Always strive to be better.

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By Stanley Dean Thomas.

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The Japanese have a well-known principle which is called kaizen. What this means is constant and never-ending improvement. This is a principle which is used in the Japanese workplace. What they strive to do is to always look for ways in which they can improve on their productivity. This is something that we all should adapt in our lives. 

There is a real need to strive to be better in life at everything we do. You don't want to be mediocre because if you are, you will have a hard time. You always should strive to be the best at whatever it is you do. The best people insist on getting the best treatment in life. If you think that life should be fair or that many of The virtuous people believe that all men are created equal then you have another thing coming. Many philosophers and thinkers from the past did not believe that all men were created equal.

Many people don't realize that the forefathers of this country did not believe that all men were created equal. They often felt that some people were just better than others. They believed that some people were just not good for anything. There were names for such folks designed to categorize them as being lower class citizens.

Many of these so-called philosophers were also political leaders. And they also decided the Fate of many people. They also love to practice eugenics in which it is believed that some people are genetically Superior to others and that the superior people must breed. The study of eugenics also includes eliminating those who have weaker genes according to the belief. Now you can believe that success is in the genes if you want to but when you talking about millions of people of potentially billions of people there’s no way that success can be only in the genes. Yes you have those people in power who are just waiting to get rid of anyone who they suspect of being totally useless. 

This is going on all over the world and in all walks of life. If you don’t do more to prepare yourself for the harshness of life and do all you can to better yourself to improve, then there is someone who is waiting to eliminate you. You cannot afford to not do all you can to improve yourself and to be the best that you could possibly be. You must do all you can to stay informed as to what’s going on in the world . You must do all you can to study more to learn more into working and improve on your personal skills.

 The last thing that you should wish for is to be on the losing end of the stick. You always must be increasing in health wealth and ability. If you are not increasing you are decreasing. You always must be getting better and better. If you can't improve one way you must improve another way. 

You always must be increasing your income because inflation is steadily on the increase. If your income is not increasing then you might as well say that it is in decreasing. Because inflation is increasing and it is eating away at your money. Taxes are increasing because tax rates go up. So it is important to be on the increase in income. 

Whatever you are doing at life you need to figure out how to do it better and better. You must always be improving yourself one way or another. Health wise you must improve your routines, your health routines. As you know the older you get the more your health is on the decrease. But if you increase your habits, developing better habits you can prolong a better life. 

So increasing oneself in life in all areas is very important. It is nothing wrong about increasing or wanting to increase. You must never look at it as you are being too greedy or selfish to want to increase or get better at something. Just like with money, you should never see wanting more money as being greedy. Inflation goes up every year and the value of the dollar goes down every year. 

The cost of living goes up every year. it comes a point where you need more money for different things. Your life is going to change, you're going to change, your circumstances are going to change. People in your life, the ones you love dearly are going to change. You're going to need more money to deal with all of these things. 

You also have to factor in your own personal retirement. The older you get the more you're going to need to have in savings. If you increase your income then that is more money that you can put back for savings and for the day in which you're going to stop working. Hopefully you will continue to work well until you're eighties and decide to never retire. Hopefully you will be getting better and better with age instead of retiring at 65. 

Keep yourself busy and occupied always increasing your abilities and the skills. You can quit working at a job when you're 65 but you should keep doing something. Find something else that you can do to keep your mind and your body and your spirit occupied. Keep your mind body and spirit working and keep them into shape. Stay healthy and keep active in life, always increasing. The more you increase the better of your life can be.