Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Personal Development Plan: A Foundation for Your Success

By Seth Czerepak


Personal development is a way to achieve all the goals you've established for your own benefit. It is a way for you to
become the person who you've always wanted to be. Personal development is about recognizing
your imperfections and problems, and working on correcting them. To be able to have successful personal development,
creating a personal development plan is essential. A personal development plan is a method to established goals and objectives, and
generate good habits. A personal development plan will give you a step by step guide to achieving your
goals. This will be significant, because when most people set goals, they give up just before they achieve the
goals and objectives. With a capable personal development plan, you'll have a way to form habits that will allow you to
achieve your goals.

Preventing bad habits, and replacing them with good habits is one of the main points of personal
improvement. Bad habits can be formed for a variety of reasons, and if you have undesirable habits, they can
be difficult to get rid of. However, great habits can be created just as easily as bad habits, and will also be
far more beneficial to your life. Part of forming new habits is to recognize why your old habits are
bad. For example, if you possess the bad habit of procrastinating jobs, you need to understand where
that habit originates from. Once you've determined where the habit originates from, you will be able to carry out
exchanging the habit with a new habit, which you find better.

Sometimes, people assume that they have a bad habit due to common knowledge, and then they try and repair the bad habit, so that they can be more socially acceptable. This is a horrible thought, because you will
be altering your habits because of others, rather than on your own. For this reason, you won't have
the inspiration or determination to change. For this reason, it's vitally important you are aware why you
want your habits to change, and what you can do about altering those habits.

For example, if you have the habit of stalling, you need to understand the reason why you have that habit.
Perhaps you are more effective when a deadline is closer, or maybe you simply don't like the assignments you are
trying to complete. As you can see, many reasons exist why you may have a bad habit, and
realizing the reason why you have a bad habit is the first step in changing that habit to a new habit.

Habits are so important, because they determine what you do everyday. Even if you set goals, you might not
be able to accomplish them because of habits. For those who have a bad habit where you give up on your goals, even
if you set goals, you won't have the ability to achieve them. A personal development plan will show you what
your undesirable habits are, and will permit you to see why you have those undesirable habits. Once you've realized why
you have these habits, it will become very simple to fix the habits, and form new ones.




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