Apart from
biological development, it is expected that you upgrade your knowledge content
in order to continue to explore and utilize available resources for your needs
and pleasure. It is your personal responsibility therefore to identify given
talents and continue to improve your skill until you depart from this life.
What is your current content?
It is
possible that you have never really assessed your content against what you want
in life and the actual level of relevant knowledge and skill required to
achieve your goals. So, taking control of your life denotes honest assessment
of who you are, what you want and how you will achieve it. Consider the
following steps:
1. Who
you are and your goals:
It could be that you are a student and undecided about your given talent. It is important to seek career guidance so
that you become focus as you progress to higher learning. It could be that you have just graduated and are
seeking a long-term relationship. To find ideal person requires an update on
who you have become as an adult. From
infancy to date you have been socialized by your parents, schools, the church and
other social institutions and therefore have shifted emotionally, socially and
spiritually. Or you are happily married and want to update yourself with 21st
century parenting skills. The latter is the most ignored of all functional
literacy; yet is fundamental in reducing societal ills.
2. Identify
the gaps: This is another important
self-evaluation exercise which you need to engage in before you undertake life-changing
decisions. For example, it could be that you enjoyed the false victory because
you won the court-case against your wife, yet you know the truth that you
contributed to the divorce. Identifying the gaps denotes seeking the inner
peace or its absence. Do you know that
your inner self could haunt you and render your false victory an emotional
burden which will steal your joy and peace?
Without these pillars and seed of positive growth, you are a destroyed
man, without a meaningful future!
Reviewed plans for your personal
development.
Now that
you have identified your personal development gaps, you need clear plans and
strategies that will enable you to reach your goals:
1. Do
you have a zeal for an improved life?
This question is relevant to your current position and seeks to challenge you
to determine the level of your motivation to exert yourself for a change. Remember that you reap what you sow!
2. Include
yourself in resolving the root of the problem!
Immature
people exclude themselves in identifying the contributing factors to the problem
and therefore miss the mark in moving forward. Identifying your own blemishes
is empowering yourself to change the soiled nappy so to speak, instead of
adding a powder or adding a fresh one without cleaning the bottom first! The problem will continue and growth will not
be sustainable.
3.
Shout for help! Are you equipped to handle your
mess? Be honest and seek professional help.
It is amazing that we all accept physical illness but are reluctant to
notice our emotional instability and hurts!
Assessing
your progress on personal growth is very important! It enables you to stop blaming
delays or failures on others. You take
control of your life when you see your contribution in things that happen in
your life – good or bad! You are the only one who knows the truth about your current
challenges and therefore knows whether you are capable of making desirable
changes with or without professional help! The truth will make you free!
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