In this publication, I would like to deviate a little from the usual financial topics in order to talk about self-development and tell what it could be personality development program. Analyzing the statistics of the site and communicating with readers, I noticed that motivating articles about that, etc. are very popular, especially among regular readers. Therefore, I decided to pay more attention to the development of this topic and continue the series of articles about self-development.
So, today we will talk about what a personal development program is and why it is needed. Any person, any person in the course of his life can change, and these changes can occur both for the better and for the worse. Under the best changes, I mean the acquisition of some new useful knowledge, skills, abilities, under the worst - respectively, the loss of existing useful knowledge, skills, abilities. But also, in my opinion, even a stop in the development of personality can be considered a negative factor.
If a person stops in his development, he will inevitably begin to lose something in some areas of his life (work, business, relationships, hobbies, etc.). Now nothing stands still, therefore, in order to be successful, constant development is necessary. The absence of such development means inevitable losses, the longer it is absent, the stronger these losses can be.
There are people who think about their development and strive for it, there are those for whom it happens on its own, for example, due to professional activities, hobbies, etc. In addition, sometimes personality development can occur without any signs visible to the person himself: he does not notice changes in himself, but learns about them only from those around him. It depends on the degree of self-awareness of a person: the higher it is, the more he is able to objectively assess the changes taking place in his personality.
Which person will develop his personality more effectively: the one who takes some actions for this, sets himself goals and objectives and achieves them, that is, is engaged in self-development, or the one who does not even think about it? In my opinion, the answer is obvious.
Personality development will be more effective for people who are engaged in self-development: they will be able to achieve better results than those who let the development of their personality take its course.
Then another question arises: what needs to be done for the development of personality? For this, as in any business, it is best to act according to a certain plan, to have a certain program of action. In this case, it can be called a “self-development program” or a “personal development program”. Let's take a look at what it could be.
So, a personality development program is a certain set of measures intended to achieve certain results in the self-development of the personality as a whole and its individual areas in particular. I bring to your attention the most general, simplified program of personal self-development, presented in the form of a diagram:
As you can see, it consists of 5 stages:
1. Goal setting;
2. Introspection;
3. Personal development plan;
4. Practical implementation;
5. Analysis of the results.
Let us consider in more detail what these stages of the personality development program include.
1. Goal setting. First of all, it is necessary to determine what exactly you need a personal development program for, that is, what goals you want to achieve in the end. At this stage, you need to “draw” yourself a certain ideal image of the person you would like to become. It is advisable to set goals for yourself in all the main directions of personality development at once:
- Personal life;
– Work, career, earnings;
– Intellectual development;
– Health, physical development;
– Hobbies and hobbies;
– Getting rid of bad habits, etc.
Goals need to be formulated as clearly as possible so that it is specifically visible what you are striving for. In addition, these goals are also important as a motive, an incentive for achieving them. Having thought well and “drawing” this image for yourself, you will psychologically want to become it, you will have more desires and positive energy, which will become your assistant in self-development.
Goals can be short-term, medium-term and long-term. Moreover, the presence of goals for one period does not relieve you of the need to set goals for another, longer or shorter period of achievement.
I strongly recommend that when setting goals in your personal development program, do not take into account stereotypes imposed by anyone (parents, teachers, acquaintances, people around you, etc.). You should strive to become exactly the kind of person you want to see in yourself, and not someone else. Otherwise, you may be deeply disappointed, and you will have to start all over again, but an irreplaceable human resource - time - will already be lost.
2. Introspection. After the goals are set, we move on to the second stage of the personality development program - introspection. If at the previous stage you “drawn” for yourself the image of the ideal “I”, now you need to “draw”, on the contrary, the real “I” - the way you are at the moment. You need to see and highlight all your positive qualities that will help you move towards achieving your goals, and negative ones, which, on the contrary, will slow you down and which you will have to fight.
Here, on the contrary, in order for self-analysis to be as objective as possible, it is necessary to compare how you see yourself and how others see you. By the way, this is not always easy. The fact is that your friends or acquaintances may, for reasons of ethics, “not notice” your negative qualities and shortcomings, then you yourself will not even notice them. But here you can use one trick: think about how you see your friends, your social circle. A person is always drawn to his own kind, so it is very likely that the shortcomings that you see in the people around you are a mirror image of your own shortcomings.
At the stage of self-analysis of the personality development program, you need to determine and fix the starting point, the initial data with which you will compare the result achieved in the future.
3. Personal development plan. The third step is to draw up a specific action plan with which you will achieve your goals. Let's call it "Personal Development Plan". Based on your identified strengths, consider how you can use them to get rid of weaknesses, eliminate negative qualities, and strengthen and strengthen positive ones even more.
