Personal development

Personal development consists of the lifelong activities that: improve a person's capabilities and future potential; build human capital in knowledge and skills, facilitate employability (including self-employment), enhance quality of life, and facilitate the achievement of dreams and aspirations (consider their aims in life and set goals).

The 5 hour rule

Benjamin Franklin, 1767.

See also: Lifelong learning and Habit

The 5 hour rule is having the habit of spending 5 hours a week learning new things for personal development. The 5 hour rule was coined by entrepreneur and journalist Michael Simmons. Benjamin Franklin spent 1 hour a day on 5 days a week learning new things.

Articles on Benjamin Franklin's 5 hour rule

• 5-Hour Rule: If you’re not spending 5 hours per week learning, you’re being irresponsible
• 5 Hour Rule: A Learner’s Success Model
• The 5-hour rule: How to turn a wasted day into a successful one, Big Think website
• Why Constant Learners All Embrace the 5 hour rule
• Build a Lifelong Habit of Learning With the 5-Hour Rule, Inc. Magazine

Personal development quotes

• "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." - Zig Ziglar

• "The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark." - Michelangelo

Michelangelo

How to overcome resistance to personal change

Photo depicting comfort zone and areas outside comfort zone.

See also: Self-motivation and Achievement orientation and Comfort zone

Below are some methods to overcome personal resistance to change:

1. Begin by acknowledging your resistance and think of the positive effects of making the change or changes. Create a compelling vision. See: Visualization and Imagination

2. Explore the causes for your resistance (Fear, potential losses, objectively look at risk of change via risk management, limiting beliefs, negative thinking, etc.). See: Self-awareness and Self-reflection

3. Break down actions necessary to make the positive change into steps/processses in order to achieve goals. Learn any necessary skills.

4. Be action oriented and avoid procrastination.

5. Practice self-motivation and confidence.

6. Set goals and rewards for making goals. Engage in planning.

7. Learn to be more open and flexible. Develop a growth mindset. See: Openness

8. Learn the soft skill of change management

9. Realize that change can take time and mistakes are made along the way. Practice self-care and self-compassion.

10. Get any needed assistance and/or moral support. See also: Mentor and Accountability partner and Friendship

Articles:

• 12 Ways To Overcome Your Resistance To Change 12 Ways To Overcome Your Resistance To Change, Forbes

• Overcoming Resistance: How to Push Past Your Own Opposition to Growth

• Resistance to Change: 7 Causes & How to Overcome Them

• How can you manage resistance to change in personal coaching?

• Resistance To Change: 10 Keys To Overcome It

• How to Overcome Your Resistance to Change for a Better Self, Lifehack.com

• 6 Ways To Overcome Your Resistance To Change For Better Self

Limitations of personal development. Low self-motivation and the spiritual strength to turn things around. The limitations of self-motivation

The Resurrection" by Carl Heinrich Bloch.

Quotes

The Christian author John Noe wrote in his book Peak Performance Principles For High Achievers:

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Now in my own life, I go one step farther in setting my goals. I set what I call God-sized goals. A God sized goal is one that is so far outside your human capabilities that you will never reach it unless God intervenes on your behalf... However, self-motivation theories eventually begin to cave under their own weight because there is only so far they can go. People begin begin to say, Oh no. Not another self-motivation speaker - we had one of those last year! Management circles, I've found are tired of the hype. the rah-rah pep talks, the glorified weather reports and the positive thinking. For many of them, self-motivation has lead to frustration. It's superficial in its effectiveness... The basic building block of out of self-motivation is that there is only one person in the universe who is worthy , who has enough to offer, to become the center of our lives - Jesus Christ , God's son,. The goal is, then to become Christ-directed . Out-of-self motivation is based on the biblical principle of receiving a 'higher self' by surrendering our old selfish nature to Jesus Christ. Then and only then can we receive God's wisdom and power in our lives."

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• "Most of all, I knew that God, my 'Guide of guides' had made it possible for me to accomplish this great feat. The greatest delusion in the world is that of the so-called 'self made" person. There is no such thing in high achievement." - Author John Noe on climbing on the Matterhorn mountain. See: Peak Performance Principles For High Achievers by John R. Noe

• "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." - Saint Paul, Philippians 4:13

• “Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” - Jesus Christ, Matthew 26:41

• "Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me. I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing. Whoever does not abide in me is thrown away like a branch and withers; such branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned." - Jesus Christ (John 15: 4-16)

Article

• If Your Motivation for Work is Low, God Can Fill It Up, The Gospel Coalition

See also

• Achievement orientation
• Growth mindset
• Self-motivation
• Change management
• Neoroplasticity and the ability of individuals to change their personality
• Comfort zone
• Performance goal quotes

Book:

• How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

External links

• What is Personal Development?
• 7 Ways To Improve Your Personal Development Skills
• Meeting Your True Potential: What Is Personal Development?, Sucess magazine
• Personal Development Plan Examples & Templates For Success
• 36 Personal Development Goals Examples for Work and Life
• How To Set Personal Development Goals for Work