How to be Successful with a Personal Growth Plan
Self Improvement Plan with Success Factors for Personal Improvement
Jun 7, 2009
Author Jon Gordon describes eleven success factors of highly successful people. His recent book, Training Camp outlines these success factors in a parable involving a rookie NFL running back. Though described in relationship to football, Gordon's success factors are applicable to all human endeavors including personal growth planning.
If your personal improvement plan seems to be faltering with less personal growth and development than desired, consider evaluating those self improvement efforts with Gordon's eleven success factors.
Success Begins with a Vision
The most important habit of successful people is that they have a plan. From a personal growth standpoint this translates to a vision for the new you.
Compared to your current skills, abilities, and characteristics, visualize your new appearance, self care habits, intellectual growth, and those new abilities you intend to master. One's vision should be clear and detailed, enabling you to see it with clarity and emotion.
Commitment to Personal Growth
It's not enough to wish for personal improvement. Success involves full commitmentto achieving the growth and development of your vision. Commitment involves taking action in support of your vision, not just once in a while, but continually.
Consider the words of Doug Firebaugh, who recommends this: "Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow."
Continuous Learning for Self Improvement
Success in personal growth is not a fixed and rigid destination. A successful growth and development plan will include continuous improvement and a commitment to constant learning.
More Self Improvement Success Factors
In addition to a vision, commitment, and continuous learning, follow the wisdom that practice makes perfect. To assure the success of your personal growth and development, practice the new skills and abilities you acquire with an aim toward excellence. The best in any field execute ordinary tasks better than others.
Identify the most important success factors in your plan and maintain your focus, continuing to address them despite life's distractions. Stay mentally strong and committed to your goals. Those most successful are often not the smartest or most talented, but the most focused and dedicated to their goals.
Have Faith and Leave Your Comfort Zone
Each step in growth involves some discomfort. The most significant personal growth steps may likely be the scariest to contemplate. Your development will require you to overcome your fears and venture out of your comfort zone.
Take the plunge. When an opportunity presents itself and aligns with your personal growth goals, seize the moment and jump in. The opportunity is there in response to your quest for growth.
Herbert Otto offers words of wisdom on this very topic, saying, "Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life."
Personal growth does not mean going it alone. Faith in a higher power or sacred aspect of life will provide support and inner inspiration helping you move forward toward your vision, even in the face of unexpected obstacles.
Share Your Success
The most successful in any field of endeavor have the habit of giving back. Share the benefits of your successful personal growth by helping others in their self improvement efforts. Your journey of growth and development provides much experience which will help ease the journey of fellow travelers.
A Successful Personal Growth Plan
Commit to incorporating these proven success factors into your personal growth and development plan. Treat personal growth as a continuous life-long process of commitment, action, and sharing.
A sample personal development plan is described in 15 Weeks of Personal Development.
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