Self-actualization: Fantasy and dreams versus reality March 23, 2017
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Concept of personal growth.Tags: achieving goals, fantasy, inspiration, life, personal development, philosophy, self-actualization
add a comment
By Dennis Mellersh
Within our internal world of personal growth and self-improvement ambitions there is a danger of fantasising about our goals instead of taking immediate steps to achieve them.
When we are younger, our brains seem to be hard-wired to be unable to really come to grips with our mortality, to recognize the limited time we have to accomplish our dreams.
The result of thinking, probably subconsciously, that “there is plenty of time” to do everything we want is that we may tend to dream about or imagine achieving our goals at some vague point in the future , rather than actually working on them today.
* If we want to be an artist who paints successful pictures, we need to spend time now developing the required skill-set and then actually start painting
* If we want to own and run our own business, we need to acquire, starting right now, the necessary grounding in understanding how business works
* If we want to be a writer, we need to start learning the craft today, not tomorrow, and start writing something as often as possible, ideally every day
Thinking about a dream and imagining its achievement, if overdone, can end up being a substitute for actually achieving the dream.
Personal growth: Too much theory; not enough action March 22, 2017
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Concept of personal growth.Tags: achieving goals, goal setting, life, personal development, philosophy, thoughts, time management
add a comment
By Dennis Mellersh
One of the defining characteristics of many personal development programs is that they instill a feeling of a future-focused optimism in us in which we embrace the concept that there will always be ample time to accomplish what we want in reaching our self-improvement goals and potential.
But unless we manage our personal growth priorities efficiently, there actually will not be enough time.
Much time can evaporate without significant personal improvement actually happening.
This happens when too much of our available discretionary time is sucked into the theory-bubble of how to improve ourselves.
We overspend our available time reading, watching, and listening to various media about personal development.
It gives us a feeling of well-being, and that’s important.
But we can fall into a trap of having too much passive learning/study input compared with a small amount of output in our goal-directed actions.
We can reverse this tendency by taking action each day on the principles we have already learned in our self-growth programs before we spend time learning new principles and approaches.
Action first, theory later.
Personal Development Ideas 