What is Your Personal Development Growth I.Q.?

Have you done a personal growth checklist on your life lately? Many goals are never reached due to lack of self-assessments. It is frightening and overwhelming to sit down and have to face yourself. Yet, in order for personal development to happen, it is exactly what you must do.

Get yourself a small notebook to be used for all thoughts concerning you. Inside these pages you will keep notes, to-do lists, inspirations and basically, everything about you. When you put yourself on paper consistently, it becomes a life management bible. Seeing who we are in written form is magic to personal growth. There is value contained here about your purpose in living. By privately writing down your daily to-do’s, aspirations, or even 5 year plans, these pages outline where your life is going. Where your life has been. The notebook becomes your intimate novel to personal development growth. It makes you self-aware of your behaviors and habits. It puts your dreams in your face to encourage self-actualization. No matter how terrifying the pen gets, you have opportunity to change your life on the very next page.

Getting your personal development growth I.Q. involves mastering the pages you’ve written about yourself into new pages of re-inventing yourself and your circumstances. It is through doing a consistent assessment of your life, and bravely finding new ways to approach setbacks. Questions about who you are and where you are going are constant within these pages. You have made yourself accountable for your life by writing everything down. It is easier to take personal responsibility for what happens to you if you acknowledge it with a pen. You cannot grow if you do not know. So much happens to us in the course of a day and can easily be missed as an opportunity for growth. By keeping notes, it can be measured and evaluated. Days can melt into months, and years, leaving us in the exact same spot as we began. And then the moment comes where we wonder why our life didn’t turn out the way we planned. It is because time moves forward, and so should we.

Consider this self bible your life instructions. Critique yourself honestly. Applaud the little successes you see, because had you not wrote them down you probably would have missed them entirely. Life is a continual process of renewal and opportunity. To measure your personal development growth I.Q., look back on the pages of yesterday and see if you have climbed ladders or fell steps down. What can be learned? What is within your power to change? How will you recreate yourself in small ways tomorrow? Even one step different than the one before begins a new path. By writing all of you down on paper you have made yourself aware of you. Awareness acknowledges our existence in this world.

An added bonus to purging your thoughts on paper is the release. What is inside you should come out to keep a healthy mind and attitude. This is why journals exist. This is a reason people have day timers and diaries. Humans can take in so much information daily, and then swirl it around into a feeling or opinion, even a stressor. It is imperative to good mental health to release all this somewhere else--preferably to paper and not another person.

Encourage good things to happen in your life. Help the process through timely self-assessments. Re-invent yourself through writing. Face the written words and change them.

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If there is something else you'd like to see here, please do let us know. For further Personal Development and Self-Empowerment, I highly recommend my friend Alan Tutt - he has some wonderful products such as Keys To Power - & it's a huge package... You can also see some of my graphic artistry work near the bottom... I'd welcome your comments on that. :-) Visit Alan today & your day will be better for having done so.

With my warmest regards,

Donna Maher (still working on myself at 61!)

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