If you’re learning how to swim, the fastest way to learn or teach swimming is to get into the water. Similarly, the fastest way to achieve your personal development goals is to dive into daily doing in your area of interest.
Book learning is great. YouTube tutorials are fantastic. Audiobooks are wonderful tools for getting reading and learning while doing other things, like exercise, the laundry, etc.
Combine these personal development tools with getting involved in doing the work in your area of interest, and you will accelerate your growth and your skills. In other words, theory and practice, theory and practice. Study, do, learn, repeat.
All personal development is rooted in the desire to live a better, more fulfilling life. Personal development goals is a lifelong journey of steady and ongoing self improvement.
Table of Contents
- Audio Article – Personal Development Goals
- Growing into Yourself
- Personality Integration
- The Artist Entrepreneur
- Your Greatest Work of Art
- Growing Through Doing
Audio Article – Personal Development Goals:
In my family, we’re lifelong learners always listening to audiobooks, podcasts, presentations, interviews and reading. We also enjoy learning through courses and conferences.
However, it is in the experience of living life and the business of doing the work you love that you discover more of yourself. While it’s important to feed your mind for growth and development, it must be followed by doing the work.
Be careful not to delay the business of creating the life you want to live. Your life won’t get better without your efforts.
You may never feel ready to embark on the journey of your dreams. Therefore you must start. Plan a little, then do a lot. Plan and then do some more.
DISCOVERY
It is in singing that you discover song.
It is in writing that you discover story.
It is in painting that you discover art.It is in the doing that you discover yourself.
~LeAura Alderson, iCreateDaily.com®
Growing into Yourself
It is in doing that you are expressing yourself. Expressing yourself through creating, your essence blossoms into being and you’re getting to know yourself. Discoveries in the doing fuel growth and anchor experiences that percolate into wisdom.
Personal growth comes quickest when learning is coupled with doing.
~LeAura Alderson, cofounder-iCreateDaily.com®
Planning personal development goals is about so much more than goal setting. The creative process is as much about creating yourself. In creating, discover, heal, and grow.
The human brain developed over eons through movement and action. Learning through movement is still the physiological process of how the brain learns best. Learning through movement is also learning through doing.
“Personality development occurs over time through the experience of living your life. Add intention with a focus on purpose and passion, and your life will soar.”
~LeAura Alderson, Cofounder, iCreateDaily.com®
Personality Integration
Personal development is integration through conscious learning, implementing and growing through application. You can love art and study art, but in order to paint—should you wish to be a painter—you must paint.
Our education system needs to evolve to nimbly incorporate more interest-based, creative experiential learning. Until then, many families are choosing to homeschool in order to provide this kind of hands-on learning for their children. For most it is an extraordinary experience with favorable results.
The artist is poised to explore the inner regions of her soul, discovering herself through her creative process.
To bring art to business fuels creativity. To bring business to art stimulates personal development through integration of heart and mind.
~LeAura Alderson, Cofounder, iCreateDaily.com®
The Synthesis of Self
Ultimately, personal development is the integration of body, mind, emotions and soul into a synthesis recognized as the personality.
A well-integrated personality is the goal of the best parenting and education. For adults, the best personality development continues through engaging in creativity, business, and the pursuit of learning. Expanded consciousness and greater self awareness is the result.
To create, is art. To bring your creation to the world, is business. Both are creative endeavors that bring growth. Each, is a leg of your stride to success, both needed for a full step forward.
~LeAura Alderson, Cofounder, iCreateDaily.com®
The Artist Entrepreneur
So if you’re an entrepreneur, don’t neglect to incorporate beauty and artistry into your endeavor. If you’re an artist, don’t forget to include business for your art to thrive.
Beauty expands perspective, and engages us more fully. So too does business. To marry the two is to create a beautiful business that is an expression of our personal creativity.
The “personality integration” of your business includes both, art and entrepreneurship. Artist entrepreneurs employ both and in the process, reach personal development goals unimagined. Learning through doing accelerates growth beyond what you can get from any book, conference or course.
“It is in the doing that the way becomes more clear.”
~LeAura Alderson, Cofounder, iCreateDaily.com®
In an awesome interview with prolific fantasy fiction author, Joshua Robertson, for the iCreateDaily Podcast, which we’ve linked here, Joshua said:
“We should always do more and expand beyond our comfort zone to truly discover who we are.”
~Joshua Robertson, Fantasy fiction author, entrepreneur, LMSW
Your Greatest Work of Art
Consider what’s possible if you approach your life with the focus and efficacy of a well run business. If that sounds dull to you, don’t worry. What comes next is to design your life as your greatest work of art.
It’s interesting to reflect on our lives in this way. Not only interesting, but importantly. Vitally. If we don’t happen to our lives, purposefully, with intent, then life will happen to us.
“Your life is your greatest work of art, and your most important business.
Do not leave it to chance, create a beautiful life with purpose, on purpose.”
~LeAura Alderson, Cofounder-iCreateDaily.com®
Growing Through Doing
Personal development is the effect of a life well lived. In creating, connecting, cultivating and contributing, we are developing more fully into ourSelves.
If you enjoy the more meditative and esoteric perspectives, you may also enjoy this topic on our sister site, MeditationWisdom.com
For some reason… “Master Yoda” just inserted his voice in my head on this one. Funny how insidious that little guy has become in our culture! May your work grow to become ubiquitous too!
Master Yoda would say it as:
Image by Frank P. from Pixabay
Do. Find yourself you will. ⭐
~iCreateDaily.com®
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Hello! I’m LeAura, owner and co-creator of iCreateDaily.com®. As an autodidactic philosopher, generalist, personal development advocate, entrepreneur, writer, editor, author, ideator, media publisher, and podcaster, I’m passionate about helping others achieve their best possible life! Our small family of entrepreneurs, writers, investors, educators and creators own and run websites around topics we enjoy, such as gardening, health and fitness, creativity and pets, with more to come.
While my greatest teacher is Life… my formal training includes certifications in mediation, fitness, and strategic intervention coaching, including marriage and family. Today, the synergy of creating websites, articles and podcasts, brings together all my favorite things: family, learning, growth, creating, connecting and contributing. To share these with you is a privilege, that serves my lifelong aspiration to help others.
My personal areas of creativity are in writing, masterminding, ideation, synthesis and bringing ideas to life through business and entrepreneurship, all with a pervasive spiritual foundation with a focus on elevating the lives of others.
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