Personal growth is a term that is widely used today. It means quite different concepts. On the Internet you can find many options for what is meant by personal growth.

However, the definition itself presupposes the presence of a personality and some of its development over time. There are quite a lot of options for what kind of development this is, over what period of time it occurs, and what it poses to a person. This gives rise to a wide variety of definitions of this term.

What is meant by personal growth today?

“Self-development” or “personal growth” are very popular terms today. Everyone uses them: from managers or salespeople to serious psychologists and religious leaders.

Everyone puts their own meaning into the concept of “personal growth”. Let's look at some popular examples of what different categories of people may mean by personal growth.

Personal growth is the development of a person from childhood to adulthood. That is, the totality of all psychological changes, the development of personality traits, character, way of thinking that occur to a person throughout life.

Personal growth is the development of qualities and character traits that make an individual more human. That is, this is the development of patience, humility, kindness, compassion, love for people, independence, independence, responsibility for oneself and one’s actions. This understanding of personal growth is most often used by religious or semi-religious groups of people.

Personal growth is the development of skills and abilities that help achieve certain goals. This formulation of the concept of “personal growth” is most often used by groups of people involved in training. Then the concept of “personal growth” may include the development of skills such as determination, leadership qualities, the ability to persuade, and organization.

Origin of the term

The term “personal growth” was originally formulated by American psychologists Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers. They are also the founders of humanistic psychology. A little later, the term “personal growth” began to be widely used by other psychological trends.

The original concept of personal growth was based on the assumption that every person has a positive inner nature. That is, under certain circumstances, any individual is able to develop and also demonstrate their own: kindness, honesty, compassion, mercy, and the like.

In the concept held by Maslow and Rogers, a person, under appropriate circumstances, will manifest the positive qualities that are already inherent in him. If the environment is not conducive to this, then personal growth may be difficult or will not occur to its full potential.

Some psychological movements view a person as an entity that does not possess inherently positive qualities. That is, a person in such concepts is initially neutral, but in the process of personal growth he can acquire positive qualities.

Principles are the basis of personal growth

When approaching the question: “where to start personal growth,” you first need to decide what exactly you will mean by this concept. The necessary actions in order to develop as a person depend on the definition given to the term “personal growth.”

Below we will consider personal growth as the development of a harmonious, humane personality that is able to achieve its goals effectively and environmentally. That is, if possible, without causing harm to other living beings.

What are principles? This is the basis of any personality, the ability to constantly be in contact with one’s conscience. Clearly understand what is good and what is bad. Be able to follow the good and also reject the bad. This is the absence of double standards and hypocrisy.

The principles can be based, for example, on biblical commandments. Every person intuitively understands that what is described in them is good. Following principles means not having double standards for honesty, love, kindness, selflessness, compassion, etc.

Examples of principles

For example, almost everyone understands that stealing is bad, but being honest is good. But if you conduct a survey among people in the office and ask them if they have ever stolen? Many will say no. These people really think so.

Ask them if they consider themselves honest. Many will answer yes. But at the first opportunity, they will print out their personal documents and letters on office paper. Among these people there are many who will not buy a train or bus ticket at the first opportunity. There will also be those who will not return the incorrectly counted change. Little things like this happen every day. So is it right to talk about honesty and the absence of theft in such cases?

Or another example. The girl wants to get married, but she signs up for courses for “chic women.” Where they teach how to promote a man with money. Where they teach how to manipulate, lie, how to get benefits, and get married by deception. Where they teach you to kindle sexual desire in a man, and then use it.

But will such trainings develop love, kindness, and the ability to understand another person? And does a person go to such training only for the purpose of obtaining personal gain, or is he really based on the principles of goodness and love?

Principles: where to get it

Principles are the basis of personal growth. As you can see from the examples above, without having clear principles and understanding them, it is easy to go in the wrong direction.

Relationships, money, achievements, if they are created without taking these principles into account, then they will either be very difficult to create, or then they will not last.

Therefore, put principles at the basis of any undertaking. But sometimes, as with tickets or paper in the office, it is very difficult to notice the places where you deviate from your own principles, and personal growth stops.

This happens because the concepts of honesty, kindness, and lack of selfishness can vary greatly from person to person. Secular society does not set any strict standards for morality. There are laws, but they are not enough to develop humanity and have a moral core on which the personality rests.

What moral values are is well understood in all the major religions of the world. Where to start studying them?

To develop a moral core, you can study the materials of the closest religion, read, listen to lectures, attend services.
Those who are completely uncomfortable with the thought of studying religious materials can read books on personal growth, for example, by Stephen Covey. They have a good discussion of human values, but there are no references to religion. This author took all the best from the major religions and was able to convey to the reader in a form in which even the most inveterate atheist can easily read everything in his books.

Are goals necessary?

Having defined what personal growth is, we noted not only the development of humanity, but also the ability to achieve one’s goals. The principles will help you choose and achieve goals without harming others.

The second important point in personal growth is setting goals. Do you need to set goals for personal growth to occur? What matters here is what goals we are talking about, because an attempt to achieve humanity can in itself be a goal. That is, the development of humanity, as well as adherence to the principles and. But personal growth is possible even when humanity is the basis, and is not associated with the development of the qualities of a moral personality.

Let's look at an example of personal growth that is not related to the development of moral qualities. For example, a person wants to develop the ability to persuade. You can find many different trainings where the development of such ability will be presented as personal growth.

Depending on how the concept of “personal growth” is defined, the development of this skill will or will not be personal growth.

If we consider the development of the skill of persuasion for a harmonious moral personality, then personal growth will occur if a person takes into account the principles. That is, he learns to persuade without using manipulation, intimidation, or throwing mud at competitors. Otherwise, for a moral and integral person, personal growth when acquiring the skill of persuasion does not occur.

Harmonization of goals and principles

Personal growth of a moral person involves not only the development of moral qualities, but also the achievement of one’s goals without harming others.

Therefore, goals and methods for achieving them always need to be harmonized with each other. Let's look at where the harmonization of goals begins using the example below.

Let a person decide to open his own business, that is, this is his goal. But at the same time, he must remember and adhere to the principles that he is doing this primarily for people. It is important to develop not only advertising, but also to make your product better. It is important not to deceive the buyer, but to try to offer him really necessary and good things. Important, but this cannot be done at the expense of deceiving buyers.

If an entrepreneur sells products, then there is no need to forward the expiration date on expired goods. If an entrepreneur sells clothes, then there is no need to stick on labels from well-known manufacturers and sell counterfeits.

The very idea of what kind of business to open must also comply with the principles. Create a one-day company that will raise money for the project, and then the business will disappear too. But personal growth, especially if we talk about a moral personality, has absolutely nothing to do with it.

Try to develop in any of your endeavors, not only by acquiring new skills, but also by taking care of improving your character and morals. Then you can become a truly developed personality.

In continuation of our conversation about life without haste (see article) - a new trend of our era, a new look at your life, I want to say this.

The idea of “slow living” does not mean “doing nothing” while lying on the lawn. Against. Adherents of this lifestyle specifically choose a job that will NOT “take away” all their time, but only a small part of it. For what?

