Taking control: Have you stopped growing?

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Personal growth is an expected fruitfulness on your planned activities. It is seen physically through increase in numbers or cognitive development through professional achievement. Growing means you have moved upwards and the evidence is enlargement of the current activities in order to accommodate new developments. Growth is measured in terms of achieved goals. Goals need strategies; the roadmap on how they could be achieved within a set period. Without clear strategy a goal is an expressed wish which may never come to pass. We talk about goals when addressing growth because growth is explained in terms of achieved goals. For an example, if you want to pass your bachelor degree in psychology with distinction, you need a clear learning plan. The plan will include eating right food for brain stimulation, exercises to keep you brain well supplied with blood and oxygen, place to study, timetable and all learning material. When you do get distinction, you will have attained discipline in time management, desirable lifestyle and of course consistent behavior. Growth is seen through positive behavior. For an example, when a former convict becomes a successful farmer, he has grown. A delinquent teenager who engages in community development activities has grown. The emphasis is that, growth may not only be economical; but social. It could be spiritual when a person discover his calling and become a full time minister of the local church. It could be psychological when an obese person learns to eat right and maintain a desirable weight. All normal adults want to achieve something positive in life. Lack of growth contributes to negative attitude and manifest as bitterness and general low self-esteem.