Personal Development

Life development is very loosely used as a process to improve our personal skills. It's commonly referred to as developing our personal skills.

Personal development means the actions that we apply to improve our talents, skills or behaviour. It's the conscious decisions we take to improve yourself and prosper in life. This is one of the most learnt areas that we focus on lives, this is the desire and willpower to make better changes. Somehow, we feel that we owe it ourselves to achieve ambitious goals and dreams. 

The desire to develop our personal development skills starts at the adult life, reaching the age of a teenage through to adult life. These thoughts are pushed through by the circumstances or the surroundings of our life. The family, the society and the working life sets expected standards that we cannot escape or avoid. To be part of the gang or fit into the system, we are required to enhance our set of skills. 

Techniques to understand the areas for your personal development!

   

Self-awareness	Analyse your skills
Identify your skills	Find your matched program

1. Self-awareness

We concentrate most of our life, trying to make impressions or pleasing others. When it comes to personal or professional relationships, we care more about what others may think of us, than what we can for our own welfare or feelings. The first step is to start focusing on your own personal needs, without being self-aware of your own needs. Trying to find out and understand what areas could help to improve your relationship at a personal as a professional level. 

2. Analyse your skills

You are the master of yourself. You know what you want and what can help you in your life. It could be a good idea to start writing your journal, this is a method to help people to jot down their thoughts, come to terms with the challenges in life and also to analyse, evaluate and know yourself better. 

3. Identify your skills

As you continue jotting down your thoughts in the journal every day, you self-awareness increases, you're in tune with your thought processes, you hone your skills to analyse yourself and engage in identifying your skills. When entertaining your personal relationships, what do you lack? Do you have issues to share your feelings or your thoughts? Do you have difficulty in critical thinking and unable to share what you wanted to explain? 

In your professional life, do you lack a specific skill - social media content development? Do you think you need to learn about social media marketing to add value to your job? Do you need to develop any other skill? Can you attend an online or personal development skills development course?

4. Find a program that matches your needs

It's very easy to enrol into a program with the intention of developing your skills, but find a program that can enhance your skills and focus on your personal development. Google, surf and go through the details to find the right program that matches your needs.

Fathimath Afiya

14 May 2020