Personal development: The day-tight compartment paradox September 30, 2018
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Concept of personal development.Tags: achieving goals, inspiration, life, living in day-tight compartments, one-day-at-a-time, personal development ideas, philosophy, psychology, writing
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Sooner or later in our lives we will all likely come to the logical and stark realization that we no longer have time to realize all that we wanted to in life; we can’t do all the creative work we dreamed of doing; can’t read all the books we would like to; listen to all the music we would like to – we see the stop-sign.
For many of us, this can be an unpleasant discovery and a body-blow to our emotional, future-focused optimism.
All those things we have been postponing doing for future action are not going to get done.
But for those people who have, throughout their lives, practiced living life in day-tight compartments, the time limits on their lives does not present itself as a new revelation, and therefore not a shock.
By living one day at a time and getting the maximum they can out of every day, they have not exchanged a full life now for possible future enjoyment.
A paradoxical adjunct to the concept of benefiting from delayed gratification.
Dennis Mellersh
Personal growth: Searching for the ideal self-help system January 24, 2018
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Concept of personal development.Tags: inspiration, life, personal growth, personal growth program, philosophy, psychology, self-actualization, writing
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With the seemingly endless river of new personal development books flowing from publishers each year and the vast amount of shelf space devoted to self-improvement in bookstores and online warehouses, some psychology writers wonder if people interested in the topic of self-help are addicted to finding the ultimate self-actualization system.
Maybe that’s true.
But perhaps, and more likely, those of us interested in personal growth are simply looking to add to our self-actualization toolbox, and are not necessarily looking for an entirely new set of tools.
For some people, finding new approaches and ideas on personal growth is somewhat like a hobby and a new book, video, or pod cast on personal development adds to their enjoyment.
As with complex disciplines in general, personal improvement does not lend itself to one perfect system fitting all cases.
I think most of us realize that, or should.
—Dennis Mellersh
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