Are You Really Serious in Personally Developing YOU? Part II Personal Development and Evaluation

Last week we discussed the definitions of personal development and evaluation, setting the stage to begin the work. This blog will help explore and evaluate YOU and see if you are really serious in personally developing you or you’re just lying to yourself!

By evaluating areas of growth, you need to:

1.identify those areas you are trying to grow

2. question the areas you are not growing in and what's hindering you to grow there.

3. be honest and face the facts

In the areas you see growth, identify what you are doing to see if you can apply that to the other areas you are trying to grow in. For the areas you are not seeing growth, ask yourself, why am I not growing? You may need to make some tough but well needed decisions as to the person(s), place(s), and thing(s) such as to see if they're benefits or deficits. If they are deficits, you may need to either adjust how they are in your life, or cutting off completely in order to continue the growth process! Recognize when you graduated from that person, place, or thing that got you to your different levels of growth, and how that door may need to close for the next door to open to that next level of growth! Tight but it's right!

Let us discuss how to identify challenging areas in need of growth.

It's all about Checks and Balances, Deficits and Assets.

1.Check your life and see what's a benefit and whats not.

2.Do a thorough check over every area involving your life in terms of your environment, friends, family, relationships, attitude, work, health, lifestyle, spirituality.

3.We are comprised of three elements: Mind, Body, and Spirit, and if two of the three are functioning and maintaining well, but the third is not, you are still not flowing fully in life like you could!

4.Again, it takes you being honest with yourself, determined to even look at your life in totality, and willingness to change. To face and accept change is growth and maturity! We are creatures of habit, so if change and its results are unfamiliar, we would be rather reluctant to welcome change.

5.Change also seems to cost. It calls for a 'lost' or letting go of something to make room for something unfamiliar to come in! That lost could range from adjusting your schedule to letting go of grandma!

6.Look at what, who, and where that are beneficial and what who and where that are detrimental, all for your own self-improvement! You are worth it and deserve better!

Isn’t Personal Development easy? Being facetious, it isn’t an easy task, but it is needed and well worth it for your overall optimal state of being and health. You are your own investment! Start pouring into yourself!

Check out the next blog on Helpful tips and strategies on self-improvement for an Overall Better You in the ’10!

New Year, New YOU! Personally Developing You in the '10

Let's talk about Personal Development and Evaluation! This is to groom you straight to success in the '10! Each Day, I will give you one of five ways to begin the process to the BEST YOU YOU EVER KNEW! Are you ready?

The intent to this article is for you to:
1. know what personal development and evaluation are,
2.explore or evaluate self and see if you are growing,
3.identify challenging areas of growth,
4. develop self-awareness, strategies, and techniques for self-improvement,
5. maintain and continue growth.

Today's topic, What is Personal Development and Evaluation? Personal Development are desires or aspirations to change or grow and take action in growing. The point of Personal Development is to:
1. Discover yourself,
2. Better Yourself,
3. Effectively help others grow.

If you think about it, it mimics way of life! We start growing as soon as we are born! Actually, we develop and grow prior to birth, right? Why does growth and development stop when we are adults? It continues. When we were ready to walk, we stopped crawling and challenged ourselves to walk, even at the expense of 'falling down' quite a few times, until we were tired of falling. We strengthened our legs through endless practice, all for the vision of WALKING! You were able to envision walking because you were surrounded by others who were walking! Not around those as much who could not walk! (ARE YOU REALLY GETTING THIS MESSAGE EVERYONE? WILL TALK MORE ON THIS LATER) Same principal applies to Personal Growth, keep at it until the vision you see becomes reality!

Evaluation is overall determining, assessing, calculating, estimating, or appraising worth or significance using a criteria against a set of standards, according to Webster's dictionary. Basically, you are checking for worth or value of something. The point of Evaluation in the since of Personal Development is to:
1. meet your standards,
2. reevaluate your standards,
3. assist in your personal growth.

You establish check offs for three areas that comprises you:
1. MIND- evaluate this element to see if you have clear views of yourself, others, and the world, (how am i thinking about myself, life and others?).
2. BODY-evaluate this element in terms of health and wellness (how are my eating habits, do i maximize exercising for better health?)
3. SPIRIT-evaluate your spirituality, regardless of faith or religion. This element is most ignored, but we do have spiritual beings that needs to be attended in order to have full wholeness and balance (am i connected to a high power, do i meditate or reflect on my future, on life, etc?).

When all three elements are attended to, this brings a very healthy and optimal state of living. Evaluating means to be honest and accepting of all the results. It is how you use the results of the evaluation that determines your personal growth.

So are we growing? How do you know if you really are? So many factors need to be addressed and understood.

If you want to know, look forward to tomorrow's Blog: EXPLORING AND EVALUATING YOU TO SEE IF YOU ARE REALLY SERIOUS OR REALLY LYING!

Any Questions, contact Sarah at www.info@reset-mylife.net