Jeffrey Gitomer

When I say Think and Grow Rich, what comes to your mind?

Almost everyone in sales and those interested in personal development have read this classic by Napoleon Hill at least once. And almost everyone who's read it has a positive comment. Many (like me) will say, "Turning point in my life."

Everyone has a turning point in their quest for lifelong learning. Everyone has their Aha! In your personal development, it's what you choose to listen to, watch or read that enhances your understanding of your life and teaches you what you need to do to succeed.

Napoleon Hill's 1937 quote sets the standard. "Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."

And once you have the information, it's all about what you are willing to do to take advantage of it.

Most people know Napoleon Hill was the author of Think and Grow Rich. The person Hill emulated and studied was. Not many know that.

Marden was the leading positive-attitude genius of the 20th century. Well-known before 1930-almost unknown today. He was a founding father of personal development and positive thought. Aha!

Author of more than 40 books, Marden also was the founder of SUCCESS magazine. Here are a few of his words of wisdom from the book he wrote in 1908, He Who Thinks He Can.

"Every child should be taught to expect success."

"The man who has learned the art of seeing things looks with his brain."

"The best educated people are those who are always learning, always absorbing knowledge from every possible source and at every opportunity."

"People do not realize the immense value of utilizing spare minutes."

"No substitute has ever yet been discovered for honesty."

"Poverty is of no value except as a vantage ground for a starting point."

These are quotes worth learning and passing on to others. One hundred years old!

1. Expose yourself to knowledge.Based on my personal experience and personal Ahas!, I'd like to challenge you with the rules of personal development and give you some examples of what I have learned so you might make your own plan to succeed or enhance the one you have.

At the end of a seminar I gave on positive attitude, I received an evaluation from a woman named Mary with a comment that read, "I wish I would have heard this 30 years ago." I got goose bumps of sadness and thought of a Jim Rohn quote: "All the information you need to succeed already exists; the only problem is you're not exposing yourself to it." This information existed 30 years ago. Mary just hadn't exposed herself to it.

Jim Rohn is known as America's leading business philosopher. His CD, The Art of Exceptional Living, is among the modern classics of personal development. Jim Rohn is the current master of inspiration and Aha! He imparts wisdom in every sentence.

Between Marden and Rohn, there is a long list of valuable books. I owe my career success to these books and to personal development information to which I have exposed myself.

Most of the books are more than 50 years old. Many with religious connotations-but still preaching the right words and thoughts. One of the most notable is The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale. Biblical and brilliant.

2. Simple is powerful. If you read it and it seems too easy or too hokey, reread it. It's probably part of your personal development foundation.

One of my early Aha! moments of personal development was the simplicity of the message. Sometimes it's so simple, you go right past it without understanding the impact it can make.

A classic example is the eternal How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. In 1936 he wrote, "You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you." How many salespeople could benefit from that single Aha!? I think all of them.

Interesting to note that Dale Carnegie's lessons still are being taught in the classroom 70 years later!

3. Think and apply to improve. In As a Man Thinketh, published in 1902, James Allen says, "A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts." Thinking what can be done is at the core of your personal development. About 54 years later, in the million-seller, The Strangest Secret, Earl Nightingale writes, "We become what we think about all day long." Get it?

In 1969, I listened to Glenn W. Turner on a cassette tape: "Act as though you have already begun to achieve. Not fake it-live it."

4. Take a daily dose. Think about the time-worn expression, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." Apply that to personal development, and it means learn and apply one new thing every day. At the end of a year you will have 365 new pieces of information.

5. The older the better. If you want a new idea, read a book that's 100 years old. "The best educated people are those who are always learning, always absorbing knowledge from every possible source and at every opportunity." -Marden, 1908. Or, "History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats." -B.C. Forbes, 1919.

6. Personal development and positive attitude are joined at the hip-and at the brain. And there is another component-being of service. "There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative." -Clement Stone, 1946. Add that to the 5000-year-old Chinese proverb, "To Serve is to Rule."

