Connect with me on Instagram and subscribe on YouTube
Welcome back to The Ashlee Jaine Show, ladies. I am your host and guide, Ashlee Jaine, sharing all the advice, tips, tricks and actionable takeaways on basically your entire life, how to become the very best version of yourself. I share a lot of mindset. I share a lot of motivation, positivity, self-love, self growth and pretty much everything else in between. So if you are new to my podcast channel, I hope that you will hit that subscribe button and hang out with me for my upcoming episodes. I would love to welcome you to the family and have you here and be your guide, if you will, to help you on becoming the very best version of yourself.
That's kind of what we are going to be talking about in this episode here today, which is something that I am super passionate about. This is probably one of my internal like desires or my internal passions. Like I am screaming with joy right now to be talking to you about this, because it is something that I live my life by. And I don't know how I got to this point. I can't really explain why or how I feel this way. But I do know that I love working on myself. I love personal development. I love growing, and I love becoming the very best version of myself.
A- WORKING TOWARDS A+
I think that we were all put here for a reason, and it is our job to reach our fullest potential. And that takes work and that takes time and that takes growth. And so today, my friends, we are going to be talking about how there is always room for improvement in your life. I like to think of myself as an A minus. If I had to give myself a grade, I would be an A minus. I am always striving towards that A plus status. But I know that there's always going to be room for growth, there is always going to be room for improvement. And so it may be my last breath, my dying day that I am that A plus, But for today and my future days, I live life as an A minus, striving to be that A plus. If any of that makes sense to you, if not, just sit tight. I promise I will elaborate and explain a little bit more.
Now, I want to give you just some basic categories of where you can work on improving or expanding or growing in your life. And these are probably the most common, but they are definitely not limited or restricted by any means. So if there is something else or some other area of your life where you feel like you really want to see some improvement, then you can take everything that I'm about to share with you here and you can apply it there as well.
EDUCATION
I would say the most common are going to be your education, your intelligence. What do you know, what do you know how to do? Those are things and those are skills that you always want to be growing and expanding on. If you stop learning, you stop living pretty much. You should make it your daily effort to learn something new, learn how to do something better, et cetera, et cetera.
HEALTH
Another category of life that you really want to focus on, always improving on is your health. And this is so important I don't even need to go into why it's important. Hopefully you understand the relevance that your health plays in this game that we are playing called life. But you should always strive to do better, be better in regards to your personal health.
RELATIONSHIPS
Now, of course, we can't talk about improving if we don't mention love and relationships. And these are romantic relationships. These are friendships. These are, you know, relationships with your relatives. And so any relationship in your life, even if it's with your boss or if it's with your third cousin, it doesn't matter. There's always ways that you can grow and develop and improve in your relationships.
SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST
Think about yourself as evolving. Think about yourself as ever, evolving. Now we have mixed information, if you will, on evolution. But there's one thing that's undeniable, and that is the survival of the fittest. Survival of the fittest really just comes down to who was able to evolve or change to adapt to their environments, to adapt to the skills that they need to know to survive. It really just comes down to like those important key factors that helped them continue on where others failed and fell off.
Are you going to be a survivor? Are you going to be one of those people who would fall under the category of survival of the fittest? Or are you going to be one of those people who stopped and who didn't continue to improve on or adapt or change to to meet the needs of your environment, to know the skills that you needed to survive? I would hope that it's definitely not the latter. And the fact that you're here listening to this podcast with me tells me that you are definitely going to be one of those people who fall under the category of the survival of the fittest. Now, with all of this said, let's go ahead and just dive right into working towards becoming the best version of yourself.
EXAMPLES OF HOW YOU CAN IMPROVE YOUR LIFE
Like I said, there are those key categories, but don't limit yourself to just what I shared here on this podcast episode. I really would challenge you to find other areas of your life that you really want to grow and expand on. And I'm going to give you some examples. So let's say you want to improve on your health. So maybe you go from choosing a salad over a cheeseburger when you're out to eat with your friends. Or maybe you go to the gym two days instead of one day a week or figure out how you can push yourself further or do better in that aspect of your life.
This is going to look differently for everyone because we are all so unique. We all have different priorities, different values, different things that we're already implementing versus things that we could be implementing. So like I said, these are just examples. But I really want you to kind of rack your brain and figure out how you can grow and develop and become the best version of yourself in all regards of life, not just maybe the few categories that I've listed here.
