This post will help you create a success-guaranteed personal development tips for you to be your own role model, in whatever area you want to develop on. Why? Because it shows steps to create a sustainable system for you to achieve any personal development goal you have.
When you have created a system of small steps to action, over time, you will have achieved your personal development goal. So, here are the personal development tips for your success.
1. Gain knowledge
Read a book in the area you want to develop in or listen to a podcast sharing by experts in the field you’re interested to grow in. Find someone who’s already where you want to be in the area you’re inspired to improve on, so you gain the knowledge and follow the tried and tested steps! This will definitely increase your chances of you getting there yourself.
You just need to find people a few steps ahead of you.
My blog is one of the sources where you can get this knowledge and inspiration from. I am sharing my blogs as I am starting to find some success in my own journey, and I want to help you do the same. I hope my success in progress blog posts will inspire you to keep taking a step (doesn’t matter if it’s forward or backward), as long as you keep going at it.
Nathan Barry, founder of Kit, once said in a podcast that 4th graders are not as motivated when they see a university undergrad. They’re more interested in seeing what the 5th graders are doing, to follow their steps. I would love to be your 5th grader, as I am probably just half a step ahead of you in this personal development journey.
2. Commit yourself – unblock your mind
This step is on mindset. Success is not instant and is not a goal. It is a process and a journey and that’s the best part. You want to enjoy every minute of this journey as it is better than gaining success itself. Because it is a journey, you need to be committed to the process and stick with it.
For eg. if you want to be more intellectual in neuroscience (as I am), you need to be committed to reading on the topic through research papers or even podcasts by neuroscientists every single day or week. It will not happen overnight but you will become an expert in anything once you have spent 10000 hours on the topic.
Committing to spending an average of 1 hour a day on learning about the topic, after 20+ years, you will be an expert for sure! Such consistent commitment will 100% guarantee your success in personal development in whatever area you want to improve on. Whether it is self care, health, wealth or whatever it might be. You just need to stick to it. Unblock your mind that everything you spend time on and stay consistent on, you will become great at it.
3. Take action
So in the example of becoming intellectual in neuroscience, I have not counted but I can safely say I have been spending about 1 hour/day on the topic since about a year back. During my commute to work, when I am walking out to get lunch and back, after work as I wind down. Whether it’s a book or a podcast, I would spend time on the topic. Why? Because it is a choice I made for myself that I want to improve on.
Often, we think taking action is difficult. Again, it’s just a mindset shift away. It helps to not think, but just do. As human brains do not like to spend energy on new things, taking the first step seems challenging. However, once you make the first action and it’s an easy one, you are likely to keep at it as you will see some progress upon reflection. For e.g. day 1, you google who the famous neuroscientists are, select one or two that you are more drawn to. Day 2 to 6, you search and watch youtube videos of interviews by the one or two neuroscientists. The next week, you search for books by these few. Once you make each next step easy and not dreadful, it will be easy for you to take each new step towards your goal.
4. Record
Record down your progress in your journal or blog or iphone notes, wherever. Once you have recorded, you can reflect on your progress which will keep you motivated to continue.
We think we can remember, but actually we can’t. Scientists have measured that an average human brain consumes 74GB of data every day, this is as much as watching 16 movies a day! This is also equivalent to what an educated individual would consume in a whole lifetime about 500 years ago. No wonder our brains are overloaded and we feel perpetually tired!
Enough about neuroscience, my topic of interest. You need to record down because 1. you will forget, 2. you want to physically see your own progress and 3. once you see your progress, you will be motivated to continue to take the actions to see even further progress.
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