Personal Development

Hello fellow steemians, it’s @georgegodwin i am so happy to be with you guys today and i am here to present something good, something that we all need to know; personal development. First of all, we need to know the definition of personal development; This can be defined as activities that improve identity and awareness, develop potential and talents, build facilitated employability and human capital, and contributes to the quality of life and to the realization of aspirations and dreams. In other words, Personal development is a lifelong process. It is a way for people to calculate their qualities ands skills, considering their aims in life and goals in order to fulfil and maximise their capability.

This post will help you to spot the skills you need to allocate life goals which can amplify your employability expectations, improve your confidence, and gives you way to a more fulfilling, better quality life. Plan to make positive, effective and relevant life choices and decisions for your future to enable self empowerment.
However, early formative experiences and early life developments at school, within the family, and so on, can help to shape us.

This post contains all the necessary information and advice to help you think about your personal development and ways in which you can work towards fulfilling your goals and your full potential.

Why is Personal Development very Important?
There are too many ideas woven around personal development, one of which is process of self-realisation.

Self-Realisation; All individuals have an essential need for personal development which happens through a process called self-realisation.

The length to which people are able to progress, lies on specific needs being met and these needs form a hierarchy. Also only when one level of need is contented can a higher one be improved. As change happens around life, however, the level of need inspiring someone’s behaviour at any time will also adjust.

At the base of the hierarchy, are the fundamental physiological needs for food, that is, the fundamental for survival.
Second are the needs for security and safety in both the economic and physical sense.

Thirdly, development can be made to pleasing the need for love and possessions.

The fourth level goes to meeting the need for self-worth and self-esteem. This is the level most nearest related to self-empowerment.

The fifth level goes to the need to understanding. This level includes more conceptual ideas such as inquisitiveness and the search for purpose or meaning and a deep understanding.
The sixth goes to decorative needs of symmetry, order and beauty.

Finally, the need for self-actualisation. All individuals have the need to see themselves as autonomous and competent, also that every person has unlimited room for growth.

Self-actualisation refers to the passion that everybody has to become everything that they are competent of becoming. In other words, it means to be self-fulfilment and the need to reach full prospective as a unique being.

The path to self-actualisation revolves being in touch with your feelings, fully life experience and with complete concentration.

Managing Your Personal Development/Improvement
There are list of steps to take in managing your personal development/Improvement.

1. Developing a Personal Development/Improvement
   This can simply be for fun. Majority of us, however, find it easier to inspire ourselves to learn and improve if we have a reason in doing so. Developing your personal dream - a clear idea of where and what you want to be in a few months or years, and why - is a critical part of developing this reason.

2. Planning Your Personal Development/Improvement
   Once you are crystal clear about where you want to be, you can start planning how to get there by all means(good ways). Drawing up a personal development plan is not necessary, but it does make the planning process more real.

3. Starting the Development or Improvement Process

4. Recording Your Personal Development/Improvement
   It is usually a good idea to keep a record of your personal improvement. By writing or taking down key developments in your learning, Improvement and development as and when they occur, you will be able to reflect on your victory at a later date.

5. Revising and Reviewing Personal Development Plans

This are all you need to know for managing your personal development. Hope you enjoyed reading my page, thanks for stopping by, have a wonderful weekend ahead.