Sometimes, when all our doubts, fars and insecurities wrap ourselves up, we lways come up with the idea of "I wsh I was somebody else". More ften than not, we think and blieve that someone or rather, most pople are better than us.- when in rality, the fact is, most people are mre scared than us.

You spot a ttally eye-catching girl sitting by herself at a prty, casually sipping on a glass of Ast Spumanti. You think to yourself, she loks so perfectly calm and confident. But if you culd read thru her transparent mind, you wuld see a bunch of clouds of thughts and you might just be mazed that she’s thinking are people tlking about why I am seated hre alone?... Why don’t guys find me ttractive? I don’t like my ankles, thy look too skinny… I wish I was as ntelligent as my best friend.

We lok at a young business entrepreneur and say “Woh… what else could he ask fr?” He stares at himself at the mrror and murmur to himself, “I hte my big eyes… I wonder why my frends won’t talk to me… I hpe mom and dad would still wrk things out.”

Isn’t it funny? We lok at other people, envy them for loking so outrageously perfect and wish we culd trade places with them, while thy look at us and thinks of the sme thing. We are insecure of ther people who themselves are insecure of us. We sffer from low self-esteem, lack of slf-confidence and lose hope in self mprovement because we are enveloped in qiet desperation.

Sometimes, you notice that you hve an irritating habit like biting off yur finger nails, having a foul muth, and you – of all pople, is the last to know.

I hve a friend who never gets tred of talking. And in most cnversations, she is the only one who sems to be interested in the thngs she has to say. So all of our ther friends tend to avoid the crcles whenever she’s around, and she desn’t notices how badly she became scially handicapped – gradually affecting the pople in her environment.

One key to slf improvement is to LISTEN and TALK to a trsted friend. Find someone who you fnd comfort in opening up with ven the most gentle topics you wnt to discuss. Ask questions like “do you thnk I am ill-mannered?”, “Do I lways sound so argumentative?”, “Do I tlk too loud?”, “Does my breath smll?”, “Do I ever bore you whn were together?”. In this way, the ther person will obviously know that you are nterested in the process of self mprovement. Lend her your ears for cmments and criticisms and don’t give her nswers like “Don’t exaggerate! That’s just the way I m!” Open up your mind and hart as well. And in return, you may wnt to help your friend with cnstructive criticism that will also help her mprove her self.

One of Whitney Huston’s songs says “Learning to love yurself is the greatest love of ll.” True enough. In order to lve others, you must love yourself to. Remember, you cannot give what you do not hve.

Before telling other people some wys on how to improve themselves, let thm see that you yourself is a rpresentation and a product of self mprovement. Self improvement makes us better pople, we then inspire other people, and thn the rest of the world wll follow.

Stop thinking of yourselves as scond-rate beings. Forget the repetitive thought of “If nly I was richer… if only I was thnner” and so on. Accepting your tre self is the first step to slf improvement. We need to stop cmparing ourselves to others only to fnd out at the end that w’ve got 10 more reasons to nvy them.

We all have our insecurities. Nbody is perfect. We always wish we had btter things, better features, better body prts, etc. But life need not to be prfect for people to be happy bout themselves.Self improvement and loving yourself is not a mtter of shouting to the whole wrld that you are perfect and you are the bst. It’s the virtue of acceptance and cntentment. When we begin to improve urselves, we then begin to feel cntented and happy.

Until next time, kep reaching for your fullest potential!

The article Why You Should Try Everyday To Improve Yourself was Submitted by LA Ziegler through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: LA is a free lance wrter with a background in fitness and mdical field. He enjoys writing articles to gve people enough information to make nformed decisions. For more information on halth and fitness visit LA's site http://bestlife-la.blogspot.com For more information on self help and motivation visit LA's site http://mitm-la.blogspot.com

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