?

Below I provide a list of the main methods of life change. I gave each of them a short “nickname”. Each nickname has a grain of joke, but on the other hand, it most accurately reflects the essence of the method.

1. “Shake-up”: an extreme exit from the comfort zone.

2. “Training”: developing habits.

3. “Focus”: goal setting and planning.

4. “Lust”: cultivating enthusiasm and self-motivation.

5. “Think positively!”: rational thought management.

6. “Prayers”: affirmations, meditation, working with negative beliefs.

7. “Barracks”: rigid planning, external imposition of deadlines and rates of change.

8. “Do as I do!”: absolutization of personal experience.

9. “Superconsciousness”: focusing on awareness and being “here and now.”

10. “It’s business, baby!”: using methods and approaches from business, sports, etc. to change your life.

The selection may not be the most complete. But the main points are presented in it.

In today's article we will analyze the first five techniques in detail.

The Shake Up Method: An Extreme Step Out of Your Comfort Zone

The essence of the method:

To change your life, you are invited to experience an extreme experience. It can be one-time and short, like a parachute jump or walking on coals; can be as long as “hell week.”

According to the adherents of this method, the “shake-up” allows you to gain new impressions, get rid of internal limitations, believe in yourself and literally be reborn into a new person.

Pros and cons, who is suitable and who is contraindicated:

Sometimes a “shake-up” can be useful. Especially when you live a monotonous and monotonous life. History knows many cases when extreme experiences really changed a person’s value system, his views on life and destiny.

The difficulty is that extreme situations and leaving the comfort zone in themselves are no more an intellectual tool than a hammer. If you line up a million people and hit each one on the head with a hammer, some will die, others will lose consciousness, but there are guaranteed to be lucky ones who will literally be reborn after this ridiculous action.

However, this is not a reason to declare a blow to the head with a hammer as a reliable means of changing your life for the better. Any extreme method is somewhat reminiscent of the favorite entertainment of Soviet television viewers. When the TV didn't work well, irritated citizens thoughtfully punched it. Sometimes it helped. At the same time, none of the punchers on TV understood why a punch should help the operation of a complex electronic device and what the cause of the malfunction was.

Extreme ways of changing your life guarantee you will receive strong emotions. In addition, many of them significantly increase self-esteem, and not out of nowhere. These are all advantages of this technique. However, any extreme technique is short-term and finite. Most of those who try it return to their normal lives again. After some time, no traces of the impact of the new experience remain. Everyday life is powerful because it is constant and supported by everyone around you.

According to my observations, those who have tried the “shake-up” are divided into four categories after it:

Those who were “stuck” felt the taste of adrenaline and victory. Extremeness and overcoming become the meaning of life for them. These are all the changes that happened to them. It is they who become the propagandists of the “Shake-up” method.
Those who liked it and became an impetus for development. They remain in euphoria for some time and use it to change something in their life. For some, the “Shake-up” lasts a long time, for others it doesn’t.
Those who liked the method, but no more. They received positive emotions and left it at that. These people continue to live as before.
Those who have been “traumatized.” There are not very many such people, but they do exist. The “shake-up” did not do them any good. At best, they were disappointed. Many have lost faith in themselves and the ability to change.

A “shake” is simply a blow to a complex system, which is a person. The result of this blow is completely unpredictable.

My experience:

There was a time when I was into Shakes. For example, I went with a friend on extreme hikes in winter, without a tent. He slept by the fire in the open air, subsisted on pasture, etc. I really liked to climb the walls of the ruins in Pushkin Park without insurance.

All this gave a sea of adrenaline, increased self-esteem, self-confidence, but... in fact, did not change anything in life. As soon as I returned to my daily reality, she, like a melancholic cow, chewed on all my “achievements.”

Method "Training": developing habits

The essence of the method:

According to the propagandists and creators of “training” methods, in order to change your life, you need to start with habits and routine, repetitive actions. The main idea is to smoothly, little by little introduce new behavior patterns into everyday life. In this sense, “Training” is the opposite of “Shaking”. “Training” does not involve extreme experiences. But all these programs are long-lasting.

