Personal development

The best project you'll ever work on is you.

It's not the material things you accomplish or acquire that matters so much, as it is the quality of the person you must become to accomplish well above the average. Personal development is the high road that makes everything possible for you.

Personal development is the key to personal greatness.

To achieve greatly, you must become a different person.

Each step you take toward becoming a better person and accomplishing more than you ever have before makes happier, more confident and more fufilled.

The Importance of Personal development.

Personal development is an activity that makes you grow.

Helps you attain levels of Progression

It helps you see key areas of self care, self-esteem, self discipline.

Satisfaction and fufilment of aspiration comes with being personally developed.

Helps you set goals and expectations for yourself, any individual without a Vision in life not only fails to deliver but also gets easily.

Builds every areas of your life: personal, spiritual, emotional, mental, social etc.

Increases growth Personally and professionally.

How do I go about personal development? : 7 Essential Ways.

1. DEVELOPING A PERSONAL VISION: Becoming self aware is the first step. Define the Kind of person you want to be, the skills you want to have, and accomplishments you want to achieve.

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Also, have a clear idea of what you want to be in a few months or years and WHY, have a reason, a strong WHY.

Most times, I strongly advice that people take the 5WHYs TEST.

A quick example of the 5 WHYs Test

I want to be a writer

Why?.Because I love to write

Why?.Because I get to express myself effectively.

why?. Because by writing I believe I can help people heal from past traumas.

Why?. Because I find it therapeutic.

Why?. Because I feel at home when I write .

Most of us, find it easier to motivate ourselves to learn and improve if we have a purpose of doing so.

The crucial part of developing purpose is getting better with spirituality, to seek God. Only the creator can tell you what you're created for.

So evidently, it will be a waste of time to seek purpose outside God.

2. CREATE A PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN: Once you're clear on where and what you want to be. Set goals and plan the process. I mean define how you will reach that goal. And be clear about when you must have it.

Create short-term and long-term goals.

Plan the bits of the process and look into how you can achieve your goals on daily living, focus on more ways you can get better at that daily.

Creating a plan makes the personal development settings realistic and achievable and in the same way breaking your goals into smaller tasks makes it easier to follow through the goal.

For example: You have goal to read three growth books within a month.

Averagely, 30 days in a month. So let's have 10 days per book. Then you divide the pages of the book by 10 to know how many pages you read per day.

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You plan to save 40k monthly, think of how you can save 1Ok weekly.

You get the message, right?

3. STARTING THE IMPROVEMENT PROCESS: This stems from building good habits and keeping a positive mindset.

This is where you begin work on yourself, consciously and deliberately. You build discipline on the goals you want to achieve.

Personal development is about implementation, make sure you put into action whatever you learn.

Pick what you know is the path you want and act on it.

To effectively improve yourself, you want to be able to face your fears, manage your failure, recognize your triggers and more importantly you want to be able to embrace change.

There are opportunities in failure, challenges. There's positivity in negative.

Personal improvement helps you build credibility, and helps you to set priorities on a list, helps you to think first and consider the likely consequences from the beginning.

4. RECORDING YOUR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT: It's often a good idea to keep a record of your personal development. Journaling will help you map out your growth journey.

By writing down key development in your learning and development when they occur help you to reflect on your growth journey as you Improve and gain mastery.

This reflection will help motivate you to do more and become better.

5. PERSONAL EMPOWERMENT: Promote a positive image and adopt creativity that help you achieve your goals.

Invest in your Growth. Knowledge if not paid for will be gotten in bits.

Pay for Courses, buy growth books. Gain mastery in your skill.

Get better. Becoming the best version of yourself is the only way to empower yourself.

Challenge yourself to learn and grow. The more you know, the better you can be.

Never stop learning.

6. PERSONAL POWER: It's the authority others believe you have in certain situations and it's fuelled by your contacts, knowledge and financial status.

People are the biggest support system. Manage your circle.

Surround yourself with like-minded and goal oriented individuals.

Expanding your network and knowledge base will increase your opportunity for personal development and growth.

"You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems."

7. PERSONAL ANALYSIS: Know your strength and weakness.

Being truthful about where you currently stand is the first step to moving forward. You should be constantly evaluating where you are in relation to achieving your goals and ambition.

What areas do you need to improve, be honest with yourself to propel forward.

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Personal development is a lifelong process.

Are you ready to start your personal development journey?, do let me know in the comment section. I anticipate hearing from you.

Love,

Victoria 🤍.