222: Does Personal Development Matter?

Enjoy Life Podcast w/ Nick Maizy: Live Your Best Life

This Episode’s Main Points:

Personal Development Can Help You:

• Develop resiliency
• Become adaptable
• Be a better parent
• Improve overall health
• Achieve your goals
• Increase productivity
• Improve just about anything
• Even deal with other people better

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Show Notes:

I know I talk a lot about personal growth and development. Setting and achieving goals. Making improvements. Are all these things really that great? Well, you can decide for yourself. This episode is all about a few of what I believe are the most important reasons to pursue personal development.

Does it really matter?

Choosing to become your best self, the best version of you that you can be, is tough. It’s hard work. Like anything that’s challenging and takes work, you need to have a good reason to do it or you won't stick to it.

I believe every bit of effort you can put into becoming your best is worth it.

"Everything worthwhile is uphill"-John Maxwell

But, there's a major problem. Or, really just a big challenge. Human tendency is to take the path of least resistance or travel downhill.

One of the major issues with taking the path of least resistance is that you commit yourself to nothing better than what you have right now. I don’t know about you, but that wouldn’t work for me. Even if things are good now. Knowing that it won’t get better and that you are giving up any possibility of anything better.

There is greatness in you, there is also a better life for you and your family.

• Resiliency
  • You can recover after challenging times
• Adaptability
  • You can adjust and adapt when needed
• Parenting
  • Being your best self definitely helps in being your best for your kids
• Health
  • Pursuing your best self can help to the work needed to improve help too
• Goals
  • Getting clear on what you want, why you want it, and all the other components of personal development lead to achieving goals along the way
• Productivity
  • Personal development leads to a greater sense of clarity around what's most important to you, which can help you be more productivity in the areas where you want to produce
• Anything you want to improve
  • Being your best self requires you to determine what specific things are most important to you to improve
• Other people
  • An additional indirect benefit of personal development is being better at responding to other people