Personal development

Personal development is a lifelong process. It’s a way for people to assess their skills and qualities, consider their aims in life and set goals in order to realize and maximize their potential.raise your confidence and lead to a more fulfilling, higher quality life.  Plan to make relevant, positive and effective life choices and decisions for your future to enable personal empowerment.our mind is an extraordinarily powerful thing.It is not just what makes you into you: the person that you are. It also has the power to make you into more than you are, by helping you to motivate yourself and to strive to achieve more, to learn and to develop. And it also has the power to make you less: for example, witness the debilitating effects of psychosomatic illnesses or a crippling lack of self-belief.
Self Actualisation  = The extent to which people are able to develop depends on certain needs being met and these needs form a hierarchy.  Only when one level of need is satisfied can a higher one be developed.  As change occurs throughout life, however, the level of need motivating someone’s behavior at any one time will also change.At the bottom of the hierarchy are the basic physiological needs for food, drink, sex and sleep, i.e., the basics for survival.    Second are the needs for safety and security in both the physical and economic sense.  Thirdly, progression can be made to satisfying the need for love and belonging.  The fourth level refers to meeting the need for self-esteem and self-worth.  This is the level most closely related to ‘self employment.The fifth level relates to the need to understand. This level includes more abstract ideas such as curiosity and the search for meaning or purpose and a deeper understanding. The sixth relates to aesthetic needs of beauty, symmetry and order.  At the top of Maslow’s hierarchy, is the need for self-actualisation. All the individuals have the need to see themselves as competent and autonomous, also that every person has limitless room for growth. 
Self-actualisation refers to the desire that everybody has ‘to become everything that they are capable of becoming’.  In other words, it refers to self-fulfillment and the need to reach full potential as a unique human being.Practical steps can be taken to enhance personal development, including:
Organizing your time. If you are considering making changes in your life. finding additional time often poses a problem, ti could be that the change you are thinking of making are to ensure you have extra time to spend with your family. devote to work and education. Producing a personal CV or résumé , Undertaking a skills appraisal , Looking at your skills Overcoming barriers to learning a new skill.

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