Personal development includes activities which improve self-awareness confidence and identity, to develop skills and personal potential. The aim is to enhance prospects, quality of life and to contribute to the realisation of aspirations.
Sharing your creativity with others – either the creative moments or the results of our creativity – benefits them and us.
One of the great gifts bequeathed to us by our evolutionary development is the ability to predict – to make assumptions based upon past experience – which allows us to prepare for what will happen in a variety of situations. We make assumptions to save time and to reduce uncertainty, in this they are useful. But we need to distinguish where there is uncertainty that implies real risk, and the sort that just makes us feel uncomfortable. Lower levels of tolerance for uncertainty can make us risk averse, overly worried, and tend to draw conclusions prematurely.
As some people have an aversion to words and phrases [...]
The wider your vocabulary he better you can explain how you feel or describe an experience. But what happens if the right word doesn't exist in your language?
Emotional Intelligence is a set of skills which determine how well you handle yourself in life and in general. It's become a vital asset in career planning.
Embracing uncertainty can be scary, but admitting what you don't know can be liberating.
Our need to make up meaning for things is so automatic we don't generally question it. Our minds provide an endless parade of interpretations and meanings in the personal soap opera we call thinking. There is another way, but you may not like it.
By making a few conscious choices in your thinking style and learning to change your thinking you can start to retrain your mind to work better for you in stressful, demanding and challenging situations.
Well, not each day exactly, but sometime soon. Rather than finding out by chance that you are past your shelf-life why not take the initiative. Doing something new might refresh your ideas and reignite your zest for life.
Personal change begins in the imagination. Visualisation uses imagination to influence our goals and successes. A vision board combines the two.
