ReachingSelf

Blog

How to Create a Personal Development Plan

What kind of life do you want to live? Have you ever thought about it? Is it detailed? Do you have a plan? Are you actively creating and designing it?

“Most people spend more time planning a one-week vacation than they spend planning their life.” – Michael Hyatt

It’s crazy to think about, but it’s true! I’ve realized I’ve been guilty of this even knowing this quote. Usually when we “plan” our lives we’ll write down all our goals or make a bucket list of things we want to accomplish or we’ll make a vision board or we’ll think about and daydream about the future we want to have. Or we just have no clue.

There is so much more to planning out our future than this. It’s called creating a personal development plan. Very few of us actually take the time to sit down and create and write out a specific and detailed personal development plan for our future selves and lives.

This guide will show and teach you the process for creating a personal development plan customized just for you. You will learn how to create a personal development plan to design your dream life.

I’ve even included a free printable worksheet you can download and use to create your personal development plan!

Continue Reading

How to Set Yourself Up for Growth

You might think that the first thing you have to do to get started with personal growth is to set goals. That’s not true. There’s a lot of deeper foundational work that’s important to do as well.

I’m sure you’ve witnessed or heard about high overachievers and people who are successful and seem to have everything going for them, but they’re still unfulfilled.  They’re not happy. It’s never enough. They have all these accomplishments and yet, they’re miserable.

Not only that, but it seems that achievements and richness are valued more than personal happiness and fulfillment. You see memes that say, “I’d rather cry in a Ferrari than cry on a bus.” And the first question many people ask to get to know you is, “What do you do?”This article lists some ways you set yourself up for growth and continue to stimulate deep and lasting personal growth.

Continue Reading

10 Ways to Accelerate Your Personal Growth and Success

Feel like you’re moving towards your goals, but it feels too slow? Want to grow and reach your goals faster?After all, we only have one life to live and our time on this earth is limited.So, why not make the most of it and get to where we want to be and beyond faster?Here’s a list of ten ways to supercharge and accelerate your personal growth.

Continue Reading

Design Your Dream Life Academy Review: Learn How to Design and Live Your Dream Life

A few weeks ago I was given Natalie Bacon’s Design Your Dream Life Academy online personal development course as a late birthday gift. I had specifically asked for it. :)I had already purchased and used her other blogging course so I knew it was going to be good.Let me tell you, it was probably the best gift I’ve ever received.I got so much out of it and it has made such a drastic change in my life already.

Continue Reading

How to Measure Your Personal Growth

Many of us, while we pursue personal growth, we don’t always take measures to measure personal growth. It can be hard to gauge where we’re at.This article can help you measure your personal growth and make it easier to do so with different tools and methods listed below.

Continue Reading

How to Get Unstuck: What to Do If You Don’t Know What to Do With Your Life

Everybody wants to feel happy and fulfilled with their life. There’s no question about that.

We all want money and to have a good, fulfilling job or business. We want to be respected and admired and have happy, loving relationships. Because that’s what feels good.

It’s easy to want that. But some of us can feel stuck, undecided or confused about how exactly to get there or what that all exactly looks like to us. Even in the process, we may think we know then suddenly we’re not so sure anymore.

There are so many articles and videos and people out there telling you that to get your life together that you need to set goals, learn how to be more productive, become more disciplined, get the right mindset, have the right habits, be around the right people, go after your dreams and goals, etc. The list goes on. It’s mostly all about the ‘how’ or the ‘why,’ but little to none of that can be applied if you don’t know the exact ‘what.’

This article can help you with that and get you unstuck. Whether you just need a little boost in the right direction or you’re feeling helpless, hopeless, and completely stuck and unsure of what to do.

Continue Reading

150 Things to Do On Your Birthday

Trying to decide what to do for your birthday? It was recently my birthday so I thought it’d be fun to come up with a list of things to do for a birthday. This list of 105 things you can do for your birthday can give you some ideas. This list includes activities for all types of moods, weathers, and interests. Find the best way to celebrate your birthday with this list.

Continue Reading

24 Lessons Learned in 24 Years

I turned 24 years old a few days ago. I thought it’d be a good idea to share 24 lessons I’ve learned in the 24 years of my life which I realized I’ve never really done before. Normally, I look back on the things I’ve learned on a yearly basis or after the end of life stages such as graduating high school or college, but not looking back on my life as a whole on the things I’ve learned like this.

I came up with this list by looking through my success journal over the year in which I would write a quote of the day and things I learned that day. I also looked through my notes in which I write down my thoughts and any wisdom I come across, and things that I learn. I’ve also included principles that I’ve written about throughout my blog.

Many of these lessons I learned from my personal experiences, others’ experiences, quotes, articles, and books I’ve read, movies and videos I’ve watched, and things I’ve observed and noticed.
Here are 24 of the life lessons and nuggets of wisdom I’ve learned over the last 24 years of my life. Enjoy!

Continue Reading

The 3 Main Fundamentals for Personal Growth

It really doesn’t take much to get started with personal development. There are few required fundamentals for personal growth. You don’t need to have your life together (that’s kind of the point). Neither do you need to be super smart or outgoing. You don’t need to be motivated (which you shouldn’t rely on anyway). Heck, you don’t even have to believe in yourself or any of it to get started although you’ll probably have to eventually.

