Self-Improvement

I discovered the keys to make self-improvement works: doing whatever you want to improve on and not give a care about what people think.  People will give you looks, glares, mocking faces, frowns, laughs, odd and uncomfortable faces that make sure you see it and acknowledge.  I used to get offended easily about it and would brood over the reactions but as time passes, I discover my hurt is not helping me to better myself and in fact, it is a hindrance that stops me from doing what I need to do in order to get better at something. In order to get good at anything, one has to keep practicing even if a I might not see the improvement in the initial stage.  Expertise is not developed over night, it's developed over a period of time and any smart students know this; I think this bit of wisdom comes from experiences rather than something I truly understand later, it's one of those "aha" experience that we grasped and truly understand it over times.

Self-improvement is necessary in all walk of life and it is especially crucial in the teen and young adult years (eg people who are in their 20s, 30s) since they are trying to find who they are. It's not easy since we will encounter obstacles in all paths we turn to but things do get better.  People will look and make judgements no matter where we turn to, people will talk about you no matter what.  What is the best thing we can do? Like Taylor Swift says, "I'm just gonna shake, shake, shake, shake it off, shake it off" and continue to do what is needed to be done


Quote of the day: "People are going to talk about you.  But maybe you're having more fun than them anyway."--Taylor Swift, People, October 2014