Personal growth: Omitting the key ingredient in self-help April 8, 2018
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in personal development ideas.Tags: achieving goals, focussing, life, limits of affirmations, personal development ideas, personal development potential, philosophy, psychology, self-actualization, writing
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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
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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