Yes, just in order to have time to do and try the most in your life. To have balance in life between work (business), personal life. To have more free time to communicate with family, to achieve your goals, to fulfill your desires. To make your dreams come true.

1. Are you interested in knowing which 50 goals in a person’s life list are the most popular now among people from different countries?

List of goals collected online publication 43things.com. On this site, more than 3 million people from all over the world talk about their goals. It is interesting to know: what is the purpose in life of a person from another country, or rather, many people from many other countries?!

Here they are, 50 goals in a person’s life - the most popular in the world:

Lose weight,
Write your book
Don’t put off dreams and things until later (the problem is called “procrastination”)
To fall in love
Become a happy person
Get a tattoo
Go on a spontaneous trip without planning anything
Get married or get married
Start traveling around the world
To drink a lot of water
Keep your diary
See the Northern Lights
Learn Spanish
Keep a personal blog
Learn to save money
Take a lot of photos
Kissing in the rain
To buy a house
Make new friends
Learn to play guitar
Run a marathon
Learn French
Find a new job
Pay off loans
Read a lot of books
Become confident
Live actively
Write a story
Jump with a parachute
Switch to a healthy diet
Exercise
Learn Japanese
Learn to cook deliciously
Start your own business
Quit smoking
Visit 50 states
Learn sign language
Swim with a dolphin
Learn to play the piano
Become a surfer
Correct your posture
Find 100 things other than money for happiness
Don't bite your nails
Determine an occupation for the rest of your life
Learn to dance
Learn to drive a car
Change, improve life
Gain financial independence
Learn Italian
Be organized

I was surprised that there were so few financial goals on this list. The first places are occupied by goals about travel, self-development, love and happiness. It’s great that more and more people in the world have stopped listening to stupid advice in personal growth trainings, that supposedly all people, without exception, should set inflated demands and goals for themselves, achieve them in order to become very rich. I think that such recommendations cause anxiety and do not bring happiness.

2. Why are goals needed in a person’s life (examples) and how can they change life?

There is, I would say, some kind of mysticism in this issue. Do you know what unites successful people who became happy because they did what they loved all their lives? They are united by a common quality inherent in all of them - determination and an irresistible desire to achieve their dreams or goals. All of them very early, even in childhood or adolescence, set themselves and wrote down a list of goals and did everything to achieve them.

An example is the life of John Goddard, a Guinness Book of Records holder, explorer and traveler, an outstanding anthropologist, holder of scientific degrees in anthropology and philosophy.

But don’t be embarrassed and compare yourself with this hero. Such people are the exception rather than the rule. It’s just that John Goddard’s example clearly shows how written goals help you live a more interesting and vibrant life.

How many goals should a person have? The more you write on your list, the easier it will be for you to find your deepest desires and dreams, make them come true and become happy.

3. Which goals are more important, financial or goals of spiritual and personal growth?

This question is very similar to the question “What came first, the chicken or the egg?” Now I’ll explain why. Materialists will say that if you have money, you can easily realize all your dreams and achieve your goals. For example, start traveling around the world. To buy a house. Learn languages. Therefore, first you need to fulfill your financial goals - find a new job, build your own business, and the like.

For information: who are Materialists and Idealists. Materialists believe that matter is primary and gave rise to consciousness. Idealists, on the contrary, believe that consciousness is primary and it created matter. This contradiction is called by many the main question of philosophy.

But my grandmother always told me (without knowing it, she was an Idealist) that if God is in first place, then everything else will follow and will be in its place. She said: “You don’t have to wait for financial well-being to have a child. Because if God gives a child, he will also give for the child!”

Using logic, prudence, and pragmatism, it is difficult to understand this grandmother’s principle and even more difficult to apply it in life. Because it is difficult, impossible to explain it from a scientific, materialistic point of view.

But sayings and proverbs (I call them the quintessence of the centuries-old experience of our ancestors) seem to be trying to convey to us the knowledge and wisdom of previous generations.

This wisdom is based not on logic and pragmatism, but on observations of the connection between actions and events, both in the life of one person and entire generations:

Man proposes, but God disposes (Russian proverb)
Easy come easy go (English proverb “What is easily gained is easily lost”)
What happens happens at the right time (Chinese proverb “Accidents are not accidental”)

The list of proverbs from different nations can be continued indefinitely. But how can even these three proverbs of different nations be explained from the point of view of logic and materialism?

Based on these considerations and being an idealist, I compiled goals for myself in the following sequence: Spiritual improvement -> Personal growth and relationships -> Physical health -> Financial goals.

Spiritual improvement:

1. Don’t judge, watch your thoughts

2. Conquer your talkativeness, listen to others

3. Charity: transfer money monthly to those in need (orphanage, children's hospital, elderly neighbors)

4. Complete the house for parents, help parents

5. Help children until they get back on their feet

6. Do not interfere in other people's affairs unless they ask for advice.

7. Give alms to those asking for alms - do not pass by

8. Do not retell other people’s sins (Boorish sin)

9. Go to Temple for Sunday services at least 2 times a month

10. Don’t store, but give unnecessary but good things to those in need

11. Forgive offenses

12. Fast not only on Lent, but also on Wednesdays and Fridays

13. Visit Jerusalem for Easter

Personal growth and relationships:

16. Get rid of your laziness, stop putting things off

18. Take your time, live in a slow-life style, leaving time for communication with your family, contemplation, reading and your hobbies

20. Learn to cook deliciously for family and friends, go to master classes

21. Learn to grow herbs, vegetables, fruits and flowers in your garden

22. Go to Latin American dancing with your husband

23. Learn to take professional photos

24. Improve English - watch movies and read books

25. Go on a spontaneous car trip with your husband without planning anything.

26. Learn to do daily cleaning for 15 minutes instead of general cleaning of the whole house.

27. Meet more often with children and friends, go to concerts, performances, exhibitions

28. Travel the world 2 times a year with your husband, children and friends

29. Go on a trip with your husband not for 2 weeks, but for several months to Thailand, India, Srilanka, Bali

30. Ride an elephant, swim with a dolphin, a huge turtle, a sea cow

31. Visit Serengeti Park in Africa with your husband

32. Visit America with your husband

33. Take a cruise on a multi-deck ship with your husband

Physical health:

34. Get a massage periodically

35. Do exercises every day

36. Go to the sauna and pool once a month

37. Every evening - a brisk walk

38. Avoid harmful foods completely

39. Once a month – 3-day fasting

40. Lose 3 kg

41. Drink 1.5 liters of water per day

Financial goals:

42. Increase income from a vending enterprise - a network of payment terminals

43. Increase your monthly blog income

44. Become a professional webmaster

46. Raise your blog traffic to 3000 visitors per day

47. Make money from affiliate programs

48. Write one blog article every day

49. Purchase products from wholesale stores

50. Swap a gasoline car for an electric car

51. Organize the work of your projects in such a way as to receive passive income

52. Learn to save, open a savings account and replenish it monthly

You can, of course, write all your goals in any order. Actually, this is how they should be written. I divided them into 4 groups to make it clear that in life we need to maintain a balance between goals for Business and Finance, Relationships, Health, and Spirituality. In general, I always write down all my tasks, goals, dreams in a row. Below in section 4 “How to make a list of your goals?” I will tell you about this in detail.

