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The First 3 Steps of Personal Development for a Happy Life

Who does not want a happy life?

By Brad MalakaiPublished 4 years ago 4 min read
The First 3 Steps of Personal Development for a Happy Life
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The first steps of personal development are the most important in the process of personal development, a process that lasts a lifetime. Once you have consciously gone through these steps, you will be able to improve all aspects of your life. You will come to have the life you want, a happy life.

What are the first 3 steps of personal development?

1. Embrace your past and don't run away from it

Many people believe that the beginning of the process of personal development coincides with the beginning of the process of self-knowledge. When you discover your needs, your dreams when you discover who you are, what your values ​​are, and what you want from life. But we'll talk about that in a second step.

Before we move on to discover who we are, we need to look back. We need to analyze our lives to understand our present and determine our future.

And not superficially. Analyzing the past is a very important psychological step that takes time. It takes many days to get through this stage, maybe even weeks.

You have to give yourself all the time you need to get rid of the past.

Keep in mind that any problem in your past that you haven't gone through will pull you down when you least expect it. So he didn't let her smoke there. Face it and solve it. Argue if necessary and then forgive yourself if you were wrong and make peace with yourself.

Two things are certain in life: we cannot change the past, and life is limited.

Embrace your past because he brought you here and love yourself for who you are and especially love yourself for who you will be.

Are you ready to start a new, happy life without regrets?

2. Find out who you are

After the first step, that of embracing the past, the second step of personal development is that of self-knowledge. It is a way to analyze yourself, to understand your strength, talents, passions, aspirations, and dreams.

Through self-knowledge, you answer one of the best questions you can ask yourself: Who am I?

How do you know who you are?

To find out this, you need to give the most complex answers to the following questions:

What made me happy as a child and would make me happy now?

What are my hobbies?

What would I like, what I would most like to do?

What do I know and what can I do best?

What are the most important aspects of my life?

How am I and how would I like to be?

Think of all the things you've always wanted to do, and see which ones make your heart tremble with emotion.

Think about your passions, the incredible places you want to visit, and the life experiences you want to live, and create a Bucket List.

Analyze yourself as you are and how you want to be, and move up to number 1 on your list of priorities in life.

When you have a complete vision of the direction in which your life will go, eliminate the things that do not take you in that direction. You can apply the 80/20 rule to identify the important elements that lead you in the desired direction and give up those that lead you astray.

The more you learn about yourself in the self-knowledge phase and the more you become aware of what you want from life, the more you will be able to change your life for a happier, more successful life.

3. Change your life

"We all want to change the world, but no one is willing to go it alone." - Mahatma Gandhi

We all complain about the things that happen in our lives. What is happening is a certainty. But does something happen if we complain? Do we have results? Does this lead to any change in our lives?

No, nothing changes if you complain. The only way you can make changes in your life is to act on your life, to be in control of your destiny. You are solely responsible for your life, what you choose to do with it, and you are solely responsible for your happiness.

In the second step of personal development, you rediscovered yourself, you found out who you are and what you want from life. But it's not enough. You have to remember that the purpose of life is happiness and you have to do everything in your power to be happy. This will require you to make some changes in your life.

When you move on to the stage of change, you start with fears, especially the fear of change. The comfort zone and the fear of starting new stages in your life need to be removed. Act on them and build a beautiful life.

Follow these steps of personal development, follow your passions, see if you want to do what you say, challenge yourself to do what you say, be responsible, keep going and never give up.

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