Plotting Your Personal Development Path - Where Are You Now?
Posted by Rhiannon Louise on June 09, 2007
Filed Under Personal Development
Why is it that we’ll happily spend a great deal of our time planning trips and journeys, looking at maps, programming satellite navigation systems, buying flight tickets and working out exactly how we’re going to get from A to B but we seldom ever apply the same techniques, thought processes and planning procedures to our everyday lives?
I mean, do you ever spend a significant amount of your time thinking about where you’re at and where you’re going in life? Do you spend part of each and every day plotting your personal development path by working through the answers to these types of question: -
- What are the long-term career goals that you want to achieve?
- How’s your relationship with yourself and how is your relationship with your partner?
- How satisfied are you by your current surroundings?
- What are you doing to improve your current financial situation?
Chances are you don’t, because few people do…
But those people who do – well, they have the mindset to succeed - and because SoCalledGurus.com is all about helping you to gain the skill-set and achieve the mindset of an accomplished and successful online entrepreneur, this article is all about helping you to begin mapping out your personal path to accomplishment by determining where it is you’re starting from.
The very first thing you need to keep in mind is that you have to know where you’re going if you are to have any chance of actually getting there – but even before you begin your journey you have to understand where it is you’re starting from…so let’s begin by finding out where are you now and determining your level and your position today.
Personal development trainers and specialists often focus on the following eight main areas of life when working with someone on the creation of their personal development path plan. If you consider each of the following areas of your life in turn right now, on a scale of 1 – 100 how satisfied would you say you are with each of these eight main areas of your life?
1) Your physical environment – your home, personal possessions, the immediate vicinity in which you live
2) Your physical health and level of fitness
3) Your current career position
4) Your existing relationships – with friends, family and with yourself
5) Your current personal relationship – with your life-partner or in terms of your romantic dalliances!
6) Your own ongoing personal development
7) Your financial situation – from income and earnings to outgoings, debts and obligations
8) Your recreation or leisure time – how much you have and how you get to use it
If you’re not sure what I mean – take the first area of your life for consideration as laid out above – I.e., your physical environment – your home, personal possessions, the immediate vicinity in which you live. Do you feel happy in your current home and do you get on well with your neighbours and have a wardrobe full of nice clothes and all the nick knacks and gadgets that you love? Well, then your personal score is going to be very high. If on the other hand you’re camped out on a friend’s couch because your home and all your possessions have been repossessed you’ll be hitting a low score!
Once you’ve taken the time to complete this exercise by thinking long and hard about where you are right now you’ll notice that some areas of your life need more improvement than others. This will help you to positively begin plotting your personal development path by focusing on setting goals related directly to those aspects of your life that need the most attention.
