{"product_id":"2940014008440","title":"The Self-improvement Handbook","description":"Self-improvement \u0026amp; Success – Hand in Hand\u003cbr\u003eEverything that happens to us happens in purpose. And sometimes, one thing\u003cbr\u003eleads to another. Instead of locking yourself up in your cage of fears and crying\u003cbr\u003eover past heartaches, embarrassment and failures, treat them as your teachers\u003cbr\u003eand they will become your tools in both self-improvement and success.\u003cbr\u003eRemember watching Patch Adams? It’s one great film that will help you improve\u003cbr\u003eyourself. Hunter “patch” Adams is a medical student who failed to make it\u003cbr\u003ethrough the board exams. After months of suffering in melancholy, depression\u003cbr\u003eand suicidal attempts – he decided to seek for medical attention and voluntarily\u003cbr\u003eadmitted himself in a psychiatric ward. His months of stay in the hospital led him\u003cbr\u003eto meeting different kinds of people.\u003cbr\u003eSick people in that matter. He met a catatonic, a mentally retarded, a\u003cbr\u003eschizophrenic and so on. Patch found ways of treating his own ailment and finally\u003cbr\u003erealized he has to get back on track. He woke up one morning realizing that after\u003cbr\u003eall the failure and pains he has gone through, he still want to become a doctor.\u003cbr\u003eHe carries with himself a positive attitude that brought him self-improvement and\u003cbr\u003esuccess. He didn’t only improved himself, but also the life of the people around\u003cbr\u003ehim and the quality of life. Did he succeed? Needless to say, he became the best\u003cbr\u003edamn doctor his country has ever known.\u003cbr\u003eSo, when does self-improvement become synonymous with success? Where do\u003cbr\u003ewe start? Take these tips:\u003cbr\u003e· Stop thinking and feeling as if you’re a failure, because you’re not.\u003cbr\u003eHow can others accept you if YOU can’t accept YOU?\u003cbr\u003e· When you see hunks and models on TV, think more on selfimprovement,\u003cbr\u003enot self pitying. Self-acceptance is not just about having\u003cbr\u003enice slender legs, or great abs. Concentrate on inner beauty.\u003cbr\u003e· When people feel so down and low about themselves, help them\u003cbr\u003emove up. Don’t go down with them. They’ll pull you down further and both\u003cbr\u003eof you will end up feeling inferior.\u003cbr\u003eThe Self-improvement Handbook Page 6 of 24\u003cbr\u003eTraffic Overdrive\u003cbr\u003e· The world is a large room for lessons, not mistakes. Don’t feel stupid\u003cbr\u003eand doomed forever just because you failed on a science quiz. There’s\u003cbr\u003ealways a next time. Make rooms for self-improvement.\u003cbr\u003e· Take things one at a time. You don’t expect black sheep’s to be goodytwo-\u003cbr\u003eshoes in just a snap of a finger. Self-improvement is a one day at a\u003cbr\u003etime process.\u003cbr\u003e· Self-improvement results to inner stability, personality development\u003cbr\u003eand SUCCESS. It comes from self-confidence, self appreciation and selfesteem.\u003cbr\u003e· Set meaningful and achievable goals. Self-improvement doesn’t turn\u003cbr\u003eyou to be the exact replica of Cameron Diaz or Ralph Fiennes. It hopes\u003cbr\u003eand aims to result to an improved and better YOU.\u003cbr\u003e· Little things mean BIG to other people. Sometimes, we don’t realize\u003cbr\u003ethat the little things that we do like a pat on the back, saying “hi” or “hello”,\u003cbr\u003egreeting someone “good day” or telling Mr. Smith something like “hey, I\u003cbr\u003elove your tie!” are simple things that mean so much to other people. When\u003cbr\u003ewe’re being appreciative about beautiful things around us and other\u003cbr\u003epeople, we also become beautiful to them.\u003cbr\u003e· When you’re willing to accept change and go through the process of\u003cbr\u003eself-improvement, it doesn’t mean that everyone else is. The world is\u003cbr\u003ea place where people of different values and attitude hang out.\u003cbr\u003eSometimes, even if you think you and your best friend always like to do\u003cbr\u003ethe same thing together at the same time, she would most likely decline\u003cbr\u003ean invitation for self-improvement.\u003cbr\u003eWe should always remember that there’s no such thing as ‘over night success’.\u003cbr\u003eIts always a wonderful feeling to hold on to the things that you already have now,\u003cbr\u003erealizing that those are just one of the things you once wished for. A very nice\u003cbr\u003equote says that, “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.” We are all\u003cbr\u003ehere to learn our lessons. Our parents, school teachers, friends, colleagues,\u003cbr\u003eofficemates, neighbors… they are our teachers. When we open our doors for\u003cbr\u003eself-improvement, we increase our chances to head to the road of success.\u003cbr\u003eThe Self-improvement Handbook Page 7 of 24\u003cbr\u003eTraffic Overdrive\u003cbr\u003eThe Importance of Improving Yourself\u003cbr\u003eSometimes, when all our doubts, fears and insecurities wrap ourselves up, we\u003cbr\u003ealways come up with the idea of “I wish I was somebody else.” More often than\u003cbr\u003enot, we think and believe that someone or rather, most people are better than us\u003cbr\u003e- when in reality...","brand":"99 \u0026cent; store, save to buy more","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079860699376,"sku":"2940014008440","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014008440_p0.jpg?v=1763598962","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014008440","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}