Tips on enhancing personal development

M.N.M.Nazeer

Continued from last week

A personal value system is a set of principles or ideals that drive or guide your behaviour. Your personal value system gives you structure and purpose by helping you determine what is meaningful and important to you.

It helps you express who you are and what you stand for. If you are unaware of, or become disconnected with your values, you end up making choices out of impulse or instant gratification rather than on solid reasoning and responsible making. Your values define your character.

They impact every aspect of your life including personal and work behaviours, your interactions with family, friends and co-workers; your decision processes and the direction you take in life.

This is why it is so important to know what you value and what is important to you.

If you hope to apply the above in your practical life routine you should know.....

Five things to remain positive about

Your health

I love the saying ‘If there is nothing wrong with your health, you don't have a problem’, I'm not saying I fully believe in it (I don't believe in problems, only situations) but it definitely makes sense. When we are born, there's only one thing all of us having in common, we are going to die.

While that may be a grim statement, you certainly should not look at things like that. Your health is one of the most vital assets you have, in fact it's the most vital asset you have. No matter what car you drive or how much money you have in your bank, they are completely meaningless compared to the importance of being healthy and strong.

When everything seems down, just remember that you are alive and healthy and you have the rest of your life in front of you. There's no greater achievement than the gift of life.

Look at the part of this poem...

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost,

When health is lost something is lost...

There is always tomorrow

You have probably heard this a million times but the point from this statement is just as true as ever. Have you ever been stressing about something a lot, maybe through impatience, and woke up the next day and found that you don't really care about that ‘problem’ anymore?

I know I have. There is always tomorrow is not just a wishful thinking mindset, it's a fact. Tomorrow will be here just like today was here, so no matter how bad things are going or how bad your day seems, tomorrow will be here when you wake up and give you hundreds of more opportunities.

That is not to say you should put things off and always be waiting for tomorrow, this is about realising you still have the time to turn things around and improve your situation.

Your potential

There are some people in this world who are billionaires. There are some people in this world that discovered gravity, invented electricity and even someone who came up with the internet. You know what the difference is between you and all these amazing people? Absolutely nothing, you're both human.

Some people never live up to their full potential, mostly because they believe that success and fame or happiness and clarity are left for people who are more fortunate than them.

Do you think Tim Berners-Lee woke up and decided to create the internet? No way. But I am sure he had an idea of what he wanted to achieve and went out there to start doing it.

You have the potential to be anyone and do anything you want, our time on this planet gives us amazing chances and opportunities, don't waste it because you feel like you have no hope. You have as good a chance to change the world as anybody, you just have to realise it. People made millions, people saved lives, you are a person, you can do the same.

Things could be worse

Things could be worse, they could always be worse, at least in 99.9% of situations we find ourselves in. Let us look about the story of having affairs at schooling age. Doing the right thing at the right time is right. According to this having affair at schooling age is going to be worse, because it's not the right time for having affair and this is the time for studies. If you are decided to have affair at this schooling age, it goes as that you are going to the wrong thing at wrong time.

You have to remember that doing wrong thing at the wrong time is ‘always wrong'. That is to say doing right thing at the time is always right. You have to identify the right and wrong. Then what you will have to do is, like I mentioned above, you'll have to wait till the right time comes, to do the right thing and you have to get the maximum use of your schooling age to mould your life into the right path of studies.

You will come out stronger

I love challenges, I really do. I love knowing Iam scared of doing something but that I can conquer it. Recently I start to write articles on the topic of “Bitter experience of black July”, I was very nervous to write about, but I loved knowing I was nervous, I loved having the opportunity to overcome the fear.

‘Hard times make you stronger or variations of that phrase are probably something you have heard 100 times before, that's because it's true. Think of any hard time in your life whether it is:

* Losing your post of monitor or ‘prefect'.
* Defeated by someone / suspension/ verbal warning from school etc...
* Getting beaten up / mugged/loosing the game.
* Failing the exam.
“If you enjoyed this article, apply them in your day to day life from now onwards”.

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