For example, if we are talking about achieving some financial goals, it is necessary to draw up, on health promotion, a plan for classes, training, switching to proper nutrition, etc.
The personal development plan should contain not only a list of specific activities, but also specific deadlines for the implementation of each of them and the definition of factors by which it will be possible to believe that the goal has been achieved.
4. Practical implementation of the plan. When the plan is ready, we can assume that your program of self-development, the program of personal development has been drawn up, and proceed to its practical implementation. That is, to carry out all the points of the planned plan in the sequence in which it is provided.
Any change is always difficult at the first stage. However, over time, these difficulties disappear. There is a so-called “Rule of 21 days”, which says that any new, inconvenient and undesirable action for you will turn into a habit after 21 days. Therefore, try to endure the initial difficulties and develop as many good habits as possible, which will begin to appear in just 3 weeks. And when you see some first, even minor successes, it will surely inspire you and motivate your self-development even more.
It is also necessary to understand that not all actions will necessarily give some kind of result, and this is quite normal. says that 20% of actions produce 80% of results and vice versa.
In order to carry out your personal development program more effectively, you will have to get rid of the so-called. "time wasters" - activities that do not bring any benefit, but take time. Well, for example, “hanging out” in social networks or empty chatter on the phone (every person will surely have their own “time wasters”). The time freed up in this way can be spent on more useful activities that your personal development program provides.
Also a good help in the implementation of the plan will be making new acquaintances and connections with people who are better than you in what you are striving for, or who are striving for the same thing as you. Firstly, they can become positive examples for you, increasing your motivation. Secondly, together it is easier to move towards the goal than alone. Thirdly, the more other people will be involved in the process of your self-development, the more difficult it will be for you to refuse it, because then you will fall in their eyes. Thus, look for new useful acquaintances among people who have something to learn, whom you would like to be like.
The practical implementation of a personal development program is the most difficult stage, but only it can lead you to the desired results. No matter how well and competently you plan your self-development, theory without practice, as you know, is blind.
5. Analysis of results. And, finally, like any process, a personality development program requires summing up, analyzing the results. It is far from a fact that you will achieve everything that you have planned on the first try. But still, you need to analyze all your actions, find in them what helped or, conversely, prevented you from achieving your goals.
If the goal is achieved - great, then you can set a new, more ambitious goal, and build a plan to achieve it, because, as you remember, self-development, personal development should never stop.
If the goal is not achieved, you always have more attempts that you can make, taking into account the analysis and correction of your mistakes.
Self-development can hardly be called a simple process, but it can certainly be called interesting and exciting. Developing his personality, a person constantly learns something new, acquires new skills and abilities, experience, and sooner or later all this will definitely help him in life, make life brighter and more interesting.
Stay on: the materials of this site will certainly help you in self-development, increase your financial literacy and teach you how to use your personal finances as efficiently as possible. See you soon!
Author of the project "Self-organization and self-management". I write about planning and goal setting, priorities and results. I observe and experiment a lot. I create author's planners, weeklies, diaries. By profession - an andragogue, by vocation - an optimizer. I appreciate clarity of thought and purity of thoughts.
“Why don’t my plans come true?”, “Why can’t I do everything I plan?”, “Why doesn’t planning become a habit, and the desire to plan fades after a few days?”, “How can I plan if I don’t know , what will happen to me not only in a couple of days, but also in the next few hours? are the most common questions you hear when it comes to planning.
Today, the answers seem simple and obvious to me. But once I also searched for the truth and experimented. Then it seemed to me that the whole point was in my own inefficiency, inability to manage my own time. I made to-do lists, set priorities, tried to get more done and got a lot done, but this did not close the gap between life expectations and reality.
Puzzles have logically developed in my life due to a combination of circumstances. First puzzle - my job. I was lucky with the job for two reasons. At a young age, I got into a system where understanding strategy and tactics was key, and goal setting and planning were an integral part of every business. But then I had not yet projected this knowledge onto my own life, they were applicable only to work processes.
The second reason was that the modern education system was on the path of reform and implementation of new methods and technologies in teaching which form the ability to set goals, independently organize the learning process. Behind these innovations was a great work of teachers and psychologists, which I had to study and understand the basic mechanisms of self-organization and self-control. I practiced both in my profession and in my own life. It became easy for me to use strategic plans and tactics for their implementation not only in global work projects, but also in my own life.
Another puzzle is mine striving for reasonable rationalization. Since childhood, I loved to structure everything. Schemes, map tables - this is the language in which I could explain various processes and phenomena in an accessible way. It has always been easier and more interesting for me to live with order in my head. I strove for planning and had a passion for different plannings, diaries, bought different notebooks in search of the perfect one. As a result, she developed her own individual, with which planning became a simple, understandable and exciting job.
