If you hear the term Personal Development what do you think of, a famous encyclopaedia devotes 116 sections to the term so no wonder there is confusion. It is a popular phrase used by ‘Gurus’ to call the masses to heel and sometimes to line their own pockets with more money at the expense of the many.
We were born with unrealized potential and most strive through their lives to make them better through education and job prospects but is this what we call personal development?
So just what is Personal Power or Personal Development training?
It is very much a mental thing, trying to be the best person you can be is one of the power driving forces to help you achieve goals. You look at other people, some of them as role models, and try to integrate some of their personality into your own. But this is just not practical and is the reason many people feel a sense of failure when they try personal development training courses and goal setting tools. They can read personal development books attend personal development seminars but they will never be like their role models.
The reality of your life today is a reflection of the sum of your thoughts until this day.
So if your current situation is the result of all the thoughts that you have, and you have on average 50,000 personal thoughts a day, some people have one thought 50,000 times! Personal Development is all about changing what you do now and getting different results than you have had in your past?
Most people simply want to improve their quality of life they do not need to earn millions to do it; Perhaps all your past experiences have shown a lack of results, so is it still possible to realize all of your personal dreams and aspirations? Since childhood most of us have been held in check by parents, relatives, teachers and peer groups, their best intentions to save us from disappointment have been geared toward telling us not to expect too much in life we will only be disappointed.
No wonder self styled professional ‘Gurus’ earn vast fortunes establishing seminars, telling us what we should be doing to improve our lot, without really coaching us how to do it, well that is in the next power lesson which costs an extra $x,000 and helps keep them rich and us poor. Thirsting for the next secret advertised will not get you that personal power found in self improvement .
Whilst it is true to say that whatever level of personal development you are at you do need a framework in order to know if improvement has actually occurred, what you do not need is the latest ‘Whizz bang super-dooper piece of software that will power you to smart goal achievement’.
They tell you that they know something you do not and that is why you feel frustrated at your lack of personal development you will feel compelled to pull out more and more of your hard earned money to discover the secret, when there is no secret anyway.
Just as a building need a strong framework so do you to keep on track? Well you need some sort of smart goal or benchmark to aim for because you need to define the end-point, you need plans and strategies to measure and assess your progress toward the end, and you need milestones set out so that you can reward yourself for making progress on the way. In every journey you need some sort of feedback to know just where you are and are you on track.
Would you set off on a long unfamiliar journey without first looking at a map for guidance.Even then you would set milestones on the route to measure how far you had covered and how far you had to go. Keep your money in your pocket I can tell you all you need to know from my past experience of personal development work.
Well there is one key to successful personal development, smart goal setting, motivation call it what you will let me tell you what it is….?
