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How to Avoid Falling into the Personal Development Trap
Unfortunately, you can easily lose your balance.
Personal development is a great thing. It allows you to work on your shortcomings, improve your skills and achieve success.
“One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.”
— Abraham Maslow
Yet, it is easy to fall into the trap of thinking that you need to do more, be more and have more. This can lead to feelings of inadequacy and frustration.
On the other hand, many people love the idea of personal development and become so focused on learning and growth that they do not take action.They rarely apply the ideas they’ve already learned.
What to do not fall into the self-improvement trap?
Everything depends on ourselves and our approach. So, to make the best use of personal development, first of all, it is worth being fully aware of its pitfalls.
Ready?
You feel you are still not good enough
Personal development is about increasing self-acceptance, increasing self-confidence and achieving your goals.
