Learn more about personaldevelopment with this collection
How to manage anxiety and self-doubt
Strategies for setting realistic goals
The importance of self-compassion and self-care
Make Your Personal Development Plan
- Break down your goals into tasks and create a working plan.
- Each task should be specific and have a deadline. Write them down to track your performance increase commitment to your goal.
- When writing, use positive and present tense language. It has a great impact on your own expectations of yourself.
759
1.12K reads
MORE IDEAS ON THIS
“Which? Why? What? How?” Technique
... for choosing personal goals. Ask yourself these questions:
- Ask yourself which aspect of your life you would like to change most.
- Think about why you want to change this.
- How will that change make you feel? Determine what exactly will make you fe...
1K
1.39K reads
The “Imagination Exercise” Technique
For example, use the "memory loss" scenario: Imagine you don’t know the reasons for your previous decisions and you don’t have to follow any earlier plan. Think about what you will do now. How you will live further.
707
1.07K reads
Reflect and Celebrate Success
Reflect on your performance at the end of each day/week. Ask yourself, “Why haven’t I managed to complete the task I have set for today?” and then revise your plan for the following day/week accordingly.
To make the celebration of success part of your routine, decide on a...
684
1.03K reads
Why Set Personal Goals
- You are in charge. Personal goals force you to take responsibility for the actual efforts and progress.
- You see the small steps leading to a big picture: big goals can be scary. That’s why you need to break them into clear and manageable steps.
- It allows you...
815
1.36K reads
The Life Balance Chart Technique
- Draw a chart. Write down each of the various areas of your life (family, health, self-development, career, relationships) in a new column or line.
- Assess your current happiness level in each of these categories by giving it a score from 1 to 10.
- Think what wi...
973
1.4K reads
Write Your Personal Goals
... using the SMART criteria:
- Specific: make your goals clear and well-defined.
- Measurable: avoid any abstract notions – you should be able to tick “done” any goal you set as well as any step it involves
- Achievable: Make sure you have enough time ...
891
1.11K reads
Prioritize Your Personal Development Goals
- To decide, which goal you want to work on first, rate them from 1 to 10 depending on how important they are for you. Goals with the highest rating should be your priority for now.
- Another way to prioritize personal goals is to connect the desired outcomes as causes and effe...
742
989 reads
Related collections
More like this
Clarify your goals
If you don't know what your goals are, most likely you won't be able to identify and prioritize the specific tasks you need to work on to achieve those goals.
Write your major goals down and break them into tasks. Your goal tasks are your frogs, the things you want to work on first ...
How to incorporate writing in your mindframing practice
Writing helps you at every step in your mindframing process.
- Pact. Writing down your commitment will enable you to stick to it. It is even better to write it somewhere public, such as a tweet or a blog article.
- Act. Documenting...
Make Big Goals Easy To Achieve
Write down your big goal – e.g. I want to be fit enough to run 10km.
Break this down into smaller self contained goals such as;
- Nutrition
- Equipment
- Building stamina
Break each of those goals into simple daily tasks to complete. For building stamina th...
Read & Learn
20x Faster
without
deepstash
with
deepstash
with
deepstash
Access to 200,000+ ideas
—
Access to the mobile app
—
Unlimited idea saving & library
—
—
Unlimited history
—
—
Unlimited listening to ideas
—
—
Downloading & offline access
—
—
Personalized recommendations
—
—
Supercharge your mind with one idea per day
Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.
I agree to receive email updates