Want To Find Out How To Define Pesronal Development?

Perhaps how you define personal development is like Wikipedia does “a process of individual self-development and the development of others. At the level of individual this includes goals, plans or actions oriented towards one or more of the following aims:

- improving self-awareness
- improving self-knowledge
- building or renewing identity
- developing strengths or talents
- identifying or improving potential
- building employ ability
- enhance lifestyle
- fulfill aspirations
- execute personal development plans
- improving [social abilities]

Or would you define it like Aristotle “as a category of phronesis or practical wisdom, where the practice of virtues (arête) leads to eudaimonia,[6] commonly translated as “happiness” but more accurately understood as “human flourishing” or “living well”

But honestly I bet it is neither of these. The honest answer is it is up to you as a person and what you want to accomplish. One person might have the goal of going back to school. And then another person might have a PD goal of losing their fear of enclosed spaces. Neither person is wrong because there is a reason it is called personal development because it is up to you as a person.

What you need to do is to sit down and get yourself a personal development plan and then more importantly stick with it. . I tend to jump from one thing to the next without really mastering one thing.

Also make sure that your goals have realistic time table or you have a higher likelihood of failing. Don’t try to push yourself to far to fast because if you don’t succeed you might lose confidence with yourself and stop trying all together. I’m sure we have all heard of the story of the tortoise and the hare and the term “slow and steady wins the race.”

Regardless of how you define personal development once you get started it gets easier as you go, but change, especially real significant change, takes time and inner strength so stay focused. Make sure that you keep your eye on what you are shooting for and you will come out better on the other side. The definition is not important what is important is what you do with it.

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