7. Do it even as your butt falls off. In 1898, Elbert Hubbard wrote an essay titled, Message to Garcia. Deliver the message, get the job done, complete the task-no matter what. Many have read that essay. Few have emulated it.

Personal development challenges you to think forward. "Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come." -Victor Hugo, 1874.

Personal development challenges you to be your best. "You cannot mandate productivity; you must provide the tools to let people become their best." -Steve Jobs, 1988.

"I am the greatest of all time." -Muhammad Ali, 1963.

Personal development challenges you to make decisions based on the person you seek to become. "The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it." -John Ruskin, 1869.

Wondering where you can "find more time" to devote to your own success? "It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste." -Henry Ford, 1901. Just a thought.

The key word is not development; the key word is personal. Do it for yourself, in your own way, and make your own time for it-or not.

The biggest Aha! of personal development is from Russell Conwell's Acres of Diamonds. Considered to be one of the finest speeches ever written, Acres of Diamonds offers a multitude of lessons about the rewards of work, education and finding the riches of life in your own back yard-or your own library. Aha!

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Figuring out whats most important when it comes to self help, personal development, or self improvement can be tricky. Each person is different and no two people are at the same place in their lives. Whats a person like me to do when trying to help out?

Ask what you want to see, read, and learn!

So thats just what I did. A few months back, I put a survey up as the first couple of questions at the beginning of the strengths test and yall did an awesome job of getting me some good information! I have a much better understanding of what it is most people are looking for when it comes to making life better.

Sure, some of it may seem obvious, but since were all on different chapters of our personal development journey, you never can be too careful when it comes to finding out what matters most. Ready for the results? 🙂

I only had the survey up for a few weeks, but it looks like we had about 153 strengths test takers answer the optional survey questions. That was about 5% of all visitors to the test. So we didnt get a lot of participation, but we did get some good data.

Now out of that 153, there were 128 good data points. The Lord of the Rings and less-than-nice answers were deleted. We have some VERY interesting people out there, folks. Overall, a relatively small sample size, but theres still some good information to be had.

Im not really surprised by whats up there, but I am little surprised by some of the ordering. Good to know!

Oh and I did have some other good answers so I might as well include them here since youve read this far.

Health and fitness this far down the ranks?! Whoa that was a big surprise for me. I guess people who are looking to figure out their strengths already have the health and fitness subject pretty well covered. Interesting.

Keep that in mind when youre reading over these results. The audience that is taking this test is probably not your average Joe and Jane. These are the real go-getters that are well on their personal development journey and are looking to optimize their life through their strengths and weaknesses.

Good information and I am very thankful for all of those who participated. I hope the information will be useful for you.

Got any good insights or conclusions from the survey results? Im curious to hear your thoughts! Send me an email and lets chat. Thanks!

And if you havent found your strengths and weaknesses, yet, then click on over and take it already! 🙂

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The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can. Robert Cushing

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us. Jean-Paul Sartre

The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man. Cicero

The only journey is the journey within. Rainer Maria Rilke

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. Agnes Repplier

Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do. Menander

Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small, Be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all. Juvenal

Men soon the faults of others learn A few their virtues, too, find out; But is there oneI have a doubt Who can his own defects discern? Sanskrit Proverb

Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous. Abd-el-Kadar

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old. Lord Chesterfield

Our business in life is not to get ahead of other people, but to get ahead of ourselves. Maltbie D. Matlock

If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away? Lord Chesterfield

Follow your honest convictions, and stay strong. William Thackeray

As the sculptor devotes himself to wood and stone, I would devote myself to my soul. Toyohiko Kagawa

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty. Lao Tzu

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself. Thales

Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakes. Carl Jung

He that will not reflect is a ruined man. Asian Proverb

Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow. Doug Firebaugh

Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still. Chinese Proverb

God ever works with those who work with will. Aeschylus

Insist on yourself. Never imitate. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Heaven never helps the man who will not act. Sophocles

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. Aristotle

Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots. Edward Bulwer Lytton

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes. John Ruskin

In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing. Philip Gilbert Hamilton

