Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? That depends a good deal on where you want to get to, said the Cat. I dont much care where said Alice. Then it doesnt matter which way you go.

Do you know where youre going? Where do you see yourself in a year, five years and perhaps ten years down the road?

In the years where I have planned out what I wanted to accomplish, I invariably achieved what I set out to do and it has consistently been more than in the years when I didnt plan.

So from my personal experience, its true if you dont know where you want to get to, it doesnt matter which way you go.

Do you have hopes and dreams youre chasing?

If you do, but arent sure which way to go perhaps a personal development plan will help you figure that out, and help you get there.

He who fails to plan is planning to fail. Winston Churchill

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PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT is a unique one-semester curriculum designed to change dysfunctional attitudes and build resiliency, responsibility, and emotional intelligence in at-risk adolescents. Through a variety of instructional approaches (group discussions, journal-writing, case studies, role plays, poems, analogies, and experiential exercises) PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT teaches the pro-social skills, attitudes, and behavior students need to succeed.

Using an underlying theme of EMPOWERMENT, a positive life view is presented in a way which is motivating even to the most discouraged or resistant adolescent. Students are taught how to "take control of" their emotions by "CHOOSING" to be positive, happy, and powerful, rather than negative, unhappy, and a victim by CONTROLLING what they focus on and tell themselves. Power is redefined as "control over one's self" rather than control over others. "LIVING POWERFULLY" is defined as being aware of one's choices and the possible consequences which could follow, consciously making a choice and then "owning" the results--good OR bad, rather than giving away one's "power to learn" from mistakes by blaming someone else. Students are taught to set goals in order to "TAKE CONTROL OF" their lives, since the brain's job is to create in reality whatever directions it receives.

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT also teaches students how to relate from their "Adult ego state" rather than allow their "Child" ego state to take over, which generally results in a negative reaction from others. An anger management and conflict resolution process is taught, again using role plays and very realistic case studies (which Mrs. Phillips admits are real situations she has dealt with over the years). Hundreds of schools and organizations are now using this curriculum.

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Photo by Phil King You cant calm the storm, so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass. ~Timber Hawkeye

Have you ever felt so angry you lashed out and said words you regret? Felt so hurt, you couldnt talk past the lump in your throat?

So frustrated, you werent able to form a coherent sentence? Or tried to communicate something important, and it landed like a dead fish?

Ive been there.In my teens, I was a tempestuous young woman. Hormones had me flipping from rage to despair in a heartbeat. I sprayed emotions around me like a machine gun sprays bullets.

I couldnt even talk to my then-boyfriend about anything important without losing control. I frustrated even myself.

So I learned to keep emotions under lock and key. I rarely expressed how I felt, and aimed to just keep the peace and ensure everyone was happy.

Except me.

Several years ago, my good friend and I shared an apartment. We both just started our first real jobs and werent making a ton of money. We took turns cooking dinner, and we came up with a plan to use everything in our fridge before we went grocery shopping.

We didnt waste food and saved serious cash at a time when we needed to most. It also forced us to be ridiculously creative.

Apples and tofu were the only thing in the fridge? Check out the pantry. Weve got some walnuts, honey and a lone red onion. Suddenly we went from scrounging to gourmet cooking.

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People who plan their career years in advance and make efforts to make them happen achieve far more than those who do not have a long-term plan and make their career decisions dictated only by immediate benefits. Its better to be proactive for an individual to assess his interests, strengths, weaknesses and realistically evaluate his options and make relevant plans, rather than being reactive and end up in an employment where the individuals true potentials are not realised for many different reasons.

This article illustrates my personal career plan in detail in my chosen field of professional interest marketing, and lists steps I am planning to undertake to progress to my dream job, anticipating possible challenges, analysing alternative progressions and describing preventive actions. The articlealso describes career planning methodology, marketing field in general and necessary KSAs to be successful in this field.

My personal development plan is provided in the article along with my SMART objectives describing how I am planning to prepare myself for each step which eventually will lead me to my dream job marketing executive.

Marketing executives promote products, services or ideas by developing marketing strategies and campaigns. They are closely involved in public relations, planning, research, product development, participating in events and organising them. This role is fascinating to me because it provides two job elements which I find exciting: meeting and communicating with people, and seeing the immediate and long-term results of your work.

Marketing executives have a wide range of responsibilities and it depends mainly on the sector and the size of the company. The job of a marketing executive includes production of marketing materials, managing the marketing budget, organizing and attending to events, exhibitions etc., evaluating the efficiency of marketing campaigns, conducting market research, and dealing with press and others.

The main skills required for marketing executives are communication skills, interpersonal skills, problem solving, strategic thinking, creativity, attention to detail and others.

