Personal development: Take ownership of your individual growth discoveries March 5, 2014
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Concept of personal development.Tags: achieving goals, life, personal development, personal development potential, personal growth, phiosophy, self-improvement
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In developing the potential of your personal growth program(s) to higher levels, you might want to start paying attention to your own self-generated creative ideas on the general topic of self-improvement.
Because personal development is as much about the journey as it is about reaching the destination, you are bound to have creative reactions and make personal discoveries as you travel the road of your specific program.
This is particularly true when you are focussed on achieving internal improvement rather than being focused on external practical skills development, such as learning how to play a particular musical instrument, for example.
As you study personal growth materials in more and more detail, you will find that you may not agree with everything you read. Or you may discover that you have a “different take” or an entirely new approach concerning a recommendation, or a general principle suggested by one or more personal growth writers.
It is important to write your ideas down, such as in a notebook, and to review them from time. Gradually you may find that this helps you to personalize your growth program, which is important.
One size does not fit all within the concepts and teachings suggested in self-improvement materials.
Personal growth vectors: Seven suggestions March 4, 2014
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Concept of personal development, Goal Setting and Realization.Tags: achieving goals, Aurthur W. Chickering, life, mature personality, personal development, personal development potential, personal growth, philosophy
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In addition to building knowledge and practical skills, one of the key reasons people engage in a program of personal growth is to work at realizing the full potential inherent in developing a mature personality.
This applies regardless of the age at which we begin a serious individual effort to maximize personal development in our lives.
In many cases, what can work for a young person can apply equally well to many of us as we grow older.
Arthur W. Chickering, an educational researcher known for his seminal research on the personal development needs of undergraduate students, identified seven vectors of personal development for young adults during their undergraduate years.(1)
(1) Developing competence
(2) Managing emotions
(3) Achieving autonomy and interdependence
(4) Developing mature interpersonal relationships
(5) Establishing identity
(6) Developing purpose
(7) Developing integrity
This seems like a good set of guideposts for our personal growth programs that we could apply regardless of our stage in life.
(1) Source: Wikipedia
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