Self-actualization: How late we tend to learn and appreciate March 17, 2018
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Personal Development Potential.Tags: inspiration, life, personal development ideas, personal development potential, personal growth, philosophy, psychology, self-actualization, self-realization, writing
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Sometimes in our personal growth efforts, it seems like we need a lot of living to learn and to appreciate the importance of people we somewhat took for granted earlier in life such as:
The high school teacher who successfully pounded important study subjects like history or literature into our resisting heads
The childhood friend we had so much in common with but who moved away and with whom we have gradually “lost touch”
The many colleagues from “our work” whose company we enjoyed and whom we learned from, but whom we let fade away as we pursued new ventures
The person or persons, who at a difficult point in our lives, lent a helping hand that enabled us to regroup and move forward
The brother or sister we are “going to visit soon”
We each have our own “list” of such people whom we should probably re-connect with.
Maybe it’s time to do it instead of thinking about it.
Before it’s too late…
— Dennis Mellersh
Self-actualization: Thoughts and actions reflecting our speech March 17, 2018
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Personal Development Potential.Tags: inspiration, life, personal development ideas, personal development potential, personal growth, philosophy, psychology, self-actualization, self-realization, spirituality, writing
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In our efforts to maximize our personal development potential, one of the steps we can take is to make an effort to speak more positively, which leads to the larger question of whether doing this can make us think more positively and act more positively.
An obvious benefit of developing the idea and habit of speaking positively is that it is a personal growth action step, a tangible behavior with measurable results. With a bit of effort we can tell if we are speaking more positively or not.
Sometimes self-realization and self-actualization advice asks us to make non-measurable emotional or intellectual commitments or resolutions in our personal development programs; and this can be discouraging when we try to determine if we are making actual progress.
But in some cases we need to make the effort and have faith that by taking concrete tangible action steps, that those steps can result in an improvement in our emotional and intellectual status and ultimately lead to a more measurable result.
Hopefully then, if we speak more positively, we will begin to think more positively, and in turn we may then also begin to act more positively.
— Dennis Mellersh
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