DO'S & DON'T-S OF SELF-IMPROVEMENT

• Don't think you are always right and you can ignore suggestions and criticism.
• Do realise that it is wise to listen to others.
• Do recognise that people are busy with their own affairs and it is improper to expect them to notice you all the time.
• Don't think you are a genius because you are successful.
• Do recognise how such an attitude can make you careless and bring you down.
  Don't think you are a faliure because happenings are not in your favour.
• Do recognise that your popularity will quickly evaporate if you neglect to consider others.
• Don't think there is no more to learn when you have finished your formal education and settled in a job.
• Do recognise that if you want to make the most of life you have to keep on learning.
  

SEE GOOD IN EVERYTHING
Always look to the good side of men and matters. Even when you come across people who are rude to you, feel that God has provided you with an opportunity for strengthening your mind through their behaviour. Always see 'What is good' in others in order to develop that particular good quality in yourself.
See no evil. But if you happen to notice any, see that evil does not come to you. God created both good and evil in this world for us to learn. From the good we learn to be good and from the evil we learn to be free from evil. Therefore, both good and evil are really good only.
Make others happy as you strive to make yourself happy. Speak a helpful world. Do a kind act. Serve a little. Wipe the tears of one who is in distress. Render smooth a rough place on another's path. Regard your neighbour's happiness as your own happiness, and your neighbours pain as your own pain.

-Swami Sivananda