Personal development is about adding value to your life to
enhance or complement what your life already consists of. As a result
personal development is vital for you to achieve your purpose in life.
Without it you will just drift from one thing to another, like a
rudderless ship. However, this enhancement can be made at any stage or
time in your life; it is never too late to implement. But you must
appreciate that the sooner you encompass personal development, the more
meaning and purpose your life will have.
If you are struggling
with gaining and managing your personal development, these three steps
will help to improve your personal development in life: desire,
determination and alert intelligence.
Therefore to improve your personal development, follow these three steps.
1. Desire.
Aim
to instill an intense desire in yourself to be as successful as you
possibly can be. To carry this out you must develop the mindset that
your success is down to you and you alone so believe in yourself
totally. Besides you deserve every success you set out to achieve.
Desire
is assisted by setting focussed goals. Monitor your goals daily always
ensuring you are on the right course to achieving what you have
committed yourself to do. Progress your journey in a personal journal
detailing your progress so that when you reach each goal you have a
detailed record of how you got there and how you accomplished it. You
will take great satisfaction and inspiration from this exercise and it
will assist you in planning and setting more challenging goals next
time.
2. Determination.
An essential trait to possess is a
persistent determination to succeed. Without determination you will find
it extremely difficult to get the degree of the personal development
you want and need in your life. Determination should be resolute, never
faltering. Should you find yourself struggling you need only ask
yourself how important it is to improve your life. The answer will give
you the determination to continue.
3. Alert Intelligence.
To
have alert intelligence is vital to your self development as you must
always have an unquenchable need to gain as much knowledge as you can.
Possessing an enthusiasm to attain an endless supply of pertinent
information to stimulate your mind and increase your knowledge of life
is necessary. Should you allow your mind to lapse or stagnate you will
find your success is somewhat restricted and will consequently have an
impact on your journey to success.
As you can see your personal
development can be an easy or arduous task: it just depends on your
philosophy of life. Once you know what you want to achieve, your path
will be mapped out for your journey to success.
Mark's purpose in life is to help others, after suffering a lack
of self confidence and insecurity in his early years. After successfully
achieving his quest for self improvement in his own life, he feels it
is imperative to share his knowledge with others so they might benefit
from his experience.