The career planning process proposed by The University of Edinburg Career Services (The career planning process-online, 2014) consists of following parts:

The Career Planning Model proposed by Queensland University of Technology (What is a career?-online, 2014) has the following format:

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Personal development includes activities that improve awareness and identity, develop talents and potential, build human capital and facilitate employability, enhance quality of life and contribute to the realization of dreams and aspirations. The concept is not limited to self-help but includes formal and informal activities for developing others in roles such as teacher, guide, counselor, manager, life coach or mentor. When personal development takes place in the context of institutions, it refers to the methods, programs, tools, techniques, and assessment systems that support human development at the individual level in organizations.[1]

Personal development includes the following activities:

Personal development can also include developing other people. This may take place through roles such as those of a teacher or mentor, either through a personal competency (such as the skill of certain managers in developing the potential of employees) or a professional service (such as providing training, assessment or coaching).

Beyond improving oneself and developing others, personal development is a field of practice and research. As a field of practice it includes personal development methods, learning programs, assessment systems, tools and techniques. As a field of research, personal development topics increasingly appear in scientific journals, higher education reviews, management journals and business books.

Any sort of developmentwhether economic, political, biological, organizational or personalrequires a framework if one wishes to know whether change has actually occurred. In the case of personal development, an individual often functions as the primary judge of improvement, but validation of objective improvement requires assessment using standard criteria. Personal development frameworks may include goals or benchmarks that define the end-points, strategies or plans for reaching goals, measurement and assessment of progress, levels or stages that define milestones along a development path, and a feedback system to provide information on changes.

Personal development as an industry[3] has several business relationship formats of operating. The main ways are business-to-consumer and business-to-business. However, there are two newer ways increasing in prevalence: consumer-to-business and consumer-to-consumer.

The business-to-consumer market involves selling books, courses and techniques to individuals, such as:

Some programs are delivered online and many include tools sold with a program, such as motivational books for self-help, recipes for weight-loss or technical manuals for yoga and martial-arts programs.

A partial list of personal development offerings on the business-to-individual market might include:

The business-to-business market also involves programs in this case ones sold to companies and to governments to assess potential, to improve effectiveness, to manage work-life balance or to prepare some entity for a new role in an organization. The goals of these programs are defined[by whom?] with the institution or by the institution and the results are assessed.[by whom?][citation needed] With the acceptance of personal development as a legitimate field in higher education,[citation needed] universities and business schools also contract programs to external specialist firms or to individuals.[citation needed]

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What is it about 'those' people that seems to always attract a crowd while people often walk right by (or away) from everyone else.They seem to hold some form of magical 'personal power' that automatically draws others toward them.

Have you been in situations where you have wanted to attract more attention engage in deep, meaningful conversations with those around you but for some reason they just seem to walk away or almost are afraid to talk with you?

Sometimes it can seem like you are invisible that you have no ability to get noticed and the harder you try, the worse it seems to get. You just don't seem to have the personal power to attract desirable people toward you.

Here are 5 ways to magically attract people to you, no matter how much of an outcast you feel like today:

1. Be comfortable with yourself. It sounds kind of odd to think that we are often not comfortable with ourselves doesn't it? But it's true especially in social situations. You can improve your comfort level and work on being more confident overall by using techniques like yoga and meditation. Just 20-minutes of mediation each day can have a dramatic impact on your self-confidence over time resulting in more attractiveness on the outside. You can learn the basics of yoga and meditation from a local class in your area, books or online at yoga and meditation resources such asthis one.

2. Learn to listen and ask questions. People like to talk about themselves, so a great way to break the ice and create interest in yourself is to begin by putting others in a comfortable place of answering questions about themselves.

3. Pay attention to your own health and personal development. When someone appears confident and successful, they draw people toward them. If you look defeated, withdrawn and have not taken care of yourself then that shows to those around you and they will avoid you. Exercise regularly, eat healthy, take care of yourself and others will be drawn to you.

4. Learn to tell stories. Have you ever noticed that some of the most popular people are those that tell great stories. It's not that the story itself needs to be great, it's just that it needs to be told in a passionate and confident way. Make sure you observe what is going on around you, stay abrest of current events and learn to tell stories.

5. Take the positive spinPeople want to be around other positive people not complainers or those who always take the negative spin. If you can see the positive in situations even better take action towards making things more positive then you will be seen as someone of high social importance becoming much more attractive to those around you.

You may think thatpersonal power is a result ofchemistry or social skill that you cannot learn and so you are destined to always be someone who does not attract attention but you can change all of that by following some simple steps to improve your self-confidence, improve your image and learn how to engage others more easily.

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Ive made my living running this blog for the past five years. I owe a lot to this blog. Its enabled me to travel, take on interesting side projects, communicate with thousands of people and live well.

Given my positive experience, youd think Id encourage other people to do the same. Except when my friend asked for advice about starting something similar, I told him not to do it.

It wasnt because I was afraid of competition. My friend was planning to start up a business which wouldnt compete with mine. Even if it did, thats rarely a problem. I spend more time collaborating with people who write about similar topics than competing with them.

