4 Steps To Successful Personal Development Plan
If you want to be successful in your goals, you need to have an efficient personal development plan
. Your plan should help you manage resistance to changes that are a natural consequence when you make significant adjustments in your life.When you endeavor to reach your goals, the action requires mental and physical transformation. To help you accomplish your goals, it is best if you have strategies to help you grow. Here are few of them:
1. Write you purpose statement. Other terms for purpose statement are mission and vision. This is a statement of what you want to be in the future. It contains your objectives in the next few days, weeks, months and years.
Your purpose in your personal development plan is not similar to your goals. Rather it serves as your compass to lead you where you should be heading. If you are not focused, your purpose statement should help you to focus on your goals.
In coming up with a purpose, you may take few days, and even weeks. Understand that it should be positive and upbeat. When you are ready, start writing. Review you statement and extract the values that are developed from your purpose statement.
Point out your personal values, the biggest goals and dreams in life. Inculcate them into your mind while writing it on an index card.
2. Set goals. Your personal development plan should incorporate your goals. This helps you to develop motivation, and impels you to focus your time and energy. It also affects your decision-making process in a positive way because your mind automatically considers your goals every time you have to make a decision in life.
When you have goals in life, your mentality is focused on enhancing your strengths. It will also be easier for you to manage obstacles in life. When you do, you are able to use your natural resources--such as abilities and strengths--allowing for your self-growth.
3. Visualize yourself. Success begins with a vision. When you visualize yourself, your energy and knowledge are geared towards its realization. Having visualization is an effective approach to convince yourself that you can achieve your goals in life. It is an excellent tool to motivate yourself.
Visualization works best for long term goals. When you practice visualization in your personal development plan, you are living up your dreams. Your mind contains imagery of what you shall become when you achieve your goals.
There are three approaches to visualize. These are internalization, externalization, and verbalization. When you internalize, you incorporate your vision of yourself into your mental faculty. In externalization, you visualize your new self with your surroundings. Verbalization is when you say aloud what your vision of yourself is.
4. Develop a positive attitude. A positive attitude allows you to have optimal sense of well being. If you have issues with self-esteem, having positive attitude can help you battle them. A positive mental attitude is even better. As your mind is focused on positive outlook, your body adjusts to be aligned to your mental viewpoint.
by: Charles Godbout