Pros and cons, who is suitable and who is contraindicated:

“Training” is very organic for a human being. We all went through it, starting in childhood. We were taught to go potty, clean up toys, brush our teeth, read, write, etc. In fact, with the help of "Training" we became human in many ways.

Repeated actions and new habits can really make a big difference in a person's quality of life. However, they do not influence the deep motivation of our actions, do not resolve internal contradictions and do not change destructive beliefs.

In addition, there is a whole class of people to whom the “Training” method is completely inapplicable. They are called differently: intuitionists, chaoticists, “creative natures,” etc. “Training” causes furious resistance in such people and kills any motivation. The use of this method causes nothing but disgust and disappointment in such people.

My experience:

I am undoubtedly a creative person. Dull, monotonous, repetitive actions make me angry. But, nevertheless, I need to learn something new and acquire useful habits. So, after repeated attempts to achieve “reciprocity” from this technique, I have reached a compromise.

Now I have a positive attitude towards her, but with some reservations. I create a checklist for every day. There I put those habits that I could practice during the day. However, I never (!) complete all the tasks on this checklist and consider this completely normal for me.

How do I work with it? From time to time I look at the checklist and listen to myself. As soon as I feel the urge to complete one of the points, I do it.

This approach allows me to carry out “Training” in a comfortable mode without violence against myself.

Focus Method: Goal Setting and Planning

The essence of the method:

The main thing is to set an inspiring goal, or better yet, more than one. Numerous Focus followers think so. After goal setting, you need to plan everything and move with a cheerful step towards prosperity. Any obstacle on the way to the goal is not perceived tragically, but fits into the action plan and is overcome.

Pros and cons, who is suitable and who is contraindicated:

“Focus” seems unusually attractive to people with a rational mindset. For those who begin to study this technique, life seems simple and clear, consisting of three actions: planned - done - achieved.

What makes you especially excited is that you can achieve anything you want. For this, examples of people who have achieved something are actively used.

I truly love Focus based life changing methods. They are simple, logical and clear. They exude a healthy Anglo-Saxon optimism. Unfortunately, these methods also cannot be considered universal. The thing is that to achieve success with their help you need to be a robot, not a person. The “Focus” model itself leaves out the presence of emotions, internal contradictions, crises, complexes and strange desires. Meanwhile, all these ignored and unaccounted for phenomena have a powerful impact on you, your life, motivation and actions. The more you ignore them, the stronger and more unexpected they appear.

My experience:

“Focus” has always been incredibly attractive to me. Its basics were taught to me by a very strong NLP specialist. At first, it seemed to me like a “magic wand” that could change my whole life. However, then I met an unpleasant “lady” named Procrastination. At first, like everyone else, I tried to overcome it, then to outwit it... And only later, when I examined my strategies for dealing with time, the features of my planning and the structure of my values, Focus began to work for me. I finally became friends with her only when I started working on my own emotions.

The Lust Method: Visualizing Success, Cultivating Enthusiasm, and Self-Motivation

The essence of the method:

The main thing is a positive attitude and vision. Adherents of the “Lust” method are confident that their visualizations, desires and emotions can directly influence the material world. Therefore, they see their task as constantly maintaining a high “degree” of positivism and enthusiasm. In some areas, this is considered sufficient for positive life changes and achievement of success. Other directions combine the Lust method with other techniques, such as Focusing.

Pros and cons, who is suitable and who is contraindicated:

Keeping yourself motivated, visualizing success and cultivating enthusiasm is a useful practice. You really begin to feel better, experience failures much easier, see more opportunities, and build relationships with people more easily. This is a truly positive aspect of this approach, which can be recommended to almost everyone.

