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Personal development: The ongoing quest for doing our best work October 8, 2018

Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Concept of personal growth.
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In our study and practice of personal growth programs and ideas, one of the key purposes is the achievement of self-actualization and the realization of our full potential; but for many, this is an effort filled with uncertainty.

We may feel that our life is passing by at a rapid rate and we haven’t hit our zone yet.

Actually, it’s never too late.

A new study reported in the New York Times suggests that our best work may be ahead of us.
Reporting in the Times Smarter Living newsletter, editor Tim Herrera comments:

“A study published in Nature found that about 90 percent of people will experience a “hot streak” in their career, which is that span of a few years when a person’s greatest, most effective work is produced. And — here’s the good part — your hot streak can appear at any point in your working life, meaning that it’s never too late (or too early) to hit your peak.”

The study examined the careers of artists, film directors and scientists.

Here’s a link to the newsletter which provides more detail:

Dennis Mellersh

Personal growth: Allowing tomorrow to spoil today July 26, 2018

Posted by Dennis Mellersh in personal development ideas.
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Unless we believe in the existence of time travel, there is no way the future can physically reach us today, yet we often do allow tomorrow to be with us today on the level of thought.

Inviting tomorrow to be with us today is mostly harmless if we restrict the practice to optimistic thinking about what tomorrow will hold.

But more often than not the experience is not positive, and is instead detrimental; because instead of optimism, we often project our fears and negative thinking.

We sometimes tend to forward-think a current fear, serious problem, or significant personal challenge not only into tomorrow, but into our overall future in its totality.

We fearfully think that whatever our problem is, that it will never go away, that it will never be solved.

This harmful thinking tendency can result from focussing to the point of obsession about the existence and parameters of the problem itself instead of taking any action steps, or making even a beginning intellectual effort towards considering possible solutions to the problem.

“What’s the use?”

We all can get trapped into this loop, particularly if we are fatigued, “stressed out” or at a low energy level due to unhealthy eating habits, or insufficient sleep.

For each of us to break this habit will take a lot of internal work.

It’s an ongoing process, but starts with recognizing the logical reality that most of our problems, even the very tough ones, have some form of solution.

—  Dennis Mellersh