Personality and Personal Growth

by Gahan, Desmond

• ISBN13: 9781477498491
• ISBN10: 1477498494
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-05-19
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub

Summary

Getting out of the rut that a person is in is very important for personal growth. You can guarantee that you will never move past the hard times if you do not find out what is causing the grief and hardship in your life. If you do take the time to go through therapy and get help for your problems, you will be able to move past all of it and get on to better and bigger things.Perhaps the most important realization that an individual can make in their quest for personal growth is that there is no single formula that defines the path to personal success. We all have different goals and priorities, which means that different activities and attitudes will make us feel good about ourselves. We also have different natural strengths and weaknesses that are a part of our inherent personality type. How then, as individuals, can we feel successful in our lives?Understand What's Important to YouEach personality type has a different idea of what it means to be successful. Self-knowledge is one common goal that will help everyone achieve personal success. So many people are hung up on somebody else's idea of what it means to be successful, and they are unaware of what is truly important to them. This is completely normal. We all have important role-models and influencers in our lives who may have basic values that are quite different from our own. If this is the case, it's important to recognize that the discrepancy between what we have been taught is truly important and what we personally believe to be truly important is due to a difference in perspective. If we spend our time and effort trying to meet somebody else's idea of success, and ignore or belittle any conflicting messages from our own psyche, then we will find ourselves exhausted and unhappy. Realizing what is truly important to us is a major step towards achieving personal success.