Taking time to grow yourself as an individual is important because it allows you to invest in yourself so that you can manage yourself effectively.
Personal growth is a process of both understanding yourself and pushing yourself to reach your highest potential.
It involves working on new habits and hobbies, fostering new skills and practising new strategies to achieve your goals.
Personal growth also requires you to be willing to put other work aside, and sometimes get out of your comfort zone to take up tasks that are uncomfortable but for your own good.
As a busy woman, you need to make time to invest in your own growth and development.
Here are six reasons why you need to embrace personal growth:
- An increased level of self-awareness
Are you fully connected to yourself, your values, beliefs and purpose? To have lasting happiness, you need to design your life around who you are.
This will make it easier to choose your own dreams and goals and less likely will you get wrapped up in those around you.
- A sense of direction
Increasing your level of self-awareness permits the ability to have a clearer understanding of what you want from life, simplifying decision-making.
Tasks you used to find difficult and Tim consuming you will now complete with ease and in less time.
Those things that do not move you towards your purpose are no longer worthy of your time and you maintain a clearer sense of what will bring you towards your purpose.
- Improved focus and effectiveness
As your personal growth increases, you will have the ability to prioritize with ease because you will know what will give the best result or outcome and how to achieve it.
Improved focus and effectiveness come with awareness and development of your strengths.
- More motivation
Once you know what you’d like to achieve, it’s easier to understand the benefits of taking action towards those goals.
Even if the task is a mundane, boring and not-so-enjoyable one, you can see its clear benefits and you could be motivated to take action because you know what you are doing is necessary.
Strong personal growth helps you develop a strong will.
- Greater resilience
You will always hit roadblocks and have tough times in life but what is important is how you effectively deal with the tough times.
Personal growth provides the skills and characteristics necessary in order to do so.
Greater confidence, resilience, and personal and interpersonal skills to cope with any probability.
- More fulfilling relationships
Relationships can be good or bad, they can either uplift you are drag you down.
By investing in personal growth you see which ones are worth it and which ones need to be cut loose.
It also enables you to develop the skills to make the most of those relationships which have the most positive impact on your life.
Sources: Indeed, Linkedin, Inhersight, Medium