There are however three main fundamentals for personal growth to occur. Without these three things, personal growth is nearly impossible unless, of course, it involves realizing, accepting, and implementing these things into our lives.

If you are involved in personal growth, these things should naturally occur. The sooner you can use these fundamentals, the sooner and better you can start seeing personal growth in yourself and your life.

Continue Reading

The Best Books to Get Started With Personal Development

There are so many personal development books out there. It can be difficult to choose where to start. These five books are great to lay the foundational ground to get started with personal development. Even if you’re not new to personal development, these books are must-reads. This list includes older books that are classics and have stood the test of time as well as some newer ones with new discoveries and unique approaches to personal development.

Here are the five best books to get started with personal development with one honorable mention.

Continue Reading
  • Anyone can become great, but not many will.
  • There are people who say that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger and then there are people that state that that’s not true - you can experience traumatization, ptsd, etc. ⠀ The truth is that it depends. ⠀ It’s entirely based on how the person takes it. ⠀ A set of studies looked at people that suffered serious adversity and survived. They found three different types of people - those that were permanently dispirited, those who went back to normal, and those who used experience to make them stronger. ⠀ What this tells us is that you can make what happens to you to happen for you if you let it. You can make what doesn’t kill you make you stronger, but you can also have it do nothing for you or you can let it make you weaker. It not just about the cards you were dealt with, it’s about what you do with them. ⠀ What doesn’t kill doesn’t just automatically make you stronger just because you survived. But it can. Whether it does or it doesn’t lies on you.
  • Just keep going. Keep moving forward. Keep climbing. Never stop. You will get to where you believe you’ll be. 🧗🏻‍♀️
  • If you could choose to have one superpower, what would it be? ⠀ It’s an easy answer for me. A learning superpower. I’m not too sure what the specifics would be, but you could get crazy with it. ⠀ Think about it: If you could learn anything, you could do pretty much anything most people desire to do. ⠀ You could learn how to make money, you could learn how to be popular, make friends and find love. ⠀ You could learn to develop discipline and take action to achieve anything you want. ⠀ You could learn about the body and health to become super strong, healthy and fit. ⠀ You could learn how to build machines and technology that would make you be able to do pretty much anything a super hero could do. ⠀ You could learn the solution to a major world problem. ⠀ Instead of saving people from one big bad villain, you’d be saving people from problems that affect millions like cancer and poverty. ⠀ The crazy thing is that this power is available to us. Sure it’s not a super power in which we’re able to just scan a whole bookshelf and absorb all the information or be able to learn a superhuman speed. But we do have the power to learn nearly anything. Many of us just never use it because we’re too busy working hard. Or we think that the people that accomplish these great feats are just super geniuses. The only difference is that they are constant learners. They know the power and value of learning and education. ⠀ Learning is so underrated. All this talk of hustle and grind and working hard is prevalent all over social media. This is a bit silly to me when we could be working smarter instead of harder. This is the value of learning and education. ⠀ It allows us to accomplish things faster and better and not only that, it allows us to grow and advance rather than continue to stagnate with outdated and limited knowledge. Knowledge is becoming more valuable than money. Education and learning are what can make us become great and attain power in our lives.
  • No matter what, there is always a reason 😊
  • (Part 2) When you can't smile on the outside, you really feel it on the inside. Because I couldn't show happiness, I didn't feel happy. I didn't feel like myself. It's a horrible feeling to not be able to smile, laugh or positively respond to someone. Nobody ever thinks of smiling as a privilege. I just wanted my face back. I just wanted to be able to smile again. ⠀ Thankfully, slowly & gradually my face started to recover, little by little, day by day. It took about a month to be fully recovered. I was so happy & grateful that I got my face & smile back. ⠀ My face is still not the same since recovering from Bell’s Palsy. Although I t’s very minor & barely noticeable & it’s possible that I was like this before & never noticed until after, my lips are a little crooked & one of my eyes shuts tighter than the other. ⠀ But what matters is that I have my smile. I can smile freely & express my joy outwardly to myself or to others around me. ⠀ Losing my smile was a powerful lesson that taught me the power of smiling. ⠀ Physically, it happened out of nowhere & the cause of it is up for speculation but I strongly believe that it was because I was in a very dark place in my life. I was extremely depressed over a recent breakup. I wasn’t happy. I wasn’t smiling inside so my body followed. ⠀ Now I'm happy & find plenty of reasons to smile every single day. Now I feel free. Now I never take my smile for granted. ⠀ Enjoy the simple & little things in life. Always enjoy & be grateful for what you have right now because you never know if the next day you wake up & it's gone. I was blessed because it was only temporary for me. For some people, it lasts months... years & some don't even fully recover. Remember, there is ALWAYS a reason a reason to be happy. There is ALWAYS a reason to smile. No matter what’s going on or what life throws at you. Get back up every time with a smile on your face. Go out & find those reasons. I did & still am. Smiling is so powerful & it’s free. You don’t have to wait for someone to smile at you to smile at them. You don’t have to wait until something happens or you do something to be happy. It is always available to you no matter what. :)