And the final puzzle that formed a whole picture in my mind was study of a systematic approach. Awareness of the importance of an interconnected system of work to achieve maximum results, combined with the ability to see strategically (largely) became the basis of my life changes.
Today I like to plan, live according to the plan and achieve the planned results.
A good plan is based on personal priorities, is clear and simple, includes a strategic understanding of solving current problems and tactics of regular steps to achieve a result.
Would you like to create your personal development plan based on these principles?
Welcome to the marathon "Secrets of good planning, or How to create a self-development plan."
The creation of the plan will take eight days. Every day is one step. The ninth day of the marathon will be the final day, on this day we will summarize and draw conclusions. And I will give you my recommendations.
Running a marathon will have two effects:
1. creating an individual self-development plan
2. formation and development of skills:
Think strategically (on a large scale);
Work on your own priorities;
Separate the important from the unimportant;
Draw up a work strategy and tactics of daily actions
We will need:
Time - daily 30-40 minutes.
Notepad or notebook.
If you decide to walk this path with us, leave a request in the comments. Set aside half an hour in your calendar for the next two weeks to run a marathon, even if it means borrowing time from sleep. Find a quiet and secluded place, you may have to retire to the kitchen or bathroom so as not to disturb other family members.
Recently, I had the idea to create and publish a self-development plan on my blog, which will include a number of sequential steps. Each of these steps will consist of theory, in the form of materials that you will need to read, and practice, in the form of some "homework" that you will need to do, as your training. It will be like a game: you pass one level and move on to the next. As you progress through these steps, you will change, develop your skills, deal with your shortcomings, and solve personal problems.
Personal development plan
Why am I doing this?Let me tell you, first of all:
Don't know where to start?
This program is designed for those who want to develop, but have no idea where to start and what they need to do and what to read. The Personal Development Plan guides you through the pages of my blog, tells you in which order to read them, and offers fun self-examination and practice.
Lacking motivation?
Everyone knows that it is quite difficult to force yourself to purposefully work on yourself: break your habits, correct shortcomings ... It is much easier to do this when you have a ready plan in front of you. The tasks of the initial steps of the program are not very difficult for any person, they are easy to perform. This will help you move forward on the intended course, and not give up everything just starting.
Is it necessary to follow the plan?
Not necessarily, you can forget about it and read the articles in any order. I am merely suggesting a choice, in the same way that Julio Cortazar, author of the postmodern novel The Classics Game, did: he left the reader to choose the order in which the chapters should be read, either to use the author's order, or to read in the order the reader chooses. So I say: read my site as you like, but if you don’t know where to start, how to continue, how to check yourself and understand if you are on the right track, then it’s better to follow this plan.
It may be possible to skip some steps if you realize that they are not required for you. For example, the step “fighting bad habits” can be omitted if you do not have such habits.
Step structure
Each step will consist of theory, this is actually what you will have to read. Practice is what you will need to do. And an elective, what to do / read is desirable, but not necessary. There will be a conclusions section. This is just the content of the theory in a compressed form, so that you remember and fix everything.
Features of publishing steps.
I just started developing the idea of a personal development plan, so all the steps will not be published immediately, the release of each new step after the previous one will take some time while I prepare it. How many steps there will be - I can’t say yet, and not because I was too lazy to calculate it in advance, but because there may be no limit to them: I myself am in the process of self-development, I’m moving on to new abstract “steps” and then, what I do not yet know or cannot formulate today, tomorrow it will become clear to me, and the day after tomorrow it will appear on my website as recommendations.
Since self-development is a dynamic process, a process in which I myself am involved with you and, because it is very long (probably continues for a lifetime), it is not possible to tell the final number of steps now.
I also advise you to read the article, which will help you achieve what you want.
What to expect from the program?
But nevertheless, the implementation of the initial steps and following the recommendations can significantly change you for the better or outline the right guidelines that you will follow on the path to achieving happiness, well-being and harmony. Of course, I cannot promise that each of these steps will help you achieve your goals and solve your problems right away. These steps can only raise you to a new level of understanding, push and put you on the right path, help you get rid of prejudices and dispel the veil of illusions, and then everything will depend on you, you yourself will act.
I can't promise instant results. Just as I can’t lead you to the very end, I can only show the way, you will decide the rest yourself later, each for himself, already based on his own characteristics, because everything is individual. But I will try to give you some “base” that should suit everyone, it will help you unlock part of your potential, perceive yourself and the world more consciously and soberly, clearly set your goals and not deviate from your life course. This is something with which you will be much easier and happier to live, something that will open up new horizons for you for self-development and the implementation of your personal life plan, which will make your life the way you want it to be.
