Self Improvement

Self Improvement

Traditional Definition:

1. Improvement of one's condition through one's own efforts.

New World Definition:

Articles

Figuring Out What to Eat by Lynn Woodland

"All the many ways we use food for reasons other than nourishment can create big interference with our ability to differentiate between what our body wants and what's just a substitute for emotional fulfillment. Consequently, a step in figuring out what to eat may include shifting attention away from filling your stomach and onto creating a full life. Focusing too much on food can lead to cycles of self-denial and restriction interspersed with guilty indulgence and self-hatred. So, however focused you've been on food, give at least this amount of energy to self-healing, self-love and self-improvement in ways that don't involve food. If you're postponing happiness or important goals until your diet does something for you -- as in, "I'll be/do/have ___ (fill in the blank) when I lose 50 pounds" -- consider that you may be using food as a smokescreen to cloud deeper issues. The real block to your happiness may have more to do with your relationships, your self-worth, your sexuality or your power."

Spiritual Growth It's About Progress, Not Perfection by Karen Barta-Gaskell

"The fact of the matter is, I had been feeling pretty together as of late. I was growing tired of working on my spiritual growth and self-improvement. I felt I was reaching a point where I had little growing left to do. Oh, I knew there was always room for improvement, perhaps a little tweaking here or there. But I was no longer the "problem child" I had been in early recovery. Why do I have study the 12 steps for the rest of my life? When will enough be enough?"

Quotations

"Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement."
~Anthony J. D'Angelo

"It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour."
~Vartan Gregorian

"The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before."
~Steve Young