Realistic personal growth programs mirror life’s challenges March 10, 2017
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Concept of personal growth.Tags: life, motivation, personal development, personal improvement, philosophy, self-improvement, thoughts
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By Dennis Mellersh
As noted in the song April Showers, “Life is not a highway strewn with flowers.”
Nor is following a serious program of personal development an unbroken series of wins against challenges – there will be losses in addition to the victories.
As a concept, undertaking a reality-based personal improvement program is like starting out on an odyssey.
Lama Surya Das, author of Awakening the Buddha Within* puts it this way: “A spiritual journey inevitably includes low valleys as well as high mountains, dense forests as well as barren deserts, plateaus and plains. This is the landscape and territory of your own being. It is all-revealing and it needs exploration. Everything you experience along the way can be a way of helping you awaken the Buddha within.”
* Lama Surya Das, Awakening the Buddha Within, Broadway Books, New York, N.Y. 1997
A single day of realizing personal development potential March 8, 2017
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Personal Development Potential.Tags: achieving goals, Hope, Insipiration, life, personal development, personal growth, personal improvement, philosophy, self-improvement
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By Dennis Mellersh
An ambitious program of personal development can sometimes seem overwhelming if we focus only on its totality. It just seems too challenging.
Yet, in trying to reach our full potential in personal growth and self-improvement, we can achieve significant long-term objectives by doing something limited, yet achievable, each day.
It’s what personal growth expert Seth Godin calls the drip-drip-drip approach to goal realization.
Virtually any long-term personal improvement objective can be broken down into small repeatable or small unique one-off steps.
It’s the way, for, example, that many successful writers approach their work.
By writing 200 words every day for a year, we would have 73,000 words at the end of the year – an intermediate length novel.
Or write 100 words a day and you have a novella of 36,500 words.
We get more done by actually doing something small every day instead of day-dreaming about something big.
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