Let's talk about Personal Development and Evaluation! This is to groom you straight to success in the '11! Each Day, I will give you one of five ways to begin the process to the BEST YOU YOU EVER KNEW! Are you ready?
The intent to this article is for you to:
1. know what personal development and evaluation are,
2.explore or evaluate self and see if you are growing,
3.identify challenging areas of growth,
4. develop self-awareness, strategies, and techniques for self-improvement,
5. maintain and continue growth.
Today's topic, What is Personal Development and Evaluation? Personal Development are desires or aspirations to change or grow and take action in growing. The point of Personal Development is to:
1. Discover yourself,
2. Better Yourself,
3. Effectively help others grow.
If you think about it, it mimics way of life! We start growing as soon as we are born! Actually, we develop and grow prior to birth, right? Why does growth and development stop when we are adults? It continues. When we were ready to walk, we stopped crawling and challenged ourselves to walk, even at the expense of 'falling down' quite a few times, until we were tired of falling. We strengthened our legs through endless practice, all for the vision of WALKING! You were able to envision walking because you were surrounded by others who were walking! Not around those as much who could not walk! (ARE YOU REALLY GETTING THIS MESSAGE EVERYONE? WILL TALK MORE ON THIS LATER) Same principal applies to Personal Growth, keep at it until the vision you see becomes reality!
Evaluation is overall determining, assessing, calculating, estimating, or appraising worth or significance using a criteria against a set of standards, according to Webster's dictionary. Basically, you are checking for worth or value of something. The point of Evaluation in the since of Personal Development is to:
1. meet your standards,
2. reevaluate your standards,
3. assist in your personal growth.
You establish check offs for three areas that comprises you:
1. MIND- evaluate this element to see if you have clear views of yourself, others, and the world, (how am i thinking about myself, life and others?).
2. BODY-evaluate this element in terms of health and wellness (how are my eating habits, do i maximize exercising for better health?)
3. SPIRIT-evaluate your spirituality, regardless of faith or religion. This element is most ignored, but we do have spiritual beings that need to be attended in order to have full wholeness and balance (am i connected to a high power, do i meditate or reflect on my future, on life, etc?).
When all three elements are attended to, this brings a very healthy and optimal state of living. Evaluating means to be honest and accepting of all the results. It is how you use the results of the evaluation that determines your personal growth.
So are we growing? How do you know if you really are? So many factors need to be addressed and understood.
To Be Continued............................................