I gave my goals as an example only. They are different for everyone and change over time. For example, parenting goals are not on my list. This is because they have already been completed - our children have grown up and live independently.

4. How to make a list of your goals? 50 goals in a person's life list in the present tense

Working in large banks, on large IT projects, I completed many interesting trainings on psychology, motivation, stress management, time management, emotional intelligence, personal growth. At these trainings we were taught production techniques goals and intermediate tasks to achieve them.

But I especially liked this simple and effective technique:

You need to mentally “turn off your consciousness” and, without hesitation, start writing by hand on a blank sheet of paper all your desires, goals, tasks - large and small.
You need to write as much as possible, the main thing is to “don’t turn on your brain” and don’t stop.
Write also “today’s” problems, for example, “so that my son passes his test” or “take out the trash from the garage” or “buy a live Christmas tree in a pot for the New Year.” And global ones, for example, “so that children choose professions they like”, “so that they successfully graduate from universities.”
Then break down your goals into short-term, medium-term and long-term. Also highlight the actual goals and what can be called tasks to achieve these goals.

By the way, I often came across this idea in the books of successful people, but did not attach any importance to it. They all say that it is important to write down desires and goals and this helps in some incomprehensible way to fulfill them.

If you are thinking about goals, then you will probably also be interested in this useful article. It will help you take a different look at your personal finance goals. After reading the article, you will understand how easy it is to provide yourself with a decent “pension”, without even waiting until retirement age! Be sure to pass on this simple but valuable knowledge to your children, because in our schools it is not customary to teach personal finance issues.

5. How to achieve goals, slowly and to the delight of yourself and your loved ones?

We know that everyone is different. They have different psychotypes, abilities, charisma, efficiency, intuition. That's why everyone lives, creates, realize their dreams and goals in DIFFERENT WAYS, based on their abilities and character.

Let's look at a small example. I will now describe the “portrait” of my successful friend:

He is an optimist, this helps him a lot in his business.
He has good abilities, but he is lazy.
At some moments, when he needs to get together and do something important, laziness recedes and he becomes assertive and purposeful.
He is also a very spontaneous person. If he gets excited about an idea, he immediately implements it without thinking. Because of this, there are often losses, but in general the job is done quickly.
He often relies on intuition and if something doesn’t “go”, he easily puts it aside, knowing that in “due time” it will be done easily.
He does a lot of things absolutely selflessly, helping people.

Now you can roughly imagine (based on this characteristic) how my friend achieves his goals: sometimes lazily, sometimes impulsively, sometimes assertively and purposefully, sometimes relying on intuition. But he never goes against his nature, character, his moral principles. And this is the secret of his success.

Do you understand what I'm getting at? I want to say that we are all different and what you definitely shouldn’t do when achieving your goals is don’t break yourself. There is no need to drive yourself into a state of stress, no need to reproach yourself for being sluggish. And never go against the dictates of your heart and do something you don’t like just because everyone has such a goal on their list.

For example, I don’t like to exercise in the gym. Let everyone go, but I won’t, because I tried it several times and was convinced that it didn’t bring me pleasure, and therefore no benefit.

Don’t listen to anyone who says that you need to devote so much time to your goal each day, that you need to schedule everything by day and hour. In this case, you will turn into a slave to your ambitions. You need your goals in order to live an interesting life, love, be a happy person, and do what you love.

Live slowly, enjoy life, give up rushing at home, at work and in relationships with all people. To this idea of slow life Many progressive people from many countries have already come. And stop reproaching your children for their sluggishness the way your parents reproached you (I recommend an article on how to raise happy children and unleash their intellectual and creative potential:). Since we are talking about children, I also recommend that you read an article about progressive and about, which will be in demand in 10 or more years.

Conclusion: In order to start living a more interesting life, without delay, sit comfortably now and write, without thinking, as many small and big things, goals, objectives and desires as possible.

And then, if the mood strikes, you can divide them into financial, personal and others. For big and small. But I will tell you that I always write down my life goals, desires and dreams in a row. And I divided them today for the first time just for this article, so that it becomes clear what the goals are.

Do you like this approach to business? No tediousness! I like this new positive approach to life - do everything with joy, as your heart tells you!

Finally, I suggest you watch a wonderful video describing an ingenious and simple method, How to joyfully and effectively achieve results in 4 areas of life goals. I loved the idea of setting small goals on the way to big ones and celebrating each one's accomplishments! At the same time, cover all 4 areas of your life and set only one goal at the beginning. I'm taking this cool idea to heart!

I wish everyone inspiration and self-confidence!

See you soon!

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Hello, dear colleagues and friends!

In our amazing world there are a lot of things that cannot be called unambiguous, especially when it comes to the inner world. Personal growth- one of the most important paths that each of us has to go through, or at least try to do it, or decide what we did, but in fact don’t even try.

Our whole life, its quality, its brightness, and the mark that it will leave behind depends on how early or how late we understand the importance of personal growth.

What is personal growth?

Personal growth - a concept that does not necessarily have a positive connotation for others. This is, first of all, victory over your weaknesses, over fears, over ingrained phobias, over everything that prevents us from being what we want to be and what we can be.

Personal growth– this is, first of all, a person’s conscious self-development, his desire to become better, smarter, more active, more significant (maybe more popular) and more promising.

Personal growth- This is a component of success in any business. This is work that a person must do on himself. A personality is a living organism that must constantly grow and develop. How to do this correctly? Read on...

Personal growth theory

There are quite a lot of theories regarding personal growth, most of them are very subtle and complex for an unprepared mind. But there are also clearer positions on this matter, the simplification of the explanation of which is not at all necessary. Perhaps we’ll start with them.

Behaviorism– this is a rare case when the simplest theory is called the most complex word. The very essence of this theory is very simple and widespread. According to her We all initially do not have any special, and most importantly, different potential from others. We are all equal as a selection! But this is only the beginning of the journey. Our personal growth depends solely on the circumstances and factors surrounding us, which ultimately lead us along the path of personal growth.

No one will pull you by the ears in this life and no one will occupy you with you except yourself... To achieve something in life, you need to break through the walls with your head!

Existential approach in some ways similar to the previous one, but the similarities are not great. In this case, at the beginning of the journey we still have nothing, and we gain everything in the process of self-knowledge, the search for spiritual harmony and, as a result, a new perception of everything around us.

Well, perhaps the most common of the theories is "inevitably positive" , let's call it that. Based on it, each of us is filled with a huge amount of potential, which is eager to be released, but finds a way out only under appropriate conditions, and not always positive ones. The latter makes this theory truly positive, because whatever you say, growth will still take place! But let's not forget, this is also a theory. All teachings are good, but you need to act no matter what!

Everything that will be written below is directly related to how exactly you relate to this concept and how you perceive it.

Why is personal growth necessary?

Yes, but why? Why bother if you are already living well? If any of you asked this question, then you are probably happy, satisfied with yourself and your situation. Or, you are very old and think that growth is not a word that applies to you.

Most of us, fortunately, have dreams. Not many of us know what exactly is stopping them from achieving this dream. And only a few dream, notice their mistakes, and find the path to their dream. Moreover, it is also funny that the word “dream” only evokes associations with something unrealistic among the first. Humility is the main indicator that we are standing still, that we are not growing (this does not mean the Orthodox understanding as a virtue, but the lack of desire to achieve more).

