Improving something that already works.

There doesn’t need to be a problem in order for us to want to improve a situation. There need only be a vision on how to improve.

That’s why self help books shouldn’t be read from a reactive point of view. It should be proactive, providing thoughts, tools and methods to improve a situation that isn’t bad but could be improved.

Read from a reactive standpoint, they’ll at best become a quick fix of a perceived problem. But to solve a situation that’s perceived to be a problem, one needs to carefully observe it and define what the core of the problem is. To carefully define the actual problem.

Just as when your sink is leaking. The problem probably isn’t the sink itself, but how you treat your sink. What you put in to it. It might even be the pipes underneath it. That’s the core of the problem.

In situations where there isn’t even a problem with the sink, there are huge possibilities for you to start treating your sink in a better manner. In those cases there needs to be a definition of what “treating the sink better” actually means.

Defining the situation and defining a better state of the situation is the first step to improve it.