Reasons to start a development and growth plan in your life

Transforming your life and achieving the goals you hope to achieve is possible and also a choice. Each person has in their hands the possibility of growing, developing and, therefore, surpassing themselves, but achieving results requires knowing how to define our ideas and understanding where the goals we pursue are. It requires finding meaning in the actions undertaken and the goal to be achieved. And also, knowing what is required to make them tangible.

It is one thing to want to grow and quite another to know how to do it. And it is at this point where the apex opens between those who stagnate and those who achieve success.

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Growth and development are key concepts

In recent conversations I have noticed that people are more sensitive about the importance of overcoming, mainly due to the positioning of the concept "overcoming staff”, but when talking about growth or development, there is confusion about what these terms refer to.

In a dictionary definition of the Royal Spanish Academy on growth we will find that it is explained as a gradual development in maturity, age, size, weight or height. Here we can see that the word development appears as part of the explanation. Thus, in the definition of development we see that it is a process that generates growth, which allows us to conclude that they are actually synonyms. Finally, overcoming is defined as the process of improving something.

Regardless of the word we use, what is relevant is that we can talk about growth, development and improvement as a way to evolve, that is, to go from a current state to a desired state.

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Why start a well-structured plan for development, growth and improvement in your life?

People change and transform at all times. We are dynamic beings who, through our senses, are absorbing new knowledge and therefore constantly changing. Life itself forces us to change. The question here is if you want to let life alone take care of your growth, or if you are willing to help and help yourself, take charge and accelerate the process by contributing your effort and openness to go further and in a better way.

You can get on the learning car of life and choose the seat in which you want to travel. You can sit back and let yourself go; you can be an active co-pilot and discover routes in your GPS application, or you can be the pilot and take the control of the speed, the stops, the route and the lane on which you travel, avoiding the obstacles the road. That decision is up to you.

In the case of people who have decided to undertake, you have already chosen the pilot's seat, however, the question is whether you are clear about how to get to the defined destination in a sustainable and profitable way and the necessary skills to get around the unexpected obstacles that arise. present. For this, it is important to make an explicit choice about the growth you want to achieve, and thus develop the necessary mentality to get there.

A development vision helps you as an entrepreneur in modeling decision making in all areas of the business. It feeds the culture, increases the level of ambition and helps achieve the purpose of the company.

• According to S&P, a growth vision can increase the value generated for stakeholders by up to 80%. If you opt for a vision of growth, you will be within the group of people that generates the most value for the key people in your profession.
• In times of crisis, many companies have managed to grow above the gross domestic product of the countries where they operate, thanks to their growth strategies. On a personal level, by opting for a good growth plan, you will have better opportunities to overcome any type of crisis.
• thinking and communication leaders with a vision of development, growth and improvement, they perform, think, speak and act differently than those who do not have this mentality. In other words, opting for a good development plan improves your communication skills, advice and problem solving, which places you as a benchmark for your team, clients and groups that trust you.
• It facilitates the identification and definition of goals by creating greater clarity about your tastes, needs, abilities and the next level to reach. This way you will know what to discard and where to focus your efforts, driving your actions with determination and motivation.
• Increase the impact of your results by knowing how to break them down into parts that are easier to manage. When you work on your personal development, you learn to simplify your analysis and to see each situation in fragments that are easier to attend to. This helps you cover the full spectrum of the situation and make a bigger impact through the outcome.
• Take more accurate steps. With the process of growth, development or overcoming you change the vision of the decisions. You learn that your opinion is an expression of the moment in which you express it and the result of the information you have. However, this is never the absolute truth and will require adaptation and improvement at another time and new information as it emerges. With this vision you can feel freer to make decisions that help you move forward in the moment and validate them again when you take a relevant next step.
• Enjoy more than it is really worth. By having a more open view about how decisions work, you will know that it is not worth spending all your time and effort to a specific moment, because later new information will emerge and it will be necessary to adapt the decisions of the here and the now. Therefore, you will also have the vision of balance your working hours and professionals and enjoy your life, your loved ones and those you love around you, because nothing is so critical or so definitive and, therefore, it is worth enjoying and living in the moment fully.

Now you know; growth, development and personal and professional improvement are synonymous with transformation, of that strategic evolution that will allow you to recognize that everything is in constant change and that, therefore, Therefore, it is better to collaborate with life by getting on the raft of acceptance, motivation and determination. With this in mind, you will be the architect of your life, you will promote what is relevant to you and you will generate the conditions of happiness and satisfaction that you need to live fully.