5 Areas of Personal Development

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5 Areas of Personal Development
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General notions of personal development beget
misunderstanding. The phrase encompasses a myriad
of things and ideas, and pursuing vague concepts
of personal development can be so disorienting
that we desist before trying. How many ambitious
open-ended resolutions have you listed, only to
abandon them on paper? The most effective way to
take on those resolutions is to keep yourself
accountable. And the first step to keeping
yourself accountable is to understand precisely
what your mission is. You can use simplicity to
dissect and understand complexity. Breaking down
personal development into subcategories will help
you identify your strengths and weaknesses. Once
identified, your mission should become clear, and
your structured journey of personal development
more likely to bear fruits. So what are the
subunits that comprise the whole? Here are the
five areas of personal development and How to
find your life purpose.
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1. Spiritual Development Talk of spirituality
often ends up in religions corner, though the
two dont always go together. You can be
spiritual without practicing any religion, and
vice versa. Most definitions of spirituality
allude to establishing a deeper connection with
yourself and the world around you. In other
words, your spiritual development constitutes
your essence as a human being. And at the heart
of your essence lie your axioms truths that you
regard as self-evident and paramount. What are
your dearest beliefs, the ones that make you
prefer one behavior over another? The invisible
foundations of your lifes edifice? How to find
your life purpose? The things you would never
compromise, even if circumstances required you
to? These may evolve with time and experience,
but knowing your axioms will guide all other
areas of personal development. 2. Emotional
Development As neuroscience uncovers more of the
incalculable processes that determine our
emotions, pursuing emotional development might
seem like a lost cause. But change is possible.
The brain is malleable, and so are our emotional
instincts. In the business world, we often hear
about how the most successful people have high
emotional intelligence (EI). On a personal level,
emotional intelligence is your ability to
identify and manage your emotions. As Daniel
Goleman described in his eponymous book, EI
consists of five essential elements emotional
self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation,
empathy, and social skills.
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Meditation, art, journaling, and meeting new
people can tremendously develop each of the five
elements. Other helpful activities include
identifying and eliminating unnecessary stressors
and expanding your vocabulary to better
articulate complex feelings. Although developing
emotional intelligence is a lifelong pursuit, you
will see that commitment and patience will
eventually help you identify and manage more and
more of your emotional responses. 3.
Intellectual Development You are probably
familiar with IQ or other intelligence tests. The
activities that make up these tests are some of
the ways you can sharpen your intellect.
Mathematical reasoning, analytical reading and
writing, pattern recognitionif done regularly,
these can improve your intellect and give you an
edge in your life and career. More simply than
mind-twisting tasks, you can also train your
intellect by reading 30 minutes a day, doing
crosswords, or learning a new language. As in
social development, what matters is that you
challenge your mind daily to become more apt at
almost anything you do or Find your passion and
purpose in life. 4. Physical Development Physica
l development might be the easiest to visualize.
Changes in the body are usually more apparent
than changes in the mind. Are you planning on
eating more brain-healthy foods? Working on
mastering a new bodyweight exercise? Training for
higher running endurance? Answering these
questions through physical activity will make you
more youthful and more flexiblephysically and
mentally.
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Indeed, physical development doesnt only affect
the body. It directly affects intellectual and
emotional performance, as well as social
development. Over two millennia ago, ancient
Romans knew about the intimate relationship
between mind and body. As the popular saying
still goes, Mens sana in corpore sano. A healthy
mind in a healthy body. For example, a study of
800 Swedish women found that physical exercise
helps maintain above-average mental acuity in
midlife. So whatever your physical goals are, it
helps to think of them as steps to increase
overall well-being, not just physical
prowess. 5. Social Development Intimately
linked to emotional development, social
development concerns our social interactions. We
know that much of well-being depends on how
sociable you are, with more social connections
correlating to higher contentment. This probably
helps explain why anxiety and depression levels
have increased during covid-19. But pandemic or
no pandemic, the goal for most people is to be
able to hold smooth and worthwhile interactions
as frequently as possible. A broader vocabulary
is (again) one of the most accessible and
effective tools to improve your social
interactions. Learning a new language, attending
socializing events, and regularly meeting new
people are also experiences that can drastically
improve your communication skills and other
social skills. If in-person meetings with
strangers concern you, you can take advantage of
Skype and other e-meet apps to socialize anyway.
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You Are Ready to Embark on Your Personal
Development Journey Now that you understand the
five areas of personal development, consider
these three things. First, personal development
is a never-ending process that begins when we
first open our eyes to the world. You are
constantly developing, changing your mind and
body as you enter and interact with different
people and environments. That said, it is useful
to have a structured plan for personal
development, especially if you struggle to keep
yourself accountable and make real
progress. Second, boundaries between one sphere
and another blur frequently. Activities that
increase your mental acuity could also help you
curb your emotional outbursts. Expanding your
vocabulary will make you more articulate, and
better articulation will allow you to better
manage emotions verbally. While you should
address each area of personal development
independently, remember that they complement each
other. Last, there may be reasons you cannot
avoid that prevent you from improving in any one
of these areas or Find your passion and purpose
in life. That is fine. It isnt about becoming
the best in each area. There is no such human.
But as long as you are taking some actions to
better yourselfwhatever those areyou are
actively trying to become a better human. And
that is commendable.
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