By Brian Turk
In today’s society nothing stays the same for too long. With the ever changing technology and skill sets that are required today, in order to be successful, or have any kind of success you will need to cope with change on a regular basis. What exactly does this mean? This means that you must have current up to date skills, and adapt appropriately to change.
Years ago, many people had the same job or career most of their entire life. This was normal back then, and people were able to get away with this. Nowadays things have changed, and with the never ending cut backs or layoffs that most corporations incur over your lifespan, you will need to stay fresh with new skills. This will keep you sharp and marketable in any downturn, or economic shift.
It will take initiative and dedication on your part, but when you are currently employed this is the time to invest in yourself. This is when you want to take immediate action and develop your skills. In order to do this you will go through a change, which could mean a change with learning new things, change with how you think about certain things, and a change on how you do things in life. Many people are reluctant to change, and would rather have things stay the same. This is do to the fact that most people get comfortable, when doing the same thing all of the time. You will need to take a different approach and learn to get comfortable with discomfort.
First things first, you will need to change your mindset and how you look at certain things. Remember this very important concept that I am going to share with you. “If you aren’t growing, than you are dying”. This holds true to almost everything in life. Think about it, if you are not growing you are dying. The body and mind need growth in order to stay alive, sometimes also known as keeping ourselves going. You have to have a desire and need in life, or you will just be their physically, but not mentally.
March 4th, 2009
By David Dutch
Personal Development or personal power, we hear a great deal about it well look at Wikipedia there are 116 pages devoted to the phrase, no wonder most people are confused by the term, although it is a popular phrase used by so called ‘Gurus’ selling personal development training.
We were born with unrealized potential and most strive through their lives to make them better through education and job prospects but is this what we call personal development?
So just what is Personal Power or Personal Development training?
It is very much a mental thing, trying to be the best person you can be is one of the power driving forces to help you achieve goals. You look at other people, some of them as role models, and try to integrate some of their personality into your own. But this is just not practical and is the reason many people feel a sense of failure when they try personal development traing courses and goal setting tools. They can read personal development books attend personal development seminars but they will never be like their role models.
The reality of your life today is a reflection of the sum of your thoughts until this day.
So if your current situation is the result of all the thoughts that you have, and you have on average 50,000 personal thoughts a day, some people have one thought 50,000 times! Personal Development is all about changing what you do now and getting different results than you have had in your past?
Most people simply want to improve their quality of life they do n ot need to earn millions to do it; Perhaps all your past experiences have shown a lack of results, so is it still possible to realize all of your personal dreams and spirations? Since childhood most of us have been held in check by parents, relatives, teachers and peer groups, their best intentions to save us from disappointment have been geared toward telling us not to expect too much we will only be disappointed.
No wonder self styled professional ‘Gurus’ earn vast fortunesestablishing seminars, telling us what we should be doing to improve our lot, without really coaching us how to do it, well that is in the next power lesson which costs an extra $x,000 and helps keep them rich and us poor. Thirsting for the next secret advertised will not get you that personal power found in self improvement .
Whilst it is true to say that whatever level of personal development you are at you do need a framework in order to know if improvement has actually occurred, what you do not need is the latest ‘Whizz bang super-dooper piece of software that will power you to smart goal achievement’.
They tell you that they know something you do not and that is why you feel frustrated at your lack of personal development you will feel compelled to pull out more and more of your hard earned money to discover the secret, when there is no secret anyway.
Just as a building need a strong framework so do you to keep on track? Well you need some sort of smart goal or benchmark to aim for because you need to define the end-point, you need plans and strategies to measure and assess your progress toward the end, and you need milestones set out so that you can reward yourself for making progress on the way. In every journey you need some sort of feedback to know just where you are and are you on track.
Would you set off on a long unfamiliar journey without first looking at a map for guidance.Even then you would set milestones on the route to measure how far you had covered and how far you had to go. Keep your money in your pocket I can tell you all you need to know from my past experience of personal development work.
March 4th, 2009