The whole point of this post and personality development in general is to develop the characteristics you want to have rather than the ones you’ve been conditioned with.
Personality Development quintessentially means enhancing and grooming one’s outer and inner self to bring about a positive change to your life. Each individual has a distinct persona that can be developed, polished and refined. This process includes boosting one’s confidence, improving communication and language speaking abilities, widening ones scope of knowledge, developing certain hobbies or skills, learning fine etiquettes and manners, adding style and grace to the way one looks, talks and walks and overall imbibing oneself with positivity, liveliness and peace.
The whole process of this development takes place over a period of time. Even though there are many crash courses in personality development that are made available to people of all age groups, implementing this to your routine and bringing about a positive change in oneself takes a considerable amount of time. It is not necessary to join a personality development course; one can take a few tips and develop his or her own aura or charm.
· You may have heard this a million times “Think Positive”. It works.
· Smile. And smile some more. It adds to your face value and to your personality as well.
· Read a few articles in the newspaper loudly. This will help in communicating fluently.
· Follow table manners and dining etiquettes.
· Take good care of your health, dress well, be neat and organized.
· Prepare a chart that mentions your strengths and weaknesses. Now concentrate on the latter and find ways to improve upon the same. Do not forget to strengthen your strengths.
· Spend some time alone concentrating on you and yourself alone.
· Practice meditation and yoga. It will help you develop inner peace and harmony that will reflect outside.
· Do not live a monotonous life. Be creative and do something new all the time. Nothing bigger than the joy of creative satisfaction.
Personality development is gaining more and more importance because it enables people to create a good impression about themselves on others; it helps them to build and develop relationships, helps in your career growth and also helps to improve your financial needs.
After all, personality development is nothing but a tool that helps you realize your capabilities and your strengths making you a stronger, a happier and a cheerful person.
Your current personality, whatever it may be, has been formed in a number of ways. First of all, it is believed that certain traits in our character are hereditary, yet things like our values and beliefs are derived from socialization and unique experiences, mostly from childhood.
Based on that statement, it’s likely that the personality of you and anyone you know is based on:
· Social experiences (especially from childhood)
· Unique experiences that you have had in your lifetime
· The environment in which you grew up and how you had to act
Following are four steps that I have personally used in the past month to help bring about a change in my own personality that have allowed me to literally be the type of person I want to be.
- Be honest with your current traits (the good and the bad)
- Define the qualities you want to have
- Visualize yourself with these qualities
- Act as if they are present
