How you learn from the best and increase your worth.
What you do today will determine your outcome tomorrow. You grow yourself into opportunity, and there are no shortcuts to personal growth. When you grow intentionally, you will separate yourself from others.
Personal growth equals happiness, and recently, scientists have also shown that stress levels will decrease when you grow.
A couple of years ago, someone asks me if I had a growth plan, and that was when I understood I needed to be more intentional in my personal development.
Every day I feed my mind with books, articles, YouTube, and so forth. I file the things I learn, and I reflect regularly. Reflection is the mother of learning, and when you write something down, the likelihood of you remembering it increases.
It is like when you write down then things you would like to get from the grocery store on a piece of paper. Then you can throw the paper away, but still, be able to remember the things you wanted to buy.
The more I learn, the stronger the urge to learn even more gets. I see things more clearly, and when the compounding effect kicks in, the answers revile themselves, and I realize the bigger picture.
Since I am a leader, I practice the things I learn. I see the positive effects in terms of business results. The more you learn, the more you can share and contribute to others. Contribution by itself creates a sense of personal fulfillment since it is one of the six human needs.
The best thing is when you realize that your success is dependent on your growth. The second bests thing is when you understand that you can grow faster.
Be around people that have grown further than you. Proximity is power.
Put in more action and effort in yours on growth. Consistency is most important, but you can also add more magnitude to it. Make sure that your magnitude doesn´t jeopardize your consistency, though.
Attend seminars. Motivation gets you going, but it is your rituals that make you grow. However, you want to have some motivation to get you going. My experience is that seminars will get you in a peak state and by that you learn faster and you can also preserve your motivation for a couple of months. My goal is to attend at least one more significant seminar event in the world every year.
Ask people who have gone further than you what they have learned and how they have ended up where they are today. They will provide you with their blueprint to happiness and success for almost nothing.
I have put together a series of questions that I use when I schedule a meeting with a senior manager in order for me to learn more about their leadership skills and knowledge.
Here are the questions that you can use for you to grow yourself faster. Study them and internalize them and use them whenever you have the opportunity to meet the person you look up to or admire.
Be intentional in your growth and prepare yourself. Find the persons that you would like to meet and ask politely for their time and knowledge. My experience is that they will help you because they have the same mindset as you. Leaders are learners.
What are you good at, and why?
What is your passion?
What do you do to develop yourself?
What do you do to develop others?
What do you do to develop your team?
Who do you know that I should know?
How would you describe yourself as a leader?
What qualities and attributes have the best of your former leaders possessed?
Who has influenced you in life and your career?
What do you do to challenge yourself?
How do you get inspired?
What would you like to do more or less of, when it comes to your effectiveness and time management,
How do you create balance in life?
What do you like most about your life?
How to you share appreciation to others?
How do you influence others?
What are the key learnings you have made in life?
What have you done that I have to do?
What are the five best books you have read?
What would you like to improve, and why?
How are your role models right now, and why?
Do you have a mentor, and what have been your significant learnings and benefits?