It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are. Joyce Carol Oates

What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself. Hecato, Greek philosopher

It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who cannot change. Confucius

We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life. James Freeman Clarke

To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat. Plato

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us. Hamerton

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life. Herbert Otto

Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly. Marquise du Deffand

Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself. A. Bronson Alcott

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again. Abraham Maslow

If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves. Thomas Edison

A man who finds no satisfaction in himself will seek for it in vain elsewhere. La Rochefoucauld

Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, hate less, love more, and good things will be yours. Swedish Proverb

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Miguel de Cervantes

The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it. Sir William Temple

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire. Samuel Johnson

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What is a Developmental Asset?

Researchers conducted a series of surveys targeting youths in the United States and Canada since 1989. The purpose of the survey was to learn about the experiences, attitudes, behaviors and the number of Developmental Assets at work with youths. The results of the survey were

Developmental Assets are identified and categorized as:

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Overview of the Developmental Assets

What is it?

Who is the target audience?

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Two Major Developmental Assets Group to be Assessed

External Assets

Internal Assets

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The questions asked below help to assess your health and well-being. These questions are about you, your family, friends, neighborhood, school and community. How you answer these questions will remain confidential between you and your instructor (unless an emergency arises). For each asset, there is a description and a list of statements. For each of the statements, please circle how often the statement is true for you. At the end of each section, count the number of times you chose each answer and enter the total. When you finish, enter all the scores in the summary section.

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The Personal Development Center offers articles, books, and translations resulting from over 35 years of non-profit teaching, researching, and publishing. PDC publications showcase two fundamental qualities of humankind: the greatness of humans to evolve and their drive to bring forth advanced civilizations. Ironically, the knowledge and cultivation of this greatness has become increasingly obscured by the political power and control of institutions.

The Personal Development Center, in contrast, describes a union between ancient science and modern science which proves the existence of inner creative powers within individuals and the existence of a universal, unifying Mind. This union of ancient and modern science has been obtained in large part by means of the Centers ability to translate, understand and verify ancient scientific documents which previously had been redacted and published primarily to denigrate the ancient methods. Over the years, hundreds of PDC volunteers have tested the methods outlined in the ancient writings and offered testimony as to their claims of increased awareness, inner vitality and union.

Currently the Personal Development Center is summarizing modern research on the individuality and innate inner powers of infants and young children. This information, combined with the ancient methods of self-development, further substantiates the ability of increasing these inner powers in adulthood.

Abraham Maslow, the founder of Humanistic Psychology, made an unusual statement in 1968 about the growing tip of nearly perfected creative people in comparing them to children.

As the child looks out upon the world with wide, uncritical, innocent eyes, simply noting or observing what is the case, without either arguing the matter or demanding that it be otherwise, so does the self-actualizing person look upon nature in himself and in others. 1

Alison Gopnik, a psychologist and philosopher, recently wrote an article in the prestigious journal Science which proves that,

very young childrens learning and thinking are strikingly similar to much learning and thinking in science. 2

Gopniks earlier book concluded with her notice of children missing in the discussion of philosophers and that even though people feel that,

children help give their lives meaning children have been almost invisible to the deepest thinkers in human history. 3

The Personal Development Centers upcoming book answers the obvious unspoken questions raised by Maslow and Gopnik with the presentation of a 3,000 year old Sanskrit text found hidden in an obscure medieval treatise. This Sanskrit document explains a science built upon the perfection of the inner creative power of children and used to create the remarkable Indus Valley Civilization, a millennia ahead of the rest of the world in its technology and its egalitarian social structure.

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1. Mary Harrington Hall, A Conversation with Abraham H. Maslow, Psychology Today, (July 1968)

2. Alison Gopnik, Scientific Thinking in Young Children, Science Vol. 337 (2012)

3. Alison Gopnik, The Philosophical Baby: What Childrens Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and The Meaning Of Life (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009) p. 236

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What is personal development?

