Personal Growth

What Is Personal Growth?

Personal growth refers to your ability to continue to grow, expand, and improve. Rather than wanting to maintain in the same mental and emotional place, people who desire personal growth enjoy the process of just as much, if not more, than the outcome. They seek new challenges and pursue their goals with passion and dedication. Growth comes from taking direct actions to improve or meet goals. 

Why is it important to build this skill?

When you have the drive to improve your happiness skills, you'll do what it takes to actually improve these skills. You'll have lots of successes and this teaches you that you have the potential to experience more happiness than you ever thought was possible. This confidence supports your continued growth and success, which creates an upward spiral or growth.

​Activities to develop this skill:

What is happiness?

It turns out that getting clarity on what happiness is is not a simple task. Happiness is defined in many different ways. To grow, first explore what happiness means to you.

Happiness Drawings

When we visualize events, our brains process these events as if they were real. Our brains have a difficult time telling the difference. In this activity, you'll get clear on happiness by drawing pictures of your happiness.

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