What is personal development?

Personal development is as old as Plato and Aristotle. In fact, the personal development in many companies only true mission. They also believed that the study and application philosophy was the best way to achieve their personal development.

Different cultures and different persons in the course of history and, if necessary, and the methods discussed in order to achieve their personal development. Sometimes it was called "over" or "moral character" and the other is referred to as the "ethics".Christianity has been with "personal development" individuals and took their "over" the Bible of the faith, hope and: charity or love/Agape.

Assets according to the ancient Greeks were: this commitment "normal excellence".

In most cases, a significant problem was "personal development".Each definition of ways and means to achieve this development.Aristotle believed that it is necessary to achieve the "golden mean" between a character and its contrary. Example Take Aristotle courage."Courage is cowardice (deficit of courage) and foolhardiness (cant courage)." Aristotle's Golden Mean would thus lies in between these two extremes, but lying closer to the "foolhardiness than cowardice".

Benjamin Franklin developed system 13 week, where he concentrated on one character to the character of the week. listed below are the characters as the most important for him to be successful.

Character traits

Self-Control: Specifies and disciplined in your efforts.

Silence: hear better in all discussions.

Order: I don't agonize arrangement.

The gift: the promise to develop their best efforts in the current activity.

Thrift: how to spend money and time.

Productivity: work smart, work hard, have fun.

Justice: another treat, as it is to be processed.

Moderation: prevent open.

Purity: have a clean mind, body, and habits.

Peace of mind: a time to slow down and "the smell of roses."

Charity: assistance to others.

Humility: keep your ego check.

Genuineness: be honest yourself and other users.

These are only a brief history of the "development" or "personal development".It is beyond the scope of this article provide a history of personal development, but also provide a brief discussion on what personal development means to me.

Stephen Covey in his books on the "7 habits of highly effective people", describes the development of "personal development".In one part of the negotiations of its studies and personal development is an important observation of e.on submits that in the 1920s and 1930s, personal development is defined as "development of characters".Ben Franklin, the list of characters in the characters of highlighted the idea that a person needed to develop their "character".

However, the 1920s and, after stating that the focus of personal development changed from the nature of the development of the "development of the personality".The focus for the development of the internal development focuses on the characteristics of the person or the personality characteristics, such as "pleasant personality", or "positive personality".With this as a guide, it is not important if we are truly a positive personality or if we have a pleasant personality, it is important to "Act" as it is, we have Mr. Covey. maintains that it translates into other virtues, and the characters and what we finally with all flash and no substance.

Mr. Covey contains several examples of this, and then President Clinton and other politicians, such as for example.Instead of "is" true "or" certified excellence and integrity, decided that "negotiations", true, or acting as a person with integrity is important, because then submit the broadest possible base voters.

I went through the treatment for Alcoholism in 1977 and again in 1978.This March, I celebrate 30 years of age, are clean and sober. "when I sobered, for the first time in 1978, the Self-help groups as anonymous alkoholiku expands on the American scene.

Since then we have a number of groups, which themselves old-fashioned after alkoholiku anonymous, adopting and amending the A.A. 's twelve steps to adapt their particular problem.

For all these, however, it is "personal" or "character" development Bill Wilson, whom. A.A., says in his book "what is the Bill See It", "is the main purpose of the 12 Steps And," character development "goes to the said," but who wants to talk about or work on their "character"? "is also alleged that A.A. is spiritual kindergarten. the primary purpose of A.A., alcohol is present, Mr. Wilson argues that the only way to obtain this objective is committed, one day at a time, to the development of our character.

This is assistance programs that alkoholiku anonymous as their Foundation.

On a personal level, two months ago, my son, who is 14 years old, has been teasing about read the book "help," he said to him that I should be grateful to him, that they continue to read and use these books, whereas, if I'm not, his life and mine would be entirely different, and it is not a good way.

Personal improvement, according to my experience covers all areas of our lives. Mental, Emotional, physical and spiritual. is the old And in the notification, and says that "If you don't forward in life, you'll be back", this means that there is no status quo We can't rest on ... our laurels or what we did yesterday showed how Ben Franklin, personal improvement is the activities of the time life and if we do not actively pursing excellence we are at the Mercy mediocrity.

As pointed out by one person, "unless we are pursing our own goals, we are working for someone else".

Personal development, for me, it gives meaning to my life with me. yard stick to measure its progress in the life of. What is personal development? when I sobered, for the first time I went to a meeting where the two plates on the wall behind the speakers.

On one plate has been referred to the characters, about 20 different positive character, courage, integrity, patience, gratitude, determination, persistence, and so on to the next Board was given their opposites.

During the meeting at least once a week, my sponsor could lean over and quietly ask, "which of the Board, you have to"?

Commitment to personal development will ensure that I stay on the right side of the Board!