Five Steps to Personal Growth and Development

We could learn a lot by mirroring the curiosity and explorative mind of a child, their passion for learning and discovery.

Personal growth is a lifelong process of developing ourselves to achieve our fullest potential. Not something limited to childhood. It is a way in which we can access our skills and qualities, look at our aims and set goals to give us a sense of fulfilment.

Sometimes happiness is mistaken for the pursuing of things and stuff, the more stuff we have, the happier we will be but it doesn’t take too much working out to see how flawed this theory is.

Benefits of Personal Growth

You may want to improve your financial circumstances and earn more money; you may be looking for ways to improve your health, reduce stress or become more confident in your personal or professional life.  The aim of personal growth and development is to improve those aspects of your life that you are not happy with.

The following 5 steps are key techniques you can use to achieve that happiness.

Step 1 – Know your inner-self

Taking time to get to know who you really are; your character, feelings, motivations and desires will increase your self-awareness and give you an understanding of your true personality, such as your strengths, weaknesses, values, thoughts, beliefs, motivations, and emotions.

Step 2 – Understand your goals

Improving your self-awareness will give you a sense of direction, which means you will be clearer on the things you want out of life. When you understand your goals, which is the difference between what you ‘do want’ and what you ‘don’t want’, you will find decision making easier and you will feel more empowered to accomplish your aspirations.

Step 3 – Pursue your goals

With a sense of direction comes the desire to do things. Motivation is the momentum that pushes you towards taking action and achieving the things you aspire to.  When you feel motivated you think creatively, gain confidence and courage and have more energy to take action and pursue your goals.

Step 4 – Build your resilience

In life not everything goes the way we want it to go and sometimes things feel tough.  Inner strength gives you the ability to adapt and bounce back when things don’t go as planned.  Building your resilience will help you avoid dwelling on disappointments or failures and overcome set-backs more quickly enabling you to acknowledge the situation, learn from your mistakes, and move forward.

Step 5 – Improve your relationships

Resilient people always see the ‘glass as half full’ and they are adept at perceiving things from another person’s point of view. By having a clearer sense of self, direction, motivation and resilience you will develop empathy and understanding that will improve your relationships both at home and at work.

Many people often feel that they are a ‘victim of circumstances’, that they are a casualty of events beyond their control and are unaware that they have the power to change this by adopting our five personal growth and development techniques.