However, when used excessively, practitioners of “Lust” lose adequacy. They very skillfully suppress negative emotions. At the same time, they forget that these emotions do not appear just like that, but serve as certain signals about “problems” in the external or internal world. Turning off negative emotions is turning off the “emergency warning” system. This practice ends in an explosion, breakdown or other catastrophic development of events.

The use of “Lust” to change lives by people prone to hysterical or exalted behavior is especially difficult. They are completely blown away.

My experience:

I had the opportunity to learn from one of the masters of this method. In 1994, after another seminar, I had the opportunity to verify the power of “Lust.” I really wanted to buy a mobile phone. Just in case, for the modern reader, I will inform you that its cost was $1,215, which in those years was equal to the annual (!) subsistence level of a family of 4 people. At that time I was earning about $200 a month. That is, buying a phone went beyond all conceivable limits. However, exactly this amount came to me literally three days after the desire was formulated - I completely unexpectedly received a generous bonus from a client whom I had greatly helped.

Unfortunately, this was the only time in my life when “Lust” worked so brightly. Analyzing this, I realized that I did not like to be in a state of euphoria and artificially maintained enthusiasm for a long time, which are required to successfully use this technique. Such emotions deprive me of an adequate perception of reality.

“Think Positively!” Method: Rational Thought Management

The essence of the method:

Our thoughts control our lives - adherents of this method are convinced. Right thoughts produce right actions, which produce right results.

Unlike the previous direction, the “Think Positively!” method deals not with emotions, but with thoughts. He divides them into positive and negative. He fights with the latter.

Pros and cons, who is suitable and who is contraindicated:

Almost everything that has been said about the “Lust” method is also true for the “Thinking Positively!” method. If you use the elements of this approach without fanaticism, you can seriously improve the quality of your life. However, this method, like the previous one, misses the reason why negative thoughts appear. In addition, not all negative thoughts are harmful to our lives.

If you fanatically follow the “Think Positively!” method, you become overly rational, and you disconnect yourself from the emotional sphere. You become like a robot, which impoverishes your life and pushes other people away from you. In addition, a virtual policeman takes up residence in your head and monitors all your thought crimes. He mercilessly punishes you for any negative thought, which deprives you of freedom of thought.

My experience:

I started thinking positively in 1997. I mastered the “lucky guy” strategy, began to “catch” negative thoughts... But this method did not become completely organic for me. As I realized later, the characteristics of my personality and cognitive sphere do not allow me to concentrate only on the positive. I find it very useful to think through and analyze possible negative scenarios for the development of events. Several times in my life this has helped me a lot.

That's all for today. Tomorrow “Life is interesting!” will publish a sequel. We'll look at five more methods:

"Prayers"
"Barracks"
"Do as I do!"
"Superconsciousness"
"It's business, baby!"

If you liked the article, try to apply its main provisions in order to analyze the techniques that you use or plan to use to change yourself and your life. Critical thinking will help you save time and energy for change. Understanding the essence of the techniques allows you to apply them while remaining yourself.

If you have experience with life changing techniques, whether positive or negative, please share your experience. I'm very interested to know what conclusions you reached.

Continued here.

Self-development #Motivation

Setting life priorities

The first thing you should do is make a list of your main life values and global goals for the years ahead. What do you want? What are you dreaming about? If what came to your mind remains for a long time just a pipe dream, then it’s time to start working on it, today.

Decide on your goals, make a plan to achieve them, and take a small step towards your goals every day. Record the results, work in writing, and most importantly - daily. Remember, if you write just one page a day, within a year you will have written a book. And this rule applies to all life goals, so take advantage of it.

What usually prevents people from changing their lives?

It seems to us that it’s simple to wake up in the morning as a different person, with different habits, goals, and aspirations. In reality, not everything is so rosy; most people who strive to change their lives for the better fade away at the idea stage.

You decide to start running in the morning, but bad luck - it’s raining outside. Tomorrow is a day off, next week work late, and again your idea is stalled in the development stage. Or you are planning to move to a new city with great opportunities, but something is preventing you from bringing your plans to life. In a new city you need to look for housing, work, get used to the new environment, and again your desire to change something fades away without ever igniting.

