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, less on 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 to go from last place to first place with just a snap of a fingers. Self-improvement is a one day at a time, one step at a time process.
• Self-improvement leads to inner stability, personality development and SUCCESS. Success that comes from self-confidence, self appreciation and self-esteem.
• Set meaningful and achievable goals. Self-improvement doesn’t make you into an exact replica of Cameron Diaz or Ralph Fiennes.  The aim of self-improvement is an improved and better YOU.
• Little things are 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 with “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.
• We're talking about SELF improvement, not improving everyone around us.  When you are willing to accept change and go through the process of self-improvement, it doesn’t mean that everyone else is. It's important to remember that the world is a place where people with very different values and attitudes hang out. Sometimes, even if you think you and your best friend always like to do the same thing together at the same time, he or she might very well 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 some 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, office mates, neighbors… they are our teachers. When we open our doors for self-improvement, we increase our chances to head to the road of success.