Another way that you could maybe expand on or improve your education or increase your intelligence is to read two more pages of a nonfiction book each night. Or maybe you sign up for a training course. Maybe you decide to go back to college, maybe you watch YouTube videos that show you how to do an oil change. These are just examples because I most definitely would never learn how to do an oil change. That is not anything that I'm interested and learning how to do. But like I said, the opportunities and the options are truly limitless when it comes to you.
Let's say you went to work on becoming a morning person, and this is probably something that I should really implement in my life a little bit better than I do. But maybe you start with waking up ten minutes earlier and then you gradually increase that time, maybe ten minutes, one week and twenty minutes the next week. And you figure out some really incredible ways as to how to be productive and maximize that time. Or maybe it's you know, you're taking that ten to twenty minutes to meditate. Or maybe it is you taking that ten to twenty minutes to exercise, whatever that looks like for you. That is an example of how you can improve on an area of your life. If that is where you choose to improve on.
Maybe you want to be more organized. Maybe you're wanting to increase your organization skills. So maybe you lay out your outfits for the week. Maybe you go buy closet systems and cabinet systems and storage bins and you alphabetize all of the food in your pantry and you color code all of the clothes in your closet. These are just examples I'm throwing out if you want to increase your organization, which I definitely encourage you to do, because let me tell you what organization and systems in place like that and, you know, storage organization, stuff like that creates so much clarity in your life. Clutter equals basically just chaos pretty much in your life. So definitely do that if you haven't already figure out how you can improve on organization because it's going to be life changing for you.
OK, sidetracked there. Sorry if you know me, if you listen to any of my podcast in the past, you know that I can get off topic from time to time, but I try to keep my bullet point notes so that I can get right back on. And that is what we are going to do right now.
Let's say you want to improve on your relationships, your friendships, for example, maybe you take a few minutes out of your morning every day to text a friend while you are thankful for them, how they have impacted your life, or maybe even just a simple compliment. Or maybe you want to. Expand on your friendship, so maybe you make an effort to meet 10 new people a week, everybody can meet 10 new people a week, you go to the grocery store and you meet people in the checkout line, you go to the post office. There's so many ways that you can meet people. And those are just examples of how you can improve on or expand on or grow in the department of relationships, whatever you do.
The moral of the story is you should always be doing something that is going to be moving the needle forward. You should always be asking yourself, how can I grow here? How can I develop further here? What can I do to become the best version of myself in this category, whether it's, you know, like I said, education, whether it's relationships or X or Y or Z, if there is anything that I want you to take away from this podcast episode, it is that you have not reached your fullest potential in any aspect of your life. And there is still so much more room for growth, regardless of the topic, regardless of the situation, the relationship, the scenario, whatever, whatever, you absolutely can still grow as a human being. And it is your job, in my opinion, to do so. While you are here. You have to make the most of this lifetime. You have to be constantly working towards reaching that potential, impacting all of the lives that you can, all of the things.
Otherwise, if you're stagnant and you're just the same old you from the time that you turn, let's say early adulthood, maybe 22 to the time that youn see your grave at the age of, I don't know, 86, then what did you do with all of those years in between those years were wasted because you were doing the same thing and you weren't moving forward. You weren't improving, you weren't expanding, you weren't doing all of the things that you were here to do and you likely weren't living out your purpose because you're definitely not searching for or reaching or reaching towards your potential. S
o think about all of those things. Think about the way that this plays in your life and how it can truly change your future around. You have the opportunity to really become such an incredible human being. And I hope that you don't sleep on that. I hope you don't let that pass you by. Like I said, this is something that I'm very passionate about. You can probably hear it in my voice right now as I'm speaking. And I really hope that this episode doesn't fall on deaf ears. I hope that you take this time to internally reflect and to ask yourself what areas you want to focus on, what areas can you grow, what areas can you improve on and figure out that actionable steps and things that you can do to make that happen.
Anyways, I want to end this episode on that note, and thank you so much for taking the time to tune in and listen with me today. Thank you so much for if you are here. If you are listening, this tells me that you are definitely someone who is on a journey to becoming the best version of yourself already. And I just want to take a moment to honor you for that, because not everybody is at that point in their life. Not everybody realizes the importance of that in life. So you are special for even being here, for even showing up right now, today, listening to this podcast episode, because this is you working on becoming the best version of yourself. And if you haven't already, I hope that you will hit that subscribe button. I hope that you will hang out with me on my upcoming episodes. And I look forward to connecting with you more. If you want some day to day interaction with me, you can come hang out with me on Instagram or I also share some YouTube videos, lifestyle, blogs, beauty and fashion and all of those fun things on there. Thank you so much for listening in today, ladies, and I will catch you on the next episode.
