Act on information & change your habits, and you will have self-improvement
Self-improvement is one of those things that people get into with the promise that their lives will become better. Many people have improved themselves from this material, myself included. However, there is an assumption that the reason for the self-improvement is the responsibility of the person giving the advice, in some cases. This can be the case of the person who has multiple self-help books of every sort of category. (There’s also an issue of focus, which we will get at later.)
What people need to understand is that the responsibility of the personal development that is desired should lie on the student or person seeking the advice. This means that work is required for personal development to occur. You cannot buy a book, attend a seminar, or listen to a podcast and assume that you will get better from the insights, or feel good in the moment. You have to act on the advice, which means acting & thinking differently than how you normally would act & think. This is the crux of self-improvement – you have to know what you want to improve in, and you have to seek out quality information that will help you what you want or need improvement on.
Be focused on where you want or need improvement
You have to be clear, determined, and discerning in the information that you receive. I mainly provide personal development advice in the realm of improving your mental outlook and the relationships with yourself and other people. I would never provide dietary advice, as I’m not a dietitian. It would be incredibly irresponsible of me to offer general diet advice when I’m address an audience of people – every person’s needs are different. I also don’t provide financial advice – if I do, it wouldn’t be beyond the realm of common sense (such as never spending more than you’re earning, for example).
This is how to get the most of personal development in a nutshell. You have to do the work, and you have to have goals for what you want to improve in. Take what is useful and leave the rest. Also feel free to question the advice. I don’t expect people to agree with everything I say or write, and they shouldn’t. Again, you take what resonates with you, and you can discard the rest. Be proactive in your own personal development, take action on what you learn, and be discerning about the information you receive.
2 thoughts on “Self-Improvement Takes Work and Discernment”
I think many times people don’t know what the inner issues the have. So the first thing is to find out what you want to improve in as you mentioned. You can’t be healed if you are not diagnosed.
Very true!