9 Essential Personal Growth Strategies
Looking for a few powerful self-help techniques to help you make more progress in your life? Start with one of these essential personal growth strategies.
There are many different ways to improve yourself and make progress against your goals. So many that it can be difficult to sift through the plethora of self-help advice in order to identify a selection of frameworks that work best for you.
From my experience, it is better to identify a few good strategies that you can consistently rely on. So I did the work for you by curating strategies that are proven to yield results. If you are looking to pick up one or two new personal development tools to add to your repertoire of self-help strategies, start here.
Daily Routine
Creating a daily routine means organizing your day-to-day schedule intentionally, so that you manage your time in a way that prioritizes the things that matter most. In the absence of a daily routine, you can very well find yourself overbooked and overwhelmed by obligations that may not even be important to you.
Emotional Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence is your capacity to recognize, manage and express your emotions as well as discern and effectively deal with the emotions of others. It is a powerful psychological concept that can help you develop yourself and improve your interpersonal communication. Without it, you can’t efficiently or effectively navigate your life, especially when other people are involved.
Growth Mindset
Growth Mindset is a research-backed theory that explains why and how thinking positively about yourself and your capabilities leads to success, happiness and other favorable outcomes in your life. Neuroplasticity is the field of science that backs up this theory with an array of studies that suggest you can rewire your mind with uplifting thoughts.
Happiness Formula
For most of us, the big objective that fuels our pursuit of personal growth is happiness. But what is it exactly and how do you achieve it? Turns out there’s a scientific formula — a research-backed framework for achieving enduring happiness. Instead of the blind pursuit of generic goals, this formula will help you commit to finding yourself and defining what you really want out of life.
Love Languages
Do you know your preferred way of receiving, experiencing and giving love? Knowing how you express and experience love via your love languages is not only critical to successful relationships but also progress in every area of life. Understanding your love languages is also critical to good communication, interpersonal dynamics and emotional intelligence.
Personality Type
Whether by nature or nurture, you likely see yourself as a combination of inherited or developed traits that make you distinct. This is your personality, and it is comprised of all the ways you think, feel and behave. Knowing your personality type can help you better understand who you are and empower you to make more informed decisions about how you live and work.
Wheel of Life
The Wheel of Life is a simple yet powerful tool that helps you balance and manage the different areas of your life. It works by helping you map out each life theme, evaluate whether that theme is in alignment with where you want it to be, and make the necessary changes that will lead to more fulfillment.
Shadow Work
Shadow Work is a method for overcoming failure due to self-sabotage. Self-sabotage is an unconscious mindset that prevents you from growing, developing, changing or progressing in life. You can only break free of stagnation if you understand your self-limiting patterns. By doing the work to uncover, understand and nurture the hidden parts of yourself, you’ll gain more mastery over your thoughts, habits and actions.
Structured Procrastination
If you subscribe to the belief that fast-paced days with jam-packed schedules is representative of a life worth living, then it’s time to embrace procrastination. Structured procrastination respects the fact that the mind needs breaks in order to manage the influx of information it is forced to process. Taking breaks ultimately results in you getting more and better work done than you otherwise would.
