Personal Development-Why It’s Important

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Posted by Steve Crenshaw on Jan 18, 2010 in Leadership, Personal Growth | 3300 comments2010-01-18+08%3A01%3A00Steve+Crenshaw

Why can we not just show up? We hear all the time about the kid that makes a million dollars just because he or she just did one small thing. So why can’t we just show up and be successful. I know a couple that was in the right place at the right time and are now millionaires. The problem is the right place was managing McDonald’s. Are you willing to start at the bottom cooking fries and flipping burgers to make a million dollars? Probably not; so you waste tens of thousands of dollars trying to find the next get rich scheme on the internet or in mail order or where ever it may come from.

Personal Development is the key to changing your life. John Maxwell once said, “What your are reading today, is who you will be ten years from now.” Do you understand the implications of watching the news or just television in general everyday for hours on end. It consumes you it becomes who you are. you begin to see that life is bad. everyone is out to get everyone else. Our government is out to get us. You lose your will to be the success you were called to be. You take on the personification of someone you are not.

If you want to succeed tomorrow then start by bettering your life. Go Buy a book or get some coaching. If you think coaching is to expensive then try email coaching or hit me up on Facebook. I do email coaching all the time because it is more affordable for some people. Some books you can read are Zig Ziglars Better Than Good: Creating a Life You Can’t Wait to Live and John Maxwell’s Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow’s Success. Both of these books will start you on the road to personal development. But don’t stop with two. Read every book you can find on personal development and if you need someone to keep you accountable get a coach. I am not saying read self-help books that tell you that you need a better view of yourself. Read books that give you an outline of how to succeed. You are not going to agree with or enjoy every book you read but if you get one nugget out of each book you will see yourself begin to change. Over time ever thing you read and do adds up to help you rise above the rest.

I have a coach to help me get better and my coach has a coach. Tiger, Oprah, and countless others have coaches. Successful people have others around them that can speak encouragement to them and help them develop themselves. If you have friends that are of the same mindset then begin to meet with them and start to sharpen each other. If your friends are people who make fun of you and try to pull you down to their level then they are not the ones to speak encouragement into your life. Get someone in your life you can count on to help in your development.

If you want to be truly successful then you must develop yourself. I want to also suggest the bible as daily reading. If you are of a different faith then by all means read your holy books. But as a Christian I read the bible and suggest it to those I coach. Don’t let the rest of your life slip away. Make the choice today to become the person you were called to be.

You See What You Want To…

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Posted by Steve Crenshaw on Nov 21, 2009 in Personal Growth | 2620 commentsYou+See+What+You+Want+To%E2%80%A62009-11-21+11%3A39%3A53Steve+Crenshaw

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You may hear regularly that we are bombarded with information and advertisements. However marketers know that you see what you want to. If you set up a website and want to advertise you find out that the banner ads on a lot of sites are becoming irrelevant because they are seen by people as background, unless it is something they are looking for. You will also learn that the most seen spot on a webpage is the upper left hand corner, so all of your important items need to be in that area. This is because the majority people who surf the web at work do it with a minimized widow. Another question is; do you see the gas station or fast food signs when you drive down a busy street or do you ignore them, unless you are hungry or in need of gas?

By now I hope you are starting to see where I am coming from. In your life you see and hear exactly what you want to. If you believe your boss is a jerk you will see everything he or she does as a behavior leading you to know that you are right. If you believe a certain stereotype about another race, everything you see or hear will steer you toward the deepening of that belief. If you believe all poor people are lazy then that is what you will focus on. What I want you to understand is that you are called not to have these general beliefs about anyone. If you are conservative not all liberal bible scholars are going to hell. Likewise if you are liberal you should not think that all conservative bible scholars are dumb.

We are called to love not our friends but also our enemies. Every day I hear Christians say they hate the leaders in congress, or hate the president (present or former you chose). We can’t hate, we must love people whether we agree with them or not. 1 Corinthians 13 says:

4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

One of the first steps you must take is freeing yourself of beliefs of other people and cultures that are destructive to your growth as a Christian. We have become so caught up in the political name calling we see each night on our news or hear on our radios that we have carried it into our Christian churches, and it must stop. Defend your message, but you must still love the other messenger. When a Christian makes a derogatory statement about someone they disagree with they hurt the church as a whole not the person they are attacking.

We have been called to a higher standard and we have lost site of that. Change the way you think and you can change the way you see things. Paul tells us this in Romans 12

2Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Love your neighbor as yourself.