List of steps:
Step 1 - Basics of personal development
Step 2 - Take care of yourself
STEP 3 - "The muscle of self-development"
Step 4 - How to learn to relax
Step 5 - Get rid of bad habits
Step 6 - A healthy mind in a healthy body
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The topic "How to make a plan for self-development" is related to the planning of personal life and professional career - these are the steps to the success of any person.
It is advisable to have your own credo: planning everything, always and everywhere! Such a position is an excellent way to focus your attention on priority tasks, mobilize forces for their implementation. This is done in order to get the desired result. The modern world offers many examples of planning methods. There is also a classic planning system.
The self-development plan has a three-level order:
A long-term or strategic plan for the self-development of the individual, which allows you to plan activities for about five years;
operational (plan for the year)
current (periods within a quarter, week, day).
Such a scheme is typical for enterprises, but how does a person differ from an enterprise? He is also financially-socially-intellectual-economically dependent. Therefore, it is reasonable to plan life in the same way.
Why is a self-development plan relevant?
An inactive position can lead to the most disastrous consequences. We see that the world today is more changeable than ever before. Therefore, when drawing up a plan for self-development, it is important to consider prospects not in a stationary society, but in a society that is changing its economic and political orientations.
The German researchers Berbel and Heinz Schwalbe have a statement: "To succeed, you need to be able to manage yourself."
Today, one must clearly understand that a self-development plan that does not create energy for a smooth movement forward is not effective. Also, when drawing up a plan for self-development, it is important to learn how to accumulate energy in order to use your physical and mental strength as long as possible.
The plan for self-development of a person is actually a long-known truth, it's just that people manage to talk about the same thing in different words and at the same time make the appearance of a discovery. This is also one of the features of modern theories. On the issue of goal setting, many sources state that a person has global and current goals. The main thing is that you don’t need to deceive yourself that the current goals are our Olympus. It may be that, drawing up a plan for self-development, a person generally finds for himself something completely new. The main thing is to tell yourself honestly that a person needs any goals for his elevation and movement towards a global goal.
There are a number of interesting moments of the self-development plan, which many call the laws of psychology, which contribute to self-organization.
Law #1 - You get what you permanently reward.
This law is perfect for both relationships in the team and in the family. It will help to draw up a plan for self-development, considering a person in any environment.
Law #2 - Positive attention is better for the subordinate than negative attention, and negative attention is better than no attention.
Law #3 - You should always reward performance growth, not performance.
Law #4 - Stability is a delusion. We need to move forward smoothly.
The topic answers the question "How to make a plan for self-development" for professional growth, it proves that it is important to understand that without personal (spiritual) growth it is impossible to accumulate energy.
Personal development: more than just motivation and positive thinking.
Personal development occurs when you finally decide to change your life for the better. But the whole process can be formed not only from positive experience or official seminars. Even negative experiences can help a person find the right direction in life.
Most personal development coaches try to focus our attention on self-motivation and positive thinking as the two most important ingredients that ensure success in personal development. Yes, in some ways they are right, but a holistic approach to self-development goes far beyond these two factors. Then you will learn about what else you need on your path of personal development.
Personal development plan.
First you need to have a system in place to achieve your development goals. It makes no sense to talk about how much you desire to achieve self-awareness or the development of your personality. You need to accept the system and see a vivid image. As you know, personal development covers a wide variety of areas of interest, and you can easily get lost if you don't have a plan. You need to put down on paper everything that you intend to do with your life and where you want to be after completing the program that you have planned.
Always remember that only by having a definite plan of action will you be able to determine whether you have become better or whether the circumstances of your life have improved. Done right, your plan will serve as a base against which you can measure your progress.
Decisive step.
You may have sufficient motivation or positive thoughts, but if you do not take action today, your personal development will never become a reality. Remember, personal improvement does not come overnight, time is of the essence. So start acting right now, otherwise you may lose the chance to improve yourself. Take a risk. Life is supposed to be an adventure, so if you don't get out of your comfort zone, you will be left to rot in the current situation.
Be open to change.
The operative word in personal development is the word "change". If you can't manage change, you won't be able to improve yourself. But, it can be argued that changes will occur, even if you do not welcome it. Would you rather change under the influence of factors over which you have no control? It is obvious that it is better to be ready for external changes or to personally lead the changes in your life. This way you will know what action to take.
Sit on the shoulders of giants.
