Moderation is the key to success in personal improvement May 3, 2018
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in personal development ideas.Tags: Carl Jung, goal setting, inspiration, life, personal development ideas, personal development planning, personal growth, philosophy, self-actualization, self-improvement, writing
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Sometimes over-zealous work on our personal growth programs can lead to an imbalanced life, whereby we spend so much time and effort on a self-improvement program, or a personal goal within the program, that other important aspects of our lives can suffer from lack of attention.
Our personal growth efforts can actually suffer if we spend a disproportionate amount of time trying to ensure positive results.
Running or jogging, for example, has benefits for improving our health, but these benefits are of little use if we skew the rest of our life out of balance by constantly trying to include more and more running.
Or, we can spend so much time researching and studying personal development that we do not spend enough time on those action steps needed to bring our goals to fruition.
Doing community work to excess can interfere with the time we should be spending with our own family.
As psychologist and self-actualization thinker Carl Jung has observed:
“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, or morphine, or idealism.”
—Dennis Mellersh
Doing something positive each day to reach personal goals May 2, 2018
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in personal development ideas.Tags: achieving goals, inspiration, life, personal development ideas, personal development program, personal growth, personal growth program, philosophy, self-improvement, writing
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In working on our personal growth ideas, programs, plans, and goals, it is only natural to want to reach the end-game, the date, the point at which we get the checkmate, the day we make the breakthrough we’re aiming for, taking the concluding steps on our self-help journey.
And although we can reach a point where we have achieved our major goals, it won’t be done quickly or easily if the goals are substantial.
Seth Godin reminds us that “the moment of maximum leverage” in any significant project results from a steady, ongoing effort.
In his blog, Godin writes:
“We wait for this. For the day when participating will truly pay off, for the mechanical advantage that gives us the most impact for our effort.”
But he cautions: “It’s a myth”
“Maximum leverage is the result of commitment, of daily persistence, of gradual and insane, and apparently useless effort over time.”
You can read the complete post and check out the rest of his blog here:
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2018/04/the-moment-of-maximum-leverage.html
Personal improvement is a process, a marathon, but without the finality of reaching an absolute finish line.
Dennis Mellersh
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