Personal Development 101

Let's talk about Personal Development. 

Improvements is not overnight, it is actually overtime. Whatever you do consistently is what you become! Everybody has a tendency of improving but many don't even bother to pay attention to development. And Personal Development is just those simple and yet deliberate steps you take to be a better version of yourself.

Personal Development is irrespective of career choice, it is actually what positions you to either be a better boss or a employee.

Here are few highlights.

1. Have a Plan. I love to always say that Planning initiates productivity. You must not let a day go without a plan. If you want to have noticeable development, then you must have simple plans for your day and your week. You need to understand that in life there are stages, many people are still moving round the circle of thinking and no work!

Take Seun for instance, She's on her Job but she had a desire to start baking and selling it out. Her vacation came since she didn't have a plan, forgetting her desires she head to her friends place spent the whole 2month vacation and now she's back on her Job disturbed because she didn't plan well.

Personal development starts with a conscious effort to be a better version of yourself.

I'm sure if Seun had written the plan, she'd most likely have followed through with it.

Have a Journal. Create a daily To-do list for yourself. The importance of this helps you to be an organized person and helps people to see you as serious minded! 

2. READING: The journey to personal development starts one day or another. Many of us postpone it in the bid to do life and have life but in the actual sense of it, you need your personal development to really go through life.

Reading is very important. It helps you to think better and even write better. Whatever you can see will in turn reflect in what you think about and how you act.

Reading helps you words presentations and even you think much critically.

START A BOOK TODAY.

3. LISTENING: Many don't know the importance of listening, some carelessly listen and miss information. There are times people have missed opportunities because they didn't listen well. 

Hearing is a physical ability. Listening is a Skill.

Listening helps in effective communication. You communicate well with others by listening. You foster good relationship with others when you are able to listen and properly utilise what you hear.

A proof of intelligence is listening. A intelligent person is a great listener, since you can't show your intellect without thinking and thinking comes from an information.

Richard Carlson in Don't Sweat the Small Stuff gives us the full context: "We often treat communication as if it were a race. It's almost like our goal is to have no time gaps between the conclusion of the sentence of the person we are speaking with and the beginning of our own. If you think about it, you'll notice that it takes an enormous amount of energy and is very stressful to be sitting at the edge of your seat trying to guess what the person in front of you (or on the telephone) is going to say so that you can fire back your response. But as you wait for the people you are communicating with to finish, as you simply listen more intently to what is being said, you'll notice that the pressure you feel is off." Great listeners tend to have better self-esteem and self-image because, in their listening, they work toward establishing positive relationships.

Good listening leads to more accuracy in retaining information 

So TODAY. LISTEN ACTUALLY.

You're helping yourself and developing that way!

Never forget, developmental changes in a person is a function of what he knows and what he does with what he knows! 

Did you learn anything?.

Drop your comments.

Cheers,

VICTOR AYO OLUWOLE