Every time the desire to change life is not realized, a person is stopped by one of his internal barriers:

Fear . Many people have already become accustomed to their way of life; change seems like an overwhelming challenge to them. Overcoming your fear of something new is not easy, but this is precisely the first step on the path to change.
Laziness . Often it is laziness that is the main obstacle to a new life. In dreams, a new job, a new place of residence look impeccable, it seems that they are just a stone’s throw away. But something prevents you from taking the first step, today you are tired, and tomorrow you decide to watch a new series instead of studying the prospects and opportunities of a new job.
Stereotypes . A person who is in the grip of stereotypes ignores opportunities to change his life. A new job will certainly promise him new problems, a new place of residence is also prohibited, because they don’t like visitors. Such stereotypes do not allow a person to develop and change his life for the better.
Habit . People who are addicted to habit do not see the need for change. This is how their parents lived, this is how their children live, why change anything? Very often, it is the indulgence of one’s habits that allows a person to miss all his chances to change his life for the better.
Limited thinking . People with limited thinking do not need anything at all. They are accustomed to life in their own rut: they are not interested in promotion, personal development is not familiar to them. This prevents you from improving your quality of life and starting from scratch when necessary.

If it seems like it’s time to change something, but things aren’t going any further, think about what might be stopping you. Often this is fear of the unknown, unnecessary prejudices or basic laziness, which does not allow you to take the first step.

Getting rid of dependencies

Do you smoke? Let's try to work on this too. Bad habits do not help change your life for the better. Tobacco smoking destroys brain cells, negatively affects the functioning of internal organs and blood vessels, and can lead to stroke. There is no need to reduce the amount of cigarettes you consume gradually; this is a path to nowhere and not to changing your life. Give up cigarettes overnight and you will notice how your well-being has changed.

Avoid alcohol. Even if you think that you hardly drink, remember that there is “ritual alcoholism” when people drink alcohol on holidays: on New Year’s, March 8, birthday. This is also an addiction. One drink of alcohol per month puts you much faster at risk of heart disease than a non-drinker. Drinking alcohol leads us to degradation and there can be no talk change in life Take sobriety as a healthy habit and you will see how much better your life has become, and your body has become full of strength and energy!

What irreplaceable tool will help you radically change your life for the better?

Changing your personality and character is not easy. But it’s quite easy to get rid of principles, especially stupid ones. All you need to do is understand that these principles are ruining your life, and you will stop holding on to them.

But with habits, thoughts and emotions, with your character traits, it will be more difficult. Even if you understand that they complicate and ruin your life, they will still come back, since the habits of your mind will not give up so easily. They become second nature to you.

But if you really understand, with your gut, realize at a deep level that they are ruining your life... This will already be the beginning of getting rid of everything that makes this very life so difficult for you.

With a deep understanding, you will sometimes, when these habits, emotions or a certain trait of your character manifest themselves, remember that “now, at the moment, I am ruining my life.” This will not always happen and at first not as often as you would like. But in such moments, when you remember this, your awareness will develop.

And mindfulness is an amazing tool that helps change your life in the best way possible. Your life will begin to pulsate in unison with all of Existence. But first you will have to try to develop your awareness.

Life begins to change, what next? What helps develop awareness?

And in order for your awareness to develop faster, and for you to remember yourself more often during the manifestation of any habit, or during the manifestation of any trait of your character, or at the moment when negative thoughts enter your head, you need to begin to carefully observe yourself and for your life.

Your observation will help you catch yourself in such moments more often, and you will become more aware. Awareness will take you to a completely different level, your Consciousness will begin to expand. You will begin to see further, feel more subtly, and one day you will realize... You will understand that you behaved like a robot, like a programmed mechanism.

By then your life will change a lot. Mindfulness and careful observation will help you get rid of many things that have bothered you in your life. You will sincerely wonder how you used to live with all this. How blind were you that you didn’t notice basic things... “And how did I even live like that?” - one day you will have such a question.

