Everything that happens to us happens for a purpose. And sometimes, one thing leads to another and the result is a disaster. Instead of locking yourself up in your cage of fears and crying over past heartaches, embarrassment and failures treat them as your teachers and they will become your tools in both self-improvement and success.

I remember watching the movie called Patch Adams. It is one of those great films that help you to really look into your own being and what makes you the person you are.

Hunter 'patch' Adams is a medical student who failed to make it through the board exams. After months of suffering in melancholy, depression and a number of suicide attempts - he decided to seek medical attention and voluntarily admitted himself into a psychiatric ward.

After months of recuperation in the hospital, his stay led him to meeting a variety of different kinds of people with severe mental disease. During his stay he met a catatonic person, a mentally retarded person, a schizophrenic person and so on. Patch over a period of time always found ways of treating his own ailment and finally realized he was the only one to get himself back on track. Patch woke up one morning realizing that after all the failure and pains he has gone through, he still wanted to become a doctor.

He carries with himself a positive attitude that brought himself self-improvement and success. He did not only improve himself, but also the life of the people around him and their quality of life.

Did he succeed?

Absolutely! Needless to say, he became the best doctor his country has ever known.

So, when does self improvement become synonymous with success? Where do we start? Take these eight tips ...

Tip One:

Stop thinking and feeling as if you are a failure. Failure breeds Failure and you are not a Failure! How can others accept your successes if YOU cannot accept them?

Tip Two:

When you see hunks and models on TV, do not feel self pity but simply devise a plan on how you are going to improve and more forward. Self acceptance is not just about having nice slender legs, or great abs. Concentrate on your inner beauty and what you have to offer.

Tip Three:

When people feel down and low about themselves, help them to move up. Do not go down with them. If you do that they will only pull you down further and both of you will end up feeling inferior. If the person will not get up out of the self-pity mode then you need to find a group of people who want to succeed. Success breeds Success.

Tip Four:

The world is a large classroom for lessons, not mistakes. Don't feel stupid and doomed forever just because you failed on one project. Learn from your mistakes. There is always a next time. If you learn from every lesson, then the law of averages says you must succeed.

Tip Five:

Take things one step at a time. Self improvement takes time and is a learned experience. Remember, Rome was not built in a day and nor will your success be achieved in just one day.

Tip Six:

Self improvement result Leeds to inner stability, personal development and dig this .... SUCCESS. Success is born from self confidence, self appreciation and self esteem.

Tip Seven:

Set meaningful and achievable goals. Self improvement does not turn you into an exact replica of Cameron Diaz or Ralph Fiennes. Your objective should be in developing a better YOU.

Tip Eight:

Little things mean BIG to other people. Sometimes, we don't realize that the little things that we do like a pat on the back, saying 'hi' or 'hello', greeting someone 'good day' or telling Mr. Smith something like 'hey, I love your tie!' are simple things that mean so much to other people. When we are being appreciative about beautiful things around us and other people, we also become beautiful to them.

When you're willing to accept change and go through the process of self improvement, it does not mean that everyone else is. The world is a place where people of different values and attitude hang out. Sometimes, even if you think you and your best friend always like to do the same thing together at the same time, they would most likely decline an invitation for self improvement.

We should always remember that there's no such thing as 'over night success'. It is always a wonderful feeling to hold on to the things that you already have now, realizing that those are just one of the things you once wished for. A very nice quote says that 'When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.' We are all here to learn our lessons. When we open our doors to self improvement, we increase our chances to head up the road of success.

If you have tried self improvement material and courses before and you have not got the results you are after, then there is a simple tool we have to unlock … which is your brain.

Once you unleash the power of your brain, then there will be no stopping you in your path to success