This is the answer to the question "For what?" Personal growth is needed we are like air, we cannot refuse it, and at the same time remain ourselves, we will degrade, and very soon we will take the last place in line for... no, not for a dream - for a normal life, for respect and showing interest from the outside people dear to us.

Personal growth is a modern model of the truth that the fittest survive! Only in our case, to survive is to lose, and to live is to win. Without personal growth, we will have to survive, not live.

How to develop personal growth?

There are a lot of different trainings, and there are also a lot of those who conduct these trainings, promising you a quick transformation, thereby insulting you already in the first lesson. No, of course, there are those for whom an ordinary “kick” is enough, those who were one step away from realizing the importance and necessity of growth, but did not dare to act. But there are not many such people. It is not always good to force this procedure, and often there is no effect, and if there is no result, then you will not only not be able to start what you had in mind, but you will also take a big step back. It's like losing 50 kilograms in one month. We cannot change everything we wanted in an instant, even if that same clarity came to our heads, that insight that we so needed.

The first step towards development- to admit that the current state of affairs is not what we so desired, what we thought and reasoned about so much, not what we wanted. You don’t have to derail your entire life, because there are probably a lot of pleasant moments in it. Personal growth is rarely comprehensive, many of us have strengths, and our growth as individuals, first of all, is manifested in the recognition of weaknesses, and actions that will be aimed at strengthening them. After all, you need to admit, first of all, to yourself, and not rarely, only to yourself. Let your progress be a pleasant surprise for others.

Psychology of Personality Development

We all want to see positive subtext in all directions, even in those where it is not entirely appropriate. It often happens that personal growth occurs against the backdrop of anything but positive moments. The same envy can become a strong push, and, ultimately, a positive incentive; this is a fairly common practice.

It just so happens that those who ask this question rarely want growth from a good life, no, of course, there are those, but we won’t talk about exceptions. Often, the question of personal growth becomes relevant when we are dissatisfied with something, when we have been consumed for years by the memory of some personal failure, something that we could have achieved, but did not have time, or we were prevented from doing it. Or something less significant, but no less unpleasant.

Be that as it may, the desire to grow almost always gives rise to dissatisfaction. It's quite normal. After all, they recycle garbage and make beautiful things out of it, so why don’t we recycle our spiritual garbage into something more useful and necessary for us. It is very important to admit to ourselves that sometimes the desire to become better is prompted by one of our greatest failures. This is exactly the case when we can safely count on catching two birds with one stone. We can become better, and as a reward for this we will receive a conquered problem.

If you intend to become a less significant person than your abilities allow, you will be a deeply unhappy person!

Abraham Maslow

It also happens that personal growth is due to the emergence of a new goal in your life, on the way to achieving which you will inevitably have to. This goal could be a higher position at work, or your interest in an individual. Love can be a very serious incentive on the path to personal growth; it will be an excellent assistant, and even an accompaniment, if everything works out as you planned. If you disagree, write in the comments, I will be glad to see your opinion!

There are also those who grow not for the sake of any goals, not for the sake of love and successful work. These are people who strive to live in harmony with the world around them, they place emphasis on self-knowledge. It is more important for them to rethink the approach to life’s truths, to change the perception of everything that seems too sharp and alien, so that in the end, even problems seem part of success, or at least, interesting and useful material for reflection. First of all, such people strive to get rid of internal contradictions, considering them to be the basis of all problems. This is one of the most competent and painless beginnings of the path leading to personal development.

Self-development of personality

In this case, to put it simply, then self-development– this is the autonomous mode, the one in which most of us live. We develop without controlling the channel, and we receive growth only in those places where our needs are directed. There are cases in which a person lived his life, and at the same time never put emphasis on the question of developing himself in any direction. Everything just worked out by itself, everything worked out. But these are, of course, just another exception, and in percentage terms there are very few such people. That’s why it turns out that there are areas in which we are a kind of guru, and there are also those in which we remain small children who cannot connect even a couple of words, not to mention actions.

It’s not uncommon for self-development to be facilitated by the problems we experience. Often these problems remain unresolved, but the very fact that we went through them either breaks us or makes us stronger. The path of personal growth is filled with problem areas, and in order to grow, we must learn not only to accept, but also to give and lose. There will never come a time when problems completely stop affecting us, but we can learn to accept them differently, as part of the path to a positive result - this will be the best indicator of personal growth.

Personal growth techniques

There are so many varieties that it probably doesn’t make sense to list them all; the format of the article is somewhat different. One way or another, they all imply an action, or a series of necessary actions that need to be repeated with a certain frequency. It’s like a set of physical exercises, only they are aimed, first of all, at strengthening the weak areas of your psychological state. Some people often repeat the necessary set of words to gain additional confidence, others force themselves to change their behavior in the necessary situations, thereby strengthening their spirit. There are plenty of examples and visual aids on various methods of developing personal growth. Most of them, oddly enough, work, only the majority are local in nature, and can only help solve some minor weaknesses. However, a competent set of such techniques can take you to a whole new level. But this will definitely require the participation of a professional, at least in the first couple of days.

Comprehensive personality development

In modern society, it is very difficult to develop comprehensively without making conscious efforts. No matter how hard we try to live correctly, there will always be areas that lag behind, this is normal. Although, almost each of us sees in this our own little tragedy, which, it seems, only we had to feel.

If you don’t delve into all the intricacies of this issue, then there are not so many sides:

- The desire to be successful at work.

- The desire to be able to love and be loved.

- The desire to be healthy and strong in spirit.

- The desire to feel determination and strength for any achievement.

All of these directions can be interchanged depending on your personal priorities, but none of them contradicts the other. They are completely compatible, which means that it is possible and necessary to strive to bring them to life. Whether you can attack on all fronts simultaneously or not is another matter. It is very important to sensibly and objectively assess your capabilities. An unsuccessful start to working on yourself can deprive you of the desire to develop this idea further, and will leave you marking time indefinitely.

Driving forces of personality development

We can summarize some results and identify the main factors that contribute to personal growth. I would also like to point out the high degree of subjectivity in the arrangement of determining factors. In my opinion, the main stimulants on the path to personal growth are:

Dissatisfaction with the state of affairs, sometimes with one direction in your life, sometimes with a whole group of them.
Target. It could be a person you fell in love with, or a job you have long dreamed of - for example. The goals may be different.
Extraneous factors. Circumstances of a different nature that can make significant adjustments to your life in a relatively short period of time.
A conscious desire to become better. Alas, this happens extremely rarely. Such is human nature, we are in no hurry to change anything if everything is not so bad. But there are also those in whom the desire for development lives constantly.

Moreover, the sequence of points was not chosen by chance. The power of the driving force decreases starting from the first point. Consistency is also useful for measuring the “popularity” of the reasons why many of us are thinking about this issue.

The influence of personal growth on success

Only strong personalities can be successful! Anyone can achieve success, but not everyone can be stable, and often, after the ascent, there is a long and painful descent. Without personal growth, we will never achieve significant results, and at the same time not lose ourselves somewhere along the way to our goal.

Success is a product of personal growth, not its cause!

