Achieving goals: “Talk does not cook rice.” December 4, 2012
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Goal Setting and Realization.Tags: achieving goals, goal setting, personal development, personal growth, positive thinking, self-improvement, setting goals, taking action
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When working on our personal growth programs, there is a trap we can fall into of creating an imbalance of too much information input and not enough output in the form of action.
This can be true with both our major life goals and our shorter term goals, or the tasks we want and need to accomplish on our path to our larger goals.
The reason we engage ourselves in personal development, or self-improvement, is so we can make efforts towards moving forward with our lives in a positive direction.
The danger lies in becoming addicted to absorbing a constant stream of advice from personal development leaders, but not taking real and specific actions on the areas we want to improve in our overall life situation.
I am guilty of this myself, as it can be quite soothing, particularly when we are faced with fears and doubts, to take comfort in the positive messaging of recognized personal growth experts.
That is why I like the self-explanatory Chinese proverb at the beginning of this post:
“Talk does not cook rice.”
Break a negative habit by making its elimination part of a positive larger goal October 18, 2012
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Ego Management, Self-Discipline.Tags: achieving goals, controlling ego, ego management, goal setting, personal development, self-improvement
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As part of our programs of personal development or self-improvement, and ego management, we include looking for ways to accentuate our good habits and for ways to reduce or eliminate our bad habits.
I recently came across a comment of someone who eliminated their smoking habit.
This person indicated they were facing a number of serious challenges in their life, and decided that it was foolish to use up valuable energy through the habit; energy that could better put into meeting the challenges in life that the person was facing.
Overall, this translates into a concept of removing the energy-draining properties of a bad habit by making the elimination of the habit a key component in achieving a larger positive goal.
Instead of the focus being solely on the negative aspects of the habit, attention should thereby be given to the positive potential of increasing our contribution to achieving our goals in life and in our personal development key result areas, by eliminating the habit.
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