Personal Development...Just What Is That?

Before you raise your hand and sign up for the latest in personal development, it might be helpful to discover just what that means....What is it? Getting better? Doing better? It's nothing more than creating a way of living that dramatically increases the control you have over your life, how you live it as well as how you experience the uncertainty that awaits you.

Also, it is a way of living that increases your ability to influence others in ways that they feel valued and that you are promoting the potential they have relative to their life purpose and way of living.

Here is the short list:

* Becoming more of the talents, strengths, and gifts that are uniquely yours.
* Finding the purpose/meaning that you were created to fulfill.
* Living successfully where success is defined as "being involved with and accomplishing that which results in the feelings that you want to experience most of the time"
* Creating a way of living that gives you more control over your life, how you live it, how you respond to the unpredictable, uncertain, and rapidly changing future that awaits you... less busy... less feeling behind... less out of control.
* Creating a way of living that gives you more control over how you can contribute to others in ways that promote their value and potential... your family... friends... co-workers... the community.