Every qualitative improvement we acquire ultimately produces tangible results. The more we work on self-improvement, the greater the chances, and the shorter the distance to the goal that we have set for ourselves. Speaking about goals, you should understand that one single goal, even the most significant one in your life, will not be able to help personal growth, since to achieve it, you will develop in yourself only the qualities necessary for achievement. It is very important to have related aspirations; they will allow us to become more universal and help us move closer to uniform, comprehensive development. Haste is rarely useful, and in our case it is also useless. A complex of local, diverse aspirations, much more important than the pursuit of an illusory dream.

Useful books on personal growth

There are a lot of books related to the issue of personal growth. Some of them are more useful and informative, some less so. I will present to your attention several (in my opinion) excellent works by different authors:

Morgan Scott Peck - "The Road Less Traveled"

“Our whole life is a “road” that we ourselves pave. And it is very important that this path goes in the right direction.” - Quite an interesting job that touches on many aspects of personal growth.

Jim Rohn "SEASONALITY OF LIFE"

The book is about how life is seasonal, just like the course of the year. It talks about how to find ways to resolve internal contradictions.

Alan Lakein "THE ART OF PLANNING"

A book about how to master the ability to plan your life. Very useful information, since planning further actions is very important in personal growth.

Paul Tillich "The Courage to Be"

The book is about how to learn to live, no matter what, despite all the difficulties and adversities.

Bill Newman "Soar with the Eagles"

The book is about how to maintain pride and calm under any circumstances, how to live life without lowering your eyes.

And as a bonus, another book by Jim Rohn

This is only a small part of the useful literature on this issue. Each of you will be able to find the right recipe for success, the main thing is the desire to grow, the rest will come on its own. Success and growth!

Personal growth: essence, features, main criteria

A strong personality is aware of the motives that drive him, adheres to them firmly and patiently achieves their implementation, while a weak personality cannot make decisions based on his motives, he does not adhere to his decisions and is therefore unable to follow the intended path.
Inayat Khan Hidayat, Indian mystic and musician

All people have internal potential - a certain set of abilities, skills and abilities, inclinations that allow them to achieve their own goals, which are the basis of every person’s life. These abilities are not often given to a person from birth; many of them a person must develop in himself, and some skills require constant development throughout a person’s life. Based on personal qualities, a person forms his behavior in all areas of life: when communicating with people, when performing important tasks, and even during rest. A person’s behavior, in turn, leads him to a certain result. Thus, it can be argued that a person's personality is an accurate reflection of his inner potential.

Initially, each person has a certain set of qualities that allow him to be called a “personality”. It is these qualities that distinguish us favorably from other people, becoming our “calling card”. In order to have a clearer idea of what personal growth is, go back in time for a moment and remember yourself at your school desk. Remember how Ivanov (Petrov, Sidorov), sitting at the first desk, constantly stretched out his hand, asking to go to the board to solve a complex problem, which was obvious only to him in the whole class. And how teachers admired his unique abilities and thirst for knowledge... Yes, studying at school was his finest hour - he had the necessary knowledge, which he tried to apply during the lesson, for which Ivanov (Petrova, Sidorov) was constantly praised, which gave additional motivation for new achievements. Of course, no one could have any doubts - this school would produce another genius, a real pride.

After several years, you, one of the leading employees of a successfully developing financial organization, quite by chance meet one of your classmates, unkemptly dressed and extremely dissatisfied with life. You enter into a dialogue, during which it turns out that your classmate has not been able to find a job for two years now and continues to live with his parents. To your question: “But why is that?” your classmate replies doomedly: “Well, that’s it, somehow it didn’t work out.” At first glance, this is not surprising, given that the unemployment rate in some countries of the former CIS reaches 20%. It’s amazing that your interlocutor is none other than the aforementioned Ivanov (Petrov, Sidorov)!

But how did it happen that a person who is ahead of the rest of the class in terms of intelligence remained outside the game called “Life”? The fact is that he did nothing to ensure his personal growth. Yes, he had certain knowledge and read a lot of literature in order to supplement with information. But... Many people consider the concepts of “personal growth” and “intellectual development, improvement of knowledge” to be synonymous. However, in fact, the second is one of the components of the first. In order for knowledge and skills to ensure a person achieves personal growth, it is necessary:

1. Continuous improvement of knowledge. In our life, the theoretical basis of any knowledge undergoes changes over time, and no one can claim that the knowledge that a person possesses at the moment will be relevant in a couple of years. That is why, in order to be a professional in his field, each person must update his own theoretical knowledge and methods of applying it. This need can be clearly seen in sports - every great achievement of athletes at the Olympics is preceded by months and years of hard training. Athletes must be confident that they will be at their best during the Olympic Games. But what happens if the winner of the last Olympics, deciding that he is “up to his knees,” stops training for the next Olympics? How many chances does he have to defend his champion title? Of course not, unless all his rivals are as irresponsible about training as he is.

With regard to other types of human activity, the same rules apply as in sports - “if you have stopped developing, be ready to give up your place to a competitor.” This is why it is so important to constantly improve your area of knowledge and familiarize yourself with the most current information every day.

2. Application of knowledge in practice. You should not only have knowledge, but also know in what area to apply this knowledge. In order to protect yourself from wasting precious time spent on acquiring knowledge that is irrelevant to you, you should not choose the field of application of knowledge for specific knowledge (as many, unfortunately, do), but begin accumulating knowledge and acquiring skills after choosing the desired field their applications. If many young people did this during their university studies, many of them would not have to re-learn later.

It also happens that a person chooses the field of application of knowledge in accordance with his desires and ambitions, acquires the necessary knowledge, but is not able to apply this knowledge in practice. Unfortunately, in modern educational institutions they increasingly teach theoretical knowledge, literally filling a person’s mind with theory, completely forgetting to teach how to apply this knowledge in real conditions. But even in such a situation one should not despair - a person himself is capable of learning to use knowledge in practice; for this, a person needs to create conditions for himself that force him to apply this knowledge. Simply put, when a person comes to a new place of work, one way or another he is forced to work in new conditions, every day replenishing his stock of practical knowledge.

It was the inability to apply the acquired knowledge in practice that became the reason for the inability of the above-mentioned “excellent student” Ivanov (Petrova, Sidorov) to achieve success in life and further personal growth. This is what explains such a large number of millionaires who do not even have a secondary education. The secret of millionaires is that they determined the desired area of application of their own knowledge in the first stages of their education at school, and since the knowledge they received there did not contribute to achieving their goal, they did not spend significant effort on obtaining it. To become successful and gain financial independence, a person does not need to have all the knowledge in the world - it is enough to be a specialist in just one industry in which this knowledge is supposed to be implemented.

Based on the above, we can conclude that the main psychological meaning of personal growth is a person’s self-actualization, finding one’s own path in life, liberation from priorities and ideas imposed by society, and the implementation of one’s own skills in practical activities. A person’s personal growth directly depends on the influence of the internal and external world on him. A person must not only know his purpose and be confident in his own abilities, but also must feel respect and understanding from the people around him, people’s acceptance of his inner world.

The basic law of personal growth states that, in the presence of appropriate conditions, a process of self-development is launched in a person, aimed at achieving qualitative changes in a person’s personal maturity. These changes act as criteria for a person’s personal growth, which can be divided into internal (intrapersonal) and external (interpersonal).

