Self Develpment
Life is a journey and the final destination is determined by us. There's no written guide or manual on how to live life, it is the voice of our conscience that sometimes influence our decisions. But a lot of us walk through life cluelessly, not knowing "what to do, the decisions to make or where to begin" because no handbook was given and certainly it seem as though there is no pattern or a ready made template to follow in order to succeed in the journey life. Therefore, everyone seem to be on an adventure, finding their own path and destiny.
Since life doesn't give anyone a "guide or manual" it is important that we make constant effort, working on ourselves, to get better every daily, we can train/build our intellectual capacity so maturely that it will influence us in making the right decisions in life.
Self development is simply the process of working improving on oneself. Self discovery is also unveiling you to you. To discover yourself is to know more about your self each day than you knew the previous day. When we learn new things we improve our mind and capacity to do or perform better. Self development makes us relevant to ourself, families, the society and so forth. Self development influences our values, ethics, communication skills, investment plans and decision.
A lot of people are being limit because of the fear of failure. The fear of the unknown keeps them away from trying. But trying is better than stagnancy, it is better to fail after you tried than for you never to have tried. Failure does not come to eradicate your success, it's only a revelation of how not to get certain things done.
The fear of failure itself is a step to fail because it keeps you away from doing something new, getting new ideas, learning new ways, therefore it keeps people behind civilized systems. An average human prefer the old way, they are comfortable just sticking to the old ideas, they prefer to follow the same routine all throughout life. This is how potentials are limited.
Most people we call heroes today are people who in thier generation stood out and made themselves relevant. That is why of all the people that have lived and left this planet, we only remember a few who made impact.
There is always an improved way on how you can get something done, every great invention today is a product of wanting better and getting beyond present satisfaction.
If there is just a slim chance that you could know better, wont you take it? If there is a tiny chance you could get better results, why not learn to do things differently?
The best way to develop yourself is to learn something entirely new or something new about what you are already doing. Read books, explore the area of career/gifting, get new skills, when you fall, get yourself up again. Failing is not as negative as we have been made to believe.
One thing is for sure, "as long as you are determined to live in the corridors of self development, all things will work for you."
Also remember, you don't die when you stop breathing, you die when you stop learning.
I'll conclude with a quote of mine : It doesn't take having no breath to lose life, it takes having no knowledge to lose relevance. Being alive is not having breath, being alive is to inspire others from the content of your depth
The only person that stays with you for the rest of your life is YOU.
WORK ON YOU!