But this will happen later, for some earlier, for others later. Now you need to start working on yourself. I assure you, you will be very surprised by the results. What I wrote here in the paragraph above, about your future surprise, consider that I didn’t say anything at all. The results will be amazing!

Learning to play sports

We are not talking about professional sports, but about general physical activity. Start small, no one talks about setting sports records. No money for the gym? Start doing morning exercises, stretching, doing squats and push-ups. Working with your own weight is no worse than working out with iron.

In winter, you can run outside, which is very useful, because in winter the air is especially beneficial for the body. But you shouldn’t run in the summer heat - it has nothing to do with improving your life and feeling great.

Target lost

Family troubles were compounded by problems at work. Galina climbed the career ladder for a long time and persistently. But “holding on” to a high position turned out to be difficult: work took away all my mental strength and left no time for rest and personal life. “The saddest thing is that in the bustle of Moscow I lost my life goal. I was spinning like a squirrel in a wheel and didn’t understand for whom and what I was living for,” the woman explains her condition.

The Muscovite hasn’t been on vacation for three years. A trip to the Elbrus region dramatically changed her life: “On the mountain slope, for the first time in many years, I felt happy and free. The wind blew in my face, I caught the admiring glances of the surrounding men... I had a desire to stay forever in the Elbrus region, ski, enjoy the enchanting mountain panoramas and newfound freedom.”

The owner of the tourist hotel where Galina was staying made her an unexpected offer. The Caucasian entrepreneur knew that in her youth the Moscow top manager was seriously involved in sports, and offered her the position of a sports instructor. True, the woman’s salary turned out to be exactly ten times less than in Moscow. But for her this did not matter.

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Normalizing nutrition

Forget about foods that do not provide energy value. You shouldn’t go on a diet; first, at least remove sweet carbonated drinks, sausages, sauces, mayonnaise, chips and other useless foods from your diet.

Firstly, you will save a lot and you will have extra money that you can start saving; secondly, you will feel great and lose excess weight. The body will become more toned and have more energy. If possible, give up sugar and switch to honey, it is much healthier.

Let's stop looking for those to blame

Don't justify your failures by circumstances or people. We are so accustomed to shifting responsibility for our lives to external factors that we ourselves believe that nothing depends on us. Successful people cannot be called those who constantly complain about the government, life in the wrong country, about parents who did not give us what others have. And stop comparing yourself! When you get rid of these bad psychological habits, you will feel your life changing for the better. Remember, only you are the director of your life and are responsible for it. Only you, and no one else.

How can you deal with changes in your life?

You can treat changes in life as surprises, or you can perceive them as something natural. You can transfer responsibility to higher powers (lucky/unlucky), or you can take responsibility on yourself. You can go with the flow, or you can become the master of change.

What in our life cannot be changed

To maintain mental and physical balance, it is important to distinguish what is within our area of responsibility, control and influence from what we cannot change.

What in our life is not subject to change? We can't change much:

other people,
laws of human development as an organism, individual, personality;
laws of social development;
other laws related to the structure of the world;
the passage of time (for example, we cannot go back to the past);
the cycle of seasons and weather;
temperament and other congenital characteristics;
aging and death;
your choices and your mistakes;
other.

Important! Any changes in themselves are neutral - just facts. It is people who characterize them as good or bad. It all depends on how we relate to changes in life.

Let's start looking for our calling

People spend years, decades in jobs they don’t like and suffer from it. It's time to find an activity that will start to bring you mental pleasure. And if you turn it into income-generating work, you can radically change your life for the better . People who love their work always manage to earn more. They experience less stress because they enjoy going to work. Maybe your job is your calling, or maybe you dream of something else, for example, to become a photographer? Start working in this direction.

The only things better than mountains are mountains

The plane from Nalchik landed at Moscow's Vnukovo airport strictly on schedule. Pavel picked up the suitcase of his wife Galina, who had flown in from a ten-day vacation at a ski resort in the Elbrus region, and immediately asked: “How did you rest? How was your ride?”

