During my desire to come out of depression and to come down hard on myself by demanding change for the better I would write down what changes I wanted in myself to remove my bad habits etc and then act on them demanding of myself success.
Another thing I did was to write down my feelings as I saw life and how I saw myself up to that point in time. Here is an example from the year 2003.
Faults/Assets:
3-6-2003
Always want to be right.
Never liked cheating people.
Like to tell the truth – be honest – want to do the “right thing”.
Fight cleanly – never kick a person while they are down and never hit a person in the back..
Dislike breaking my word.
Never liked stealing others property – felt guilty.
Dislike failure in myself.
Want to achieve – get results – be a better person – not one of the crowd.
Always want to be a good father – love children – care for children – not see them suffer.
All the best from
James M Sandbrook.