Why you’re already moving along a path to success March 25, 2017
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Concept of personal development.Tags: achieving goals, inspiration, life, personal development, personal growth, self-actualization, Success
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By Dennis Mellersh
As someone who is interested, and probably becoming actively engaged, in a program of personal development, you are already exhibiting some key success traits:
You are trying to establish specific goals
You are working on reducing doubts about yourself
You want to develop a bias for action
You want to move beyond your comfort zone
You’re working on not procrastinating
You are engaging in self-learning
So, even now, you’re ahead of many people whose negative habits are impeding their path to progress, perhaps without their realizing these limitations.
The stimulus for this post came from an article you might want to read in entrepreneur.com titled “18 destructive habits holding you back from success”
Personal growth: The self-destruction of approval-seeking March 24, 2017
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Concept of personal growth.Tags: life, personal development, personal improvement, philosophy, self-destruction, self-improvement, self-sabotage
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By Dennis Mellersh
Our efforts to better ourselves through self-assessment and subsequent self-improvement actions can be self-sabotaged by various forms of seemingly minor, harmless forms of approval-seeking.
The psychological damage or self-sabotage to occurs because some forms of approval-seeking can take us away from acting or speaking in our own authentic voice, especially in creative work.
When we mold ourselves and our work, even in small ways, to fit the parameters of what we think others will want and accept, we lose.
And, on top of eroding our own personal convictions and values, approval-seeking generally does not work.
Those we seek to attract can sense when what we are presenting is insincere and inauthentic.
Better, when we are starting out, for example, to have a dedicated fan base of 100 for work we really believe in than to initially attract thousands only to lose them when they realize our work is not much different from that of everyone else.
And even if we were able to build and sustain a large following based on personal inauthenticity, doing so would not be satisfying.
Our most rewarding successes come when we are true to ourselves.
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