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
Personal growth: Too much thinking and not enough doing January 8, 2018
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Goal Setting and Realization.Tags: achieving goals, inspiration, life, personal development planning, philosophy, psychology, self-actualization, setting goals, writing
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Although it’s generally a good idea not to jump into projects without giving them careful thought, it can be equally damaging to our self-development to over-study and miss opportunities for greater self-actualization by not taking timely action.
A similar, but slightly different variation of this problem can also occur in our efforts to develop our key long-term goals if we over-plan and under-act, thereby postponing doing the necessary goal-directed tasks.
As Shakespeare wrote in his play Julius Caesar:
“There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.”
Sometimes planning can be more enjoyable and appealing to us than the harder work of doing.
— Dennis Mellersh
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