subject: Personal Development - A Reason To Get Yourself A Planner [print this page] When people talk about personal development, you will realize that among the recurring themes are increasing one's level of self-awareness and realizing one's goals and dreams. One very practical and easy way by which these can be achieved is to get oneself a planner.
With all the different types of technology available today, planners can come in different forms - they could be ones found in mobile phones, computers, although your planner could be the usual notebook paired with a pen. What's good about keeping a planner in general is that it enables you to look forward to some kind of activity, and also to look back. In other words, keeping a planner enables you to set goals and evaluate them too.
The primary purpose of keeping a planner is in order for a person to remember the activities that he or she has to do. In the context of personal development, this becomes very useful as it promotes time management and goal-setting skills. Making plans and goals are of course, one thing, and sticking to them is another. Nonetheless, making plans does matter for it helps identify priorities and goals.
Now the second thing a planner does is to allow a person to look back; that is why you should not easily throw your old planners away. You could maximize the use of planners by indicating how a certain meeting or birthday party went, and analyze how future activities of the same sort could be improved further. You could also take a look at which activities you enjoy the most, thereby allowing you to learn more about yourself in the process.
