Personal development essential: Facta Non Verba March 9, 2017
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By Dennis Mellersh
Personal improvement gone wrong.
The woman customer at the bookstore was engaged in a barrage of loud criticism towards the store’s staff, gradually turning into a one-sided screaming outburst, on her part.
The problem?
The store’s staff could not find the copy of the book she had ordered: “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff.”
If we aren’t careful, our efforts towards realizing our potential through self-improvement can be little more than a surface veneer.
That is, if all we do is take in personal growth data but don’t translate any of the principles into actions.
“Deeds speak”
“Actions speak louder than words.”
“Acts, not words.” Or, in Latin, “Facta Non Verba”, which is the motto of the Canadian military’s elite special forces unit, Joint Task Force 2 (JTF2).
A single day of realizing personal development potential March 8, 2017
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Personal Development Potential.Tags: achieving goals, Hope, Insipiration, life, personal development, personal growth, personal improvement, philosophy, self-improvement
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By Dennis Mellersh
An ambitious program of personal development can sometimes seem overwhelming if we focus only on its totality. It just seems too challenging.
Yet, in trying to reach our full potential in personal growth and self-improvement, we can achieve significant long-term objectives by doing something limited, yet achievable, each day.
It’s what personal growth expert Seth Godin calls the drip-drip-drip approach to goal realization.
Virtually any long-term personal improvement objective can be broken down into small repeatable or small unique one-off steps.
It’s the way, for, example, that many successful writers approach their work.
By writing 200 words every day for a year, we would have 73,000 words at the end of the year – an intermediate length novel.
Or write 100 words a day and you have a novella of 36,500 words.
We get more done by actually doing something small every day instead of day-dreaming about something big.
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