Everyday and ever so often, technology discovers new ways to
improve itself. Our smartphones get smarter, our TVs, automobiles (cars) and
gadgets get more interactive etc. Whenever this happens, there is a worldwide
scramble to acquire and own these smarter technologies. They become more attractive
and very desirous with every announced improvement. Everyone wants to test,
explore or own one. They get talked about, written about, sought after,
admired, loved and handled with the most care etc. These technologies; simple
machines and gadgets fashioned by man and improved to such standards that they
daily ‘live’ a quality of life most people can only dream of. Now this I found
interesting and brings me to thinking :)
Everyone desires to live a better life BUT not everyone who has
expressed this desire realize that to live a better quality of life, a better
you is required - A mandatory and conscious investment in Personal Development
or growth.
“Everybody wants to be somebody nobody wants to grow”- Johann Wolfgang
Von Goethe
If you don’t invest to improve yourself as an individual,
chances are you won’t be liked much by many. If you don’t invest to improve
yourself at your job, chances are you will get passed over often for promotions. If
you don’t invest to develop your gifts and talents, chances are you won’t
achieve success. If you don’t invest to improve your skills in life, chances
are you will be dissatisfied with life.
Personal development is not about grooming or physical hygiene
neither is it about designer labels or expensive lifestyles. Personal
Development is a growth from within. It is about self discovery; knowing and creating
who you are or who you want to be.
“Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know
and what you can do” - Menander
“Personal Development includes activities that improve awareness and
identity, develop talents and potential, build human capital and facilitate
employability, enhance quality of life and contribute to the realization of
dreams and aspirations” - Wikipedia
At the level of the individual, Personal Development
includes the following activities:
Improving self-awareness
Improving self-knowledge
Building or renewing identity
Developing strengths or talents
Improving wealth
Spiritual development
Identifying or improving potential
Building employability or human capital
Enhancing lifestyle or the quality of life
Improving health
Fulfilling aspirations
Initiating a life enterprise or personal autonomy
Defining and executing personal development plans
Improving social abilities
Much like our smarter technologies, it is imperative to
constantly look for ways to improve oneself. If you are not living the life you
want, if you are not getting ahead at work, if you are not getting the results
you want from your relationships etc it would follow that you are most likely
not doing the things you should and need to do.
Scientists and technologists spend hours, days, weeks,
months and years looking for ways to improve science and technology for
solution, effectiveness and efficiency. Translate that to an individual who is highly
invested in Personal Development. He/She constantly evolves to become an attractive
entity, firmly equipped to create and live a desirous and fulfilling quality of
life. They are individuals ahead of the pack; the high achievers, the confident
personalities, in touch with humanity, successful and living the great life!
Personal Development starts with a decision and a conscious
commitment to growth. To be and realize the best that you can be at all times
and to experience the best life possible for you.
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