Personal development

It helps to improve your talents, build on your strengths and increases the chances of you fulfilling your full potential in life. It is an area of practice that includes the use of personal development methods, tools and techniques through self-study or by working with a mentor or life coach. You have always been on a path of personal growth and development ever since you came in to the world. It’s just that sometimes it’s easy to lose sight of the fact and become side tracked and lose your way in life. Personal growth and development is and will be a never ending journey. Although it is a continual process it can be a very enjoyable and enlightening experience as you begin to see & feel the improvements in your life if you are just starting out and new to the whole idea of personal development” (Personal Growth,…

Introduction All human beings have a story that reveals their development as a person, events and challenges showing their progression as they age and grow. This will be a personal story of my own development as an individual and will examine the developmental concepts of family influences, friendship, and establishing identity. An examination of two meta-theory assumptions, active vs. passive development and universal vs.context-specific development, will also be done using examples from my…

The development of the personal computer came after nearly thirty years of small components being innovated, beginning with humans need to develop a mechanical device that could do arithmetic. Personal computing began to actually become more of a reality in the early 1970’s, due to the invention of the microprocessor in 1971. The Intel 4004 contained many crucial components of the computer, from the CPU to the input and output controls into one miniscule silicon chip (Computer History Museum).…

which can be skewed by many factors such as religion, race, gender, class, personal interests and hobbies. To establish an identity within these parameters produces many different outcomes such as moral and ethical behavior, social status and titles, and overall character. Without taking time to look at ourselves and see our own shortcoming and successes it will be a hard process to accept others for the way they live their own lives. Yet an interest into others Identity and the history that…

Through my whole life I have learned many things; I have fallen, I have been racially discriminated, and stereo-typed. After many bumps and hurdles, I have never lost hope nor lost drive to become a better person in my personal and professional life. A personal development plan is an essential tool for the improvement of quality life towards personal relations with your family and coworkers. A personal action plan also helps me in the development of basic strategies that evaluates…

Introduction After learning what leadership is all about, I realize that it is an inevitable part of life. Be it implicit or explicit. Sometimes we don’t even realize that we are playing the role of a leader. In order to recognize my career leadership goal, it is important for me to identify the career path that I wish to take Career Leadership aspiration Having an experience of 5 Years in analytics industry my primary motive of enrolling in BAPM was to learn project management in analytics…

Whether I promote to Master Sergeant or not, in the next three to five years, is in the future and I cannot see the future. But, by correctly applying the concepts that I chose as the most important to me in my Personal Leadership Development Plan entries, I will move in the right direction. The five most important concepts that I learned about over the last couple of weeks are, Knowing Others, Individual Consideration (Caring), Followership, Situation, and Diversity Awareness. As of right…

Personal development is a continuous process occurring in every single day through an individual’s life time (Jonathan, 2009). During this continuous process individuals establish their aims and goals set targets and also understand their weakness all in a quest to maximize their potential. Erik Erikson was inclined to believe that development of an individual in the early ages of childhood was essential. Although Erikson believed in early childhood development he also stated that personality…

Introduction Growing up, I came from a relatively small immediate family that consisted of my mother, father, brother and twin sister. I am the older twin, while my brother is three years older than me. But I also include other relatives in my immediate family, such as my grandparents and my aunts and uncles because I come from a close-knit family that frequently visits one another daily. Furthermore, as a twin, I was required to dress exactly like my twin and shared the same space as her…

Provided that, this affected his transition to the next stage of development which is emerging adulthood. Within this transition, he decided to immigrate to the United States so he will be able to find a job that supports him and send money to his parents back in Mexico. Furthermore, stress did play a role in his cognitive and social domain of emerging adulthood. He started to smoke cigarettes of his way to cope with stress and the lack of social support he had that lowered his self-esteem from…