Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also self improvement, 1748, from self- + improvement.
Wiktionary
n. Following a disciplined programme to improve one’s physical health, mental health or character
WordNet
n. the act of improving yourself [syn: self-reformation]
Usage examples of "self-improvement".
Recordings done immediately following a self-improvement effort are also good places to figure out what you did right or wrong, i.
Because they believe that self-improvement pits one part of you, the part that wants to change, against another part, the part that wants to remain the same.
Some examples may help: As mentioned before, in self-improvement what you want to be often conflicts with what you are.
Sometime changes, even self-improvements and career advancements, can be more scary than satisfying.
Murphy, who founded the Esalen Institute on the Monterey Peninsula in California - a center for self-improvement - invented Shivas Irons, a mystical golf pro who made pronouncements such as, "Let the nothingness into your shot," and, "Gowf is a place to practice fascination.
To take action and change, we must also see the advantages of improving and believe we can make the self-improvements we need.
She also liked to leaf through my Grandmother Adelia’s tooled-leather scrapbooks, with their dainty embossed invitations carefully glued in, their menus printed up at the newspaper office, and the subsequent newspaper clippings—the charity teas, the improving lectures illustrated by lantern slides—the hardy, amiable travellers to Paris and Greece and even India, the Sweden-borgians, the Fabians, the Vegetarians, all the various promoters of self-improvement, with once in a while something truly outré—a missionary to Africa, or the Sahara, or New Guinea, describing how the natives practised witchcraft or hid their women behind elaborate wooden masks or decorated the skulls of their ancestors with red paint and cowrie shells.
Resolve to begin self-improvement programme with time-and-motion study.