Question and answer Is it worth going on vacation if depression occurs after it?

Galina answered absentmindedly: “I had a good rest! Even very good... Pasha, I have a serious conversation with you.” Immediately upon arriving home, the vacationer informed her husband that she had decided to break up with him...

However, the 40-year-old lady decided to change not only her marital status, but also her occupation, and at the same time her place of residence. The deputy general director for strategic planning of a large metropolitan pharmaceutical company exchanged her managerial position for a modest position as a coach-instructor in alpine skiing and mountain tourism in the Elbrus village of Terskol. During her student years, Galina was actively involved in alpine skiing and mountaineering and even fulfilled the standard of a candidate for master of sports in both sports disciplines.

Changing the environment

You will not be able to change your life for the better as long as there are people next to you who bring negativity into it. “Work through” your surroundings. Communication with whiners and pessimists does not contribute to personal development. Even if you are not a suggestible person, the environment tends to leave its mark on our lives. Refuse or minimize communication with pessimists and eternally dissatisfied people. Just take your time - observe, evaluate. Ask yourself: “Which people cause me moral discomfort?” And when you identify such people, find a way to reduce communication with them to a minimum.

Robotization

In parallel with the implementation of AI, enterprises are already mastering automation and robotization of processes. Such development of technology will not only increase production volumes, but will also ensure its flexibility: instead of producing a huge number of similar products, factories will be able to produce goods according to individual user requests. Each such product, like its owner, will be unique.

A typical digital factory of the future is a fully automated production whose components are connected to each other and the customer via the Internet. Human participation will be reduced only to decision-making based on the collection and analysis of production data processed by artificial intelligence in real time.

Thus, Siemens at one of its factories entrusted robots and machines to perform 75 percent of the work without human intervention. The peculiarity of this company is that it offers over a thousand product options. As a result, process automation made it possible to increase product quality to 99.99885 percent—out of a million products, only 12 were defective.

Unmanned technologies remain the most important area of robotization. Already today, drones are actively used in the most dangerous areas for humans - for example, in places of natural disasters. They help assess the situation and scale of the disaster, find and rescue victims.

As driverless technology develops, driverless trucks and taxis are gradually appearing, the movement of which is controlled by an artificial intelligence system. Since 2010, Google's self-driving cars have been tested in the United States, and in ten years they have traveled 32 million kilometers. In total, there are more than 1,400 self-driving cars from 80 different companies driving around the United States. In China, in 2021, robotaxis without a driver will be fully operational. Self-driving cars have been tested in Russia for several years. Sber drones are already driving around the streets of Moscow. The first unmanned truck is being tested by KamAZ, and in September 2021, BaseTracK announced plans to launch unmanned cargo transportation between Moscow and St. Petersburg by the end of the year.

In the future, due to widespread implementation, unmanned vehicles will become cheaper than manned ones: such trucks can drive non-stop to their destination and do not require a salary or human presence for maintenance. For example, an autonomous driving system developed by the American startup TuSimple allowed a truck to drive unmanned from Arizona to Texas (1,530 kilometers) in just 14 hours and 6 minutes. A truck with a driver covers the same distance in 24 hours.

With the advent of driverless cars on the roads, it will become possible to completely eliminate drivers and taxi drivers. Unmanned metro projects are already being developed in Moscow, so the appearance of driverless cars on the streets is a matter of time.

The use of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technologies, which allow cars to interact with each other, the environment and road infrastructure - in particular, traffic lights, significantly reduces accident rates. For example, the prototype of unmanned urban transport FLIP from Sber received both lidars, radars and cameras that allow analyzing information on the road, as well as V2X tools for exchanging data with surrounding vehicles and the environment.

All interaction with FLIP is based on communication with the Salyut family of virtual assistants. In the basic version, the car has an electric motor, but optionally allows the use of hydrogen as fuel.

