Personal Growth Tools

Personal growth tools impact the quality of your personal and professional lives. These tools can mean different things to different people. Often, growth tools are seen as affirmations, reflection, meditation, breathing exercises, journaling, ceremony, or activities that break pattern and move you out of your comfort zone. For growth to happen, both internal and external work must occur. Internal work establishes a solid foundation of understanding of self, belief in self, and acceptance of self to support the external work that is action oriented. Without action, no growth will take place. Once you take an action step into unknown territory with success, this in turn will create a more solid internal foundation.

What if we expand the definition of personal growth tools to include our life experiences? Life can be a growth tool if:

• You view life as an ongoing process
• You see change as a necessity in life for growth and evolution
• You realize that every life experience has something to teach you
• You understand relationships teach you about yourself
• You know you are responsible for creating the life you want
• You realize growth will encompass discomfort, pain, and uncertainty

A great teacher once said, “You can have short term pain for long term pleasure or you can have long term pain for short term pleasure.” How badly do you want to fulfill your dreams, impact humanity, and live life to the fullest? Often, our aversion to experiencing something negative is greater than the drive for a new reality in our life. Our society is addicted to pleasure seeking. We bought into a belief that pain is bad, and that we can live a life void of any discomfort. We medicate ourselves with alcohol, food, coffee, work, sleep, prescription drugs, and recreation drugs to name a few. If you are not changing, you are dying. Change will happen; the choice is whether you want to initiate the change or be at the effect of the change.

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