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Personal growth vectors: Seven suggestions March 4, 2014

Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Concept of personal development, Goal Setting and Realization.
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In addition to building knowledge and practical skills, one of the key reasons people engage in a program of personal growth is to work at realizing the full potential inherent in developing a mature personality.

This applies regardless of the age at which we begin a serious individual effort to maximize personal development in our lives.

In many cases, what can work for a young person can apply equally well to many of us as we grow older.

Arthur W. Chickering, an educational researcher known for his seminal research on the personal development needs of undergraduate students, identified seven vectors of personal development for young adults during their undergraduate years.(1)

(1) Developing competence

(2) Managing emotions

(3) Achieving autonomy and interdependence

(4) Developing mature interpersonal relationships

(5) Establishing identity

(6) Developing purpose

(7) Developing integrity

This seems like a good set of guideposts for our personal growth programs that we could apply regardless of our stage in life.

(1) Source: Wikipedia

Personal growth as an intuitive phenomenon March 2, 2014

Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Concept of personal development.
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If you are engaging yourself in a personal growth program, but are feeling guilty that you don’t take time to “work” on it every day, relax.

You are, in fact, working on it every day, growing as a person, and reaching your potential, albeit intuitively.

How?

  • Every time you make an effort to help someone with a problem they have
  • Whenever you give a person a compliment
  • When you’re driving and let someone pull in ahead of you on a busy road
  • When you say “thank-you” to a foodservice worker
  • When you hold a door open for someone
  • When you treat a salesperson as courteously as you treat your boss
  • When you are patient with a cashier new to their job

The list goes on…

Your deeds speak. You are growing.