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?

Resolutions

First day of 2008 has just begun. Now is the right time to flash back on what we had accomplished in 2007 and which areas and spheres of life we would like to improve when we navigate through 2008.

These are few focused agendas for this year; namely:

1. Give inspiration to close families and circle of friends and lift them up to achieve their full potential in life.
2. Read more latest titles as personal lifelong learning. Always asking yourself (what have you read lately?)
3. Not jump into the gun with "Impossible" but change it to "I'm possible."
4. Adding values to the world and give back to the community where I lives.
5. Travel to 3-5 foreign countries I've never went to to learn on how different people are motivated in different ways.
6. Publish website - this has been accomplished with the creation of this blog.

Note:

• None of your resolution is too small to put into perspective and to make it start to take off.
• Change "Impossible" to "I'm possible".