This is an important topic for me.
Ever since I was a kid I was interested in Self-Improvement.
It was the result of my Grandfather, surely.
Here is what my Grandad (I called him, Paw Paw) would do to challenge me.
He knew kids always need money to buy "stuff" and go places and do things. So, Paw Paw would say, "Terry, here is list of some strange words.
IF you learn how to spell then and can tell me what they mean, I'll pay you a DOLLAR!"
I don't know what other kids might do, but, I learned that list pretty darned fast
Next, he'd give me a chart. It would have all these crazy symbols illustrated on it. What were they? They were BRANDS from ranches go way back in Texas history. Crazy things like :
Crazy, huh?
Well, I learned them! I collected my money.
Then, he gave me a book of KNOTS. If I learned how to tie them I'd get a half dollar for each knot!
That was $20 worth of learning!
I got poems and famous sayings and anything he could come up with.
Guess what?
Most of this might sound worthless or just silly. But--it encouraged my curiousity, my skill levels and I gained some interesting insights.
I LEARNED Self-Improvement because of Paw-Paw's encouragement (and a hankering for $$$$)
When I turned teenager I started learning 16 new Vocabulary words every day.
I was the one who paid the money now! I paid my friends a quarter for every vocabulary word they could bring me that I didn't already know!
What is my point?
WHAT can each of you do---what do YOU do to challenge yourself to learn and improve?