Reflection essay
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Name: Abdulmohsen Bokhadour
Prof Ata
English 113A
February 25, 2015
Improvement begins with I
This is a quote by Arnold H. Glasow. The quote tells us that the best form of improving anything is first improving our own self. The author Arnold H. Glasow is a famous business and a humorist. His is famous for his inspirational quotations. In this quote he tells us about how we should be responsible of our work and be mature enough to understand what has gone wrong where and what we can do to improve it. It us that we should start looking at when it comes to counting and naming fault. Blaming other people will only make things worse for both the sides. Life is not an easy journey. Problems can come whenever and wherever. But we shouldn’t let them change anything for us. We should always learn from our mistakes and make it a point not to repeat them the next time we do the same thing.
Self-improvement is the major part of anyone’s character to live a fulfilled life. As a human in today’s world we need to be up to date about the things that are happening around us. So we should always try to improve our knowledge about things even though they are not related to what we do.
For me personally, self-improvement is a major part of how I live my life right now. I’m never satisfied with what I have and I always want to learn more things that are helpful and that can help me understand things better. The most important change that I got in me was reading books. Since childhood my teachers complained that I never read books and hence my vocabulary and grammar wasn’t up to the mark but I realized that I need to change that for me to become a become student. Thereafter I started collecting book and reading them to such an extent that now I love reading books of all kinds. Be it a novel or a magazine or a journal or encyclopedia. I love reading and it has really helped me grow more a s student of English class.
Self-improvement for me it become a major method by which I am able to achieve my goals in life. The best part about it is that you don’t have to point fingers at someone for something that went wrong. If you take the blame yourself for something you did, then life becomes much easier and things become smoother. Blame your own self and learn from your mistakes and try not to repeat them and try to improve yourself on that thing. That’s all it takes to makes things right. And this is not a difficult task as well.
There are people in our lives that help us make things right and make our job and life easier. But those people aren’t going to stick around us forever. We should grow up and take responsibilities and manage our work by ourselves and try to make it a point to keep improving from what were before. This progress will definitely have it fruits in the future for us. Being dependent on other will make things worse for both of us and that is one of that reasons that people don’t take a step forward in doing anything productive. Real life experiences will teach us a lot of lessons and we should go back and analyze our faults and rectify them. We should always have faith in what we do and what we’re going to do.
