Here are more ways to explore your personal growth, development and motivation needs to create a life that excites you.
Personal Growth and Understanding Instruments and Surveys
In the midst of your new thoughts and activities, you will want to supplement your thinking with tests and quizzes that provide information about yourself. For your thoughtful consideration. What kind of cheese are you? (I’m brie.) How’s your emotional intelligence? What “type” are you? Take these Personality, Leadership, Career: Tests, Surveys, Profiles, and Quizzes to add to your understanding of yourself.
Read Books About Personal Growth and Motivation
Personal growth and self-motivation books fill an entire section of your local bookstore. There are also hundreds of websites online that profess to help individuals with personal growth and motivation. Explore by doing a search at www.google.com. Pages of articles and books are available. Take a look at these books for a starting point, especially those that Barbara Sher authored or co-authored. I also recommend Marlys Hanson’s Passion and Purpose: How to Identify and Leverage the Powerful Patterns That Shape Your Work/Life.
Take a Class
Your local college or university will likely have several choices of courses about personal growth and motivation specifically. Your exploration, in the earlier recommended exercises, may have targeted additional topics you want to study. This course from the University of Florida Department of Psychology Distance Learning program, PCO 2714 - Personal Growth, may be just what you seek for exploring personal growth.
Conclusion
Take the time to explore your mid-life crisis to identify your needs for personal growth and motivation. Maybe it’s just the job that’s depressing you. Perhaps you have not focused on adding your favorite activities to your daily life. Maybe, in the daily “busy,” you have forgotten to think about your own need for solitude, thoughtfulness and exploration. I believe, that if you spend time exploring these recommended activities, you will find your answers, refresh your life view and put the joy and energy you deserve back into your life. As Brian Tracy reminds us, Change your thinking; change your life.
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