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Sep 8, 2008 Ignite Yourself
A personal development plan does not need to be too complicated. The main purpose of your personal development plan is to guide you in achieving your personal vision and ambition. It doesn’t hurt to be too ambitious but you also need to be realistic. Here are five tips to consider when you are writing your personal development plan.
1. Keep your personal vision in mind.
If you were a tree, then your vision would be your roots. Any plan for yourself should be rooted in your vision. Otherwise, you will end up toiling for all the wrong reasons and all the wrong directions. Better start with your vision now than regret your directions later in life.
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Sep 4, 2008 Ignite Yourself
This post is a part of the Ignite Yourself series.
Before you can plan effectively, you need to take a look at yourself and answer several questions so that you can understand your present situation and make important changes. If you set out blindly and try to achieve your vision without understanding your situation, you will have to go to this process. You’ll just waste your time. So better start by checking up on yourself.
Corporations and organizations have regular monitoring and evaluation sessions. They use a variety of methods for establishing their present positions. They conduct environmental scanning and internal analyses tools. They engage in SWOT Analysis together with other tools for organizational development. SWOT analysis takes a look at the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of the organization. This tool can also be applied to an individual and it will also greatly help in giving momentum to a vision.
Before using SWOT, however, you will need to answer several questions that can help you accomplish SWOT analysis later on. These questions point out to your identity, your skills and your abilities, your directions and then your SWOT.
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Sep 3, 2008 Communication for Personal Development
Communication Theory? What in the world has that got to do with Personal Development?
Relax. I’ve started a series on Communication for us to understand how it is related to personal development. Although personal development tends to be a highly internal affair. But we cannot deny that personal development involves other people. In fact, if you try to go on the self-growth journey by yourself, you might become reclusive and gain more pride along the way.
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Sep 2, 2008 Ignite Yourself
Before you can ignite yourself and pursue your passion, you need to define what your personal vision is. When you do, you can learn what you truly want in life and you can start planning for your life. If you define your vision excellently, you can benefit in several ways.
You know where you are going. It’s like getting access to a treasure map. Or at having a GPRS map in your car. With a vision, you have a concrete sense of direction. You’re not just out on a road trip where you just drive till you arrive wherever. It might be a little cliché already but if your destination is nowhere, you’ll arrive there really fast!
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Sep 1, 2008 Ignite Yourself
I’m planning to offer a series of articles on BeMightyNow that can help guide people on their personal development journey. This four-part article is entitled Ignite Yourself. If you want to keep track of this series, please subscribe to the BeMightyNow feeds.
Please keep away matches and lighters in the room. I’m not talking about suicide or arson. This is about something red. Something hot. Something terribly hot! Fire!
You need to set yourself on fire. I’m not kidding. You need to be able if you really want to pursue what you want in life and be all that you can be!
Fire has been used as the metaphor for burning passion. And why not? When you are passionate about something, you feel the fire of determination in your guts, you feel your heart beating for what you desire!
Too often, however, you are content with where you are, you say that you want the best, you say that you do not want to be mediocre and you say that you will be successful! But the thing is, you’re not doing anything. You lack passion, you lack fire! You lack a life well lived!
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Aug 28, 2008 credit cards
I have an article on how to apply for BPI credit cards at Ezinearticles. A lot of people clicked on that articles. Apparently, a lot of people are looking for ways to manage their credit cards better or get credit cards of their own. Apparently, a lot of people are looking for ways to get a credit card. What they don’t realize is that they might be getting a hammer to hit their heads with.
I’m beginning another thread of topics at BeMightyNow to deal with credit cards and how we can be free from credit card debts. If we manage credit cards well enough, we can be free of financial woes.
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Aug 25, 2008 Communication for Personal Development
Following my post on semantics, symbols and Communication, BeMightyNow deals with the importance of context in communication settings. When you are engaged in personal development, you have to know where people are coming from so that you’ll understand why they are saying the things they say.
According to I. A. Richards, the key to reducing misunderstanding between people who are communicating is context. CONTEXT is very important because different words and terms change from one context to another. But what exactly is CONTEXT?
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Aug 22, 2008 Communication for Personal Development
BeMightyNow proceeds with the series on Communication for Personal Development. This post deals with the importance of Symbols in communication and we’ll also touch base on the field of Semantics, which is the discipline dealing with symbols and their meanings.
The field of Communication benefited greatly from the work of I. A. Richards. He belongs to communication practitioners in the field of General Semantics. Don’t be fooled by the nosebleed quality of the term. What General Semanticists do really is to look at the symbols that we use and how we derive meanings from them. The goal of Richards in the 1920s was to broaden the field of communication to include the contexts of communication and how words can distort, obscure or even make understanding more complicated.
Thanks to these Semanticists, communication theorists and practitioners started giving more focus on the importance of symbols in communication. Let’s explore the characteristics of Symbols.
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Aug 21, 2008 career development
If your major in College is Communication and its various sub-disciplines such as Journalism, broadcast communication, film, communication research and communication management, you may wonder what in the world are the possible careers in communication you might pursue. I have provided here a rather extensive list of the careers that you can explore.
My bachelor’s degree is BA Political Science, but I decided some time ago that although politics is a pretty interesting subject, it’s not something I’d dedicate my whole life to! So here I am pursuing a Master’s Degree in Communication at one of the major universities in the Philippines.
You can check out the careers in communication after the jump.
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Aug 20, 2008 Personal Development
There are millions of blogs in the World Wide Web. A number of these are concerned with productivity, self-growth and of course, personal development. When you logon to the Internet, you may be inundated with tons of information that you would hardly know how to use them! Yeah. Information overload can do that to you.
But if you choose to follow a personal development blog, you can get tips and lessons on how to improve your life, how you can become a better person and how you can make career development work better!
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