Importance of Personal Development.

 

Our Personal Development and Self-Esteem impacts all aspects of our life.

Personal development is an ongoing process. In the process, a person learns to identify his or her own skills & strengths by self-reflecting within self. Every person needs to build & develop a healthy self-Esteem and recognise his or her own thoughts & belief system. We need to be able to identify our expectations from ourselves.

The following points are some of the key elements of personal development. 

• Taking full responsibility for your life
• Knowing yourself and loving yourself first.
• Taking your own decisions and honouring them.
• Overcoming perfection and leveling up your self-worth
• Giving up Guilt & to stop listening to your inner critic.
• Stopping running away from your problems.
• Eliminating spending time with the wrong people and creating a positive
• environment.

 

Broadly speaking Personal development can be classified into two categories, personal and professional. At the personal level a person’s emotions, conflicts etc. are associated to that individual’s family, friends & relatives. Whereas at a professional level it relates to job satisfaction, job security, conceding with colleagues & compromising our values with that of the management. At both levels a person needs to mitigate the situation in his own unique way. 

In personal development, self-efficacy & self-esteem is crucial. Self-efficacy is a person’s trust and self-belief in his or her ability and competence to accomplish a specific goal or a task. Now Self-efficacy could be high or low depending on each individual. Whereas, Self-Esteem is your overall sense of personal value and self-worth. Again self-esteem could be high or low.

How can you improve your Self-Esteem?

• Eliminate negative self-talk. 
• Accept yourself as you are, recognize and work to your strengths. 
• Stop comparing yourself to others and level up your self-worth. 
• Admit your mistakes and accept rejections with grace. 
• Use criticism as feedback for improvement.

 

How Can you improve your Self-Efficacy?

• Develop new skills and make it ongoing practice. 
• Connecting with a mentor, coach or a guide and asking for specific & constructive feedback and working on development.  
• Reinforce your self-belief. 
• Be accountable to your actions and use verbal persuasion from a mentor, coach or a guide.

 

Acceptance of ourselves and of others is an essential aspect of Personal Development. Don’t compare, nobody is better than you, because you are enough. Be a good learner, learning and making the most from experiences. Learn to say no without feeling guilty. Give up dwelling on the past or worrying about the future. Make a difference!

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