After reading Dr. Robert Anthony “The Disease of Self Improvement“which I re-post on in my blog last week, I have to confess, I suffer from Chronic disease of Self Improvement. And that include my wife. On the last count, I attended 3 seminar in the month of May and June wife beat me by one, she attended another one in July with an invitation from a friend which we just met in the second seminar, more so, she is attending another one in August. If that’s not chronic disease on self improvement, I do not know what is? I will account for that in my later posting.

In Dr. Robert’s article first paragraph, many people purchased self improvement program and read self improvement “thought” it would change their life but were disappointed. I once was suffer from such delusion until I realized one thing, that really change our life and get addicted to self improvement. You see, we stayed in a small house about 750 sq ft when we got married, moved to a bigger house double the size of first house when we joined an MLM company which did not work out for us, but the training and self improvement program had change out thinking. We stayed for about 7 years, then we joined another MLM work very well initially but still did not work out well eventually, but the self improvement program is so powerful that we knew “our life will never be the same again” Just like Tony Robbins Unleashed The Power with Seminar’s theme song; “Lie will never be the same again.” We attend the UPW in years 2001, two and a half years  later, we move to an even bigger house double the size of our second house. One thing is for sure, once your mind is expanded, it never go back to the same size and you can only grow to the extend of your mind and what you What you Focus on Expand.

The question of whether we need “self Improvement”? Frankly, I would like to use the words “Personal Development” but it means the same thing anyway. Many Guru like to coined out different phrases to be different but deep inside, Life Principles never change. I do agreed with Dr. Robert, that we care too much on “other people feeling and opinion on us” that we tend to loose our own self and trying to compare and please them rather than us. Read my Post on “Whose Goal are you working on?” That is why, so many people who had achieved their “Goal and Dream” are still not happy.

“All that we need to know is within us”, as much as I like to believe it, but just can’t totally agreed with it. It all boiled down to our level of consciousness in learning and understanding. Most of the times, when I was inside the seminar listening to the speaker there is  always feeling of what was given, I already knew it.  At time, there is this AHA moment that stroke me and that is something “new’ that I have just  learned. It is often a tussle between ‘unconscious competent and conscious incompetent. DO I KNEW IT OR NOT kind of doubt in the “self Improvement” program and the disease always win! :).

Even when I knew I knew it,  then again, I must have knew it someway, whether by reading a book, attending a seminar, listening  to “self Improvement” program of various topics or consulting a coach or mentor to raise from the level of  “Unconscious Incompetent” to “conscious incompetent’ to i.e “I don’t know I don’t know”to “I know I don’t know” that is when the disease of self improvement start to infect.  And started to quest for more so much so that I become “unconscious competent” I don’t means the higher level of learning that you can do things “subconsciously”. It just that I “Don’t know I  already knew”. And I agreed with Dr. Robert that it is here that you need to search within you to find what you have ever wanted. But first you need to know it someway, you see, you cannot escape from the disease of self improvement regardless.

I recently read a book (self improvement again) and the author take the first 2-3 chatpers explainning on Energy down the very detail of how molecules and atom were broken down into atomic nucleus  to ZPF, too much of quantum physics stuff, and all boiled down to one thing, OUR TGOUGHT or OUR IDEA!  And one very interesting Principle of Physic that was mentioned in the introduction section is an uncertainty theory in physic which say, “When you change the way you look at something, the thing you look at changes it response.” and this is simply what I have learned from Tony Robbins UPW seminar saying in a simple and layman term,  “The only meaning to something is the meaning you assigned to it.” It reinforce my practice on seeing thing differently in a given situation.

So” how do you look  at self Improvement” or “what meaning you assigned to self improvement”,  it doesn’t matter at all, it is all within you but the secret lie in “NOT WHAT YOU KNOW, BUT WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH WHAT YOU KNOW?” Most people mistaken that knowledge is power, knowledge is never power, only Applied Knowledge is power.

And for me and my wife, we will still continue to suffer the chronic disease of self improvement, if you can spend a fraction of your income to be enlighten on the years of research and experience by the speakers, trainers  or mentors and have a good ROI, why cracked your head to find within you which you are ‘incompetent of”  Given a choice, as my post on You always have two choices, I would prefer to continue suffer from the Disease of Self Improvement as it make our life better and happy, more so, it is the people whom we made that had enrich our life not the knowledge.

Last but not the least, it is because too many people like us suffering from chronic disease of Self Improvement that consultants, coaches, mentors and trainers can make a comfortable living. Nothing wrong with that as most of the time, when we are too  engrossed in a situation or involved in something, we tend to loose our objectivity and that’s when we needed a third party advice and view.

Still suffering from the disease of self improvement, don’t feel guilty about it, you are not alone.

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