Sample Personal Development Plans

Not sure where you want to go? Here are some Sample Personal Development Plans.

First thing to do. Set your Goals. Use the S.M.A.R.T system for goal setting.

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Test Your Goals

So you know what you want. You have a clear image of having it, experiencing it, doing it. You truly believe it can happen. You know you deserve to have it.

But before you act to achieve your goal – particularly a major, life-changing one – you may want to ask these questions first:

• Key to Personal Development. How badly do I want this? Do you have a burning desire to achieve your goal? Or is it something that you think is just nice to have, something you can do without?

If your goal is big and can have a considerable impact in your life, it is best to choose a goal you are passionate about. Having a goal you feel lukewarm about or do not have much enthusiasm for may delay you – or even hinder you – from reaching it.

At this point, you may also want to review your motivations for setting that goal in the first place. Your motivations may help you in answering this question.

• How will this change my life? Once you have achieved your goal, how do you think will you change as a person? Will certain areas of your life be affected, such as lifestyle and relationships? If so, how will they be affected?

Picture yourself, the people around you and your situation. Let it unfold like a movie in your mind. Do you like what you see? Do you like what you feel at that particular moment?

• Will I be compromising any of my values in achieving this? Is your goal aligned with your values, or does it contradict them? What were the values at work when you made your goal in the first place?

What do you think will be the consequences when you reach your goal, if it is not consistent with your values? Can you take the consequences? How would you feel?

• Does it feel right? At the end of the day, your intuition, your inner voice, will be your guide. If it feels right, go for it. If not, think it over again.

Sometimes, in the process of achieving your goal can you only answer all these questions. If at a certain point you realize that this is not the right goal for you, you can still stop. On the other hand, if you find out you are on the right track, you will feel all the more energized moving closer towards your goal. This is where Life Coaching can help. Sample Personal Development Plans


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A Powerful Tool for Personal Development! Check out this sample personal development plan:

I have been using the Mental Bank System for the past 18 months. This system was created by Dr. John Kappas, the founder and president of HMI, the only fully accredited college of hypnotherapy, where I received my certification. This is one of the most powerful personal development tools you will find. I recommend it for all of my life coaching clients. This sample personal development plan can be viewed online free of charge. Here are the essentials:

Recipe for Success There are five (5) synergistic ingredients that make the Mental Bank powerful. They are:

1. BELIEF - We must understand and believe that we are successful right now. In other words, we are successfully acting out our current subconscious “script” whether we are happy with it or not. If we’re not happy with it, we just need a better script. We will be just as successful fulfilling the new one. We must get the client to buy this concept!

2. DAILY REINFORCEMENT - In order to override the old unwanted programs, the new one must be reinforced until it takes over. The Mental Bank is not a positive thinking program. Positive thinking deals with only 12% of our mind and only works for about 5% of the population (the natural somnambulists). The mental Bank reaches 88% of the mind. We do not have to believe that the Mental Bank will work for it to work. In fact, it will still work as long as we do it.

3. SCRIPTING - Handwriting is an ideomotor response that comes from the central nervous system. It also goes back to the central nervous system, bypassing the critical area of the mind and entering the subconscious. Writing in script is most effective. Printing is digital and does not bypass the critical mind.

4. TIME OF DAY - The last half hour before sleep is referred to as the “magic 30 minutes”. This is the time when a person’s mind is in a natural state of hypnosis. Another important advantage is that something taken onto the mind at this time goes into the precognitive stage of dreaming, instead of the venting stage.

5. DREAMS - What we put into the Mental Bank in the magic 30 minutes goes directly into the wishful thinking stage and then into the precognitive stage. The mind takes the information that was input during the magic 30 minutes and attempts to predict the most probable outcome based on what it has just learned. The mind naturally wants to be prepared for the next day. Just through repetition alone, the mind will accept the Mental Bank information as a new program and vent out the old program in the venting stage of dreaming. The Mental Bank allows us to take control of this natural process.

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