If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they may have planned for you? Not much.
There’s no substitute for being strategic. To maximize growth, you must develop strategies.
4 Ways to Help You Learn in the Process
Most people allow their lives to simply happen to them. They float along. They wait. They react. And by the time a large portion of their life is behind them, they realize they should have been more proactive and strategic.
Life is very simple but keeping it that way is very difficult
Designing your life is more important than design your career
It’s possible to change without growing, but it’s impossible to grow without changing. Growth thrives in conducive surroundings. If you are in a positive growth environment, be grateful. If you’re not, do what you must to change your environment and yourself.
6 Choices to Put Yourself in a Better Place for Growth
1. Assess your current environment
Change just for the sake of change is not going to help you. If you are going to make changes, you must make sure they’re the right ones. Start by assessing where you are now and why you want to change.
When it comes to personal growth: Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing. That’s the Law of Consistency. It doesn’t matter how talented you are. It doesn’t matter how many opportunities you receive. If you want to grow, consistency is key.
Consider the Following Questions about Your Growth
If you want to become more disciplined and consistent in your personal performance, you need to become more discipline and consistent in your growth.
1. Do you know what you need to improve?
Your future is dependent upon your personal growth. Improving yourself daily guarantees you a future filled with possibilities. When you expand yourself, you expand your horizons, your options, your opportunities, your potential.
The successful person has the habit of doing the things that failures don’t like to do. The successful person doesn’t like doing them either, but his dislike is subordinated to the strength of his purpose.
There are many different ways of growing and an infinite number of lessons to be learned in life. But there are some kinds of growth that come to us only if we are willing to stop, pause, and allow the lesson to catch up with us.
How Reflection Can Help You Grow
Reflection turns experience into sight
Everyone needs a time and a place to pause
Pausing with intention expands and enriches thinking
When you take time to pause, use your I’s (Investigation, Incubation, Illumination, Illustration)
You get a chance to be anyone you want in life if you make the choice, take action, develop a plan, and not quit. If you don’t realize that you have genuine value and that you are worth investing in, then you will never put in the time and effort needed to grow to your potential.
If your desire is a 10 but your self-esteem is a 5, you’ll never perform at the level of a 10. You perform as a 5 or lower. People are never able to outperform their self-image.
The value we place on ourselves is usually the value others place on us. Most people live their lives according to what others believe about them. If the important people in their lives expect them to go nowhere, then that’s what they expect for themselves.
To reach your potential, you must know where you want to go and where you currently are. Without both of these pieces of information, you’re liable to get lost.
There Are 3 Kinds of People When It Comes to Direction in Life
People who don’t know what they would like to do.
People who know what they would like to do but don’t do it.
People who know what they would like to do and do it.
