How to promote yourself

  From psychology we know that the first years of a person's life are the formative ones. Parents and confidants provide children with skills that are essential for later adult life. This includes a variety of social skills that have a much greater impact on the career than is sometimes assumed. We do not always have the skills that are relevant to working life or a specific position. The good: you never stop learning. You can actively approach your self-development and promote yourself. What options you have, you can find out here ...

Self-development Definition: Many facets of change

Self-development can have many meanings, depending on what your personal focus is on.It can be roughly divided into four areas:

• Self-development as a personality development
  This should be understood as social skills that are related to one's own personality . This partially quite abstract area has already been mentioned above. The personality development plays an important role in contact with other people and contributes to success or failure. It can not say exactly which property is more important or that it must be exclusively certain properties.
  
  Experience has shown, for example, that assertiveness is a feature that is important in professional success. If you want to get started in the company, maybe you want to work on it.
  
  On the other hand, soft skills are like teamwork Properties that are worth improving. So it's not an either-or, it's more a "too." 
• Self-development as self-coaching
  Significantly stronger is this form of self-development. These are understood as the methods of self-coaching . Here, self-development can be understood synonymous with self-management , self- coaching and time management .
  
  Depending on which area you want to change, change your routines and habits. You want to do something for your health, so include more sport in your schedule. You want to lose weight, so integrate healthier foods into your diet plan.
  
  They never run out of their time and constantly chase after the deadlines, so be the first to do the unpleasant tasks and then devote yourself to the pleasant. Then you do the time- wasters and eliminate them.
• Self-development as a further education
  Self-development can also mean lifelong learning . You have noticed that the activities in your old workplace no longer satisfy you. Here are many opportunities for change.
  
  It is conceivable, for example, a training , with which you build on existing knowledge in your profession and further qualify, for example, to be able to later occupy a leadership position.
  
  Likewise, you can do a training in a completely different area, because you plan a job change .
• Self-development as a search for meaning
  This form of self-development is similar to personality development. Nevertheless, here is the difference in intention. Some associate with the acquisition of social skills concrete professional wishes or even private success.
  
  Others are more spiritual in their search for meaning . Not a few people now combine work, private life and spirituality. Zen Buddhism is one of the spiritual currents that are enjoying increasing popularity with executives.
  
  He is practiced in the West as a way to meditation, but also of enlightenment and is to protect among others from burnout .

Self-development: recognizing the need

When the facility and environment form a human, it is clear that not all people are endowed with the same skills. For example, those who have grown up in an emotionally cold home and have received little recognition and attention will often have a low level of self-esteem .What may be "merely" difficulties in social contact at school may have a lasting effect in later working life. On the other hand, how should someone who is absolutely qualified in terms of profession , but on the other hand, not trust one another, become a leader ?The starting conditions are not always ideal. Whose parents are not familiar with the German education system and the local possibilities, is sent to the secondary school, although the intellectual abilities would have also made the Abitur .Feelings of inferiority and rather low school qualifications have an effect on the choice of profession: Supposedly demanding jobs are not taken into account at all, people stay below their potential .As long as nobody bothers you, including your person, there is no need to change anything. However, if you want more from life , then you must actively approach your self-development.Wailing can give you relief in the short term. But in the long run, it does not help you anymore and annoys others only.

Consolidation of the character and satisfaction

Some may wish to make some changes in their lives through self-development because of the demands of a more complex working life. This is completely legitimate and future-oriented, because in fact new technical inventions always present new challenges to us.And as you grow older, you're known to lose flexibility. Although the personality is established around the thirtieth year , but also personality traits such as openness decrease in old age. Until then you can change something to a certain degree.This should not be a compulsive self-optimization in focus, but self-development opens the possibility to consolidate one's own character and to be satisfied. For example, by dealing with your goals, hopes and desires and considering what to do.This includes identifying and activating your personal resources . From what do you draw strength? Who supports you? What prevents you from getting ahead? Such questions are a start.

Self-development as a maturing process

Self-development is a maturing process that takes place on the way to the true self . Imagine that figuratively as a gift that is not wrapped, but unwrapped, in the truest sense of the word un-wrapped is.You unfold your potential and you can see what has always been in you but has remained hidden to the eye. With a planned self-development, you will become what you want to be.This requires self-reflection and self-knowledge . These include questions such as:

• Who am I?
• What is it to me?
• What strengths and weaknesses do I have?
• How do I want to be?
• What did I achieve?
• What do I want to change?
• What am I ready to do for it?
• What is important to me?
• What is easy for me, what is difficult?
• How can I tackle something?

Honestly applied, such a coffin of life is not always pleasant. Partly uncomfortable truths come to light and reveal personal shortcomings. But from any point it is time to self-responsibility to take over. You can not always blame the circumstances or others for your personal problems.It is up to you, for example, to deal with professional difficulties, dysfunctional partnerships or personality weaknesses. This includes making decisions , and consciously.

Self-development means courage to change

Quite a few people are shying away from it - often out of fear of doing something wrong . The downside: In that case, someone else makes the decision for you and you depend on the circumstances. Self-development therefore requires courage to change . You need to leave your comfort zone, which previously gave you security.

example

You urgently need a vehicle. You are interested in two used cars, but hesitate to make the decision because you are not sure. Both seem equally good to them, but you can only buy one car. They wait until someone else buys one of the two cars and they no longer have a choice. You have to take what's left.This example may still be succinct, but what if, in retrospect, you find that the leftover used car was the worse choice? And those who make decisions altogether will have problems with much more important issues in life.It is far from the case that all decisions that are not made or made incorrectly have irrefutable consequences. If you have not graduated from laziness, you can catch up later. But such detours are ultimately more difficult and protracted than if you had made and learned the right choice at the right time.