People should continuously try to improve themselves, to learn from their mistakes and to find way to become better people than they were yesterday. If we can evaluate our actions and determine how we can grow into becoming the best version of ourselves.
Yom Kippur, which will occur October eleventh, is a Jewish holiday in which we evaluate our behavior once a year. Yom Kippur is a day of atonement where people reconcile with others and God with prayer, repentance, and fasting. The ten days between Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah, which is on October third, are known as the Ten Days of repentance. During these days, people are supposed to ask for forgiveness and offer forgiveness for sins. After this, the New Year is supposed to be a clean
Persevering against an old self, that self people are trying to change, will help them achieve their goals.
By the definition, can you improve if you do not change? This is the question for all the readers
Through the course of history logic, reason and rules have changed drastically as well as what does it mean to be human. This question has stumped philosophers for centuries, great minds like Rousseau, Nietzsche, Kant, Hobbes, St. Augustine, and Sartre. Each philosopher has struggled with the true meaning of what it means to be human. They study the human since its birth all the way to its last days, the only they these philosophers notice with humans is maturity as they age. Maturity is what allows us to become people with character. As these philosophers notice the concept of maturity, their ideas start to splitter off here is where the issue takes place. The issue that rises is how should one live.
You should better yourself because every person in life should at least try to better something about themselves. No one in the world can ever be perfect but not being perfect does not stop you from bettering yourself. "As long as a person doesn’t wish to be transformed into someone else, but rather refine certain pieces of themselves, then they will transcend the average. So give it all you’ve got, dream big, take risks, and cherish every moment as you advance and mature into a better you"(1). Everyone has some type of issue holding them back, whether it is an anger issue, an anxiety, a phobia, etc. You should always try to do your best to improve upon your issues which will make you a better person. Not only is it good for you, but it can also be good for others and it can help you further along down the road in life.
...t the insecurities and to loving ourselves just the way we are. Once we learn to adapt that peoples judgments shouldn’t affect our life, this will automatically make our lives a positive and worthwhile place.
...fter Rosh Hashanah by fasting and praying all day. Yom Kippur is the holiest day in the Jewish year. Every Saturday of the week is called Shabbat and is described as the day that God used as a day to rest after creating the world. There are also three traditional “Pilgrimage festivals”. Passover and season of rejoicing are both eight-day fruit harvested festival that celebrate Israelites success while Festival of weeks is a wheat-harvest festival that commemorates God’s revelation of the Torah on Mount Sinai. In the modern state of Israel a few other national Holidays are acknowledged to commemorate a historical event. These holidays include Jerusalem day, Independence Day, Memorial Day, and day of the Shoah. Day of the Shoah or Yom Hashoah is remembrance of the six million Jews killed during the Holocaust. 50-70% of the victims of the Holocaust were Orthodox Jews.
Winston Churchill said, “All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.” While I have learned from my mistakes in the past, all the experiences that I have endured have made me into the person I am today. Even being a work-in-progress, I have a solid foundation, strong internal support and blueprints of the person I will become. And the day I become a complete multi-colored sculptor of experiences and hard work, I will have helped and inspired others to do the same.
Or you can continue to grow and learn from yourself, friendships, and relationships. Analyzing what is working and what is leading you down a path you don’t want to go down. Picking and choosing the core values that set yourself up for success and happiness. Change comes from learning from your mistakes and experiences and then making a mindful choice about the ethics and values you want to express to yourself and others.
“Without Continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement and success have no meaning” (Franklin, n.d.)
I have always strived to be the best person I could be, but there came a point where my mental line between attainable and ideal situations was blurred. By the time I was 12 years old, I was putting so much pressure on myself to achieve perfection that I had severe anxiety and numerous mental breakdowns before school. Eventually, I was helped to realize that imperfection , making mistakes, and accepting who you are boosts your self-confidence and overall health, both mental and physical.
Everyone, at some point in their lives, has made a mistake. Sometimes we get lucky and only falter a little, making it through the problem relatively intact. Other times, we mess up a lot and have to fix what was damaged over a long period of time. However, the same is true for most, if not all cases—those who make the mistake learn from it. Often times, our failures teach us valuable lessons that we only gain because of the experience we gain after messing up.
Upon reading the essay prompt, I took a few moments to introspect. I thought back to every experience that helped mold me into the person I am today. As human beings, we are influenced by many aspects of our surroundings. Even as children, we develop certain attributes through observation, or through conditioning by our parents. These attributes may not be always positive, but the combination of both positive and negative qualities form the people we are today. No one is perfect; nevertheless, some are fortunate enough to have their strengths outweigh their weaknesses. I believe I am one of those lucky people.
I realised that self-awareness is important in achieving self-improvement. The more an individual understands themselves, the better he or she is at adapting life changes that is according to their needs. The more self-aware we are, it improves the level of confidence we have on oneselves. This can be achieved through greater exposure, thus widens one’s experiences and will be more likely be more accepting of others. Self-awareness will also benefit us to be more accurate in accessing
...ake better decisions, and form healthy ideas all of which are crucial to becoming a successful person.
...cy that left behind would not be here today. Like a sermon that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote, “ I want you to be the first in love, I want you to be the first in moral excellence, I want you to be the first in generosity…” What this quote meant to me meant a lot in self-improvement. If you want to change be the first one to change. Don’t wait for someone else but take the initiative, take the action! But here’s the catch! Don’t wait to try to self-improve when you think you’re ready because if you wait to when you think you’re ready, you will never self-improve. This kind of ties up to “When do we need to self-improve?” and “How do we self-improve?” Overall, Self-improving is key in someone’s life. Without it, we wouldn’t be where we were in the past, who we are in the present and who will be become in the future. It is needed in our lives, no doubt about it.