Serving others promotes self improvement.

The commitment to self improvement could take you to places that you never thought existed within you by compelling you to focus on ways of making the world around you a better place. Our capacity to empathise and respond to the needs of those around us, is one of the tools to self improvement that is yet to be understood my most people.
When you are solely concerned with developing yourself without a care for the needs of those around you, it is easy to develop a lack of balance in your attitude to the world. Let me give you an example, when I thought about developing a higher ability to organise, I needed to ensure that my relationships with those around me would support me.
If a mother chooses to learn organisational skills by developing while caring for her children; the children need to be accepting of the activities that she organises for them. When a manager decides to develop leadership skills, he is dependent on the group that he leads being willing to be led.
Self improvement and thinking about ways of caring for those in your environment are linked. Can you imagine the world that we would create together when we live by this approach? I can feel tears flooding my eyes as I captured this thought for the first time. Self improvement is no longer solely concerned with my interest but also the interest of all the people that are around me.
For a teacher, promoting the welfare of the children that he teaches becomes one of the great ways to promote self improvement. If while being concerned with the learning and teaching in the classroom, the teacher succeeds in gaining the affection of the children that he teaches; the classroom becomes one of the great forums for self improvement.
The concern and commitment of the teacher to serving the needs of the children, enhances interactions in the classroom and promotes self improvement. The next time that you think about self improvement, think about ways of promoting the welfare of your family, organisation and community.
I do not cease to be surprised by the refusal of some people to live by this philosophy. We know better; serving the interest of the group is an effective way to promote self improvement.
Continue to enjoy your journey of self improvement as you serve the world with your skills and abilities.