Thursday, December 29, 2011

What is personal development?

Another sub-niche I’ve written extensively in involves personal development topics.

This comes usually under one of three headings:  general self-help, related to career development, or related to religion and spirituality.

So, just what constitutes “personal development”?

To me, the term personal development involves any activity, or group of activities, that enhances an individual’s way of life.  This can include things like making a business plan, setting personal goals, doing activities like games and puzzles that exercise the mind, and physical exercise and recreation.

Personal journaling, the forerunner of online blogging, certainly can serve this function. 

So can creative writing in any form, or independent study of a topic.

Having at least one personal development activity on an ongoing basis can enrich anyone’s life.

Perhaps defining what that activity should be, or how you can enhance such an activity you already participate in, could make a fulfilling New Year’s resolution for you.

Figuring out something you want to do, something you might enjoy, makes a more attractive way of setting New Year’s resolutions that the traditional “go on a diet” or “get more exercise form of such resolutions, don’t you think?

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