Realistic personal growth programs mirror life’s challenges March 10, 2017
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Concept of personal growth.Tags: life, motivation, personal development, personal improvement, philosophy, self-improvement, thoughts
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By Dennis Mellersh
As noted in the song April Showers, “Life is not a highway strewn with flowers.”
Nor is following a serious program of personal development an unbroken series of wins against challenges – there will be losses in addition to the victories.
As a concept, undertaking a reality-based personal improvement program is like starting out on an odyssey.
Lama Surya Das, author of Awakening the Buddha Within* puts it this way: “A spiritual journey inevitably includes low valleys as well as high mountains, dense forests as well as barren deserts, plateaus and plains. This is the landscape and territory of your own being. It is all-revealing and it needs exploration. Everything you experience along the way can be a way of helping you awaken the Buddha within.”
* Lama Surya Das, Awakening the Buddha Within, Broadway Books, New York, N.Y. 1997
Personal development essential: Facta Non Verba March 9, 2017
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Personal Development Potential.Tags: life, personal growth, personal improvement, philosophy, self-improvement, thoughts
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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).
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