Personal development - A lifelong journey

 Personal development - A lifelong journey

Personal development is a lifelong process. It is a way for people to assess their skills and qualities, consider their aims in life, and set goals in order to realize and maximize their potential.

Although early life development and early formative experiences within the family, at school, etc. can help to shape us as adults, personal development should not stop later in life but should go on forever to polish ourselves.

There are a number of ways to manage your personal development.

1. Developing a Personal Vision

Personal development can simply be for fun. Most of us, however, find it easier to motivate ourselves to learn and improve if we have a strong purpose for doing so. Developing your personal vision - a clear idea of where you want to be in the coming months or years, and why - is a crucial part of developing this purpose.

2. Planning Your Personal Development

Once you are clear about where you want to be, you can start planning how to get there. Drawing up a personal development plan is not essential, but it does make the planning process more realistic and efficient.

3. Starting the Improvement Process

Now, this is where the crucial part arises. It's the execution time! Now it is completely up to you to get up and start what you've planned for. 

For this, you have to have a strong motivation to get going. This can be achieved in multiple ways such as having some role model or you yourself being strong-minded enough to start and continue your progress.

4. Recording Your Personal Development

It is often a good idea to keep a record of your personal development. By writing down key developments in your learning and development as and when they occur, you will be able to reflect on your successes at a later date.

5. Reviewing and Revising Personal Development Plans

Learning is a cycle. For more effective learning, it is important to reflect on your experience, and consider what you have learned from it. Regular review of your personal development plans, and your development activities, will ensure that you learn from what you have done. It will also ensure that your activities continue to move you towards your goals and that your goals or vision remain relevant to you.

Following all of this will certainly ensure your growth in the long run and make you capable enough to handle any kind of situation in life as you'd have yourself developed enough to do so.

Keep in mind, learning is a cycle and it is never stopped till our last breath.

From : Sourabh Patil Chief Code Expert, ELESA