As an individual who is pushing for self-growth, with an open vision to entertain great ideas in other to be someone better, you need to be inspired and change the way you reason your career or your personal life. Same routine every day could reduce growth.
For example "Mr. Friday, who wakes up every Monday to Saturday as early as possible to work, and has been doing the same thing for 7 years now in one organization and he so comfortable with it for as long as little change is entering the account by month end, and compare Mr. Julius who reads and employ new strategies on ways to improve himself and his business as an employer of labour and earns 5 times what Mr. Friday earns a month. Self-development and strategic measures implemented is the clear difference. One is achieving the dream of someone else and the other his achieving his dream.
At this point there is no way Mr. Friday can never catch up with Mr. Julius, except he practices the same self-development and aim for a greater height. In building yourself you need to understand who you are, set achievable goals for yourself and look for the gaps and acquire skills or knowledge that will help you achieve these goals.
That's why I will use SWOT popular analysis to educate a bit about self-development.
SWOT Analysis- (Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities and Threats)
Strengths: Don't limit yourself when thinking about your strengths.
• Reflect on yourself and ask yourself what are you good at?
• What do you do better than most people you work with?
• What experiences, resources or achievements do you have access to that others don’t?
Asking people close to you to list your strengths as well, helps you develop yourself.
Weakness: In developing yourself, you need to discover your weaknesses in areas of your life where you know you are not performing well. Here, you think about the things that you’re not so good at, or the areas where you can improve over time.
You list your weaknesses, to help you manage them, so that they don’t stop you achieving your goals and always learn not to be too hard on yourself.
Opportunities: At this point, you need to understand the opportunities that are open to you. Understanding ways, you can take advantage of your strength and create good opportunities by knowing what you love to do that you’re good at. Following up trends and understanding them relating to your pursuit for self-development is important here.
Threats: Finally, here you reflect on the things that could affect your success. This is very important and the need to identify them all is key. The more you know them, the less likely you encounter threats. Focus on the setbacks, obstacles, you need to think about and ways to address them.
This analysis will really go a long way in achieving self-growth with constant follow up and practice.
