When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.