5 Dramatic Changes in Your Life Towards Extreme Personal
Are you constantly striving towards personal excellence? If this blog posting has caught your attention, there is a strong possibility that that you are certainly looking to excel in your personal life.
March 18, 2013 / 19:48 IST
Anil Thomas
Are you constantly striving towards personal excellence? If this blog posting has caught your attention, there is a strong possibility that that you are certainly looking to excel in your personal life. All of us in this world are here to achieve the best we can in our life, to impact the world in some way or the other and stand out in excellence. There is no greater feeling than overcoming a hurdle that was once viewed as unconquerable; no greater feeling than looking back at the person you are right now and recognising how much you have achieved than you thought possible.Here are five dramatic steps that can help you to achieve personal excellence in your quest of bettering yourself and ensuring personal growth.1) Trust YourselfThe first and most important step towards personal excellence is in believing and trusting yourself. If you do not trust or believe in your own abilities and your strengths, you cannot expect anyone else around you to believe or trust in you. In order to accomplish great achievements, you must first be able to trust in your abilities of achieving it. There is no one else who will be able to attain what you have set out to do, but yourself, and this self-knowledge is extremely vital towards that goal.2) Continue To Learn And Develop Your Skills And TalentsThe road to personal excellence is an incessant journey that calls for persistent improvement and development of your abilities. Regardless of how much time and energy you would have spent in building yourself, there are always numerous opportunities around you to further better those abilities and improve yourself. Reflect about the skill sets and talents that you have at the moment and your wish-list of skills that you would like to develop, but have yet to accomplish. For instance, some of the skills that you are targeting to build in the upcoming months could be productivity, discipline, hobbies, speaking boldly in public etc. The time to start is NOW.3) Run Away from Your Comfort ZoneThe moment you step out of the shadow of your comfort zone, you have already taken the first and most important step towards personal growth and achievement. Comfort zones are so called because it's that area of personal space where you are complacent, taking very little effort to reach barely acceptable results. This, leads to little or no growth since you have become accustomed to ease and comfortable living. Once you step away from that area of complacency, you begin to face and experience things that you have not been open to before. This feeling of a new surrounding environment with the presence of new stimuli activates a reprocessing procedure in yourself as you adjust to deal with them. Do not worry; this process is known as new growth. Continue to push yourself in new and strange areas where you see fresh growth. 4) Surround Yourself With The BestIf you linger with like-minded folks who are enthusiastic about personal growth and excellence, you will see a positive and dramatic change in yourself and your thought processes. Dissociate yourself with individuals who are constantly disgruntled and persistently wailing about how life is so bitter. Connect with people who show an interest in supporting you and build your contacts with those who have a positive outlook towards life. In short, bond with the best. Look into yourself and discover what it is that you are working on. Who are the people who excel in that area of work you are currently doing? What have they accomplished? And how? Aim your goals to a similar standard, or even further if you think you can achieve them.5) Giving Up Is Not An OptionDo not ever give up -- on your goals or on yourself. Keep in mind that failure never takes place unless you admit it as failure. If a destined hurdle is too large for you to manage, quantify it into smaller portions so that it becomes better for you to deal with them. The path towards achieving your goal is to keep trying, always. Stay centred on the extent of the growth you achieve and do not get tied down by specific consequences, simply because consequences do not determine who you are.Get started today on embodying these 5 dramatic changes to bring about transformational personal growth in you and begin seeing yourself soar to newer heights.Anil Thomas is the co-founder of Mustard Seed, a training academy for building teams and leadersYou can send your feedback on smementor@moneycontrol.com or simply post comments below Discover the latest Business News, Sensex, and Nifty updates. Obtain Personal Finance insights, tax queries, and expert opinions on Moneycontrol or download the Moneycontrol App to stay updated!
