How can you work on personal development?

In recent years, more and more voices have been raised stating that betting on personal development is key to living a fuller life and to be able to be more efficient in different areas of our existence, be it family, love, social or even work.

If for decades the importance of focusing efforts on professional development, of increasing and consolidating knowledge theoretical and practical to ensure success, it is now understood that this success is not viable if certain areas of life are not worked on at the same time staff.

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What exactly is personal development?

Personal development is the process by which an individual carries out self-exploration work to get to know himself better and be able to develop skills and abilities that will allow you to better adapt to the environment, being more efficient at all levels, as well as detecting and knowing how to deal with the obstacles and limitations that may prevent it.

It is, in short, a job to grow internally, to change, to implement actions and make modifications of behaviors, habits and beliefs that help the person to feel fuller and more fulfilled, in peace with himself. A happy and focused mind, aligned values ​​and the construction of empowering beliefs are the most powerful fuel to achieve anything in any vital plane.

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How can we work on personal development?

Everything that leads us to feel better about ourselves is personal work; that is to say, that there are many spheres that we can work on to increase our individual growth. But if you do not know where to start, we will mark some of the most important ones and with which you will notice surprising changes as soon as you get down to it.

1. Set goals and objectives

Aristotle already said: "We are happy when we do something that leads us to something we want." Namely; if we have a clear goal or objective in our life, we will be happier because we will know how to focus our efforts on achieving it instead of wasting energy on meeting objectives and goals imposed by others or by society.

To develop as a person you have to set goals and objectives in life that make it worthwhile. Something that seems simple at first glance is not so because, first, we do not usually know how to set challenging goals, but also because we do not like to fail and we fear rejection, things that can happen when we are trying to achieve something.

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2. Self-knowledge: what are your values ​​and beliefs

We almost never explore our interior, and in it there is a lot of information to know why we think, act or feel in a certain way. If we understand why we do what we do or why we are one way and not another and, best of all, we understand that we can change it because there is nothing rigid, we will realize that we have the key to be as resilient and flexible as possible, two exceptional and highly valued qualities.

Many times we live according to beliefs that we have turned into absolute truths that prevent us from moving forward. Detect them, banish them or turn them into power-ups are some of the most effective things you can do for your personal development. In the same way, reviewing your value scale and updating or modifying it from time to time will allow you to end unpleasant feelings that arise from the incompatibility between body (what we do) and soul (what we value or we long for).

3. emotional management

Emotions greatly influence everything we do because are inherent to the human being and cannot be set aside or stopped. Therefore, if we let them invade us, whether they are considered positive or pleasant, or less pleasant, we will live in a continuous and uncomfortable oscillation of sensations.

If we want to develop ourselves personally, we must work on learning to efficiently manage our emotions in order to manage and understand them and not to become our enemy. That is, just as we strive to develop logical intelligence or linguistic intelligence, we must develop an emotional intelligence that allows us to be people capable of adapting to each situation without being dominated by emotions.

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4. self care

To grow as people you have to learn to take care of yourself, not only externally, but internally. We live many times worried about taking care of others and we forget to take care of ourselves. If we are not able to dedicate time to attending to our own needs, we will not be able to feel 100% well, we will not be fully developed people.

When we talk about self-care we are referring to both taking care of what you eat or how you eat or exercising, something that is also connected to the sphere of external care, such as connecting with oneself and the present through Mindfulness or meditation, or engaging in self-love or self-esteem growth work.

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Coaching to work on personal development

This exposition of areas where personal development can be worked on can be overwhelming: where do I start? Which one do I need to focus on especially? How do I do it exactly? The answer to all these questions is one: Coaching.

Coaching is the methodology that will help you in your personal development process; it will permit you detect what you need to improve, enhance or change, and will guide you so you can get it.

Seeing, therefore, the importance that coaching will have in a society where it is essential not to neglect personal development to achieve success at all levels. In D'Arte Human & Business School We work to train the best coaches who will lead these much-needed transformative processes. Do not stop asking us if you want to be one of them.

In addition, in order to understand the importance that Personal Development has in order to have a fuller and more successful life at all levels, we invite you to go, completely free, to Coaching Pro Live 2022, the Coaching and Personal Development event that D'Arte Human & Business School has organized for the week of June 13 to 19 and that will have more than 200 exponents of the Spanish-speaking panorama in the field of human development. Presentations, interviews and masterclasses with which you will understand that you should not postpone working on your personal growth for another minute.