Intrapersonal criteria for personal growth include:

1. Understanding oneself as a human being. A person must be clearly aware of his desires, control his thoughts, analyze his current situation and plan actions that will help him achieve his desired goal. In accordance with this criterion, a person must look at himself “without masks,” without being embarrassed by his real self. Only by knowing the real self can a person achieve the image of his ideal self.

2. Self-acceptance. After a detailed analysis of your present self, an important step in achieving personal growth is self-acceptance. At this stage, a person must love himself, develop an opinion of himself as a person worthy of respect, and learn to believe in his own strengths and capabilities.

3. Freedom based on responsibility. A person is free to decide for himself how to live, what principles to guide his life, what values to choose. This choice should be as independent as possible from the assessments of other people, however, the person also bears full responsibility for any choice made in his life.

4. Openness to experiences. The more independent a person is, the less influenced he is by experiences of past events, the more open a person is to awareness of internal reality and its acceptance, the more likely a person will live in the present, and not in the past.

5. Dynamism. The ability of an individual to change in accordance with changes in the environmental situation. A personality never stops developing; it is always capable, while maintaining its integrity, to develop through solving current problems.

6. Integrity. Integrity means the interconnection of all aspects of a person’s life, the integrity of his inner world. A person has the property of integrity initially, from the first years of his life, and the main task of a person is to ensure the safety of his integrity, to protect it from the influence of external factors.
Interpersonal criteria for personal growth include:

1. Socialization. Personal growth contributes to the manifestation of a natural human need - the need for constructive social relationships. When communicating with other people, a person becomes more open, flexible, sociable, realistic, strives to build relationships with people on the principles of harmony, and effectively resolves emerging contradictions. All these qualities are an integral part of a person striving to achieve personal growth.
2. Acceptance of other people. A person who strives for the process of personal growth is more able to accept people as they are, with all their strengths and weaknesses. Such a person respects the right of other people to be themselves, takes into account their characteristics, and respects the opinions of others.

3. Understanding other people. Personal growth presupposes the ability of a person not to enter into polemics with other people in order to impose his own opinion on someone else, before the person has listened to the arguments of another person and understands them. An undeveloped person, on the contrary, strives to prove that he is right at any cost, completely ignoring the point of view of another person, not trying to understand his arguments, no matter how obvious and justified they may be.

4. Creative adaptability. This criterion reflects a person’s ability to use his potential internal capabilities, his readiness to boldly meet life’s difficulties and decisively overcome life’s obstacles.

It should also be noted that personal growth is a constant process that does not have its end. Complete personal growth, even if such a thing existed in nature, embraces such a great amount of knowledge, skills and abilities of a person that several lives will not be enough to achieve it. Moreover, as we found out earlier, for a person to achieve personal growth, it is not enough just to master certain knowledge - you also need to be able to apply it in practice. Therefore, it will be much more useful to choose a specific area of knowledge and develop in this direction. In addition, in the process of personal growth, a person must gain a feeling of deep satisfaction with the work in which he is engaged. This will allow him to become more open, responsible, free, strong, able to perceive the world as many favorable opportunities, and not terrible endless problems.

Where should successful personal growth begin? What problems accompany professional and personal growth? What components should a successful personal growth program have in common? The answers to these questions, as well as a detailed description of personal growth tools that allow you to achieve quick results, and a selection of books on personal growth from experts and practitioners are in our article.

Personal growth lies in the conscious development of a person, his desire to become smarter, better, more significant and active, promising. Why is personal growth important to a person? Most people have different life and professional dreams. Few people understand what exactly prevents their dreams from coming true. Only a few notice their mistakes in order to change them and achieve their dreams.

Personal growth helps improve professional prospects, personal success, and life opportunities.

The leader strives more for personal growth than for career growth

Galina Rogozina,

Head of Leadership Development Practice at the consulting company RosExpert, Moscow

In domestic business, the criteria for professional success are salary and place in the job hierarchy. A large salary and a high position often bring internal satisfaction to managers. But entrepreneurs and those wishing to realize their potential in any case need to look at generally accepted standards to comply with unwritten social norms.

The leader internally strives to try his abilities in various areas, mastering new skills and knowledge. Strives to achieve personal growth rather than career growth - viewing himself as a mentor. There is a clear disconnect here - demonstrating tougher, more challenging and ambitious behavior while masking teamwork, creativity and leadership qualities.

What levels of personal growth are distinguished?

ignorant personality - rudimentary mind, material needs that are necessary for survival;
undeveloped personality - a thirsty mind, a set of basic basic values, the emphasis is on material acquisitions with an emotional response;
developing personality - a motivating mind, with the manifestation of interest through traditional educational and experiential systems, with sensual and rational knowledge of oneself and the world;
developed personality - based on a rational, determining mind to understand the world and oneself through concrete experiences, sensations, feelings and reactions;
a diversified personality – a discriminating mind with a wide range of views, interests, life tasks, awakening spiritual initiation;
integrated personality – an amazing mind, impressions aimed at integration with the soul. Intuitive discrimination at a level leading to the implementation of life lessons, an ever-increasing awareness of a person;
the overshadowing personality is the overshadowing mind, which is coordinated by the soul. A conscious, self-aware individual who can differentiate between "I" and "not-I".
a spiritually transformed personality is a person with a harmonious individuality, using an integral or universal mind. He is a holistic person who effectively interacts with the physical level and is transformed by the soul.

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Unclaimed personal growth leads to everything falling out of hand

Vadim Kravchenk O,

Commercial Director, Alaksar

In the absence of opportunities for self-realization in the workplace and lack of demand for one’s personal professional growth, a person is faced with uncertainty of life goals and nervousness.

As a reason for the deterioration of enthusiasm, one should also pay attention to the emotional decline of the personality caused by life problems and accumulated fatigue. Problems in the family, personal crises, illnesses of relatives - all this leads to negative consequences for the emotional state. But it is emotional energy that will determine physical activity. If these problems are present, the person begins to wilt and is clearly unable to cope with tasks.

What personal growth problems can you encounter?

In fact, we can talk about an endless list of personal growth problems; they are individual for each individual. You can only pay attention to the general features of personal growth problems, the most characteristic forms:

Problems of age-related development. Including problems of old age associated with retirement and completion of professional activities.
Existential problems are associated with awareness of the essence of human existence, including a collision with the corresponding givens of human existence, including freedom, death, loneliness, love, responsibility, etc.
Problems of self-understanding are a person’s attempts to understand his personal purpose.
Worries about how we are seen and how other people understand us.

About theories of personal growth

Today, many theories about personal growth have been formed. They are generally too complex and subtle for the untrained mind. However, there are clearer positions on this issue that do not need to be particularly simplified for explanation.

Behaviorism is a very simple theory with wide acceptance. According to this theory, a person initially does not have any special potential different from others. We are all completely equal. However, this is only the beginning of its journey. A person’s personal growth depends only on surrounding factors and circumstances, under the influence of which the personality will be formed.
The existential approach is somewhat reminiscent of the previous option. At the beginning of the path, a person has nothing special, but gains everything in the process of searching for spiritual harmony, self-knowledge, forming a new perception of everything around him.
"Inevitably positive" theory. Every person has enormous potential that is eager to be realized. However, it can only be realized under appropriate conditions, which are not always positive.

