Moderation is the key to success in personal improvement May 3, 2018
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in personal development ideas.Tags: Carl Jung, goal setting, inspiration, life, personal development ideas, personal development planning, personal growth, philosophy, self-actualization, self-improvement, writing
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Sometimes over-zealous work on our personal growth programs can lead to an imbalanced life, whereby we spend so much time and effort on a self-improvement program, or a personal goal within the program, that other important aspects of our lives can suffer from lack of attention.
Our personal growth efforts can actually suffer if we spend a disproportionate amount of time trying to ensure positive results.
Running or jogging, for example, has benefits for improving our health, but these benefits are of little use if we skew the rest of our life out of balance by constantly trying to include more and more running.
Or, we can spend so much time researching and studying personal development that we do not spend enough time on those action steps needed to bring our goals to fruition.
Doing community work to excess can interfere with the time we should be spending with our own family.
As psychologist and self-actualization thinker Carl Jung has observed:
“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, or morphine, or idealism.”
—Dennis Mellersh
Personal development idea: Setting limits on our expectations April 16, 2018
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in personal development ideas.Tags: achieving goals, goal visualization, life, personal development ideas, personal development potential, personal growth program, philosophy, psychology, self-actualization, self-improvement, writing
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When any of us are tempted to jump onto/into the latest self-help system for achieving our goals, we might want to bear in mind a phrase that advertisers of certain products and services sometimes use in the “small print” of their promotional material; a phrase designed to provide to cover in case of consumer dissatisfaction.
The phrase, or one with equivalent meaning, is often used with products, systems, and services involving generic experiences of users or testimonials involving actual people who have successfully used the product, system, or service.
The phrase, or one like it, is of course…”your experience may differ.”
In the world of self-actualization effort, it’s natural to want to try the latest thing on offer, just like an artist wanting to try out a new line of paints, brushes, or drawing materials.
It just that we need to mentally give ourselves a “small print” warning that when we try something new after being convinced by the promotional material…
“Results shown are not typical. Your experience may differ.”
It’s also a heads-up that we should not be too hard on ourselves whenever we try something new in self-improvement and the results are less than we anticipated.
Dennis Mellersh
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