Personal growth: Enabling our feelings one day at a time January 25, 2018
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Goal Setting and Realization.Tags: Arnold Patent, inspiration, life, personal development, philosophy, psychology, self-actualization, self-awareness, writing
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In our personal development efforts towards efficiency and effectiveness, many of us start our day with a prioritized to-do list, but in addition to focussing on actions, we may be able to improve our sense of well-being by also focussing on the feelings we would like to develop within ourselves during the day.
Feelings such as:
Calmness and peacefulness
Gratitude for the good things in our life
Trusting in our intuition
Looking forward to the experiences of the day
Thinking about doing what we love.
The suggestion to focus at the beginning of each day on the feelings we would like to develop during the day is a key element in Arnold Patent’s concept of the Ideal Day Exercise.
Patent discusses this and other self-actualization ideas in his his book entitled You Can Have it All : The art of winning the money game and living a life of joy.
He writes:
“The ultimate function of the Ideal Day Exercise is to put us in touch with the only part of us that is real – our joyfulness…Each day that we do the Ideal Day Exercise, we release more joyfulness.”
An idea we might consider trying.
— 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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