Looking back, when I started, I liked computers because I had control over them. I could make them do what I wanted them to do. I shyed away from people in favour of what I knew best. Over the last decade, I have moved away from computers and towards people. I now see that doing things with computers is not the solution.
True improvement comes from working with people.
From my experience, the biggest payoff comes from personal self-improvement. I recently decided to follow my dream and practice what a preach. I now own my own training business. I think that to be qualified to help others to achieve their dreams, I should have done as much myself. Steven covey says If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day.