Personal development

Ask ourselves this question – “Am I satisfied with my current personal development?” What is personal development and how do we want to measure it? Do we focus too much on one sphere of life or should the required the so called development as a total? The meanings we attach to what we perceive as development depends on our needs. It is therefore rather very subjective in nature. No two people interpreting the same meaning perceive it exactly the same.

To be clear about that, we must be personally objective on what kind of development we want to achieve. Some of us already developed, advanced and very successful in one sphere of our life, but at the expense of another. How about break it down into smaller components such as financial, education, family, personal, economy, social, work, community, and spiritual? Here are few simple tips we may want to embrace as a checklist either we stagnant or progress:-

1. Financial – What should be acceptable yardstick to check either we are financially sound and healthy? What are our goals and how much money is enough to support our living?
2. Education – What level of education is sufficient to facilitate our progress? It is a ticket or a must?
3. Personal – What are our strengths and how should we polish on them and make them advance and significant?
4. Economy – What are those steps if any to keep improving our economics standard at micro level as a very basic cluster or household?
5. Social – What should we do to be socially developed? What body or organization should we involve in and take part?
6. Work or career – What would you do to be advance in career path be you working on your own or employed? How about latest trend of working from home or well known as small office home office (SOHO) if we want to balance between career and family needs? Working mothers should analyze this idea thoroughly.
7. Community – What can we contribute to our community around us so that the community that we live in accepted us as part of the group?
8. Spiritual – “I can be developed in other areas of my life. It is fine for me if I’m not spiritual?” How would you want God to guide you irrespective of what religion you may be embraced?

Procrastination

We all knew that most of us perceived procrastination as bad thing. The reality is that not all procrastination is bad. Sometimes procrastination is good if we know how to apply it properly - best apply under complex situations. It was proven many times, if we run very fast, we tends to make mistakes and spiral downward. Some mistakes really cost us times, energy and money. Some of these mistakes might be irreversible. Here is where a little bit of procrastination can be a great resource to us.

Many teething issues are too complex that seems like no quick fixed to it within immediate term. It may surprising us to acknowledge that some of our problems just do have a way of settling or working by themselves. Meaning that - the more we try to fix them, the worst they get or became more complicated. That is when a little bit of procrastination(slow down our running momentum or speed) maybe of help because we will let time do its work naturally. Another way to define this is - retreat first, and when the timing is right, then we may advance again.

This is how we can winning when time and situation not favor us. If that happened to you, remember to look at good side of procrastination. Hope you will find an answer to your problem although it come very late. Note the exception - that this doesn't applies to a do or die situation - e.g. anything that only can be accomplished within very short opportunity window.