Personal growth challenge: Less theory, more implementation October 26, 2017
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Concept of personal growth.Tags: achieving goals, focussing, life, personal development potential, personal improvement, philosophy, procrastination, self-actualization, writing
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Study is important, but there’s not much use in having an ambitious personal growth program if we spend more time on the theory than we do on taking actions to actually improve ourselves. Spending too much time on the theories of self-actualization reduces the time available to accomplish our goals.
We can fool ourselves into thinking that studying can substitute for “doing” when in fact studying too much theory can be an enabler for procrastination.
Excessive time spent on studying “how to be organized”, for example, serves little purpose if we are leaving the action of paying our overdue bills until tomorrow.
Unless the act of studying is, in itself, a major part of our self-actualization program, then we are better off making action the biggest part of our focus.
— Dennis Mellersh
Personal growth mistake: Wanting the future to repeat the past October 24, 2017
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Concept of personal development.Tags: life, living in the future, living in the now, personal development, personal development potential, philosophy, psychology, self-actualization, writing
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It’s natural to want any situational enjoyment with a high positive emotional component to last a long time, ideally forever. As a result, we may develop the habit of projecting our enjoyment of the present moment into anticipated pleasure of the same moment occurring in the future.
This makes full appreciation of the present difficult because our minds are straddling two separate time frames – current real-time reality and imagined future potential.
We can only be in the future mentally, a fact which obviously takes away some of our perception of the present moment.
We are attaching to our future, which can never be more than a thought pattern, the particular emotions of longing and anticipated nostalgia associated with the moment we are currently enjoying.
Any pleasurable experience in the present moment will be more intense and rewarding if we don’t impose on it the mental condition and constriction of future repeatability.
— Dennis Mellersh
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