Personal growth: how to transform your life in 6 steps

Personal growth refers to a series of activities that help improve self-awareness and discover their own identity, in order to promote the development of their own potentials and personal and relational skills.

The aim is to improve the quality of life and contribute to the realization of individual dreams and aspirations.

Growing up as a person is a life-long process. Unfortunately, we do not always take the appropriate path and we may find ourselves in a situation where we feel far from our own essence and we live on automatic pilot, distanced from our dreams, our aspirations and our needs. In this fast-paced society, it is easy to stop being the protagonists of our lives and lose sight of our most personal desires.

Change is an individual process

When we get to this point, it's time to change and reconnect with our own identity., examine how our inner and outer world is and how we relate to the people around us. It is time to take action and transform. In this way, we can regain our well-being and our level of self-satisfaction.

This transformation begins in ourselves, because change is an individual and personal process, and no one can change us if we do not want to change. Transform our life requires self-reflection, be aware of our own ability to achieve our goals and achieve positive and lasting changes; and it requires commitment, time, energy and clear and realistic strategies.

Are you in the place you want to be?

The path to well-being and personal growth involves achieving balance and harmony in our day-to-day lives., in the relationship with ourselves and with others. Therefore, it is necessary to observe and identify if we are in the place where we want to be and if we are satisfied with our life, and define what we can do to improve what does not satisfy us, so it is possible to work so that this change is possible.

Well-being can be understood as “being in the place where one wants to be”, and although this is not a constant but something dynamic, it is builds throughout life and can be modified at any time, if it can become a relatively stable feature if we achieve a good relationship with ourselves and with ourselves, and if we empower ourselves in the face of life and follow the path that we we have marked.

6 keys to transform your life

But, What can we do to transform our lives? What actions can we take to enable a change towards well-being and self-satisfaction? Below you can find six keys that will allow you to transform your life in a positive way. These are:

1. Self-awareness and self-awareness

Since the growth of a person is an individual and personal process, the first step to transform your life is to know yourself. Self-knowledge means evaluating one's own value and belief system, detecting strengths and weaknesses, and being aware of own motivations and desires.

Take some time to find out what is most important to you, what you want to achieve in your life, what makes you happy, what are your dreams or in what moment of your life are you is the beginning of your transformation and your development personal. This will help you get a more realistic perspective of who you are and where you want to go.

2. Challenge your limiting beliefs and get out of your comfort zone

The comfort zone it is a state of mind that does not allow personal growth and it is a habit that can be detrimental to achieving a high degree of satisfaction in the way of living life. When you decide to step forward and change your life, but something is preventing you from moving forward and anxiety It keeps you anchored to that situation that is comfortable for you, you are putting your personal growth at risk. This is a great emotional cost and an impediment to continue with your transformation towards greater well-being.

Leaving the comfort zone means not being afraid of uncertainty and trusting in one's own possibilities. But this is not always easy. When we are young, we are more likely to take risks, but as we get older we learn to fear failure, being able to reach the helplessness and even to standstill. To continue growing, it is necessary to overcome the fear of failure and the limiting beliefs that prevent us from developing.

3. Be open to change

Leaving the comfort zone requires changing limiting beliefs for empowering beliefs, because, on many occasions, these limitations are set by the mind.

If the limitations are set by the mind, that means that the mind itself can also help us to go further, to overcome the barriers or obstacles that may appear in our day to day. Being open to change and having the will to carry it out is a prerequisite for starting any transformation.

4. Have an action plan

Self-knowledge helps define objectives realistically and allows setting priorities. But to achieve the objectives, it is necessary to plan the movements and define the way to achieve the goals that we consider to be important to us.

When you know what is important to your happiness and well-being, you must set short, medium and long-term goals in order to take action. There is no use wanting to transform if we do nothing to change. Now, remember that goals can change, so you must be flexible. The important thing is to go step by step to achieve the transformation.

5. Take responsibility and abandon victimhood

Often many people do not take responsibility for the problems that affect them and seek the cause outside or blame others for their mistakes. Why does that happen to me? Why don't they recognize what i do? or why doesn't the other person change... it is easier to play the victim and wait for things to be different.

However, responsibility (or as experts in personal growth say: “respons-ability”), understood as the ability to respond, is essential in any change process. It has to do with empowerment, self-leadership, how we respond to the events that occur around us, and it is vital for the transformation of our lives. “Respons-enable yourself” in the face of change is one of the keys to personal growth.

6. Attend a Life Coaching workshop

Transforming or changing your life is not easy. It is necessary to learn a series of skills and resources for managing emotions, interpersonal relationships, self-discovery and empowerment, allowing you to achieve emotional balance and well-being both physical and mental.

In order to acquire these skills for change, one of the best options is to attend a life coaching workshop (also life coaching or personal coaching). Attending one of these workshops can provide you with numerous benefits. For example:

• Improve communication with oneself and with others
• Greater self-acceptance
• Learn to set realistic goals and objectives
• Detect limiting beliefs
• Discover your own needs and wants
• Learn to manage emotions
• Greater well-being and quality of life
• Stress reduction

Life Coaching Workshop: "Where are you and where do you want to go" (Instituto Mensalus, Barcelona)

If you are thinking about improving your well-being, you want to know yourself better, you want to learn to face the difficulties that may arise in your day to day to achieve your personal goals and want to learn the necessary resources to relate to others in a healthier way, the center for psychology and growth personal "Instituto Mensalus" of Barcelona offers a life coaching workshop that will begin on January 18, 2017.

Thanks to the "Life Coaching Workshop: Where are you and where do you want to go" you can learn to know and understand better how our mind works and how it is possible to manage emotions and thoughts in a conscious way. This will allow you to improve your self-esteem, your interpersonal relationships and achieve greater emotional and physical well-being. The methodology is active, experiential and participatory, and the sessions take place in small groups, which allows creating a climate of trust, respect and confidentiality.

In short, during the 8 sessions of 2 hours each (which are taught every week), the participants of this workshop they will learn to observe, identify and decide if they are in the place they want to be and if they lead the life they want wear; Possible changes will be considered, they will work to achieve them and they will discover different techniques and resources that will be useful in your daily life.

• If you want more information about this workshop, you can get the contact information at this link.