What is the total value of your investments and assets? When is the last time you created a schedule to include exercise? How did you start your day? Are there social inequalities that need your unique set of talents and skills to address? Each of these questions can offer insight into personal development success.
Personal development success occurs when a person acquires the material resources through their professional labors and the intangible benefits from investing in themselves and others. Financial security can serve as a positive indicator of achievement because it enables lifestyle options and facilitates the provision of needs and desires. It is also essential to consider success as it correlates with healthy practices, romantic partnerships, parenthood, and community involvement.
To achieve financial, relationship, and other goals in 2018, we must consciously devote time to our physical, mental, and spiritual states of well-being. Without proper exercise and rest, it is impossible to function at our best to secure the resources that can empower us to provide for our families and make measurable community contributions. To achieve success, it is also imperative to make time for the acquisition of new skills, talents, and knowledge.
In a recent Business Insider article, Warren Buffett continued to acknowledge the importance of a schedule that includes time to study and strengthen one’s mental clarity through reading. Making time for meditation and prayer can also lead to the monetary and interpersonal accomplishments we desire in our lives to influence positive change in this world.
It is essential to think about what didn’t work in 2017 as we approach the start of a new year.
Strategies that can enable anyone to achieve personal development success must be aligned with intentional methods to meet financial goals, build positive relationships, and create healthy lifestyles. We often define achievement only by measure of our material possessions. Money is essential, but without anyone to share it with it can lose its value. If our health is deteriorating, all other measures of success suddenly become null and void. Our goal should be to seek objectives that can create a cohesive web between businesses, careers, community concerns, and home life.
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What are three strategies for men to achieve personal development success in 2018?
1. Define what success means to you.
A myriad of measures can serve as indicators of success in the new year. We can include achieving levels of financial success similar to notable professional development entrepreneurs such as Dr. Eric Thomas, Tony Robbins, and Gary Vaynerchuk. We can also use other metrics not easily measured by material wealth. Success can also include the value of possessing a mature spiritual perspective, good health, positive personal relationships, and a practice of gratitude for simple things in life—like fresh air or a glass of water. If being successful is important to you, then how you define it before the start of 2018 will be pivotal to achievement.
2. Focus on creating a more business and personal lifestyle integration model.
A business and personal lifestyle integration model or work life goal can increase your chances of personal development success in the new year. This idea includes the ability to generate income with a location-independent business or remote job. It is a goal that can create more quality time for your family and increase attention to your physical and spiritual health. The shift from a focus on work outside of the home to a life that incorporates business inside the home is an achievement worthy of working toward in 2018.
3. Acknowledge the impact of social inequalities.
With an awareness that racism, sexism, ableism, and heterosexualism can influence the human experience, it is possible to achieve massive success in your personal and professional life. Race often influences educational opportunities, physical attributes often impact economic options, and a man’s sexual identity, unfortunately, often impacts acceptance in families and communities. Through an intentional awareness of persistent social inequalities, it is more likely to identify multiple problems and potential solutions to work toward in the new year.
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To increase profit margins in business and to seek opportunities for improved salaries, we must continually explore opportunities for personal development. Money, familial relationships, and societal contributions can serve as positive indicators of achievement if they are defined by specific goals and evaluated by tangible and intangible forms of measurement.
As men, professionals, fathers, husbands, sons, partners, and businesspersons, let’s make 2018 the year where we achieve a holistic version of success.
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