Misconceptions about Personal Growth

Today, in an effort to earn extra money, many authors have created a whole market of webinars on the Internet. Indeed, sometimes there are decent webinars, but in any case they will not work on their own. A person must take real actions and steps in his life. On the Internet, everything is too simplified, and often the webinars do not provide data on adapting the acquired knowledge to reality.

Today the situation with false personal growth is truly reaching the point of absurdity. For example, “there is no money and nothing happens at work - it’s okay, say that your goal is personal growth.” “Nothing works out with the girls? No problem - say that you are still growing as a person.”

The Internet space is filled with such statements. Although there are healthy discussions, it is not easy to find them in the mass of absurdity.

Where to start a personal growth program

First of all, for rapid and successful personal growth, you need to decide on the direction of your efforts. In what narrow direction are you planning to invest all your energy? Identify the results of your work with yourself - continuing to work multilaterally on them and on yourself.

For example, the head of a department should be a qualified specialist in his field, working to improve business methods, technology, products, and simultaneously becoming a recognized expert in this field.

1. Engage in self-development

If you engage in self-development, you will become happier and healthier. Therefore, you gain additional strength to achieve your goals, you become more active and purposeful, making more balanced and high-quality decisions.

2. Hit one point

Concentrate on improving performance results - and you need to continue to act, and act again. Only with active attempts will the result be noticeable.

3. Enhance your personality

Even if a certain style is already evident in your work, you still need to be bolder and more decisive, showing more individuality, without fear of experiments and public skepticism. It was individuality and courage that became the basis for the creation of entire directions and areas of activity.

4. Enhance Personal Attractiveness

All other things being equal, the choice of a business partner falls on the person who is more attractive to you.

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Personal growth program for a year

1st month. Strengthening self-awareness

Take an honest and detached look at your life. It is necessary to analyze which areas of life are working quite successfully, and which areas need to be improved? You need to discover and clarify the purpose of life for yourself. After all, every person has a goal.

Focus on your personal passions and strengths. Which hobbies are most enjoyable, easy to learn, and provide excellent results? Make a corresponding list of “My Strengths and Passions.”

It will be very useful to get up early and do exercises. You will be surprised how half an hour of exercise can energize you for the whole day.

2nd month. Get out of your comfort zone and strengthen your conviction

To move to a new stage of life, you need to review your present and past life. Face your fears, overcome your limitations. Only by going beyond the previous framework will it be possible to achieve personal growth. Therefore, we just need to acknowledge the fears that limit development - we make a firm decision, confidently moving forward.

Introduce working with affirmations and visualizations into your daily practice. Focus on your core values. Identify deeply held beliefs, starting with “I believe that...”. And then repeat these steps with the phrase: “These are my core values.”

Study books for personal growth and self-improvement. About success and money, about people who have achieved success in a certain business. Save your favorite aphorisms and quotes from wise people. Make one of your favorite quotes your daily motto. But it is important not only to think, but also to act, to take concrete steps taking into account your motto.

3rd month. Set yourself true goals

To realize your purpose, you need to derive true goals from it. They are like a guiding star, leading you along. This is done by setting a goal frame. Consider the following factors:

Clear desired result.
Positive wording. There are often situations when people only understand the negative formulation - what they want to get away from. But at the same time they do not understand what they are planning to achieve - although awareness of this is extremely important.
Personal responsibility. You should check whether achieving your goal depends on you? It is important that you act as the engine, the initiator of progress towards achieving the goal. Assign personal responsibility, for example, “I want to feel comfortable in a stressful situation.”
Present tense. The goal should be set not in the future or past, but in the present. The goal must have completeness. For example, it would be a mistake to set a goal as “I want to finish my work as soon as possible.” A more effective option is “I will finish the work before 22.00.”
Not your goals. You need to understand whether your goal is set or imposed by society and glossy magazines? Are the goals you set comfortable for you, and will they help you in life?
Context. A goal without a set time frame is just an illusion and a dream. Should you determine for yourself when, where and with whom do you plan to achieve your goal? You also need to establish a starting position - a starting point in achieving the goal, from which progress will be measured.
Visualization. You should mentally imagine that you have achieved your goals and victories in life. What will you see in your thoughts, what will you hear, how will you feel? If you feel not very pleasant sensations, you should adjust your goal.
First step. Where will achieving the goal begin? How is the progress program launched, what is the first action? All conditions for a well-formulated result must be taken into account. Next comes the time to take the first step.
Environmental testing:

Your loved ones. Think about how your loved ones will react to your goal? Will her achievement harm her loved ones?
People around. How will achieving your goal help others?
Resources. What expenditure of effort, money, time, thoughts and emotions will be needed to achieve your goals? Will such investments be justified?
Responsibility. Are you ready to take responsibility for achieving your goal?

4th month. Learn to manage your time

To achieve your goals, the skills of managing your time and optimal self-organization are important - familiarize yourself with the principles of successful time management. At the very least, start by keeping a diary in which you write down your plans and time spent on tasks and goals for the day, month and year.

5th month. Create your own image

You need to start the new month by working on your personal space to ensure more comfortable and pleasant living conditions. We put the house in order - energetically and materially. By this period, a store of knowledge is usually formed. When studying the theory of human image, work on transferring your internal state to the external one.

6th month. Learn gratitude and optimism

Purposefulness, excellent and positive mood become the basis of a person’s personal growth. You need to evaluate your attitude towards troubles, failures, and life mistakes. Focus on positive things this month, avoiding humiliating jokes, gossip, negative talk and complaints. You just need to take it for granted that such bad manifestations exist, but you need to work to improve them. Try to look at the world with different eyes - pay attention to the little things. It is attention to detail that allows you to find brilliant ideas for business and life. Try to become a grateful, appreciative person for the benefits that you have been able to receive in life.

7th month. Relax and enjoy the moment

If you have already worked successfully for six months, you can give yourself the opportunity to rest. We set off on a long-awaited journey - visiting places we dreamed of seeing. You can think about hobbies, hobbies, personal collections, etc. Learn to live now, without postponing pleasure until the distant future. It is advisable to think about yourself - remembering to regularly take care of your physical and mental health.

8th month. Reconsider your personal life

The time is coming to reconsider family and personal relationships. But you shouldn’t forget about tasks from previous months either. Improve your goals, think through the strengths and weaknesses of your relationship. Set personal boundaries - know how to communicate them to other people.

9th month. Learn generosity and forgiveness

Practice generosity during this month, sharing with others is an effective way to become happier. Listen carefully to your interlocutors to understand their emotions and goals. It's time to apologize to people you know for hurtful behavior in the past. Learn to forgive yourself and others.

10th month. Take training and meditation practice

It's time to attend a good personal growth training. You might want to think about meditation. Familiarize yourself with the techniques - read a book, take a class, or surf the Internet. Then, taking into account the knowledge gained, we move on to meditation, achieving relaxation and inner harmony.