If you want to accelerate your personal development, you need to learn from the people who were in your shoes before you. You really don't need to reinvent the wheel, all you have to do is learn from other people's experiences, especially those who have been successful in their quest to be better. In order to save you time and effort, you can always hire coaches or personal development mentors. You can also read a book or listen to audiobooks about self-development.
Take responsibility for your personal development.
You are what you allow yourself to be. In other words, the things that define you today happened because you let them happen. If you've been lazy or indifferent all these years, you have no one to blame but yourself for where you are right now. Even your environment cannot be held responsible for who you are now. The key to your development is in your hands, and only you can use it. So, the manifestation of the initiative for self-development should come from you, and only you are responsible for the entire result that you get from an individual development program.
How to start a personal development program?
The start of a personal program can be achieved by increasing awareness of your current life situation. A clear understanding of your starting point is essential to creating a successful personal growth plan.
Although personal enthusiasm for development may include a general desire for greater growth and a shared understanding of the areas of life where personal development needs to occur, a diligent process of awareness raising and life planning should include self-evaluation in every aspect of daily life.
Self-assessment for life awareness.
So, as we have already found out, we need to make a level of self-esteem in each of the areas of life. Psychological tests can help us with this.
In addition, it will be useful to make a list of assigned roles and responsibilities for each of the areas of life.
Limit the list to ten or twelve items that are the most important and consume the most time and energy.
Do not forget about those areas of life that are not important now, but desirable in the future.
Further, it is necessary to give an assessment of satisfaction for each area. Use a score from one to ten points. Where ten points are completely satisfied, and one point is completely dissatisfied.
If you are honest with yourself when doing these tests, you will be able to develop a sufficiently accurate and detailed view of life in order to begin effective life planning.
Ideal life plan.
The life plan should include a vision for the future - a life goal that is planned to be achieved.
Your vision of life purpose is a combination of all the "perfect dozen" scenarios for each of the ten areas of life with which you assessed awareness, satisfaction, assigned roles and responsibilities.
When setting a life goal, it is important that you can visualize the outcome. Therefore, when creating a goal for each of the areas of life, you should see yourself there with sufficient detail and accuracy without making any special efforts. For example, your professional life goal might include phrases such as: respect, recognition, joyful, well-paid, and a perfect balance between work and family life.
Planning goals in personal development.
Research shows that the best goals are challenging but achievable goals. It has been found that goals that are too easy are not motivating, on the other hand, goals that seem too difficult are also not motivated, since the chances of success are reduced. The best goals are those that are challenging but achievable and also provide the most satisfaction when achieved.
If your current life area satisfaction score is low, ranging from three to four out of ten possible, it is possible that your vision of an ideal life in that area may be too far from being achieved. Which may seem impossible and lead to de-motivation.
In this case, one should not jump above oneself, but it is desirable to develop a set of life goals that reflect modest personal growth and a level of growth that can be imagined and realized.
Beginning a personal development program.
The beginning of personal growth planning is done through life awareness through detailed self-assessment. After that, you will be able to formulate ideas for your plan, which will serve as your overall life goal.
Set clear goals for yourself
A personal leadership development plan should be specific and realistic. He must mobilize all your abilities and demand your full commitment. Here are a few ground rules, learned from practice, that will help you develop such a plan.
Set clear goals for yourself. People sometimes fail because they have little idea of the goals they are striving for. Try to mentally imagine the end result you want to achieve and write it down in as much detail as possible.
Set realistic deadlines. Remember: those habits that you have formed throughout your life cannot be changed in one or two days. Persistent and systematic work is needed to change one's own mental patterns and stereotypes of behavior. "The road will be mastered by the walking one" - said the ancient sages. Get ready to work hard. Your current behavior is the result of many years of learning, so the new behavior will replace the old rather slowly. Change requires constant attention and realistic deadlines.
Determine how you will judge your success
Determine by what criteria you will judge your success. Develop a system of intermediate goals. In this way you can control your progress and give new impetus to your personal plan. Leadership development is ongoing. As soon as one goal is achieved, new areas of application of forces need to be set.. Continuous rise to leadership positions often involves hard work and constant self-improvement.
Be content with modest progress, especially at first. It is often said that a big oak grows out of a small acorn
. An impulsive person who hopes to change himself in the blink of an eye rarely succeeds. Success fuels success. Steady but modest progress is consolidated and becomes a feature of the attitude of this person to work.
a list of key goals important for developing leadership skills at an early stage
To facilitate the task of drawing up a plan, we suggest that you complete the following exercise.
The following is a list of key goals that are important for developing leadership skills at an early stage. Select at least three goals from the list below to include in your self-guided leadership development program. Supplement them with your personal goals that are important to you.
