There was a time, when I was caught up with the challenges that life took me through and I was focusing more on the problems rather than looking at solutions to overcome those problems. The more I focused on the problems, the greater self-pity I felt and that made me feel completely drained out, with no energy left to do the important tasks in my life. It made me feel exhausted whereas the output in terms of my productivity was negligible. That’s the power of the negative emotions that we go through.
I had forgotten my dreams, goals and was constantly surrounded by the problems in my life. I actually got frustrated by the constant worry I was going through. That’s when I decided to turn things around and felt the need to work on myself. I looked at various aspects of self-growth. There are many good reasons to pursue personal growth. The more I worked on myself, I found many doors opening up for me. It made me better. It helped in achieving my career goals. Over time, it created great momentum in my life. That in turn encouraged me to grow even more. I started to place a greater emphasis on growing than on arriving, which made it easier to overcome and learn from my failures.
Above all, it increased hope. It taught me that tomorrow can be better than today and that’s what kept me going. It helped me move from point A to B to C and I am still on the journey of self-growth. Let me highlight the areas that personal growth has helped me improve on:-
- Healthier Relationships – It helped me improve my personal and professional relationships and above all my relationship with self.
- Less Stress – The mindfulness practices empowered me to be better able to identify, manage, and even eliminate key sources of stress in my life.
- Improved Health – The more equipped I was to manage and reduce stress, the better my overall health.
- Increased Productivity – Procrastination is the worst enemy of Productivity and is often driven by deeper emotions. The more I worked on my emotions the better my ability to focus and manage stress. This led to a drastic increase in Productivity.
- Enhanced Self-Control – My ability to regulate my emotions, thoughts, and behavior in order to accomplish specific goals, made it easier to build new habits and achieve short and long term goals.
- Greater Success – For me, Success is not about fame or money or achieving celebrity status but about feeling contented as I achieve the benchmarks that I have set for myself.
- Improved Peace of Mind – My heightened understanding of self and others, has contributed to a greater sense of peace and acceptance overall.
- Better Parenting – Personal growth has helped me be a good role model for my children. Positive reinforcement has enabled me to guide my children to grow into confident, responsible, and accountable individuals.
- Greater Resilience – Personal development has allowed me to confront and work through obstacles from the inside and out. Time spent developing my emotional intelligence, self-awareness, and coping strategies have had a direct and positive impact on my level of resilience.
- Greater Happiness – Regular work on identifying, healing, and transforming underlying beliefs, traumas and self-sabotaging behaviors and habits have enhanced my ability to experience real joy and happiness.
Click here to know more about Emotional Intelligence for Personal Growth. This has given me a new perspective on life and spend my time, energy, and money to work towards my higher purpose in life. What an amazing feeling this is!