And, knowing this, you live it once and learn from it's greatness and continue your journey. Personal development is a journey that isn't open to anyone, although anyone can do it, few choose to take this road. This journey isn't all fun and games, and sometimes the traveler will feel that he can't go on. He feels tired and weak and he seems to have forgotten why he started the journey in the first place. "Why did I start this at all?" he asks himself.

And when he is right on the edge, almost certain that he will give up this foolish attempt to go further in to the unknown, a Hand appears from nowhere and grabs the traveler from the edge of the cliff and puts him back on it's road.

The traveler is amazed by what has just happened, but he knows now that he must continue the journey. He doesn't ask anything. He is just thankful that he is not alone. He now knows that he was never alone. The Hand was there all along, guiding him through the wilderness and darkness. He now remembers why he started this. It was because he feels that his life is worth more than a lousy wage, 8 hours of work, enough sleep and tv. He knows that he must do something in the short time that he is here, on this earth.

He and only he can accomplish what needs to be done. He doesn't know exactly what he has to do, but something tells him that he must take the journey to find out what it is. He knows that before he discovers what he has to do, he will have to discover himself. The traveler knows that before he can change the world he has to change his own ways.

Although he is afraid, he encourages himself and goes ahead. This is the difference between a traveler on a personal development quest and a traveler that doesn't like risks and prefers to live in his present life, as boring and unfulfilling as this may be. He just wants to be left alone. He chooses to stay away from the unknown path that is right by his right, and takes the straight road till the end of his life.

This traveler will always try to make everything as safe as can be, will try to work only if it is absolutely necessary. "Why should I do more than what I'm obliged to?" he says. "Why should I help someone else? No one helped me." And he keeps everything for himself, day by day retreating himself in his hideout, away from "someone else" that hasn't ever helped him. He thinks that the others are all against him, evil people that only care for them selves. He doesn't know that life is not more or less than just what he thinks it is. He will never know this, and even if someone tells him... Maybe he will understand someday. I hope he does, because he is missing so much. People aren't good or bad, life isn't great or miserable. All is as we think it is.

But you know what? Personal development isn't just for a select few. It doesn't matter how much money one has. Anyone can choose to take to path to himself. The good traveler knows this very well. Before he embarked on his personal development quest he was living that boring life as well. But something happen one day that maid him ask some questions. "Why am I here?" he asked, "Is this all my life can be?". But the answers didn't come. He waited and waited but nothing. He then realized that no one is going to answer. The answer was already there, staring him in the face. He knew the answer from the day he was born and the answer was: "Yes. There is so much more to life than this."

He suddenly remembered all those dreams and plans that he had made for his life in the past. It's been so long since that time, but he still remembers. He laughs a little at his childhood decision to become the president of the United States. But he suddenly stops laughing. It's so clear now. Why wasn't this clear before? It's the first thing on his list. He reads it out loud: "By the age of 40 I will be free!" He starts to cry and looks at the calendar.

In one month from now, he will be 41. Was he wrong? Would he ever be free? He wipes away his tears and realizes that in a normal day he would just forget about that stupid list. He would throw it right in the garbage can. He would laugh at his stupid dreams and go on with his life. But not today. Today he remembered how it was to have dreams and he feels something that makes him feel lighter. It's like if he wanted he could just flout away. He feels calm and relaxed.

He feels that he has just answered the greatest question of his entire existence. And the answer is personal development. He must start his own quest towards his forgotten dreams. He knows now that his dreams weren't dead. They were just berried under 5 feet of fear. But all of a sudden fear has no effect on him. It's like he could confront his fear, look it in the eye and give it a good kick in its derriere. He laughs at this thought. Then he thinks at all those people that are still living in fear. He feels that he has begun his road to freedom, but what about the others? He puts his list of dreams in his pocket.

He wishes he could do something for the others, but he remembers that he has to be free himself so that he can help others get free as well. So, by freeing himself, he is actually making a giant step in changing other lives. This makes him feel good and confident. He knows now that he is fighting the good battle, and that others are counting on him to win, although they don't know it yet. So he steps on the uncharted path, confidently, keeping his hand on his pocket, where his most important thing lies: his dreams.

