Personal development: what is it?
Personal development refers to a set of practices aimed at improving self-knowledge and personal quality of life. Personal development also helps to enhance each person’s potential and talents. Resulting from multiple influences, personal development concerns several aspects of life, including:
- Professional life ;
- spiritual life;
- Personal and family life;
- The financial plan;
- The relational
As a general rule, personal development prompts a person to change their behavior. This personality transformation can come from an emotional shock, a breakup or other factors that have marked a person’s life. These changes allow you to realign yourself with your deepest aspirations as well as with yourself. There is no right time to focus on personal development. Besides, there is no distinction of status, age or gender to improve certain aspects of one’s life.
There are different methods that allow you to develop your personal development plan and achieve your goals:
- Sophrology;
- Neuro-linguistic programming or NLP;
- Yoga;
- Mindfulness meditation;
- Positive thinking;
- The enneagram;
- transactional analysis or TA;
- Etc.
Here are some effective personal development methods to help you stay motivated on a daily basis:
- Motivate yourself continuously: perform personal development exercises, reward yourself for each success, set up a new routine…;
- Read personal development books such as “Think and grow rich” by Napoleon Hill or “The five wounds that prevent you from being yourself” by Lise Boureau.
Our choice: “Dare to be optimistic” by Catherine Testa
Change of job, new project, new romantic relationship… Do you want to overcome your fears and gain self-confidence, but you are not sure you can do it? Read Catherine Testa’s personal development book. Entitled ” Dare to be optimistic », this book is punctuated with positive mantras and concrete examples. On the first page of her book, the author gives a list of definitions for the term optimism. Then, she argues that being optimistic is a militant choice, because it is a contract signed with oneself to drive out bad habits. Result ? You get to focus on all that is good in your life.
The personal development book “Dare to be optimistic” is our favorite because of the dozen fun exercises it offers. By applying them, you will be able to engage in a process of improving your daily life. According to Catherine Testa, the first step towards optimism is to verbalize the things that make your life monotonous. By doing so, you will be able to leave everything that no longer suits you to fulfill your desires.
Dare to be optimistic
€5.95The key to your energy by Natacha Calestrémé
Do you feel empty and want it to stop? Read Natacha Calestrémé’s book entitled ” The key to your energy “. Thanks to the 22 protocols proposed in this book dedicated to personal development, you will manage to free yourself emotionally and regain your full energy. Note that this authentic and audacious work is available in Kindle and paperback format. We particularly like this book because it is available in an audio version. What’s more, the app for reading is free.
As a reminder, Natacha Calestrémé was born in 1966 in Bordeaux. In addition to being a journalist, she is a director and a journalist. Passionate about the environment and health, this author has interviewed shamans, mediums, healers and energy specialists. She put into practice the methods of these atypical therapists to face multiple trials in life. After obtaining satisfactory results, she shares in this book the things that have transformed her life.
The Key to Your Energy: 22 Protocols to Emotionally Free Yourself
€21.90You’re Gonna Tear It Up by Jen Sincero
Are you looking for a book to boost your self-confidence and regain positive energy? Why not read the book entitled ” You’re going to tear everything up “. Written by Jen Sincero, this book evokes frankly and with humor simple but effective reflections and exercises to achieve your full potential. Indeed, the objective of this book is to encourage you to definitively discard the beliefs and behaviors that prevent you from moving forward in life.
What seduces us in this book is that it prevents you from doubting your qualities and your skills. It is available in paperback and Kindle format. Not a fan of reading? No worries, this book is available in audio version! By the way, the audible trial is free.
You’re going to tear everything up
€8.50Like Magic by Elisabeth Gilbert
The book ” As if by magic by Élisabeth Gilbert gives you advice on how to live your creativity to the full. In this book, the writer explains effective methods for capturing the things you like, without being afraid of obstacles. We like this book, because it encourages and gives many basic techniques to succeed in accomplishing what we undertake. According to Elisabeth Gilbert, the six forces allowing human beings to unleash their creativity are divinity, confidence, persistence, permission, enchantment and courage.
Namely, Elisabeth Gilbert was born in 1969. She was a journalist for the New York Times, Spin and GQ. In 2006, she met with worldwide success thanks to her autobiographical novel called “Eat, pray, love. In 2008, the writer was among the finalists for one of the most prestigious literary distinctions read in the USA, called the “National Book Award”.
As if by magic
€8.40The Power of Self-Confidence by Brian Tracy
With Brian Tracy’s book titled ” The power of self-confidence you will become a person of action. You will also manage to overcome all the obstacles of life and climb the peaks. What seduces us in this book is its ability to program everyone’s subconscious to act positively in the face of difficulties.
This book is inspired by work with business leaders, sales professionals and entrepreneurs living in over 60 different countries. Note that Brian Tracy has written more than 70 books: “Later is now”, “Swallow the toad”, “No excuses”… The writer specializes mainly in the field of personal development.
