Personal growth as an intuitive phenomenon March 2, 2014
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Concept of personal development.Tags: achieving goals, life, personal development, personal development potential, personal growth, personal growth program, spirituality
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If you are engaging yourself in a personal growth program, but are feeling guilty that you don’t take time to “work” on it every day, relax.
You are, in fact, working on it every day, growing as a person, and reaching your potential, albeit intuitively.
How?
- Every time you make an effort to help someone with a problem they have
- Whenever you give a person a compliment
- When you’re driving and let someone pull in ahead of you on a busy road
- When you say “thank-you” to a foodservice worker
- When you hold a door open for someone
- When you treat a salesperson as courteously as you treat your boss
- When you are patient with a cashier new to their job
The list goes on…
Your deeds speak. You are growing.
Is our continual study of personal development an addiction? March 2, 2014
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Concept of personal development.Tags: addiction, life, personal development, personal development potential, personal growth, philosophy, self-improvement, spirituality
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The fact that personal development/growth programs have become so popular as to have evolved into an industry-level production phenomenon has, in part, led some critics to describe the entire personal development or self-help movement as an “addiction.”
Such critics tend to lump all self-improvement and personal development/growth materials into the category of psychological or psyche-self-improvement. I prefer to think of our dedicated examination of personal development materials, and their inherent ability to change us, and to develop our potential, as more of a serious and productive hobby than as an addiction.
We tend to read, view, and listen to such a large amount of these materials because genuine self-improvement is difficult and it takes repetition and reaching a critical mass of information before we begin to understand some of the basic precepts of what, in many cases with the best of these materials, is wisdom literature.
However, our personal growth/development can become a perpetual cycle of endless reading studying and studying (and therefore a potential addiction to searching for the perfect answer) unless we couple the learning, optimism, and faith in our potential that we are gaining through our study, with action.
To paraphrase the Bible, which, in itself is a vast storehouse of wisdom writing:
Just as the body will die without breath, so too will faith without works be dead also.
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