Congratulation! I don’t know what brings you here. But if you’re just ever interested in personal development, you’re way ahead of most people in this planet. Most people don’t even give just a passing thought to the subject. So again congratulation, as I completely agree with Steve Pavlina’s idea for his famous book, personal development is only for smart people.
What’s Personal Development?
Have you ever wondered why there are more poor and failed than rich and successful people? Why the richest 2 percent of adults in the world own more than half the world’s wealth? Or more personally, why you live? what you live for?… Your personal development journey probably starts when you ask yourselves such questions. Personal development or self development is basically the study and practice of changing and improving not somebody else but YOURSELF. It involves personal change, growth, progress, advancement and improvement. It’s a personal pursuit of excellence as opposed to settling for mediocrity. Sometimes personal development is simply the process of asking and answering by yourselves some questions which you have never ever done before such as “Why should I go to college?” and “Why should I work 8 hours a day?”.
Personal development is not something that can be learned and absorbed over night. In my mind, it is a never-ending process but it can be LEARNED by anyone at any ages, not matter what gender, race and where you come from.
Why is Personal Development?
Personal Development is essentially important. Many of us have already known perfectly that we need to stop eating junk food, stop smoking, exercise frequently and sleep early; some even know that they should quit their jobs and should never have a religion. But at the end of the day, most of us don’t bother to do anything. This is when Personal Development comes in to help.
From the inside, personal development helps you change your bad habits and thinking; improve your awareness, identify your values and belief, foster your natural abilities, build and enhance your self-discipline. Personal development is self-actualization. What’s more, personal development leads you to the greatest life philosophies that have ever existed such as “Success is something you attract by the person you become” (Jim Rohn) or “You are what you think about all day long” (Earl Nightingale). Through personal Development, you have the ability to access and learn outstanding lessons which you were and would never be taught anywhere else. Ultimately, personal development grows you to become the best person you could possibly be – the person who could help you overcome any problems and difficulties you would encounter in your life journey. That person helps you make the right choices; take decisive and effective actions and eventually succeed in any fields you want no matter it’s health, career, finances, relationship or spirituality.
You don’t need to be better anyone else but yourself!” – Rexy
From the outside, your attraction acquired by personal development will help you attract more attractive people to your life. Together with making your life more fun and interesting, the results of surrounding yourself with outstanding people are unbelievable.
When you are already there, you cannot fail to get rich or whatever you want in life. You’d probably find yourself lose the initial interest in the material side of life like money, fame or power. You would, instead, look for more love, contributions and such. The power and importance of personal development is unquestionable and that’s why every serious student of life should learn Personal Development more than any other subjects.
How to start
This is the hardest and most important part. At the end of the day, no matter how much you read; how interesting you feel, unless you take immediate action, you won’t get anywhere further. Mere and random reading doesn’t work! In fact, as you dilly-dally, the whiny and mediocre voice on you takes over, telling you to remain complacent and unchanged. But on the other hand, if you take action and your actions are consistent with what you read and want to do, there wouldn’t be any more room for that voice. And it turns out not be that hard as it seems to be. As Jim Rohn once said, success is easy; do the easy things, you can quickly start your PC journey by doing anything in this list:
– Start a blog of any kind about what you already like and wish to write. Even if you don’t know what to write about, just promise yourself to jot down something – it may be your daily experience, feelings and such like a journal or diary, at least once a week and don’t let your blog idle for so long, you would already get a promising start. I offer free service of setting up and hosting a FREE blog at my domain for anyone who wish to start a blog but don’t have a capability to do so. As in my own experience, it’s better if you start to blog using WordPress instead of free blogging services like Blogger.
– Read a book! To be honest, I’m really lazy in reading. I wouldn’t read any random books. All the books I’ve read are highly recommended by highly successful people. So my book library may be a good start for you. From which you would know what interests you and where you should go next.
– Do some little thing that you’ve never ever tried before such as go out and talk to a stranger, say thank you to your mum, etc. Remember, the key is to do small, “easy” things consistently every day.
To conclude,
When somebody ridicules that you are very lousy and stupid, you reply nothing but a pitiful smile.
When you worry others’ rights and profits more than yours.
When you help others without any personal calculations.
When you give more than you receive.
That what personal Development is all about.