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By
Terry Orr
Self-Improvement - improvement of one's status, mind,
abilities, etc. by one's own efforts.
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There is always something we would like to change about
ourselves—job satisfaction, health, physical fitness level, intellectual
development, eating habits, or relationships—The hardest part isn’t figuring
out what to change…it’s making that change stick! Most people fail to reach goals because of one
of three reasons.
- Unrealistic expectations
- Environment is not conducive to change
- We give up too soon
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Each morning while preparing for the day and cleaning up –
I spend some time reviewing yesterday’s activities and how I handle things in
general. If there are things needing work, I put those into my list of things
to day and improve on. I also smile and
am thankful for another day.
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You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself. ~ John Ruskin
On Google search on self-improvement books with 297
million hits – I have read many books on this topic over the past five decades –
but nowhere near that many. I have
mentioned in the past articles that the one author who influenced my life was
Dr. Stephen R. Covey who passed recently.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
It was the sacred rule among the Pythagoreans that they should every evening thrice run over the actions and affairs of the day. ~ Dr. L. Watts
Never neglect an opportunity for improvement. ~ Sir William Jones
The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself. ~ B. R. Haydon
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging. ~ Marcus Aurelius
Everyone has naturally the power of excelling in some one thing. ~ Proverb
Perfection does not exist - you can always do better and you can always grow. ~ Les Brown
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. ~ Zig Ziglar
Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. ~ Willam Faulkner
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Top 10 Tips for Self-Improvement
10. Get off to a
Good Start. Getting up early and eating breakfast! You will have much more energy
throughout the day to follow the rest of these tips if you do!
9. Keep a Schedule. It is a very good idea to write down the
tasks you need to achieve in each day. As you complete them, tick them off. You
should not, however, feel like you are bound to your list.
8. Take a Break and have Fun. If you
spend too much time in front of the computer, at your desk, or doing whatever
it is that your occupation requires, you should take a break.
7. Be Generous. Generosity
has a tendency to come back. You can be generous with your smiles, your advice,
and many other things. Always try to find a way to help others.
6. Accept the things you can’t Change. When
something bad happens in our lives, we try to fix them or change them. But
sometimes we can’t. Often this leads us to spend hours moping and falling in to
depression.
5. Learn a New Language. Learning
another language is one of the best ways to improve your grasp on English.
4. Brake the Chain. If you
have a lot of patterns in your life, try breaking them – do something different
every day.
3. Face the Fear. Every
day you should do something you don’t want to do – or feel uncomfortable doing.
This varies in degrees for everyone, but we all have little things we can start
out with.
2. Forget Goals. I still
have goal and things in life to be accomplish – but since retiring, they no
longer drive my daily routine.
1. Don’t Procrastinate. This is a hard one for most folks –
something we need to work on (sometimes daily for me).
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Whatever
area of your life that you are looking to improve – jot is down, think about
how to do it and then “Make it Happen”.
Good Luck!!
I learn some new stuff from it too, thanks for sharing your information.
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