1. Complete at least two training courses or self-development trainings during the year. For example, effective business communication, leadership, public speaking, personal time management, decision making, etc.
2. Talk - formally or informally - with recognized and respected leaders to listen to their ideas about leadership and understand how they came up with them. Attention! Of these leaders, no more than half should work in your industry or profession!
3. Ask your acquaintances or co-workers what they value most and least in the behavior of leaders. Record and analyze their responses.
4. Read at least one book on leadership during the year and develop at least five practical steps based on it.
5. Answer the following questions:
a) What are my career goals?
(b) What purpose in life do they serve?
c) What importance do I place on achieving these goals?
d) When will they be reached? What is my program of action?
e) Where am I now? Where will I move next?
f) How can I improve my work efficiency?
g) Who are my most valuable advisers and critics?
6. Get accurate information about how the organization you work for evaluates your potential. Find out how your superiors and co-workers rate your leadership qualities. (Warning: You may need a little courage to talk to your boss about this!)
7. If your current job doesn't give you leadership development opportunities or it doesn't use your full potential, choose another area where you can add to your leadership track record. Changing the situation will stimulate you and make you tense.
8. "Knowledge is power." Choose one long-term training program (at least four weeks) that will deepen and expand your knowledge in a specific area - financial management, marketing, human resources, etc. - and leadership in general. Develop a plan to convince your company that your training in these courses is in their interest.
What goals have you chosen?
Have you set dates for assessing progress?
sample personal development plan
Personal development program - building awareness.
Take a look at the following nineteen week personal development plan and then modify it to suit your personal interests.
A proven success factor for successful people includes having a personal development plan and sticking to it. The following personal development plan example will help you create the structure and template for creating a personal improvement plan. Focusing on one aspect of personal growth each week of the nineteen weeks will help you reap the benefits of cumulative growth.
Personal development begins with raising awareness.
Self-awareness is a major component of personal growth. The first half of this plan is dedicated to strengthening self-awareness. The second half extends personal growth to the outside world.
Week One - A personal development plan should begin with an honest and detached outlook on life. What areas of life work well? What areas deserve improvement? Based on current reality, develop a vision for life.
Week Two - Discover and clarify the purpose of life this week. Each person has goals in life, a set of behaviors and qualities, finds the meaning and purpose of life. Reflect on this for a week and write down your personal understanding of your life purpose under the heading “My Life Purpose.”
Week Three - This week, the enthusiasm for personal growth should be focused on personal virtues and passions. What activities do you always enjoy, are easy and give excellent results? Make a list under the heading: "Personal strengths and passions."
Week four - learn to meditate. Take a class, read a book, or learn about meditation online. By the way, on our website you will find information about meditation.
The second month of the personal development plan.
The first month of personal development is over, it's time to move on to even greater self-awareness. Be open to intuition and new understanding, refrain from judging the past.
Week Five – Learn the art of living in the present moment. Life is a series of present moments, lived and lost.
Week Six - This week practice self-awareness of behavior and personal qualities. This week, keep track of the qualities or characteristics that have been demonstrated in the course of daily activities. Do they align with your personal vision for the development of the first week?
Week Seven - Focus on core beliefs and values. Beginning with the phrase "I believe that," identify any deeply rooted beliefs. Repeat these steps with "These are my core values."
Week Eight - This week you must face your fears and overcome their limitations. Personal growth is often associated with leaving your personal comfort zone. Recognize the fears that are limiting your growth and resolve to move forward with courage.
Continued personal growth, month three.
This month we will introduce some personal development tools.
Week Nine - Dedicate this week to only positive things. Refrain from all forms of negative expression, including negative talking, degrading jokes and gossip, criticism, whining and complaining. Recognize the negative manifestations, and then look for opportunities for improvement.
Week Ten - Learn to effectively set goals by following a vision and personal development plan. Research the SMART process and apply it to this plan.
Week Eleven - Be thankful and grateful this week. Express gratitude and appreciation for life and all the blessings you have.
Week Twelve - Take care of yourself this week. Make a decision to take care of your physical and mental health on a daily basis. Make certain commitments and set goals.
Personal development plan, shift to the outside world.
It's time to shift the focus from inner work to the outer world.
Week thirteen - increasing self-awareness of the use of working time, starting with keeping a journal of time and activities. Briefly record all activities, keeping records to free up time. At the end of each day, determine how much time you spent maintaining your personal development plan.
Week Fourteen - Become a generous listener. Listen carefully to understand spoken words and basic emotions. Learn to listen by mentally repeating the words spoken by the interlocutor.
Relationship improvement and more.
This month introduces aspects of personal development that may seem difficult. Be courageous and see further growth.
