Personal growth paradox: A new program may not be better April 11, 2018
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in personal development ideas.Tags: achieving goals, inspiration, life, personal development ideas, personal growth program, philosophy, psychology, self-actualization, self-awareness, writing
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In our personal development journey, we will discover an unending parade of new self-improvement books published every year, and it raises the question of whether we are too often seeking the newest idea, switching to the latest shiny object in the self-actualization world instead of focusing on solidifying and developing our current personal programs which we probably have not yet fully explored.
I was struck by this possibility on reading the following promotional blurb on the cover of the book The Happiness Equation: “Dale Carnegie was last century. Steven Covey was last decade. Neil Pasricha is what’s now.”
It’s possible that we often seem to be eager for what’s new in self-actualization because we are looking for quick solutions and subconsciously want to avoid the difficult internal work of sticking with a program.
Seth Godin has written:
“Too often we get trapped believing we need:
Certainty
Quick answers
A guarantee”
Something to think about before we turn to yet another personal growth program and waste our time by starting all over again.
Dennis Mellersh
Personal growth: Omitting the key ingredient in self-help April 8, 2018
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If we aren’t careful in how we go about implementing the personal development ideas we admire, we can end up spending so much time planning, researching, reading, or watching videos, that we lose focus on the need for concrete initiative — taking actions to reach our goals.
We may, for example, make affirmations about a goal or a personal characteristic which we want to develop instead of taking, for example, even one small action step each day towards achieving that particular goal.
An old Chinese adage states, “Talk does not cook rice.”
Yet often we may do the equivalent of talking about cooking rice, by extensively studying self-actualization materials, but then postpone the actualization part of the equation, the action component.
Absorbing information, but not-doing is a comfortable and easy trap that any of us can fall into, a trap that can make our self-improvement efforts an illusion instead of a reality.
Theory + Action by Self = Actualization
Dennis Mellersh
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