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Why Personal Development? - 7
Reasons On Why You Should Start Your Personal Development Quest
Maybe
you are asking yourself : "What benefits do I get if I choose to
continuously improve myself? Or why personal development? Why should I
make the effort of starting a personal development quest?"
If this is the case,
or if simply you want some things to motivate you
into taking the first step and you are searching for a couple of
reasons on why you should start your personal development quest, then
this little list may be of help to you. Have a pleasant reading!
1. Why should I start my personal development
quest?
Reason No.1 Make new friends
 Do you want to
have more
friends? If you do, then start improving on yourself and friends will
come. Some people find this the most important reason to start their
personal development quest. They have a couple of friends or none at
all and they wished they had a lot of friends to talk to and share
things with. If you are like that then personal development is
definitely for you.
Maybe you have friends, and maybe you are content with your life, but
one day you just look around you and you don't like what you see. You
don't like your friends anymore and you feel as if you aren't really
living the life you should. This happens to most of us and one very
important thing to do to change all this, although sometimes very
painful, is to change your friends. Sometimes, your friends are really
dragging you down and keeping you from having the life you deserve.
It might not be on purpose, your friends might be swell guys/girls but
you might realize that what you want isn't at all what they want as
well. They might want to sit back and have an easy life, and that's ok.
But if you want to be more successful in life, to meet new people, to
live in a better place, to build a business, etc. then your friends
will not understand because they just don't want that. Even more, they
will often bring you down with negative talk and by "advising" to slow
down and do as they do.
If you really want to do more
with your life it's time to search for new friends. I'm not saying to
get rid of your old friends! You can keep a good relationship with
them, just don't talk to them about things that they won't understand.
Try to find people that support you, that do what you are doing, and
talk to them. Talk to them a lot.
See how they do it and help them as well. But how do I met new people,
people that are doing something with their life? You improve on
yourself and those people will come. It's like magic. When you are
doing something, you are attracting people that do the same thing as
you. If you sit back and relax, people that do the same will become
your friends. If you try to constantly improve yourself by reading
books, watching personal development videos, listening to self
improvement tapes, talking to people that are trying to improve as
well, you will attract people that do the same, and they will become
your friends.
Don't ask why is that, it's just
is. I'm sure that if you think about it you will see that this is the
case for you too. Just think of what kind of friends you have and you
will see. Remember, if you want to have new friends, friends that focus
on personal development, you have to do what they are doing. Soon you
will have a lot of friends that will want to help you improve, friends
that you can count on and people that you can relate to and have a good
talk with.
After talking to them you will
always feel that you have gained something more than you knew before
the talk. This is like the difference between talking to ordinary
people about how to make money and learning ordinary things about that
and then talking to people that make a lot of money and learning more
interesting things (like making money). It's a huge difference!
2.
Why should I start
my personal development quest?
Reason No.2 Discover what you love to do in life.
 By choosing to
start your personal development quest, you will be able
to discover what you really want to in life. Most people will never
know this, ever. They will accept what is given to them and do it until
the day they die. Is this what you want? If so, then stop reading this
and do something else. If you want more from your life you have to ask
questions like: "what do I really want to do, like to do in life?"
Don't tell me that you don't
know because I'm sure that somewhere in your heart you have the answer.
Don't say that you love to do this or that but you can't make money
with what you want to do and what you are good at, because you can. As
soon as you know what you really want to do and what you naturally feel
attraction towards, you will start seeing the big picture: how to make
money doing what you love.
The important thing here is to
realize what you love to do and the money will follow. You may not
believe this but people that know exactly what they are good at, have
more fun at work and make a lot more money then people who jump from
job to job, going were they are paid better. People that are only after
the money will never feel the joy of doing what they love to do and not
what they think they have to do to survive.
Personal development can give
you the joy you deserve. You just have to want to improve your life and
be willing to make the effort to get results. I'm going to talk a lot
about how you can discover what you truly love to do in life and how to
get money from that in another article.
3.
Why should I start
my personal development quest?
Reason no.3 Get a better job and a bigger salary
 Personal
development will make your life better in every area. This way
you will be able to get a better job or improve the one you already
have. How is this possible? By improving your skills, you will improve
the quality of your work. You will be more efficient and you will be
respected by your colleagues and your superiors. Also, when a big
project comes along, you will be on top of the list to take that
project because your boss knows you are good.
By getting things done faster and better, you will become a valuable
asset to the company that you work for. You will have more influence in
talking to your superiors and you will probably be asked when a
decision is made regarding your department. You will get more and more
power and respect and you will have better chances of getting a much
better salary than what you have now. When people see that you care
about your work, and you do it great, they will offer you a raise!
Personal development will also help you have better relatioships with
all the people that you work with. This will make your work easier and
even fun. You might feel as if you are not even working, you are doing
things with some of your friends and you are even getting paid for
this! Wouldn't this be a great change!
A
tip here: try to think what I just said: think that you aren't
working, you are merely doing some interesting things with a couple of
friends and someone is paying you for this. This will help you feel
better at work and improve the time you spend at work. You will feel
better and if you repeat this little exercise you will soon feel that
it's turned into reality and your co-workers are now your friends.
