Investing your time, energy and money into improving the quality of your life is probably the best thing you can do with it. Those investments begin to give you huge rewards which you can then use to help others improve their lives as well. That is the essence of personal development. Unfortunately, a lot of […]
Book A Day Challenge Complete!
For those of you who missed my initial post, I had previously decided to take on a temporary “Book A Day” challenge. I had borrowed eight books from my local library with the intention to read them all in eight days. The books totaled over 2100 pages of print. Well, it only took me seven […]
Vertical and Lateral Growth Continued…
Growth comes in two dimensions. Lateral and vertical growth. Could there possibly be a third dimension to personal growth?
What is Personal Development? – Vertical and Lateral Growth
Yesterday I confronted myself with a difficult question. What is personal development? How can I define certain tasks as being related to personal development, and not others. Is personal development just goal setting and pushing yourself? My response to that was a resound “No!” A component of personal development definitely involves using goals and pushing […]
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