SELF… The Journey To Expressing Your Full Potential

In a world that feels increasingly selfish, with so much pressure to add value, make a difference, and care about the problems of others and the environment — is it wrong to focus on yourself?

What is Self-Growth, Self-Mastery… or even Personal Growth for that matter?

Self, Self, Self… ish

In essence, what these terms imply is that there is deliberate and purposeful effort by an individual to improve the quality of their existence, through improving the qualities of self. They have adopted a growth mindset, at least in part, in taking control of their self development, versus unconsciously changing as an unavoidable function of just doing life.

Said another way, it’s about enabling you to reach your full potential, becoming everything that you are capable of becoming, and to experience your highest level of psychological development. Otherwise known as Self-Actualisation, as famously coined by renowned psychologist Abraham Maslow.

Sounds alluring. Everyone surely wants this, right? Well, there’s a catch. Self-Actualisation is only truly experienced in less than 1% of the adult population! What? Why?! Most people are operating at lower levels, as a function of not having their lower more essential needs met, and as such many of us have had…