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Self-actualization: Thoughts and actions reflecting our speech March 17, 2018

Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Personal Development Potential.
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In our efforts to maximize our personal development potential, one of the steps we can take is to make an effort to speak more positively, which leads to the larger question of whether doing this can make us think more positively and act more positively.

An obvious benefit of developing the idea and habit of speaking positively is that it is a personal growth action step, a tangible behavior with measurable results. With a bit of effort we can tell if we are speaking more positively or not.

Sometimes self-realization and self-actualization advice asks us to make non-measurable emotional or intellectual commitments or resolutions in our personal development programs; and this can be discouraging when we try to determine if we are making actual progress.

But in some cases we need to make the effort and have faith that by taking concrete tangible action steps, that those steps can result in an improvement in our emotional and intellectual status and ultimately lead to a more measurable result.

Hopefully then, if we speak more positively, we will begin to think more positively, and in turn we may then also begin to act more positively.

— Dennis Mellersh

Problem: When our personal growth program doesn’t work for us February 18, 2018

Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Personal Development Potential.
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One of the problems we may face at some point in our self-actualization efforts is finding ourselves struggling with a system or program that just doesn’t seem to work for us, but we feel we’ve invested so much time in it that we’re reluctant to give up on it.

The first thing we need to realize is that, if we have genuinely worked at the system, the fault is not likely ours.

Remember, the reason there are so many different approaches to personal development and self-improvement is because no one system is suitable for everybody.

Each of us has a unique world view and value system and we should not expect these programs to enable cookie-cutter solutions to the problems and challenges in our lives.

Putting more and more effort into a self-help program that simply isn’t suitable for our personality is a bad investment of our time, energy, and ultimately our life.

And, we’ve all probably learned more than we realize — even from a growth program that doesn’t work well for us.

We should then consider cutting our time-investment losses, regard our past efforts as a good learning experience, and move on to new experiences in our self-awareness discovery journey.

— Dennis Mellersh