Personal growth: Imitating Thoreau’s self-sufficiency ideas April 8, 2018
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in personal development ideas.Tags: Henry David Thoreau, inspiration, life, personal development ideas, personal development potential, philosophy, pysychology, self-actualization, self-improvement, Walden, writing
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It could be an interesting intellectual and emotional experiment in the realm of self-actualization ideas to see if we could imitate, in our mentally-oriented personal growth programs, the physically focussed two-year experiment of Henry David Thoreau who in 1845, built his own home in the woods near Walden Pond, living alone, close to nature, a mile from his nearest neighbour.
His goal was to live with the greatest self-sufficiency and simplicity as possible, depending as much as was practicable on no-one but himself.
What it would be like to duplicate this process in our minds by giving up all contact with the self-actualization information world for a period of, say, two months?
No mental uploading of any personal development media whatsoever…
… a vacation from the constantly increasing flow of self-help information and opinions competing for our attention.
A chance to live by our own mental, spiritual, and emotional resources.
But, feeling the need to always keep up to date with the self-help universe can sometimes seem like an addiction, the pull is so strong.
Perhaps we’d need to try this by starting with one week’s abstinence…or one day.
Dennis Mellersh
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
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