Self Development: Process for Personal & Professional growth -

Self Development – Process for Personal and Professional growth

Self-Development or Personal development or Self-improvement never happens on a single night. It is the step by step actionable process and you will be improving from previous version of yourself. Self-development is essential for your personal and professional growth and helps you to get what you want in your life. Here is an overview of Self-development which helps you to understand where you have to focus when you want to improve yourself on both personal and professional areas.

This article provides you an idea about Self-development in general and gives knowledge about where to start & where to focus when you are in Self-development journey – A complete practical guide {not the tips} for your personal and professional growth

What is self-development?

Self-development means taking steps to have a better version of yourself through learning new things, new skills, overcoming bad habits and building healthy habits; Skills and habits that help you to increase your chance of success, achieving your goals and manifest your dreams.

How to improve myself? Where to start?

When you want to improve yourself in both personal and professional areas, you should begin with Self-awareness, Self-discovery and Self-assessment.

Self-awareness:

Self-awareness means identifying and recognizing of your nature, qualities, skills etc that something exists.

Read here : What is Self-awareness?

Self-discovery:

Self-discovery means detailed understanding of your own personality, values, tendencies and beliefs. This gives you great insights about what you want to do or what you want to become.

Self-Assessment:

Word itself depicts!! It is a process of gathering information about your skills, competencies, talents, how you behave and your ability to do something in a particular context.

How to improve myself {Personal & Professional development}:

Once you start understanding and evaluating yourself completely through Self-awareness, Self-discovery and Self-assessment, you can start the process of developing yourselves through enhancing your skills, conditioning your mind and building good habits.

1.Skill Enhancement:

Skill enhancement gives knowledge to develop you skills which is necessary for bringing growth in your personal and professional aspects. Skill enhancement includes Personal effectiveness, goal setting, problem solving, Time management and Stress Management. Focus these areas!!

Personal effectiveness:

It means utilizing your energy and skills to develop and reach your goals. It helps in clear understanding of knowing yourself {Selfawareness} which helps in building relationships and reducing personal stress.

Goal setting:

Goal setting is the process starts with what you want to achieve and ends with hard work of doing the things you want. What is goal setting and How to achieve your goals?

Problem solving:

It includes multiple soft skills to analyze, interpret a problem and choose possibilities to reach the simplest solution.

Time management:

Well organized!! Having the knack to handle all responsibilities and at the same time still finding time for rest, relax , sleep and personal relationships.

Read also: Time management

Stress Management:

Managing your stress is a skill in this era. Emotional intelligence and healthy habits are the key to manage stress.

2.Mental Conditioning:

Mental conditioning means disciplining your mind to achieve what you want in your life. Before conditioning your mind, first you need to aware about your image and esteem. After knowing about self-image and self esteem, you can condition your mind.

Self-image :

Self-image means how you value and perceive yourselves, It is developed over the period of time and influence by the experiences you encountered. Self-image formed as a result of

How you see yourself?
How others see you?
How you see perceive others see you?
How you perceive you see yourself?
Answering and exploring the same gives you an idea about your image.

Self-esteem:

Self-esteem means overall opinion of yourself. That is how you feel about your abilities and limitations. It includes Self-confidence, identity, feeling of belonging and feeling of competence.

3.Building good Habits:

Habits determine our destiny. Mistakes are common, when it is repeated knowingly or unknowingly it becomes your part at one point {Neuroplasticity}. So focusing your habits is crucial to improve your personal and professional aspect.

Pick one good habit, have a commitment to have this habit and start practicing it.

“Self-development is a process, journey!! It enhances your strengths, increases your mental and Emotional well-being, makes you healthy and builds healthy relationships”