Decide For Yourself About Your Personal Development

Yesterday I was reading an article on using gratitude as personal development and the advice given was to focus on gratitude once as week as that is said to be more effective than doing it more frequently. To be honest, this surprised me immensely as anything that I had previously read and done suggested showing gratitude as a daily habit that will get you into a permanently grateful space.  I have personally followed this advice and passed it on through my coaching and through my articles.

Now this got me to thinking about how to work with personal development ideas and activities and I realised that it is a very personal thing. What works for me, may not work for you.  Then I realised that there are many divergent and contradictory ideas in books, videos, articles and so on and like many things in life, understanding personal growth can be like herding cats.

Just as you get one idea in the cage, it slips away while you get the next one!! However, it does not have to be that way.  I know now that what I do is to use my skills of inquiry and inform myself through reading, videos, CD’s, youtube and any number of interesting media.  I then give some time to considering how I feel about everything that I know on a subject and decide for myself what I believe or how I will participate in a particular activity or with an idea.

So it works for me to journal on personal development and gratitude every day, it gets me in the right space and is a constant reminder of all of the good things in my life. It is just one of the things that I do to set up my day in the way that I intend it to go and to assist me to hold the attitude that I desire.  I intend to use gratitude daily and I encourage you to decide for yourself what works best for you.  Just do it from a place of knowledge and information.