Ongoing: Cultivating Personal Growth
Are you interested in cultivating personal growth but you're not sure where to start? Check out the following list for some ideas!
Building Insight
Building Insight
- Attend therapy
- Journal
- Practice mindfulness
- Invite feedback from others (without responding defensively)
- Reflect on your thoughts, feelings and actions regularly
- Track your day (Daylio is a great app for this)
- Connect with your values
Pushing Comfort Zones
- Start a new hobby
- Set new goals
- Fitness
- Finances
- Lifestyle
- Relationships
- Career
- Spiritual
- Hobbies
- Health
- Change your routine
- Be vulnerable (see Brene Brown for more on this)
- Do something you're afraid of
- Give yourself permission
- to rest
- to play
- to experiment
- to make mistakes
- to feel your feelings
- to speak your truth
Expand Your Perspectives
- Enter a new social group
- Read
- Listen to podcasts
- Travel
- Really pay attention to the world around you (no autopilot)
- Keep a gratitude journal
- Get curious!
- Ask more questions
- Don't assume you know everything about a topic
- Explore new angles with an open mind
- ...and be aware of echo chambers that are more likely to repeat perspectives you already have
- Social media
- Relationships
- News outlets
- Political parties
- Your own thoughts and interpretations