The latter demonstrates another trend of the fourth industrial revolution - the abandonment of fossil energy sources in favor of renewable ones. This is especially evident in the growth of the electric vehicle market. As of early 2021, there are more than 10 million electric cars in the world, 15 percent of which are produced by the American company Tesla.

Russia does not remain aloof from green trends. According to the “Concept for the development of production and use of electric road transport” approved by the Russian government, in 2022 Russia should produce 2.5 thousand electric vehicles. By 2030, the number of electric cars produced in the country should reach 217 thousand. It is expected that by that time electric vehicles will occupy ten percent of the country's car market.

“Today everyone already has a good idea of serial drones - ordinary cars converted for autonomous driving. We at SberAutoTech released such vehicles on the roads of Moscow for testing back in December 2021 and continue to expand our own fleet,” explains SberAutoTech CEO Andrey Vasilevsky.

However, driving without a driver at the wheel is only a small part of what people will experience with the introduction of autonomous driving technologies. Therefore, Sber is faced with the task of creating infrastructure - moving from driverless cars to comprehensive urban mobility services in a smart city.

Technologies make it possible to make any scenario even more flexible and user-friendly. For example, we expressed our vision of the driverless taxi of the future in the prototype of the autonomous electric vehicle FLIP, which can simultaneously transport up to six people. Such a drone can be used as public transport, if the passenger is ready to share the trip with fellow travelers, or as an individual one. In the latter case, FLIP becomes a personal space: a personal voice assistant, favorite music in the cabin, convenience in everything, right down to a comfortable manner of movement for the user

Andrey VasilevskyCEO of SberAutoTech

Being a public transport, FLIP is capable of transporting passengers “door to door” - there are no more transfers, no waiting at stops, no “last mile” problems. The platform on which the FLIP is built can be equipped with a cargo-passenger or purely cargo body, which will make it possible to implement a dozen more scenarios for large and small retail, cargo transportation, and door-to-door delivery.

“In our developments, we are following the path of deep integration with the Sber ecosystem. Thanks to this, services that allow you to personalize your trip become available to the user right on board. For example, select frequently used 2GIS navigation routes, set the desired temperature in the cabin, turn on your favorite SberZvuk music or Okko video content. This is a new level of comfort, which is available to a few in personal transport today, but is not yet possible at all in public transport,” says Vasilevsky.

In order to fully unleash the potential of autonomous transport, it is necessary to create infrastructure for it: high-precision navigation stations, digital roads. Instead of recognizing human-made signs, the drone should be able to receive all the information it needs from the road infrastructure and other connected cars. The future, as SberAutoTech believes, lies in this approach, “and our team confidently brings it to life.”

Expanding our horizons

Learn something new to change your life for the better. Attend trainings, classes, seminars. No money? There are many opportunities to attend such events for free and meet new people. A great way to broaden your horizons is to read books.

Travel. No money again? You don’t have to travel abroad, start with your city, which has many interesting places that you don’t know about yet. Start traveling to neighboring cities, around the country, and attend excursions. You will expand your horizons, be saturated with new emotions and energy.

What prompted me to change my life?

Once upon a time, about 30 years ago, I also began to change my life. And this began with an expression in one book, which I naturally don’t remember, and I definitely can’t quote the expression, but I’ll tell you the essence. It said, “You think you know yourself, but you don’t. You don’t know yourself at all!”

Naturally, at first I thought, what nonsense, how can I not know myself? But, a little later, I took it as a challenge, and from then on my path to Myself began. On this path I became acquainted with observation, awareness, and meditation, which happened to me for the first time in 1994. And it completely changed my life. If I had known that everything would change like this, I would have started my journey even earlier.

But, as they say, everything has its time, and everything happens exactly when it happens. I think it was no coincidence that you visited my website today and read this article almost to the end.

Maybe now you too will be hooked by the fact that you don’t know yourself? And will the desire for self-exploration push you to get to know yourself better?

