Do you want to add new colors to your life and feel a surge of inspiration, motivation for action? Tired of routine, familiar events and situations only bring boredom? Do you want to know your personality better and deeper, to find hidden talents? Then it's time for self-development.
Self-development - personal growth - significantly improves the quality of life of any person. The emphasis on the development of one's personality allows you to achieve new heights in your career, radically change your life for the better, and improve your skills and abilities. Self-development helps to expand the boundaries of consciousness, activate the creative flow, find new amazing goals and ways to achieve them.
There are many different methods of personal growth and development. Some of them are quite difficult, require a lot of time and effort, and need support from experienced people. Other methods are generally available, simple, but very powerful. Where should you start self-development?
5 available ways of personal development
New knowledge and emotions. No person is able to develop without receiving new information. That is why it is so important to read books, articles, manuals, attend trainings and master classes, go to the cinema and to exhibitions. However, only knowledge of the theory will not allow you to take a wide step in self-development. Any new data obtained should be tested in practice. It is the application of theoretical skills that will allow you to experience vivid or non-standard emotions. Developing emotional intelligence is an important part of successful personal growth.
A look at yourself from the outside. It is very difficult for any person to "disconnect" from his consciousness at one moment and try to look at himself from the outside. However, this must be learned, since such a skill will make it possible to understand which features and facets need additional development and attention. How can you try to shift the vector and look at yourself from the outside? The simplest way is trivial introspection. It includes the fixation of all actions, thoughts, sensations, reactions, and so on. You need to get into the habit of writing down everything that happens during the day: what thoughts arose due to any situation, what emotions manifested in response to someone's comment, and so on. You can analyze the past day in the evenings, summing up the results. Such records can be compared with a personal diary, rereading which will help you to better understand yourself and the motives of your actions and deeds.
Meditation and other spiritual practices. It has been proven that people who develop the habit of meditating every day more easily endure stress, are able to find solutions faster in difficult situations, relax more easily and learn to control their feelings. Meditation and spiritual practice can help stop the internal dialogue. Against the background of the resulting silence of the mind, from the conditional emptiness of consciousness, ingenious ideas or ways to achieve a particular goal can emerge.
Fighting fears and doubts. Without such emotion as fear, human survival in critical or dangerous conditions is impossible. However, in the modern world, fears are usually exacerbated at a completely unnecessary time, pulling with worries, doubts, anxiety. Fear can become the brake that prevents you from climbing higher up the ladder of self-development. In addition, working through your emotions is an essential part of personal growth. To begin with, it will be useful to perform a couple of psychological exercises aimed at fighting fears. For example, make a list of what is scary, try to analyze where exactly this destructive feeling came from. And then destroy the list. Or try to draw your fear, give it a full description, and then let it go, stop identifying with it.
Changes in the interior. Changes in the surrounding space make the brain "look" differently at life, at the situation around, make the brain start working differently. Therefore, it is so important at least sometimes to rearrange the room, get rid of old things, replacing them with new ones. The creation of an inspiring and harmonious environment, an atmosphere in the house, will help bring inner peace to the correct state, which will only have a positive effect on the self-development process.
What else can you do at the initial stage, deciding to engage in self-development
- Start learning foreign languages.
- Try to develop your creativity. Have you wanted to write a book for a long time, but were you afraid to try? You need to drop your doubts and try to do it.
- Realize your desires and needs.
- Find a new hobby that will allow you to gain new skills and emotions.
- Write down all ideas, even those that seem ridiculous and stupid.
- Learn to memorize and analyze your dreams.
- Try to get rid of negative thinking, from the habit of seeing only bad things in any stressful or crisis situation. It is important to understand that a negative result is also a result, this is also an experience, albeit not the most pleasant one.
- Meet new people.
- Pay attention to physical health. The correct daily regimen, sports, balanced nutrition - all this will have a positive effect on personal growth.
- Envy the habit of making plans for the day, so as not to waste precious time just like that and not constantly get into a deadline situation.