11th month. Learn financial literacy

We live in the material world, so money is necessary. Financial well-being will also have a beneficial effect on personal self-development. Therefore, careful budgeting is essential - keeping your spending in order and avoiding unnecessary expenses. And attracting financial resources is an important stimulation of personal growth, so you need to work on this issue.

12th month. Summarize the annual results and make a plan for the next year

The last month of our plan is coming - let’s get acquainted with the calendar of the outgoing year. What did you succeed in, where could you develop more intensively? Evaluate your achievements and plan future goals for the new year.

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7 rules of personal growth

Rule 1: Set consistent goals

Ambitious and consistent goals must be set. You don’t need to turn a blind eye to problems, but highlight the main one by starting to solve it. After solving this problem, we move on to the next one. We strongly recommend that you publicly communicate your intentions. When solving one problem, you should not spread yourself thin on secondary ones in order to maintain enough strength until the finish.

Rule 2. There are no secret techniques, only consistency will bring success

Don’t be under any illusions – there is no miracle solution that will immediately solve all your problems and make you a leader. You need to put in the effort and improve. Only a systematic approach is possible - when efforts are made every day, gradually, step by step, making us stronger and better.

Rule 3. Strategy and tactics are more important than endurance

Strategy is the main requirement in any sport to maintain strength and achieve victory. And the right tactics will allow you to achieve better results with less effort. The situation is similar in the business world - the budget does not always decide, sometimes strategy and tactics are much more important.

Rule 4. Get medical examinations

Often in the world of business, a person completely immerses himself in work, simply forgetting about rest. Therefore, it is important to think about active recreation to restore your strength, not forgetting about periodic medical examinations.

Rule 5. Find a coach

You should find a trainer or coach among your friends or acquaintances. You will set goals for yourself, and you need to achieve them yourself, but still an observer will be very useful for this.

Rule 6. Maintain discipline

You should think about the plan and stick to it. Planning and discipline are essential for systematic success in any field.

Rule 7. Train as a team

The leader has the hardest time, but it is easier to follow him - in the end, having retained enough strength, you can make a breakthrough and pass at the finish line. Also, training in a group turns out to be more effective - we work not only on endurance and strength development, but also on working out scenarios for future victories.

Sport helps overcome a personal crisis

Roman Lukyanchikov,

General Director of the Moscow Windows company, Moscow

Since my school days, I have associated sports only with unventilated locker rooms. After college I didn’t do gymnastics or sports, I just hated it all. To overcome the crisis, I began to fight laziness and stereotypes and took up triathlon. The goal was immediately set - to complete half the distance in a year, and after 2 years to overcome it completely in competitions.

For control and self-motivation, I registered for sprint competitions in Sardini and Barcelona, publicly declaring my intentions. I decided on a trainer and began active training - my life efficiency increased, I overcame the crisis, ideas for business and motivation appeared again.

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Thirteen Virtues of Benjamin Franklin

Temperance. Do not drink to the point of intoxication, do not eat to the point of stupor;
Silence. Say only what can be useful to you or others;
Love of order;
Determination;
Thrift;
Hard work;
Sincerity. There is no need to resort to harmful deception, thoughts should be fair and innocent;
Justice. Do not offend people by causing evil or not doing good when duty dictates;
Moderation. Extremes should be avoided, no need to hold grudges for evil;
Cleanliness;
Calm;
Chastity. Indulge in lust rarely, only for health or prolongation of the family, so that it does not lead to weakness and dullness, and does not deprive one of peace of mind;
Meekness. Follow the example of Jesus and Socrates.

What tools can you use for personal growth?

Love has always been considered the main driving force and instrument of spiritual development, since it inspires people to the most fantastic feats.
Spiritual reading - the study of religious treatises, sacred texts, psychological and philosophical works.
Meditation – promotes inner harmony, the mood of the soul and body for future success.
Singing mantras or chakra singing increases sensitivity and vibration, helping to improve straight-knowledge.
Prayers.
Spiritual practices - for the development of culture of body and thought, control of emotions, ensuring harmony of internal and external space.
Healing practices - a person’s vital energy is used for the purpose of self-healing and self-restoration.
Tantra is the art of sensual transmission, transformation, and preservation of the energy of love in a coordinated unity of opposites.
Creation.
Harmonious music.
The art of dance.
Following your passion in all areas of life.

Is it possible to diagnose personal growth?

According to psychologists, we can talk about improving personal development under the following conditions:

A person has a more positive attitude towards the world, society, and others, with improved professional and personal qualities, and the establishment of business or personal relationships.
A person becomes more collected, responsible, and has learned to plan actions and tasks.
The man managed to overcome his personality crisis, gaining inner independence and freedom.
It is possible to better understand people, more effectively knowing yourself, your own personal and professional qualities.
Changes in worldview - when, thanks to classes, it was possible to determine the relationships between events, identify one’s mistakes and negative scenarios that led to an identity crisis.
A person not only learns his personal qualities, but also learns to control his actions and behavior.
The emergence of meaning in life, incentives and motivation for success.

Books about personal growth

Morgan Scott Peck - The Road Less Traveled. Consideration of various aspects of personal growth;
Jim Rohn - Seasonality of Life. A book about finding opportunities and ways to resolve your internal contradictions;
Alan Lakein - The Art of Planning. About the principles of successful planning of your life;
Paul Tillich - "The Courage to Be." Will teach you to overcome adversity and difficulties, despite difficult circumstances;
Bill Newman - Soar with the Eagles. How to remain calm and proud in any situation.

Information about the experts

Galina Rogozina, head of leadership development practice at the consulting company RosExpert, Moscow. Graduated from the Moscow Institute of Petrochemical and Gas Industry named after. THEM. Gubkin with a degree in mathematician-programmer. For five years she worked as commercial director of the Computerra publishing house. She joined RosExpert in 2002 as Director of Business Development; in 2005, she headed the leadership development practice; since 2007 – partner of the company. Author of several dozen publications in business publications (“Vedomosti”, “Company”, “Elite Personnel”, etc.) on the issues of selecting top managers and developing leadership potential.

RosExpert. Area of activity: selection of top managers, development of the leadership potential of managers, attraction of independent members of boards of directors and consultants. Territory: Moscow, Kyiv. Number of personnel: 50.

Roman Lukyanchikov, General Director of the Moscow Windows company, Moscow. He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Agricultural Engineers, studied at the Link International Institute of Management (received an MBA degree) and the St. Petersburg Management Training Center. He has been working for the company since its founding (1992).

Moscow Windows LLC. Field of activity: production and installation of windows. Number of personnel: more than 500

Vadim Kravchenko, commercial director, Alaksar. Winner of the “Commercial Director” award in the “Commercial Director of the Year (small business)” nomination. Graduated with honors from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov, specialization - celestial mechanics. In 2003 he graduated from the Russian-German Higher School of Management, MBA, specializing in enterprise management. In 2006, he graduated with honors from the Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation (second higher education), Faculty of Finance and Banking, specializing in financial management.

"Alaxar"- a group of companies present on the market since 2000. The only company in Russia and the largest in Eastern Europe and the CIS, engaged in the trade of fiberglass wallpaper and related materials. The head office is located in Moscow, branches - in Kyiv, Minsk, Yekaterinburg and St. Petersburg. Official website - www.alaxar.ru

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