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The key to doing things that you don't quite like is to reframe your association. As long as there is a negative association with a task you are trying to do, there will be a resistance for you to do it . So what you need to do is to change the association. For example, if you associate washing dishes with being a boring and labor intenstive work, change your association to now you being able to play with water as you wash the dishes. Focus on the positive part , focus on the cool water flowing over your hands when you wash the dishes , now you will feel no resistance when you want to do the task, you may even be driven to do the task as it is not a 'fun' task to do So the key to discipline is to remove the resistance instead of using brute force to power through the resistance , which cause your energy to drain in the long run and burn yourself out. Hope it helps..

Having a life purpose is important because it's gives you direction . I understand your reason for wanting to have a life purpose, because it's nice to have a purpose, because now has a clear direction and destination. Imagine using Google Map to get a destination, you feel much more 'happier' and relaxed because now you have a direction, but if you don't use it, you may find yourself getting lost , confused and stresssed. Now there are many types of meaning and purpose. Some say find a purpose that is bigger than yourself, others say find a purpose that serves other people, My suggestion is to find a meaning and purpose that is motivational, that is one that is keeps you going and looking forward to life. Find a life purpose that makes you happy. Lastly, I would like to say life about the journey rather than the destination, it's like eating, what's the point of eating if you are going to get hungry again in 3 hours. The point is to enjoy the process of eating and not just to fill up your stomach.

Being radically open-minded is important because being open-minded opens you up to new possibilities. Being radically open-minded enables you to make a significant mindset shift and not just an incremental one, and that is sometime required to produce a transformational change. But on the downside, being radically open-minded also exposes you to the possibility of believing everything that comes in. Yes you are right, open-mindedness and skepticism are related, if you are skeptic, then you are actually being close minded. By nature, we have been programmed not to be open-minded and to be skeptic so that we are not easily fooled or conned. So being skeptic also has its purpose, but I believe do not be open-mindedness to the point of being naive and gullible, believing anything and everything . A lot of personal development material out there encourage you to be open-minded, but We live in deceitful world where people are scamming others for personal gain. To share you my experiences , I once have been scammed and after doing some thinking, it's due to me being to open-minded or positive , believing in something that in hindsight can seen obviously as fake. So based my on experience, it's better to Start with being skeptic First, but not completely to the point where you reject every idea that comes in. Be open minded and listen, then do your thinking and due diligence, once it has been proven to have at least some validity, then gradually open up.

The easiest way to start self improvement is to follow what others have done before you. There are many sites , like this one, which offers guides or traning courses, you can start from there. But I would say self improvement starts from YOU. There are many layers to self improvement. The objective of any self improvement is to produce better results. So in order to get better results, you must develop better skills and you must also productivity techniques to enable you to be productive consistently. But that's a later issues, first and foremost , there must be a better you, skills and productivity come later. That means in order to do self improvement, you must first improve yourself as a person, namely as a mind and character. How to become a more positive mind, how to have an open mind, how to have a mind that likes learning, how to become a better character, how to become a diligent, self-disciplined and motivated character. As you can see, there are a lot of things to improve here. For Everyone, this is the most important part of the self improvement journey and this is where everyone should start.