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20 Benefits of Contribution, Kindness, and Generosity

What are the benefits of contribution, kindness, and generosity?

When it comes to our lives, success, and happiness, we’re mostly focused on our day-to-day busy lives, getting to where we need to be and getting things done. Most of us don’t make the time or put in the effort for contribution. Many of us are only kind when it’s convenient for us or when we’re asked. That’s not to say that we’re not kind per se, but that we do the bare minimum or we’re indifferent or reactive to how others treat us.

The benefits of contribution, generosity, and kindness are enormous not only to those we give to, but ourselves and society as a whole. Following are 20 benefits of contribution, kindness, giving, altruism, volunteering, and generosity as to why we should give, volunteer, and contribute more often as well as develop the skills of kindness and generosity and make them habits.

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The Foundation of Personal Growth

The foundation of personal growth. What is it?

This was THE main question. It still is. I ran a survey/interview with a series of questions. The foundation of personal growth is what the survey meant to get at with different questions.

I was curious about what the foundation to personal development and growth was as well as what people thought it was.

Because there’s really no one agreed upon rule. Everyone in personal growth will tell you that you need to focus on this or that to be successful or happy. You hear so many different things.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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Personal Development for Her Review: Learn How to Design and Live Your Dream Life

A few weeks ago I was given Natalie Bacon’s Personal Development for Her 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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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