Have you guess who the traveler is? The traveler is you. It doesn't matter if you are on your personal development quest already or if you don't even know you want this. The fact that you are reading this means that you are starting to be free! You are pushing your fear aside and stepping into the darkness. You must know that you are not the only one that is afraid. We all are afraid. But courage doesn't mean the absence of fear, it means fighting it.

If you know that you are afraid but you want to stop feeling this way, then you already know the definition of personal development and all that you must do is start your journey. This journey, if you choose to take it, is not going to be easy. It will have its ups and downs along the way, just as life is. But, no matter what happens, you will be following one of your dreams (the most important dream for some) and that is to be free!

What does free mean? I will tell you but first you have to make sure that no one interrupts you. This is very important so please lock yourself in a private room if necessary. Ready? Ok. Free is feeling peace in your heart. Its happiness, joy and a feeling of easiness.

Do you remember the times when you felt as if you could fly? I'm sure you felt this at least once in you life. It could have happened when you were a child and your parents hold you up and you felt you could touch the beautiful sky. It could be when you got an A at school and you were so proud that you told everyone. It could be when you had your first kiss or when you first fell in love with that great first love.

It could be when you've finished an important project at work and you were congratulated by your boss and everyone around, or it could be when you received an award from work or an association for you efforts. Remember all of those people applauding you? Find such a moment from your life and hold one to that feeling a little bit.

Just close your eyes and remember the most important moment in your life. Are you there yet? Feel the joy of the moment, get that wonderful tickling and those great chills down your back. Smile and relax. Don't say or do anything else. Just relive the moment. Try to stay in this state for a couple of minutes. Yes, just stay like that. Please don't just read what I'm saying here, try with all your heart to do this. It will help you a lot. Will talk in about 5 minutes, after you've fully lived this moment again.

All done? I hope that you've relieved a magical moment and that you feel great now. How about if you could feel like this all the time or at least most of the time? I know what you're thinking. You're saying "Are you crazy? I can't feel like this all the time. I have a lot of things to do. I can't just sit around and try to get this lost feeling all the time." Well, how about if you could improve this feeling so that in the future you don't even have to remember that moment to feel happy?

How about if you could feel joyful most of the time? Wouldn't this be great? I mean, most of the time we have to deal with different problems and we just forget how happiness really feels. But how about we make the other way around? How about we forget how unhappiness feels for a change? This would be truly great. And I think we should try it. I'm sure you deserve to be more happy because you are a special person. I don't know you, but I feel you are a good person just because you are looking for a way to solve your problems and change your life to the better.

Congratulations on trying this! It really takes gouts to do it and I'm really glad you are here. I truly hope I can help you become more happy, positive and relaxed. But I can only solve a part of the puzzle. The bigger part it's yours to do. I'm going to help you as much as possible but I'm trying to teach you (actually we are learning one from another) how to fish so that in the future, you can catch your own fishes.

But for this to happen you must help yourself. You must be willing to make a change, be willing to learn and must important: you have to try out what you learn. You'll never get results if you don't try out what you learn. It's like watching a big match at Tv (if you are a man). You feel great, but you will never know how it feels to be on that field in front of ten thousand people or more.

You can't feel that unless you try it. Or if you are a woman, think of when you are watching a fashion presentation. You see all those pretty women, dressed with those great clothes and you wish you could be one of them, but you will never know how that feels until you try it. So try it! Do it! Learn how to and then try to see if it "fits "you, if it works for you.

Don't just listen to me or someone else. You could just look at someone walking through the sand and say "I guess that's great!" But, how about you walk on the sand as well and really feel the sand under your feet? Leave your own mark on things! Try to see if something that has worked for someone, or didn't work for some, will work for you. You can't just listen to someone who tried to do something for a while. If he/she tells you that it's a waste of time, he might be right or not. You are a different person and you could sometimes do better than others. So try it! Don't just take advice from anyone that tells you this and that, do this and don't do that. Do it yourself and see if it's ok or not.

