I used to be irresponsible, lethargic and lazy person (Glad my mind is accepting and willing to improve!) both professionally and personally; making me looks like a stupid person at times. This kind of life style is very dangerous, makes you accept things happening in your life, without specific goals, wandering like a nomad with confused mindset about life. One fine day, I started getting this strange bad feeling internally and my sub-conscious mind started evaluating and scrutinizing my actions. This introspective behavior started questioning things, decisions and bringing more doubts and questions in my life. This is the impulse, starting point (whatever you want to call it!) in increasing your hunger to achieve more, improving your lifestyle and makes you run towards a certain point in life which you aspire for.1) Improving reading speed - This website Goodreads.com helps me a lot to establish the readings goals and to track it. Pushes you to start working towards achieving these. Last year 2013, I started with a small goal of reading 12 books and happy that I achieved it. This year I am trying to replicate the same and if possible increase the number of books.2) Achieving Writing skills - I started this process notes taking (using evernotes), reviewing, editing and refining to make it a blog to make this happen. Now I have this urge to write more blogs, I dont worry about the quality and quantity of the contents now. As I start experimenting with this, I am confident that I will get there. One thing I have been doing is keeping up blogging both in my work place (internally) and externally which you can share with your colleagues asking for feedback cordially.3) Tidying up your spending habits - The personal finance site mint.com is a great tool, to start with. You can link all your financial accounts (banks, Credit cards, auto loans and Employer Stock purchase etc), and provide you insights on your spending habits and discipline your self to respect the budget every month.4) I am also experimenting and working on improving my professional aspects of my life in parallel , by reading, following industry experts, tools and technologies. LinkedIn is a great site, and I love their news services PULSE! Dont know how far, I have traveled in this journey, hoping to cover more distance(Achievements) in the upcoming months.Happy Friday and Good weekend everyone!