Week Fifteen - Focus on improving relationships. The greatest satisfaction in life comes from relationships. Think about the strengths and weaknesses of every relationship you have.
Week Sixteen - Practice generosity. Be a generous giver. Being generous to other people is an easy way to become happier.
Week Seventeen - Set personal boundaries. It is important not only to define personal boundaries, but also to learn how to communicate them to others.
Week eighteen is the week of forgiveness and apology. It's time to make a long overdue apology for behavior that was offensive to others. This is also the week of forgiveness, forgive yourself and other people.
Week nineteen - think about the last few months of personal growth. Notice where you've made good progress and where you've been growing quite slowly. Create your own personal development plan for the next four months by modifying this sample plan.
An effective personal development plan.
The personal development plan serves as the foundation for personal development, which is a proven factor in the success of successful people: having a vision, a plan, and implementing the plan. Modify the example of this plan for even greater efficiency.
Plan Ideal Future
Bonus "Ideal Future"
Take a pen and a sheet of paper. Imagine your ideal future. There are several characteristics of a quality life.
First, income. Write where the money will come from. Think of two categories: passive and active income. Passive cash flows are created capital, royalties, income from a business that operates without you, investments. Active incomes appear with your direct participation. This is your own work in business, work on projects, grants - ideally something that you love to do.
Secondly, emotions. They are the salt of life, a powerful engine. Write down what emotions you would experience in an ideal life. This is satisfaction from self-realization, joy from the dawn of a new day, harmony with the world, cheerfulness from playing sports, joy from communicating with a child - everyone has their own emotions. The main thing is that they be positive, make life rich, bright and lively.
Thirdly, skills and knowledge. Focus on skills. Knowledge by itself does not give much, and skills bring concrete results. It's more about business skills.
List them. Everyone has their own skills: the ability to influence people, speak in public, sell, create a successful business, and so on.
Fourth, joy. There are three types of satisfaction: from consumption, from ongoing events, from achieving a goal. There is a fourth type - from what brings joy to others. Write down what would bring you joy in your ideal life.
Fifth, the environment. Write where you live: in the capital or a provincial town, near the sea, in the mountains, in the forest, not far from the lake. Maybe in the summer you live in one place, and in the winter in another. Describe what is in the house, what you see from the window, what kind of furniture is in the house, how many rooms it has, what the bedroom, living room, kitchen look like. Think about what kind of car you have, where you will go on the weekend, where you will spend your vacation. Describe everything to the smallest detail.
Sixth, relationships. What they are with their parents, children, with a loved one, with friends. How do you see them in an ideal life?
Seventh, health and sports achievements. Everyone wants to be healthy and look good. Write about all this. What sports do you do, how often, what results have you achieved in your ideal life.
Eighth, time. What are you spending it on? If you have everything but no time, there is nothing. Time, money, mobility are the three components of success. Time is a valuable resource. Write about your ideal day, what you spend your time on.
Ninth, values. What do you bring to the world, what will you leave behind? Write it down.
Review a description of your ideal future every day. This will become your source of energy to help you move forward. People often think that if you make a lot of money or work around the clock, everything will be fine. This is not true. Everything must be done in parallel.
Every day, doing something, you should ask the question: does this bring me closer to an ideal life?
With the growth in the number of motivational and developmental books and articles, it is not only the personal experience of the author in a particular issue that matters, but also the presence of any practical evidence that these methods work. Let's talk today about where to start self-development and in what areas you should develop.
Self-development of personality: experiment
A pilot study was conducted with a group of young people. A condition was set before them - it is necessary to spend 2 days alone. At the same time, no entertainment was allowed, including gadgets. They could still study, read ordinary books, write something, and so on - a set of ordinary household chores. Plus, each of the participants could stop participating at any time.
Experiment results
The results are, to put it mildly, shocking. About 100 people participated in the experiment, but only 3 reached the final: 2 girls and 1 one guy. Later they told how they occupied themselves. The young man devoted time to physical training, one of the girls plunged into the world of art and creativity - she read books and wrote a diary, and the other - into herself - took up meditation.
The rest of the participants simply could not stand the torture, saying that they decided to end their participation. But, even worse, each of them has changed the internal state - they have become more nervous, irritable and have earned themselves chronic diseases.
Conclusion
Modern youth is simply not adapted to live without what they themselves are accustomed to. They cannot completely withdraw from the world and plunge into the depths of their own consciousness, or even choose more traditional means of pastime.
Most young people devote themselves to TV, surfing the Internet and social networks, texting about nothing. At the same time, the concept of “self-development” is either unknown to them or has no meaning.
Self-development - where to start?
