Are you looking for ways to boost your growth?
How do people find their mantra to success?
All the answers to these questions lie in our self-belief. The primary reason that stops us in the pursuit of growth and success is our own toxic thoughts.
For this reason, personal growth is highly important. From simple things like waking up early, going to bed on time, or controlling anger you can see effective differences. These are the small changes that contribute to your personal growth.
I have compiled a list of 10 effective tips for personal growth. By the end of this article, you will have an understanding of how to implement them in your day-to-day life.
Personal growth starts with creating plans, taking risks, accepting failure, focusing on the present, and many more steps.
What is personal growth and why it matters?
Personal growth refers to working on your personality development. The main objective of personal growth is to get a feeling of being better for your own self. This means that you are working on yourself for your own good.
In this highly competitive world, we humans are more focused on the rat race. But that is not the right way to live life. Success depends on the individual. Every person should have a different aspect towards growth and development.
Success does not have a materialistic definition. There is no fixed target that defines success. It is all about mindset. Because the definition of success varies for every person, therefore, the method to reach success also varies incredibly.
Top 10 personal growth tips for success
1. Set clear goals and create a plan to achieve them
Setting goals have to be practical, something that you know you can achieve. To make this simple, I will give an example- You are gaining weight. You decide to start exercising and get a new bike. Will you set your first ride target at 40 km or 4 km?
A person who sets the 1st target at 40kms is not wrong but the approach is not correct. Small success builds into larger ones. Taking one step at a time is essential, but never stop working.
“When you become stagnant and aren’t improving by the day, you are only moving toward your failure.” – Pooja Agnihotri
However, setting goals is just one-half of the battle. Strategies and planning consist of the other half. Just like you cannot ride a boat with one oar, you cannot achieve your goals without plans.
Use a physical diary or an online planner, in order to make a plan and stick to it. Discipline is necessary when it comes to setting goals and making a plan to achieve them.
2. Practice self-care
Self-care is the process of taking care of your personal well-being and mental health. As the old saying goes – “Health is wealth”, it is essential for you to take proper care of your health.
A clinical survey has revealed that self-care helps in eliminating anxiety and depression, lowers stress, and minimizes anger, frustration, and burst-outs. Overall, caring for your own self brings about happiness.
Practicing self-care should be a daily process. This is not a “once in a blue moon” phenomenon. Self-care further has different aspects – Emotional, spiritual, mental, physical, occupational, and social.
Occupational well-being specifically refers to your work area and the aspects revolving around your career. This is a particular area that is affecting a majority of people in the current generation.
Healthy eating habits, having adequate water, and taking frequent breaks are simple ways that can improve your work environment.
For tips on improving your workplace, read – What to Do When You Hate Your Job
3. Learn new skills
There is no alternative to learning new skills. There is not one person who can consider themself to be a master of everything. If you do not know something, it is better to accept it as a fact and work towards learning that particular skill.
The best approach here is to use the 80:20 rule. This implies that 80% of the outcome comes from 20% of the effort. This implies identifying the major factors that primarily contribute to your progress toward the goal.
This principle will not only help you in learning new skills but also will be effective in other aspects of your life. This can play an important role in your overall personal development.
4. Take risks and step out of your comfort zone
“You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don’t think your way into becoming yourself.” – Anne Lamott
Before taking risks, identify your comfort zone. Taking risks does not mean that you give up sleeping on comfy beds and start sleeping in the woods.
The things that unsettle you, and give you a fear against working towards your goal are the ones worth taking a risk for. Try to overcome fear. If you are in a shell and want to talk to people, start practicing it.
To start with, make a circle, and write all the things that you want to do. If you think you are currently doing it, write it inside the circle. For the things you want to do, write them outside the circle. This way you will realize that the things inside your circle are the ones that are your comfort zone. The ones outside the circle are the ones that you need to take risks for achieving.
Once you have this ready, you are very well on track toward your personal development and success.
5. Surround yourself with positive and supportive people
This is an important aspect of your development. Your personality is actually a reflection of the people you are with. Therefore, it is essential to surround yourself with positive people.
“You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” —Zig Ziglar
Supportive people help you on your path toward success. They can be good guides who can help you in crafting a development path toward success.
Supporting is always a two-way process. You also need to be supportive of the people around you, before you can expect someone around you to be supportive.
6. Practice gratitude
Practise a very simple gesture of being thankful for the good things in your life. This exercise relieves stress and provides a relaxing approach to life. There are numerous words that can describe this approach – blessed, humbled, or fortunate.
Gratitude is contagious. It spreads in the area bringing about positivity in all the people. Gratitude does not take time. Taking a moment to pause and appreciate the good things would make you feel even better about it.
If you look around, you will realize the number of people who lack basic amenities like food, water, and shelter. You should not boast that you are better than them but consider you are more fortunate than them.
7. Develop a growth mindset
This is very essential if you are looking to develop your personality on the way to success. What you think about yourself has a very deep impact on your overall development.
When you inculcate the habit of a growth mindset, you start looking at your challenges as obstacles that can be crossed. You get the intention to work hard instead of being in your comfort zone.
Implement the word ‘yet’ in your day-to-day activities. For instance, I am good at content creation, yet I still need to improve my vocabulary.