This is kind of what I wanted to say to you. I hope you understood what personal development means, but if you didn't, don't worry, you will have plenty of time. Now it's time to go further, if you still want to find yourself and discover exactly what this life is all about for you. And remember: you are not alone. You have never been and you will never be alone. So, take my hand and let's start the quest.

I embrace you, Razvan

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Personal Development is a booming and transformational industry that has changed the lives, businesses and relationships, of millions of people around the world. In doing so, Personal Development has been the catalyst for the success stories you always hear about: The single Mother that creates a fortune in a home based business, the father who is able to fire his boss and work from home, the Dad who is finally able to connect with his children, the child who drastically improves in her communication skills and school work because of the principles her parents applied from what they had learned through doing their own Personal Development. Whether ones goals lie in health, wealth or relationships, Personal Development encompasses it all.

So what is Personal Development? Most might first think of motivational products and conferences while others who have been involved with the Self Improvement industry know that it is so much more than that. Personal Development ranges anywhere from physical fitness and appearance to increasing your income to changing your mindset. It is a very broad industry that can have an effect in many areas of life. You might have heard of some of these authors, books and movies: Napoleon Hill, Andy Andrews, Erik Wahl, Yossie Ghinsberg, Bill Phillips, Michael Losier, The Secret, Bob Proctor, T. Harv Ecker and the list could go on and on and on! You will find books, movies, conference centers and websites packed with information regarding products, transformation and higher education about obtaining ones true potential through this exploding industry. Personal Development has been around since the beginning of time and is an industry that will only increase in size and value.

The Personal Development industry is a multi-billion dollar industry. It seems to double in size every few years and is a popular industry not only here in North America but worldwide. It can begin with something as simple as a quote or a DVD and move into a much larger, change oriented environment such as a live event, or conference. And in speaking of conferences, very few people even know this industry exists. Well, out of the billions of people in the world, knowledge of Personal Development events taking place around the globe is not in the majority.which is good! That means we have the means and the market to offer people value, a way to take their life to the next level, in a sense, a way to self-mastery.

Personal Development is all about results.personally and financially. Its about knowing what you want, how to get there and taking the action to get the result.

When I am faced with the choice of doing nothing or doing something, I will always choose to act. ~Andy Andrews

To learn more about how you can create the life of your dreams and realize your true potential as an entrepreneur in this industry or Personal Development and Positive Media, fill out the form below! But remember, I am only looking to work with those who are absolutely committed to their success and serious about achieving life changing results. This is a business, and does require work, creativity, time and effort. If that sounds good to you, I look forward to speaking with you.

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Yesterday I wrote an article What is a Personal Development Plan (PDP)? Personal development means being able to understand that you are 100% responsible for your life, your finances, your relationships, your habits, your emotions, your career basically everything in your life.

It is not a quick fix, it will not happen overnight. If done on a consistent basis, you will find your life changing and becoming what you only dreamed of.

A Personal Development Plan will help you live life more consciously and give you the courage to pursue anything you desire.

Personal Development Planning (PDP) is a process that enables individuals to identify, manage and develop their skills, experience and learning. It is a dynamic process that helps individuals clarify and achieve personal, education and career aims. The Personal Development Plan, or PDP, is your roadmap allowing you to think critically about your own development and take appropriate action to achieve goals.

There is an example of a Personal Development Plan for you to download to help put together your PDP at the end of this article.

If you want to change your life and make your dreams a reality, you need a good personal development plan.

If you dont know the destination, you cant plan a travel route. You always have the opportunity to choose the destination, so you know where you go, and every detail of each single aspect of your life. You have the choice on how you want to live. Dont let your life pass by uncontrolled. Plan it! To be successful you need a definite life plan or a plan of your life change.

