Personal Development Plans- Can Change Your Life If You Believe Yourself Able To Expand Your Self Improvement And MotivationPersonal development plans can change your life if you believe yourself able to expand your self improvement and motivation so they become second nature and focus on your realizable goal setting. Personal development plans consist of many different disciplines acquired through positive thinking, careful study of self help books or long experience. But, if you want to achieve self growth there must be a disciplined mind to ensure the necessary self-improvement and motivation will be sustained.
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The book of Proverbs, one of the great self help books, has much good advice on self improvement, how to get motivated and how to generally improve your lot in life. For instance: “Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to knowledge” Over two thousand years later, James Allen repeated the advice in his classic self help book “As a Man Thinketh”. He emphasized that you make of yourself what you will; it’s a free choice. In fact, in the foreword to the book, James Allen gets right to the heart of personal development in just one line: "They themselves are makers of themselves" - surely one of the greatest motivational quotes of all time. Just in case the message is not clear and plain he follows this by saying: “by virtue of the thoughts which they choose and encourage; that mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance, and that, as they may have hitherto woven in ignorance and pain they may now weave in enlightenment and happiness.” If you are serious about your personal development plans you will consider the mind in conjunction with the body and the spirit. For, just as it is crucial that you feed your mind with appropriate thoughts, it is equally important that you look after your physical body and the internal spirit. In truth, you must be vigilant because sickness, ill-health, mean-spiritedness and lax discipline in all things can be attributable to your dominant thoughts. In other words, you must make a conscious effort to be a positive thinking human being. Many people will be satisfied with self Improvement and motivation which allows them to get on in life whilst others will want to add daily exercise and additional ways of keeping a healthy body. Yet others, particularly as they mature, may well be concerned with what lies beyond this life and include spiritual growth in their personal development plans. Everybody wants a higher standard of living which leads naturally into wealth creation strategies whether you work for someone else or run your own business. Whichever way you go you will almost certainly need some form of sales training program to help you on your way. Your own business strategies are dependent on your motivation for, without a defined objective, there will be no achievement. You must have a clearly delineated goal which will drive your business strategies towards a personal wealth creation program. However, important as they are, wealth creation strategies are not the be-all-and-end-all of life if you are to come through as a well-rounded individual. You will also have a disciplined approach to your personal development with a healthy mind & body along with a spiritual growth pattern to your life. Personal development has many facets but As a Man Thinketh encapsulates significant age-old truths many of us learnt at the knees of our grandparents. His succinct elaboration of these verities spawned the vast personal development industry we know today. In fact, Earl Nightingale, recognized by many to be the founder of contemporary personal development, summed them up in his book The Strangest Secret. In essence, Earl Nightingale agreed with James Allen that we become what we think about in our personal development. As James Allen says: “Man is made or unmade by himself; in the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy andstrength and peace. By the right choice and true application of thought, man ascends to the Divine Perfection; by the abuse and wrong application of thought, he descends below the level of the beast. Between these two extremes are all the grades of character, and man is their maker and master.”
You have no excuse; self help books are available in abundance and if you are really interested in how to get motivated you can do no better than study the works of Zig Ziglar, Napoleon Hill, Earl Nightingale, Richard Carlson, Joe Vitale, Denis Waitley and Anthony Robbins as they teach us all about personal development.
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