There is a purpose in everything that comes our way. All happenings in our life are interlinked. We must learn to turn our cloud inside out to see the silver lining. We must learn to treat failures and embarrassments as stepping stones to success and self-improvement.
Patch Adams is one such great movie that drives home the point. If you remember, Hunter “patch” Adams meets failure at the board exams as a medical student which leads him through months of depression, melancholy and suicidal tendencies to such an extent that he voluntarily seeks psychiatric help by admitting himself in a ward of psychiatric patients. His stay there enables him to meet patients with a variety of mental ailments like mental retardation, schizophrenia, catatonic patients, etc. Trying to help them, Patch finds that his own ailments are treated and gets back on track. Finally one morning he wakes up to the realization that even after all the trauma he has undergone, his desire to become a doctor still burns strong. His positive attitude and efforts at self-improvement brought success not only for himself, but also to those around him and made a lot of difference to their quality of life. Yes, He went on to become the best doctor of his country.
So, success and self-improvement are two sides of the same coin. Friends, do make a start with towards both with these tips.
“Stop thinking yourself as failures. You are only human. Accept your failures and move on to make yourself acceptable to others.”
“When you see someone far superior to yourself, instead of indulging in self-pity, think of self-improvement. Think of acquiring inner beauty instead of only a good physique.”
“When you meet people feeling low and down, reach down to pull them up. Don’t slip down yourself in order to sympathize with them.”
“This whole world is a huge school where you learn from your mistakes and move on. A failure in a science quiz should never make you feel doomed and stupid. It’s not the end of the world. Always give scope for self-improvement.”
“Try improving yourself in things one thing by one. You can’t turn yourself into a perfect person at the crack of a whip. Give yourself time.”
“Self improvement leads to personality development, inner contentment, self-confidence and self-esteem. The natural outcome is Success.”
“Break your goals into small achievable and meaningful parts. Don’t expect dramatic results. Remember that each small achievement at self-improvement leads to a better YOU.”
“Little do we realize that our small appreciations or sincere greetings set up pleasant chain-reactions in other people’s lives that are so important to them. When we appreciate the beautiful people and things around us, we ourselves don a little of that beauty in others’ eyes.”
“When you feel the positive effects of self-improvement and change, you are eager for your friends to try self-improvement too. But remember never to force anyone to follow you. It takes all kinds to make the world and in all probability, your friends will resent it.”
Over-night success is just a myth. This life we go through is a big school. It is important to appreciate what we have. We all have our own lessons to learn. When we are ready to learn from life’s experiences and our interactions with the people around us, we are well on the way to self-improvement and success.
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Learn About Success And Self-improvement – Two Sides Of The Same Coin
Friday, July 16th, 2010Self-Improvement eBooks – The Poor Mans Solution To Self Improvement!
Monday, June 28th, 2010You can get information on virtually anything over the net. Be it about something as everyday as a recipe, or as exciting as the moon landings, it’s all there on the Internet. It comes as little surprise then, that we can get information on self-improvement as well.
Self-improvement is such a common concern to people around the globe that much information can be found on the subject over web pages on the net. Finding a free book on self-improvement on the World Wide Web is as easy as one may imagine.
The concept of e books owes its popularity to two factors – one that writers around the world find it hard getting published simply because of the extremely high competition. You’d be surprised at the sheer number of writers who can come up with original content by the minute. Secondly, publishing a book yourself is an expensive issue, if we are talking hard copies. At the same time, publishing an e-book on the net costs negligible amounts, if not none at all. Moreover, the writer can hope to connect with a much larger audience if he takes the online route.
For those looking to gather a lot of information on self-improvements topics, and free at that, the internet is an obvious place to look for this. Not only would you be able to find a very cheap e-book on the topic of your choice, many writers are so desperate just to get noticed, they sometimes put their e-books up for free! So, anyone wanting a copy of the self-improvement book could just download it and take a print out.
This is of course much quicker than ordering a hard copy and waiting for it to come by snail mail. Many websites offer online editions of tried and tested, successful self-improvement books that have stood the test of time. You could download them and be well on your way to self-improvement in just a few seconds.
Needless to say, this is the age of free information, especially on everyday topics such as self-improvement. What is still shocking is the very few number of people who actually make full use of this free information. As has been said wisely, you can take a horse to the water but you can’t make him drink it. So go ahead, and do look over the net for free self-improvement e books, and get cracking on your goal! Whatever your particular area of self-improvement may be at the moment, the internet is definite place to look for material to help you with it.
Self-improvement & Success: Hand in Hand
Monday, May 31st, 2010Everything that happens to us happens in purpose. And sometimes, one thing leads to another. Instead of locking yourself up in your cage of fears and crying over past heartaches, embarrassment and failures, treat them as your teachers and they will become your tools in both self-improvement and success.
Remember watching Patch Adams? It’s one great film that will help you 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 people.
Sick people in that matter. 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 want to become a doctor. He carries with himself a positive attitude that brought him self-improvement and success. He didn’t only improved himself, but also the life of the people around him and the quality of life. Did he succeed? Needless to say, he became the best damn doctor his country has ever known.
So, when does self-improvement become synonymous with success? Where do we start? Take these 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 room for lessons, not mistakes. Don’t feel stupid and doomed forever just because you failed on a science quiz. There’s always a next time. Make rooms for self-improvement.
• Take things one at a time. You don’t expect black sheep’s to be goody-two-shoes in just a snap of a finger. Self-improvement is a one day at a time process.
• Self-improvement results to inner stability, personality development and SUCCESS. It comes from self-confidence, self appreciation and self-esteem.
• Set meaningful and achievable goals. Self-improvement doesn’t turn you to be the exact replica of Cameron Diaz or Ralph Fiennes. It hopes and aims to result to 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.
• When you’re willing to accept change and go through the process of self-improvement, it doesn’t mean that everyone else is. The world is a place where people of different values and attitude hang out. Sometimes, even if you think you and your best friend always like to do the same thing together at the same time, she would most likely decline an invitation for self-improvement.
We should always remember that there’s no such thing as ‘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 nice quote says that, “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.” We are all here to learn our lessons. Our parents, school teachers, friends, colleagues, officemates, neighbors… they are our teachers. When we open our doors for self-improvement, we increase our chances to head to the road of success.