What is Personal Development?
Personal development is a lifelong process. It is a way for people to assess their skills and qualities, consider their aims in life and set goals in order to realise and maximise their potential.This page helps you to identify the skills you need to set life goals which can enhance your employability prospects, raise your confidence, and lead to a more fulfilling, higher quality life. Plan to make relevant, positive and effective life choices and decisions for your future to enable personal empowerment.
Although early life development and early formative experiences within the family, at school, etc. can help to shape us as adults, personal development should not stop later in life.
This page contains information and advice that is designed to help you to think about your personal development and ways in which you can work towards goals and your full potential.
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Personal Skills for the Mind
Your mind is an extraordinarily powerful thing. It is not just what makes you into you: the person that you are. It also has the power to make you into more than you are, by helping you to motivate yourself and to strive to achieve more, to learn and to develop. And it also has the power to make you less: for example, witness the debilitating effects of psychosomatic illnesses or a crippling lack of self-belief.
This section of Skills You Need deals with looking after your mind, and with harnessing its power to help you to achieve more, and particularly to achieve the right things for you. It describes some useful mind-skills, including Creative Thinking and Memory Skills.
It also deals with the other side of the coin: what happens when you cannot look after your mind, and you develop a mental illness.
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This section of Skills You Need deals with looking after your mind, and with harnessing its power to help you to achieve more, and particularly to achieve the right things for you. It describes some useful mind-skills, including Creative Thinking and Memory Skills.
It also deals with the other side of the coin: what happens when you cannot look after your mind, and you develop a mental illness.
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Stress and Stress Management
It is generally accepted that a small amount of stress can help you to function effectively. It adds a sense of urgency to whatever you are doing, and helps to provide motivation. However, when most people talk about stress, they mean ‘too much stress’.
Stress in these terms is generally a response to an inappropriate level of pressure: it may, for example, be triggered by not having enough to do, as well as having too much to do. Stress triggers several hormonal responses within the body, including your ‘flight/fight’ or adrenaline response. This is fine if you need to run away fast from a wolf, for example, but it’s not so great if you need to have a calm and effective meeting with your boss. It also has an effect on how you react to other people, and therefore your interpersonal relationships.
It is important to learn to recognise your stress triggers, and find effective ways to manage your stress to avoid it negatively affecting your life, or even making you unwell.
It is important to learn to recognise your stress triggers, and find effective ways to manage your stress to avoid it negatively affecting your life, or even making you unwell.
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Anger and Aggression
Anger is a normal and natural emotion, which probably all of us will feel at least at some point in our lives. Anger is often associated with heat or cold—we talk about feeling ‘hot with anger’ and also recognise the idea of ‘cold fury’.
Anger can be quite frightening, both in yourself and in others, because it can arrive very suddenly, but also because it can cause very irrational and unpredictable behaviours. Aggression is a behaviour, often closely linked to anger. Angry people can become aggressive, and aggressive people may become angry, but the two are not the same.
Anger is a normal and natural emotion, which probably all of us will feel at least at some point in our lives. Anger is often associated with heat or cold—we talk about feeling ‘hot with anger’ and also recognise the idea of ‘cold fury’.
Anger can be quite frightening, both in yourself and in others, because it can arrive very suddenly, but also because it can cause very irrational and unpredictable behaviours. Aggression is a behaviour, often closely linked to anger. Angry people can become aggressive, and aggressive people may become angry, but the two are not the same.
Assertiveness - An Introduction
Assertiveness is a skill regularly referred to in social and communication skills training. Being assertive means being able to stand up for your own or other people’s rights in a calm and positive way, without being either aggressive, or passively accepting ‘wrong’.
Assertive individuals are able to get their point across without upsetting others, or becoming upset themselves. Although everyone acts in passive and aggressive ways from time to time, such ways of responding often result from a lack of self-confidence and are, therefore, inappropriate ways of interacting with others.
This page examines the rights and responsibilities of assertive behaviour and aims to show how assertiveness can benefit you. You may also be interested in our pages on Self-Esteem and Negotiation.
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Assertiveness is a skill regularly referred to in social and communication skills training. Being assertive means being able to stand up for your own or other people’s rights in a calm and positive way, without being either aggressive, or passively accepting ‘wrong’.
Assertive individuals are able to get their point across without upsetting others, or becoming upset themselves. Although everyone acts in passive and aggressive ways from time to time, such ways of responding often result from a lack of self-confidence and are, therefore, inappropriate ways of interacting with others.
This page examines the rights and responsibilities of assertive behaviour and aims to show how assertiveness can benefit you. You may also be interested in our pages on Self-Esteem and Negotiation.
Read more at: https://www.skillsyouneed.com/ps/assertiveness.html
Living Well, Living Ethically
There is a saying that nobody looked back from their deathbeds and said that they wished they had spent more time in the office. Most people would probably sympathise with that point of view. But there are many other things that you might already look back on, if not with regret exactly, at least with a vague feeling that you would prefer to be able to say that you had not done that.
How can you avoid looking back at the end of your life with too many regrets? This is an issue which humans have been addressing for hundreds, if not thousands, of years and at least since the days of Aristotle.
Aristotle (384-322 BCE) was a Greek philosopher and scientist who wrote a number of treatises on ethics and who is considered to be one of the greatest intellectuals in Western history. This page provides some insights into Aristotle’s teaching to help you to live well.
There is a saying that nobody looked back from their deathbeds and said that they wished they had spent more time in the office. Most people would probably sympathise with that point of view. But there are many other things that you might already look back on, if not with regret exactly, at least with a vague feeling that you would prefer to be able to say that you had not done that.
How can you avoid looking back at the end of your life with too many regrets? This is an issue which humans have been addressing for hundreds, if not thousands, of years and at least since the days of Aristotle.
Aristotle (384-322 BCE) was a Greek philosopher and scientist who wrote a number of treatises on ethics and who is considered to be one of the greatest intellectuals in Western history. This page provides some insights into Aristotle’s teaching to help you to live well.
Read more at: https://www.skillsyouneed.com/ps/living-well.html
Caring for Your Body
It is important to look after your body, to help you to stay well and healthy for as long as you can. However, advice about caring for your body is conflicting and often confusing. It can be hard to know what’s best. Many people abandon any effort to take care of themselves because it’s just too difficult.
However, just because it is complicated does not mean the effort is not worthwhile. Common sense tells us that even doing a bit more exercise or getting a bit more sleep, and not eating that second slice of cake, are likely to be helpful. The application of a little science, and quite a lot more common sense, can go a long way to helping you to work out what’s best for you and your body.
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