A single day of realizing personal development potential March 8, 2017
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Personal Development Potential.Tags: achieving goals, Hope, Insipiration, life, personal development, personal growth, personal improvement, philosophy, self-improvement
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By Dennis Mellersh
An ambitious program of personal development can sometimes seem overwhelming if we focus only on its totality. It just seems too challenging.
Yet, in trying to reach our full potential in personal growth and self-improvement, we can achieve significant long-term objectives by doing something limited, yet achievable, each day.
It’s what personal growth expert Seth Godin calls the drip-drip-drip approach to goal realization.
Virtually any long-term personal improvement objective can be broken down into small repeatable or small unique one-off steps.
It’s the way, for, example, that many successful writers approach their work.
By writing 200 words every day for a year, we would have 73,000 words at the end of the year – an intermediate length novel.
Or write 100 words a day and you have a novella of 36,500 words.
We get more done by actually doing something small every day instead of day-dreaming about something big.
Fear: The enemy of our personal development potential March 4, 2017
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Personal Development Potential.Tags: Hope, Insipiration, life, personal development, personal growth, personal improvement, philosophy, positive thinking, self-improvement
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By Dennis Mellersh
The author of one of my personal development books suggests that fear is one of the primary causes of procrastination.
And from our own personal experience we each know that not only can fear result in “putting off” doing something until a later date, it can also result in putting it off altogether and never doing it.
As such, fear can be the enemy of our self-improvement efforts.
In his landmark television series, Civilization, Sir Kenneth Clark suggests that one of the primary causes of the collapse of two of the greatest advanced ancient civilizations, the Greek and Roman empires, was fear.
Fears such as invasion by the barbarians, fear of plague or war, and fear of the supernatural.
The result in Clark’s view was a significant decrease in citizens’ confidence and energy, the two main drivers necessary for building a successful and viable civilization with staying power.
Similarly, creating a successful personal growth program for ourselves requires confidence and energy, as well as a desire, coupled with effort, to push through our fear to accomplish things.
Paradoxically, we can be in the position of starting a personal development program in part to reduce our fears but then allow our fears to impede our progress.
How come?
Seth Godin believes that one of the major reasons that we do not follow through with our new project efforts is our fear that “This might not work.”
However, the need to push through our fears, such as ‘this might not work’ is easier to say than to do.
That’s when we need to draw on our energy.
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