8. Embrace failure and learn from it
Imagine yourself as a baseball player. You hit an out-of-the-park home run. But while running you fail to touch the 3rd disc. The opposition appeal and you are given out. That would be the most agonizing situation in your life.
You would consider that you wasted your life. You did the most difficult work of hitting the ball but failed to do the most simple task of touching the disc. This agonizing thought will start to haunt you.
You need to accept this situation and work on the next process. This is the crux of accepting failure. The next time you hit a home run, you will not forget to touch the disc.
Similarly, in real-life situations, we continuously face situations that may be similar to this example. However, in some cases, such mistakes can have a serious impact on our life. However, we need to make ourselves strong enough to overcome.
Great personalities and motivational speakers always talk about learning from mistakes. But do you know what Eleanor Roosevelt, the First Lady of the US said, – “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.”
It is not necessary that you always need to make mistakes to learn. You can learn from mistakes other people make. Learn from your surroundings more. Interact more with your co-workers, friends, and other people. The secret to success may even lie there!!
9. Stay curious and open-minded
It is essential to have the heart of a child at all times. No matter whatever path you decide to walk down, keep yourself open to receiving new information. This will not only keep you motivated but also provide you with an opportunity to learn as you grow. If you lack curiosity, then your knowledge would get outdated.
Open-mindedness is an approach to accepting people for the way they are. Our mind is generally trained to accept people who are similar. However, open-mindedness is not just about accepting ‘insiders’, but also ‘outsiders’, who are also a part of this amazing world. When you truly care about outsiders, you really become completely open-minded.
10. Focus on the present moment
This is the most simple yet the most challenging part of your path toward success. The major problem with people nowadays is that they are either reminiscing about the past or pondering too much about the future.
It is essential to be in the present. Think about the things you are doing right now. The past is literally gone, there is nothing you can change. The future is still not in your control.
However, if you work on the present, you can at least have a better and safe future. Being in the present also lowers our stress levels. You can lower negative thoughts and cope better with emotions such as anger and fear.
To overcome overthinking, read this – Top 8 Ways to Fight Imposter Syndrome at Work
How to Implement Personal Growth Tips
Now that you have read the 10 most important personal growth tips, let’s see how we can start implementing them. And as previously stated, having a proper strategy in place is essential for seeing results.
Strategies for incorporating personal growth tips into your life
For incorporating personal growth tips you need to inculcate a stringent habit of discipline into your life. Make a simple plan and start following it. A basic strategic plan should have the answers to the following questions –
1. Identify the area where you want to develop
The first step in personal improvement starts with identifying the aspect that you want to improve in your life. Just like “too many cooks spoil the broth”, focusing on multiple aspects at the same time results in spoilt soup. The aspect that you want to improve may be anything simple like controlling your anger. It is easier to climb a ladder with small steps than a staircase with big steps.
2. Identify “why” you want to change
Not just because your co-worker is working on their personality, you start following it. You need to have a clear understanding of why you want to change, and what you plan to achieve by changing your lifestyle.
3. Identify the obstacles
You can also consider your obstacles as challenges. These challenges are the same reason why you are not able to implement and practices change in your life. The more you work on these obstacles, you realize that these are only mental blockades. That is when you actually become successful in removing obstacles and focusing on personal growth.
4. Do you need help
Never hesitate to ask for help. Societal pressure may force you to keep your struggles hidden. But if you really want to see personal growth, feel free to take coaching sessions. This will help you in overcoming your demons and work positively towards your success.
Common obstacles and how to overcome them
When you have answers to the above question, you will understand the real obstacles. These obstacles are very common and overcoming them is not a real pain. Let’s see a few common obstacles and ways to overcome them:
1. Fear
The insecure feeling of getting judged brings about stagnancy in growth. You should be able to rise above the things that hold you, in order to develop a lifestyle that can keep you on track for a successful life. A thorough self-examination will help you identify your fears, and also provide ways to overcome them.
2. Pride
To some extent, being proud of your own achievements is a normal thing. However, if this pride becomes a barricade to learning new things, then you need to change your mindset. Pride is a characteristic that prevents you from changing and learning new things.
3. Lack of motivation
Some people identify their obstacles, make plans, and still fail. This is because they lack motivation. The main reason for a lack of motivation is when you start the personal growth process just because someone else is doing the same. Always take independent decisions and if you want to change think about your success.
4. Lack of goal
Another criterion similar to the above is the lack of a goal. As we already saw previously, setting a goal is the first step toward personal growth. Make sure your goal is achievable as well as something you really want to achieve. If you do not set your goal properly, then every other step may result in a negative direction.
5. Lack of support
It is not always easy to go through the process of personal development all by yourself. You may need some effective help and support. Surround yourself with positive people. Avoid the company of pessimistic or negative people.
Conclusion
If you are looking for a way to improve your personality and forge your path toward success, then it is very important to identify your true self. Take time for a thorough analysis of your own skill sets.
Start by setting precise and achievable goals and work through each step just like a game where you clear each level before moving on to the next. This will not only make your development progress smooth but also interesting.
Overall success is possible only when you focus on your personal development. I finally want to conclude with the famous saying of Jane Goodall.
“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
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