How You Can Improve Yourself

Growth is a journey. It is not an overnight thing. It never ends. To improve your life, to improve yourself, and to get better at what you are doing, according to Helene Lerner, you must ‘own your strengths as well as your weaknesses. Reflect on how you can turn one of your weaknesses into a strength. Ask a coach or mentor for suggestions on how you can improve. Start doing the work to make this happen- one small action at a time.’

You have got to start working on yourself. No one is going to do it for you. And no one is coming to rescue you. If you want to improve yourself, you have got to start doing the work.

If you have not started, you can start now, not tomorrow.

We Cannot Will Ourselves To Greatness

To be like … great masters, we cannot simply will ourselves to be like them.

We need to cultivate the qualities they possess.

To cultivate the qualities of compassion, wisdom, and dignity, we need to check our motivation and make aspirations.

Motivation is like a mirror- it reflects your present intention.

Aspiration is like a doorway to the future- it ushers you to the results you wish to achieve.

Without motivation, you cannot even start on the path; without aspiration, it would be difficult to reach the results.’

– Phakchok Rinpoche and Sophie Wu