Today, the topic of personal growth is no less relevant than the topic of zombies in media culture over the past few years. On the Internet and in books, they do not stop repeating that the key to a successful life, self-confidence is self-improvement.
Nevertheless, many people have a question not about what exactly needs to be done or how best to approach this process, but simply - where to start?
You need to start, as always, with an understanding of what exactly you are doing. Development is the process of improving or changing everything that exists. Life, in fact, is a constant development, which, if it does not concern any qualities, necessarily passes through the prism of growing up, social relations and different views of the world.
Based on these judgments, we come to the conclusion that self-development is purposeful actions, the main goal of which is to change or improve certain aspects of life, be it a career, communication skills, or any necessary skill.
Theory is always important, so it would be even more correct to refer to the dictionary: self-development is the intellectual or physical development of a person on the basis of independent studies and exercises, on their own initiative, without the assistance of any external forces.
Understanding your own actions is the first step towards self-development. Now, specifically about where to start.
Self-development plan
If a person is standing in the middle of the forest and does not know where to move, the first thing to do is to determine exactly where he is.
Exactly the same here. Having realized that it is necessary to develop, you need to understand from what point this development will begin, and what specific efforts need to be made in order to achieve a certain result. For this, a series of questions will do.
Ask yourself questions
- What doesn't suit me?
- What does not suit people whose opinions are important to me?
- What would I like to achieve?
- And so on.
wheel of life
It happens that it is difficult to immediately determine which problems prevail in life, so the “Wheel of Life” will come to the rescue here. It will consist of 10 sectors, each of which is responsible for the vital aspects of the existence of each person.
The main thing here is to approach the implementation as objectively as possible. You should see your shortcomings and gaps that need to be corrected, and not create the illusion of a good life.
Let's take a look at some of the sectors.
Health
One of the fundamental sections on which success in other areas of life depends. Proper daily routine, healthy sleep, exercise and good food.
Spirituality
The ability to hear yourself, control emotions and direct them in the right direction. A minimum of negative emotions and a solid positive. Meditation is one of the methods that can help in achieving spiritual balance.
Finance
This is the section of a person's life that, when feeling dissatisfied, prevents us from sleeping soundly at night and, accordingly, has a very detrimental effect on existence in general. Many people devote their entire lives to financial well-being, but sometimes it’s enough to make a little more effort - to show your perseverance at work or find a new one, start your own business or improve your skills.
sociality
People surround us everywhere, so a lot depends on the ability to communicate. Correctly put yourself and adequately treats really important personalities.
Personal growth
Attention to one's own skills and abilities, development of memory, creative thinking, fight against procrastination, smart time management.
As you can see, there are really a lot of spheres, so you need to clearly make a choice in favor of one or the other direction. If it is very difficult to decide, then you can go in order. By improving your health, finding a common language with yourself, ceasing to worry about the financial side of life, learning to communicate with people and constantly developing, you can really achieve great success. The main thing is not to spray on everything at once.
Be honest with yourself
In order to benefit from the process of self-development, you need to determine where it is really needed, and for this - to honestly look at your weaknesses and strengths.
You looked the truth in the eye, and with tears you pointed out your own mistakes. But this was not done to show how bad life is. On the contrary, to fix it. First, you still need to decide where to start.
Dividing a goal into subgoals
The solution to the problem of each of the sectors should consist of one global goal, which can be divided into several smaller ones in order to more easily approach the implementation of that one. In order not to get confused in what you have to do on the way, it is better to write down each stage.
How to set a goal
Sometimes it's hard to set a goal. To do this, there are a few general rules that will simplify the process. It is necessary that the goal was measurable, it could really be achieved and a clear understanding of the deadline for achieving it.
For example, let's make one action plan. For example, you decide to become a better person by gaining new skills and solve the financial issues of your life by finding a new job. The problem lies in the lack of knowledge, inability to concentrate and poor productivity.
What can and should be done to achieve this?
- Complete advanced training courses;
- Learn to focus on things;
- Learn to plan your time, attend a training about it or read a book;
- Write a resume, sending it to all the places where you would like to get a job.
Full list of things to work on:
- Formation of good and getting rid of bad habits;
- Development of personal and professional qualities of character;
- Improving the financial situation, increasing financial literacy;
- Development of useful skills;
- Work on appearance: style and figure;
- Lifestyle and attractive lifestyle;
- Work on voice and speech;
- Work on behavior, gestures and gaze;
- Motivation and discipline;
- Development of thinking and intelligence;
- Psychological and physical health;
- Relations with the opposite sex and friendship;
- Development of charisma and communication skills;
- Interesting hobbies and interests;
- Sports: development of strength and endurance.
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