If you are looking to leave your current job behind, in the future,
personal development can also help. Once you learn how to do your job
better, you will be able to ask for a better salary or working
conditions, and if you don't receive them, you can quit, knowing that
you have enough knowledge to make other companies interested in your
services.
4. Why should I start my personal development
quest?
Reason no.4 Learn how to deal with problems/tragedies
 Personal
development means learning how to
deal with difficult problems or situations. By improving and practicing
this, you will become a great problem solver, both at work and in your
personal life. You can become a little expert in these sort of
situations and you might even become respected for knowing how to solve
problems.
Also, you will be stronger when a tragedy hits you, your company or
even your family. You will learn secret techniques that will be very
useful in this sort of situations. Each problem will make you stronger
instead of making you weaker. You will discover how to take the best
parts from every problem you may encounter so that next time when
something similar occurs, you will deal with it better.
Personal development skills allow you to improve the relationships with
difficult people. You will be able to understand the reasons behind a
certain behavior and how to deal with it efficiently. This is great if
you are a manager to a difficult group of people or even if you have
friends/relatives that are these sort of persons.
You will find
solutions faster and you won't need to argue with someone just to prove
a point. Your solutions will be favorable both to you and the other
person and this way you will avoid most of the other persons arguments.
5. Why should I start my personal development
quest?
Reason no.5 Improve your health
 Personal
development means getting better in
most areas of your life, if not all of them. This means health too.
Your health is the most important thing on the list (or at least it
should be). Without health you couldn't do much. By improving the
quality of your life, the quality of your food, you will also improve
your health.
Personal development means a good physical and mental health. Your
physical health is determined by the food you eat, the amount and
quality of your workout, the quality of the air you breath, sleep, etc.
The mental health depends on the amount of worries you let into your
head. This is crucial! If you let worries overwhelm you your mental
health will suffer.
But, in time, by learning how other people deal with worries and using
their knowledge. Worries are mostly useless as you will see. There not
all useless because if we didn't worry about anything we would all be
kind of lazy and wouldn't do anything. When you learn how to replace
worries with positive thoughts your mental health will improve a lot.
You will become more healthy and you will be happier and joyful.
Mental health is more important than physical health, because your
brain controls your body and not the other way around. This is why you
must focus mostly on your mental health. You will learn this in time,
if you choose to start your personal development quest.
6. Why should I start my personal development
quest?
Reason no.6 Learn more about yourself
 Personal
development offers you the chance to
learn more about yourself, your good parts and your not as good parts.
You must be willing and ready to discover things about yourself, some
will be fine but others may be frightening. But, it's always best to
know your strengths and weaknesses so you can improve on them. By
knowing what you like and what you dislike, you will be able to make
good decisions faster, because you will know what you want from
yourself and from life.
If you love to find out things about your own person, then personal
development is going to fit you great! If you are scared of what you
may discover in this process, let me tell you this: to live a
wonderful, complete life you must be willing to "go the distance" as
Hercules from the movie with the same name, would say. You must have a
burning desire to change and you must face the fact that you will learn
some things about you, some good and some bad. We all have them so
don't be afraid, you are not alone.
The price to pay for a changed life is nothing compared to the exciting
moments that await you in the future if you choose the quest. People
that choose to face their fears, whatever these fears may be, will
always be stronger, happier and bursting with self confidence. They
will walk and talk confidently. People around them will admire and
respect their opinions, because everyone wants to be able to face
his/her fears, but only few choose to do so.
We all can face our deepest fears, but we won't do it. You know why?
Yes, you have guess it: because we are afraid. I hope you take your
fear and shake it as hard as you can and then walk all over it! I
really hope you do - it's not that hard as you think! It's like going
to take a flu shot. Some people are terrified of that, but once they do
it, it feels like it was nothing. It's the same with the fear, it just
seems impossible to surpass, when, in reality it's not that tough.
7.
Why should I start
my personal development
quest?
Reason no.7 Be proud of your life
 Are you proud of your life? Think
about it. Are you? I hope you are, but if you aren't, would you like to
be? Of course you would. Wouldn't you like to make something that will
remain after you are gone, something that would help others. Something
that people would point to and say: "this is made by that great ...
<- your name here. I really liked to meet him/her. I wish I could do
what he/she did"
But
how do you know when you should feel proud? You will just know. I've
said this before in The meaning of
your life : you will have found the meaning of life and you can be
proud of yourself when you can read the following and feel that it
applies to you.
"When we are born into
this
world, everyone laughs while we are crying. Be sure, that by your
actions, when the time for you to go will come, you will be the one
laughing, while everyone else will be crying." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you start your
personal development quest sooner, you will get the chance to change
your life faster, but if you postpone this and say: "It sounds alright,
but I really don't have time to do this now. I'll do it later" know
that it is not you that it is talking, it's the fear inside you that's
telling you what to do! Don't let fear push you around! Push back 10
times as harder and make fear wish it had never met you in the first
place!
I
embrace you,
Razvan
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