What is personal development?

Here is a brief overview

Personal development means different things to different people. Ultimately, personal development is about focusing your attention on developing or refining your skills, abilities, attitude, and awareness for the personal goal. As a category, personal development covers various areas of human endeavor and can be applied to business and financial growth. Socially Personal development can be applied to improve social relationships, with family, friends or colleagues, partners, employees.

Personal development in a nutshell

If you want to achieve valuable things in your personal and professional life, you must become a valuable person in your own personal development.

Brian Tracy

To sum up personal development in one sentence, you can say that personal development is about identifying challenges, finding solutions, and integrating the answers or the right course of action or behavior into your daily life or business. Personal development is about making effective changes in yourself or company procedures to better deal with the environment.

“Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation of the greatness that you can ultimately achieve.” The Browns

Value-oriented aspects

Many of the value-oriented aspects of personal development border on the realm of spirituality where people’s attention can be focused on developing better social and environmental relationships, achieving personal mastery over one’s actions, such as behavior change or Overcoming Limitations At this level, persistence, curiosity, study, and self-discipline are common themes. Professional personal development can include topics such as personal mastery and communication, developing leadership skills, etc.

In general, personal development consists of cultivating a progressive attitude, studying/learning and applying appropriate formulas or principles of success, either as a company or as an individual. Much of the study of personal development comes from research on people who have achieved significant growth, personally or in business.

Success leaves clues.

The early founders of the modern form of personal development have studied and cataloged the process of success and achievement. They have made considerable progress in documenting the personal success process as a science. Napoleon Hill can be said to be the ancestor of modern personal development. He laid the foundation for our current generation of researchers, professionals, and coaches, like superstar Anthony Robbins.

The following are some of the general topics in Personal Development

Develop or renew identity

Fulfilling aspirations / Realizing dreams

Behavior change/conditioning

Developing motivation – inspiration

improve self awareness

Improve lifestyle or quality of life.

Improving your employability

Identify and invest in one’s potential

financial development

Develop strengths or talents.

Personal and Professional Mastery – Learning Techniques or Methods to Win

control of one’s life

Entrepreneurial

Improve self-knowledge

Development of personal development plans.

Raise awareness or define chosen lifestyle

Integrating social identity with self-identification

Raise awareness or define your own priorities

development purpose

Raise awareness or define one’s own values.

development purpose

Love

Raise awareness or define one’s own ethics.

Strategies and realization of dreams, aspirations, career and lifestyle priorities.

Develop personal discipline.

Personal Development Goal/Material Entertainment

Developing professional potential

Developing talents

developing integrity

goal setting

Development of individual skills

become more affectionate

How to learn from experience

time management

Develop mature interpersonal relationships.

establishing identity

Improve the quality of lifestyle (in areas such as health, wealth, culture,

families, friends and communities)

Learning techniques or methods to expand consciousness.

skills development

Achieve autonomy and interdependence

self-control

management of emotions

Learning techniques or methods to achieve wisdom.

Communication skills

Philosophical practice of personal development.

Personal development can also be applied to the following disciplines, either practically metaphorically or philosophically.

Yoga

Meditation

Qigong

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Martial Arts

The altruistic aspects of personal development.

Some of the more altruistic elements of personal development have parallels with some of the world’s spiritual traditions. A good example would be The Eightfold Path of Buddhism, which focuses on developing skills such as:

correct vision

right intention

correct speech

Good action

right livelihood

Right Effort

Correct Attention

correct concentration

Take a look at the parallels

Correct vision, this can be a taste, an open mind, beliefs, continuous learning of techniques or methods to expand consciousness, consideration.

Right Intention: This can be likened to defining one’s values ​​or striving to develop mutually beneficial relationships for the greater, overall good.

Right intentions form a personal development point of view, this can be seen as increasing awareness of your actions and adjusting them for the greater good.

Correct speaking, from a personal development perspective, this would be Communication Skills. Communication skills can also include your internal dialogue as in positive speech.

Right Action, this can be seen as exercising consideration, personal integrity, exercising wisdom.

Right Livelihood, this would be related to lifestyle, as I am improving quality of life, career and work in an ethical employment line, etc.

Correct effort, this would be related to the commitment of discipline.

persistence of determination.

Right Mindfulness, can be a consideration akin to the consideration…

… And finally

Straight Concentration, it can be a pleasure for clarity, focus, the exercise of the discipline of thoughts.

So where do you start? And what is needed?

Define an area of ​​life in which you would like to work…

1 create a vision

2 make a plan

3 action your plan

Commit to daily actions aimed at change

Find a system or program to facilitate your growth, in some cases this may mean reading the related material, books, website blogs, in other cases this may mean joining related clubs or taking courses etc. The main point is to develop an image of yourself that is complementary to your goal/vision.

There are no instant solutions, quick fixes, or magic formulas for personal development; personal growth apart from the awareness of the need for personal growth and the desire to grow. As long as the two conditions above are met, the awareness of the need for personal growth and the desire to grow, you will be able to find success with the following tools:

Commitment,

Discipline,

persistence

curiosity

These tools will be a good start in your chosen area of ​​personal growth/development.

The creative power within us makes us the image of that to which we give our attention.”

Wattles by Wallace Delois

Here are two typical examples of a personal development exercise:

example one

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First to achieve success in the chosen area of ​​personal growth/development. You need to do two things, invest some time to identify and define an area that you would like to develop, ie you want a promotion.

Developing an image of yourself in your ideal finish or state/position –

how are you going to look

How are you going to feel?

How will you be acting?

Develop your new self-image daily

example two

The following is an excerpt from Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich, Hill is describing the six steps necessary to develop what he calls the burning desire necessary to lead a person to the achievement of his goals. In this example, the steps relate to money, but with creative editing, this formula can be applied to any area of ​​goal achievement.

“First. Fix in your mind the exact amount of money you want. It is not enough to simply say, ‘I want a lot of money.’ (described in a later chapter). See the book Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

Second. Determine exactly what you plan to give in exchange for the money you want. (There is no such reality as “something for nothing”.)

Third. Set a definite date by which you intend to have the money you want.

Four. Create a definite plan to carry out your desire and begin immediately, whether or not you are ready to put this plan into action.

Fifth. Write a clear and concise statement of the amount of money you intend to acquire, indicate the time limit for its acquisition, indicate what you intend to give in exchange for the money, and clearly describe the plan through which you intend to accumulate it.

Sixth. Read his written statement aloud twice a day, once just before you go to bed at night and once after you get up in the morning.

Napoleon Hill’s 13 success principles are;

Desire, Faith, Autosuggestion, Specialized Knowledge, Imagination, Organized Planning, Decision, Persistence, Master Mind, Transmutation, Subconscious Mind, Brain and Sixth Sense

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill is a must-have – Think and Grow Rich is full of valuable insights

All that man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.”