Personal Growth

Personal growth is not a magic formula rather it’s a lifelong commitment to oneself to improve by whatever means possible to a better, more accomplished self. Every one of us has aspirations and dreams in life which means very different personal goals. These goals determine the path we most commonly take in the personal growth. One should be wary that this is a difficult path to follow because there is a very fine line between self acceptance and personal improvement. One cannot really improve himself/herself until they have fully accepted who they are. We also have different god gifted qualities and thus there is huge variation of what success would mean to two different people be they brothers from the same mother.
• Purpose of personal growth:
One must identify what it is for them to feel successful in this life. Until this is not done properly no one can truly feel successful in life. Life is full of people blindly following some else’s dream to a point that even after achieving what they set out to achieve they don’t feel the happiness, the complete liveliness of the being. This is due to the same reason that they are oblivious of what truly matters to them. One major reason is the social norms in which these people are brought up – watching successful people, studying them and without any self observation thinking one has the same set of dreams to make them successful. The first step in personal growth is to be fully aware of any conflicting thoughts that arise as if these are ignored and will cause the vital difference in personal success and failure. Yet so many of us have not developed this trait in ourselves and this should be considered as the purpose of personal growth.

• Weakness and strengths:
Every one of us in this world has some strengths and weaknesses that’s how we function as a society. The earlier we determine our strengths the easier it would be for us to personally grow and become confident and successful in what we do.
This is also vital in another way as we would be able to identify as to why certain people behave differently than us in the exact same situation. This is an important part of self growth as we would be able to not only identify our own strengths but also help other determine theirs.
I would finish this by saying personal growth is the careful study of one’s own self to determine which way he/she should be taking to come as close to happiness as they possibly can.