From our perspective, many have heard of normal children and adults changing and helping the world by doing a small thing. In reality, it takes a big lot of courage, time, perseverance, and sacrifices to do that. People like Jackie Robinson, Kimmie Weeks, Akilah Lewis, and many others have achieved this accomplishment. As the result, it could impact the whole world. On the other hand, many other people are focusing on themselves: their life, education, needs, wants, and improvement before thinking of the world. And with many advantages, changing ourselves first is the most important factor.
Before helping the world, we must first improve ourselves: our experiences, education, and other personal issues. Jim Kwik states that “If an egg is broken by an outside force, life ends. If broken by an inside force, life begins. Great things always begin from inside.” If we don’t make progress with ourselves, how are we going to achieve greater things in life - like getting to change the whole world? The road to the time when one knows everything is very, very long: so long that most can’t finish walking this road in their whole lifetimes. When we are born, we first attempt to crawl, we achieve crawling and move on to walking slowly, all the way until we can run. This is the same in our lives. People like Kimmie Weeks, Noah, and Akilah Lewis have first achieved to improve themselves to the level where they can make a big change in the whole world. But imagine a child not even able to crawl but attempting to run. The most often thing teachers say is that our lives and education are like building a house: we must first create the foundation of the house, the 1st floor, to move on to the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floors. For example, look at Jackie Robinson, the man who broke the color barrier - he spent 6 years of hard work (from 1940 to 1946) on himself to earn the respect of everyone in the Major Leagues, finally changing the world. The first foundation step in our lives is to improve and change ourselves.
The only person who can improve us is ourselves; we can choose how we would like to change ourselves. People like Kimmie Weeks can only give us the starting burst; we must complete the rest by ourselves. Nobody can do our push-ups for us. If we want to go on a diet, we can’t hire someone to exercise and eat our vegetables and fruits for us; it would make no difference to us. This is the same in our lives: many influential people can only give us a starting point, a new path unlocked, but we are the ones to choose whether or not to follow that certain path. If we changed the world, it doesn’t necessarily mean that we changed ourselves too. However, if we just focus ourselves on that one small goal: to improve ourselves, we can get a much better result for just ourselves. Research finds that on 93% of the time, when we break a big task into small tasks, we can have a way better result than doing the big task all at once. In this cas, improving ourselves is the small fragment task and helping the world is the big task. If we add this up to our daily lives, we can find that improving ourselves can leave space for great advantages.
Changing and improving ourselves can give us great benefits: we have less stress (less tired), feel happiness, and feel enjoyment. Self-focused behaviors (when one does something good to oneself) strongly increases happiness and enjoyment, and also decreases the amount of exhaustion on has. A scientific research was also made on this topic. 263 participants performed 1 of 3 activities daily for 10 days. The 1st group was assigned to engage in moral deeds, the 2nd to think moral thoughts, and the 3rd to do something kind and good for themselves. On the first 5 days, the participants were given instructions, and the last 5 days, they were not. Each day, the participants filled out a survey. As a result, the researchers concluded that all three group felt a positive feeling: the 1st group felt less angry, less isolated, more in control, and more purposeful in life; the 2nd group felt more empathic, was was moral, and grateful that day; the 3rd group felt happiness and enjoyment. However, the 3rd group had one very unique advantage from the others: they were less exhausted. It is found that self-focused behaviors can create enjoyment and happiness like helping others, but is less tiring.
Improving or changing ourselves has an extensive line of advantages. This act helps us progress in education, experience, and many other personal issues. And once we do improve on that, it raises the chance of being successful on bigger and bigger tasks - like helping the whole world. We must always start small before doing something big. And when we choose to change ourselves, we can improve ourselves, as we know our strengths and weaknesses and how we want to change; no one else has the same power to do that. Changing ourselves, also known as self-focused behaviors, can give us more happiness and enjoyment, and simultaneously, less exhaustion and stress.
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