Now, looking back through years of my own experience, I know for sure that you do not know yourself. So get to know yourself better, I assure you, you will not be disappointed... Except that at first it will be a little difficult, but this is out of habit))

Let's start doing good deeds

Good deeds give a person the incomparable feeling of making someone happy. There are many opportunities to do good deeds. You can do charity work - this is the first thing that comes to mind. And this is not necessarily financial assistance, as you might first think. Start small. Becoming a blood donor, thereby saving someone's life, is one of the simple ways to replenish your treasure chest of good deeds. Volunteering also brings its own moral dividends. All you have to do is choose what suits you.

Medicine of the future

With the introduction of AI and robots, medicine is also changing. Already, artificial intelligence is helping doctors identify diseases with a high degree of accuracy, and robotic nurses help in caring for patients. But in the future, technologies will begin to influence all healthcare - medicine will become personalized, and treatment will take into account the individual characteristics of a person. People in the future will know almost everything about their health, and information from the genome will reduce the likelihood of getting sick to zero. Moreover, the development of genetic engineering and biotechnology methods will make it possible to get rid of hereditary diseases. Progress in healthcare will not only improve the quality of human life, but also increase its duration.

Medical technologies related to the creation of biological prostheses and the cultivation of human organs in bioreactors will receive special development. This will eliminate the need to resolve the issue of organ and tissue compatibility during transplantation, which will save the lives of millions of people.

The current state of a person's health will be monitored in real time and analyzed almost instantly. Modern fitness bracelets with a built-in heart rate monitor and saturation sensor (the amount of oxygen in the blood) are among the first examples of such equipment. In the future, if there are disturbances in the functioning of human organs, it will be possible to identify the disease at the initial stage and begin treatment immediately.

Telemedicine is also developing at a tremendous pace. Today you can consult a doctor without leaving your home or from any convenient place where there is Internet access. A medical specialist can remotely analyze complaints, review test results and make recommendations.

A significant part of the issues with which patients come to their primary appointment with a doctor can be resolved remotely. You can get an appointment within a few minutes, without queuing, traveling or waiting. Doctors on duty respond within five minutes

Yuri KrestinskyVice President, Head of Healthcare Industry at Sberbank

One of the mysteries of man remains the structure of his brain. Today, more and more attention is being attracted to technologies that will directly connect the human brain and the computer, giving it commands with the power of thought. The most famous example is the American startup Neuralink. According to its founder Elon Musk, the project will expand the capabilities of people suffering from neurological diseases. The company is already testing its technology and showed a video of a monkey capable of playing video games.

Neuralink has not yet received permission to conduct human trials, unlike another American startup, Synchron. Moreover, unlike Musk’s device, the Synchron chip communicates with the brain through a thin wire passed through a vessel, and itself is located in the chest. It helps paralyzed people control computers with their minds and, if tested successfully in the US, will hit the market in five years.

Looking for and developing our hobby

We spend too much time chasing money, forgetting that we once had hobbies that brought us pleasure. Remember what you were passionate about before or try to find something new that brings pleasure and fills life with color. If you monetize a hobby, it’s a double hit! A hobby that generates income, isn’t that what you dreamed of? Think about what you wanted to become as a child, this will help you get closer to your dream and change your life for the better.

Loneliness in the family

“Almost all my relatives and even most of my friends unanimously condemned me,” says Galina. - How so? To leave a decent, reliable husband, with whom she lived for twenty years in peace and harmony... To leave her nineteen-year-old son...” However, Galina herself does not believe that she betrayed anyone and committed an unseemly act. She got married at twenty years old. Soon a son, Denis, was born... In the first years of marriage, the relationship between the young people was sincere and warm, but gradually they grew more and more distant from each other. “Recently, my husband and I have been living like neighbors - each in our own world... Our intimate contacts have practically stopped,” shares Galina. “And my son no longer needed my daily care. Deniska spent all his free time with his college friend Nastya... I felt lonely and unnecessary in the family.”

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