Planning your life is crucial for living a successful life. Make a list of what you want in life. What are your goals? What do you want to achieve. The short term plan has goals you want to achieve in the coming 6 to 12 months. In the medium term plan you set goals you want to achieve in the coming 1 to 5 years. The long term plan has goals you want to achieve in 5 to 10 years or longer.

If you want to profoundly change your life, start with a personal development plan. This is the moment where you may say: I want to change quite everything about myself and my life. Then get into details and determine what and how exactly you want to change about yourself and your life and plan your life change.

Lets take a look at the steps you need to take to create your personal development plan.

STEP 1: WHERE AM I NOW?

First determine what you like and what you dislike about your life. What you like is the basis on which you will build up your future. What you dislike will become part of the life change plan. Determine the present state of your life.

STEP 2: BROAD OBJECTIVE: WHERE AM I GOING NEXT?

Determine what you want and what you await from your life and what you want to change in your life.

This is the most important step because you can only reach your dreams when you know what your dreams are!

Write as much or as little as you need to, to build a compelling, ideal picture of how you would like each area of your life to be. I use these 8 areas: 1.Career/Business 2.Friends and Family 3.Fun, Recreation and Entertainment 4.Health and Fitness 5.Leadership Skills 6.Physical Environment 7.Savings and Investing 8.Significant Other

STEP 3: SELF APPRAISAL

Taking stock of where you are right now in your life is not an easy undertaking, but it is important to get a realistic picture of your starting point in the personal development exercise. It involves taking a closer look at who you are by asking some searching questions about how you have arrived at this point in your personal life, work and education. To meet set objectives, undertake appraisal of yourself and overcome any potential barriers to meeting your goals, you have to be able to make a realistic assessment of your skills, qualities and the contexts in which you live, learn and work Undertake an appraisal of their existing skills, knowledge, qualities and contexts.

STEP 4: SETTING PERSONAL OBJECTIVES

Think about your personal objectives and take each of these personal objectives and turn these into more specific actions. These actions should be SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and timebound).

STEP 5: ACTION PLANNING

Targets should provide clear guidelines for action and be built into an action plan. It's all too easy to have good intentions, but we often find it more difficult to actually put our ideas and plans into practice and make real progress. Action planning is a way of making objectives clear and identifying steps we need to take in order to reach our goals.

STEP 6: IMPLEMENTING AN ACTION PLAN

Now its time to put your life change plan into action. Start to make the changes you have planned step by step.

STEP 7: REVIEW AND EVALUATION

You want to keep in control of the progress of your life change. Look to see which of the points of the plan you have realized, what you have changed. How did you go about this? Did thinking about SMART objectives help you to create a practical plan? How could you use similar planning processes in the future? Did it go to plan or did you have to amend it as you went along? What things have you found most useful going through the PDP process/cycle? What things would you do differently if you started the cycle again? What are the main skills, qualities, approaches and objectives you wish to develop further?

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Success Wizard provides you with a structured step-by-step process and a powerful set of tools that will educate, support, and guide you through a personal life-changing journey of self-discovery and self-realization. The core program consists of three modules that were specifically designed to take you through the three key elements in the process of discovering and creating your best life: Clarity, Goals and Action.

Self-Discovery is at the heart of change and our Clarity Wizard guides you through a process of learning, reflection and self-awareness. Sets of questionnaires and exercises support you in discovering who you are, what you really want (and why), and who you would like to be.

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Most people never really consider what they want in their lives and only a few are actually doing something about it.

If you believe there is more to life than what you are currently experiencing, if you are motivated to explore and experience all that life has to offer, then Success Wizard has been created for you.

Go over the list and check the statements that are true for you:

This is your opportunity to grow, develop yourself and utilize all your potential. Are you ready to commit yourself to creating the best life you can for yourself? Are you willing to commit to focusing on the things that matter the most to you? This is a long-term commitment. You can expect to see results almost immediately, but in order to fully transform your life you will need to engage with these practices on a regular basis.

So now the decision is yours. You can wait and do nothing (like most people) or you can start moving, take charge over your own destiny and start living life to the fullest!

Make today the day you start creating the life you really want:

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