Self Improvement and Your Success

Everything that happens to us happens for a purpose. And sometimes, one thing leads to another. Instead of locking yourself up in your cage of fears and crying over past troubles, embarrassment and failures, treat them as your teachers and they will become your tools in both self improvement and your success in life.

A point in case is the movie Patch Adams – Its one great film on way you can improve yourself.

Hunter “patch” Adams is a medical student who failed to make it through the board exams. After months of suffering in melancholy, depression and suicidal attempts – he decided to seek for medical attention and voluntarily admitted himself in a psychiatric ward. His months of stay in the hospital led him to meeting different kinds of sick people. He met a catatonic, a mentally retarded, a schizophrenic and so on.

Patch found ways of treating his own ailment and finally realized he has to get back on track. He woke up one morning realizing that after all the failure and pains he has gone through, he still wanted to become a doctor. He carried with himself a positive attitude that brought him self improvement and personal success. He didn’t only improved himself, but also the life of the people around him and the quality of life.

Did he succeed? Yes he did.

When does self improvement become synonymous with success?

When you take action on the following tips:

• Stop thinking and feeling as if you’re a failure, because you’re not. How can others accept you if YOU can’t accept YOU?
• When you see hunks and models on TV, think more on self improvement, not self pitying. Self acceptance is not just about having nice slender legs, or great abs. Concentrate on inner beauty.
• When people feel so down and low about themselves, help them move up. Don’t go down with them. They’ll pull you down further and both of you will end up feeling inferior.
• The world is a large place for lessons, not mistakes. Don’t feel stupid and doomed forever just because you failed at some point in your life. There’s always a next time. Make room for self improvement in your life.
• Take things slowly. Don’t expect change over night. Self improvement is a one day at a time process.
• Self improvement comes from your inner stability, personality development and dig this …. SUCCESS. It comes from self confidence, and self esteem.
• Set meaningful and achievable goals. Self improvement is being who you are – not someone else. It is simply being an improved and better YOU.
• Little things mean BIG to other people. Sometimes, we don’t realize that the little things that we do like a pat on the back, saying “hi” or “hello”, greeting someone “good day” or telling Mr. Smith something like “hey, I love your tie!” are simple things that mean so much to other people. When we’re being appreciative about beautiful things around us and other people, we also become beautiful to them.

Be mindful of others and their path in life

When you’re willing to accept change and go through the process of self improvement, it doesn’t mean that everyone else has to do the same.

The world is a place where people with different values and attitudes to life do different things to you – and that is OK. Don’t expect your best friend to always like to do the same things as you at the same time. They have their own life to lead and experience.

There are no over night success stories.

We should always remember that there’s no such thing as an ‘over night success’. Its always a wonderful feeling to hold on to the things that you already have now, realizing that those are just one of the things you once wished for.

A very meaningful quote says that “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.” We are all here to learn our lessons from life. Our teachers are our parents, siblings, school teachers, friends, colleagues,  neighbours, strangers and our own children.

When we open our door for self improvement, we increase our chances of achieving success.

Self Improvement is really the only way to your future success.