SELF AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT:

SELF AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT:

 Self Development

Self-Development is a process of consciously improving oneself in various aspects of his or her life. It is the conscious pursuit of personal growth by improving personal skills, competencies, talents, and knowledge. However, the key component to self-development is the growth of one’s personal self in order to seek self-fulfillment and proactively reach your fullest potential.

PD Circle Self Development

   

SELF AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT:

Self-development and personal growth is a lifelong process which enables you to assess your abilities, to set goals, and then take action to help you to achieve those goals and to maximize your potential.  The ultimate goal of self-development is to be a self-fulfilled person. That means living consciously at your full potential and reaching true happiness in your life.

 

We divide self-development into three segments:

Skill Enhancement

Mental Conditioning

Habit Creation

 

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Self Development Segments

 

Skill Enhancement

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Skill enhancement is the development of personal skills, abilities, and competencies. It encompasses both interpersonal and personal effectiveness skills. Interpersonal skills focuses on relationships and interactions with others. It includes how to communicate and work with others, as well as how to lead others. Personal effectiveness centers on skills that can be applied independent of other people. It includes skills such as goal setting, problem solving, time management, and stress management.  

   

Mental Conditioning

SELF AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT:

Mental conditioning is the process of building and strengthening our minds. It allows us to maintain a positive focus on our goals and objectives through imagery, visualization, and other techniques. It also allows us to build positive images and feeling about ourselves to increase our self-image, self-esteem and self-confidence. Mental conditioning techniques encompasses relaxation to help relieve anxiety and tension to improve performance through better concentration and focus.

   

Habit Creation:

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Habit creation is the conscious establishment of behaviors or thoughts in an attempt to improve ourselves. Habits are those behaviors or tendencies that you do automatically without thinking or consciously intending. Our habits usually direct our actions, our reactions, our decision, and even our thoughts. The creation of positive habits can help you develop a more productive and enriched life.

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT:

SELF AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT:

 Personal development is a lifelong process. It is a way for people to assess their skills and qualities, consider their aims in life and set goals in order to realise and maximise their potential.

SELF AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT:

LIFE GOALS:

This page helps you to identify the skills you need to set life goals which can enhance your employability prospects, raise your confidence, and lead to a more fulfilling, higher quality life. Plan to make relevant, positive and effective life choices and decisions for your future to enable personal empowerment.

SELF AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT:

LIFE DEVELOPMENT:

Although early life development and early formative experiences within the family, at school, etc. can help to shape us as adults, personal development should not stop later in life.

INFORMATION AND ADVICE:

This page contains information and advice that is designed to help you to think about your personal development and ways in which you can work towards goals and your full potential.

PERSONAL EMPOWERMENT:

‘Personal Development’ and ‘Personal Empowerment’ are two areas that overlap and interweave, so it is recommended that you read this page in conjunction with our page on Personal Empowerment.

IDEAS:

Why is Personal Development Important?

There are many ideas surrounding personal development, one of which is Abraham Maslow's process of self-actualisation.

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Self-Actualisation

Maslow (1970) suggests that all individuals have an in-built need for personal development which occurs through a process called self-actualisation.

MOTIVATING:

The extent to which people are able to develop depends on certain needs being met and these needs form a hierarchy.  Only when one level of need is satisfied can a higher one be developed.  As change occurs throughout life, however, the level of need motivating someone’s behaviour at any one time will also change.

PHYSIOLOGICAL NEEDS:

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Physiological Needs, Safety Needs, Love and Belongingness, Esteem Needs, Cognitive Needs, Aesthetic Needs and Self-Actualisation.

At the bottom of the hierarchy are the basic physiological needs for food, drink, sex and sleep, i.e., the basics for survival.

Second are the needs for safety and security in both the physical and economic sense.

Thirdly, progression can be made to satisfying the need for love and belonging.

The fourth level refers to meeting the need for self-esteem and self-worth. This is the level most closely related to ‘self-empowerment’.

The fifth level relates to the need to understand. This level includes more abstract ideas such as curiosity and the search for meaning or purpose and a deeper understanding.

The sixth relates to aesthetic needs of beauty, symmetry and order.

Finally, at the top of Maslow’s hierarchy is the need for self-actualisation.