It also wasnt because his idea was bad. In fact, it was actually pretty good. Which is saying a lot because literally 95% of business ideas people share are terrible. (Interesting side note: whenever someone makes me promise not to steal their idea before they tell me about it, I know its going to be terrible. Real entrepreneurs arent worried about people stealing their ideas.)

No, the reason I told my friend not to go into business was quite different. The reason is not actually about business at all, but something general enough that it can apply to many, many life decisions without you realizing it. Let me explain

Success isnt the same in all fields. Some areas show relatively rapid initial gains, followed by increasingly difficult long-term gains. Some areas show relatively slow initial gains, but those improvements accelerate so that improving them becomes easier and easier.

I wrote an entire article outlining the difference between these two types of growth here.

Blogging is a clear example of exponential growth. The more effort you put in, the higher the return on investment. When I started this blog, my hourly rate of income was zeroputting in a lot of effort for literally zero pay. Then I remember my first month I made any money at all, which calculated as an hourly rate would probably be only a few cents per hour.

For me, the time from zero income to earning enough to surpass the poverty threshold was about five years. The time to go from that to comfortably earning six figures was only three. Thats the power of exponential growth.

But that growth also means that if youre not going to be in the game long-term, it doesnt make sense to get started. I knew when I started my blog that I wanted to go full-time with an online business. I wasnt clear exactly how I would do it, but I knew that my goal wasnt to make a little extra side income, but to do it full time.

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The IBM Personal Computer, commonly known as the IBM PC, is the original version and progenitor of the IBM PC compatible hardware platform. It is IBM model number 5150, and was introduced on August 12, 1981. It was created by a team of engineers and designers under the direction of Don Estridge of the IBM Entry Systems Division in Boca Raton, Florida.

The generic term "personal computer" was in use before 1981, applied as early as 1972 to the Xerox PARC's Alto, but because of the success of the IBM Personal Computer, the term "PC" came to mean more specifically a desktop microcomputer compatible with IBM's PC products. Within a short time of the introduction, third-party suppliers of peripheral devices, expansion cards, and software proliferated; the influence of the IBM PC on the personal computer market was substantial in standardizing a platform for personal computers. "IBM compatible" became an important criterion for sales growth; only the Apple Macintosh family kept significant market share without compatibility with the IBM personal computer.

International Business Machines (IBM), one of the world's largest companies, had a 62% share of the mainframe computer market in 1981.[1] Its share of the overall computer market, however, had declined from 60% in 1970 to 32% in 1980.[2] Perhaps distracted by a long-running antitrust lawsuit, the "colossus of Armonk" completely missed the fast-growing minicomputer market during the 1970s,[3][4] and was behind rivals such as Wang, Hewlett-Packard, and Control Data in other areas. In 1979 BusinessWeek asked "Is IBM just another stodgy, mature company?"[2]

By 1981 IBM's stock price had declined by 22%.[2] Its earnings for the first half the year grew by 5.3%one third of the inflation ratewhile those of minicomputer maker Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) grew by more than 35%.[5] The company began selling minicomputers, but in January 1982 the United States Department of Justice ended the antitrust suit because, The New York Times reported, the government "recognized what computer experts and securities analysts had long since concluded: I.B.M. no longer dominates the computer business".[1][6]

IBM wished to avoid the same outcome with the new personal computer industry,[4] dominated by the Commodore PET, Atari 8-bit family, Apple II, Tandy Corporation's TRS-80, and various CP/M machines.[7] With $150 million in sales by 1979 and projected annual growth of more than 40% in the early 1980s, the microcomputer market was large enough for IBM's attention. Other large technology companies such as Texas Instruments and Data General had entered it, and some large IBM customers were buying Apples,[2][8] so the company saw introducing its own personal computer as a defense against rivals, large and small.[3]

In 1980 and 1981 rumors spread of an IBM personal computer, perhaps a miniaturized version of the IBM System/370,[9] while Matsushita acknowledged that it had discussed with IBM the possibility of manufacturing a personal computer for the American company.[10] The Japanese project, codenamed "Go", ended before the 1981 release of the American-designed IBM PC codenamed "Chess", but two simultaneous projects further confused rumors about the forthcoming product.[11]

Whether IBM had waited too long to enter an industry Apple and others were already successful in was unclear.[5][2] Data General and Texas Instruments' small computers were not very successful. Historically IBM was used to selling products that were developed over several years and which cost as much as the annual sales of a successful microcomputer company. They had to learn how to quickly mass-produce and market new computers.[8] Observers expected AT&T to soon enter the computer industry, and other large companies such as Exxon, Montgomery Ward, Pentel and Sony were designing their own microcomputers.[12]

An observer stated that "IBM bringing out a personal computer would be like teaching an elephant to tap dance."[13] Its least expensive computer was $15,000, the company only sold through its internal sales force and had no experience with resellers or retail stores,[4][14][15] and it did not introduce the first product designed to work with non-IBM equipment until 1980.[5] While it traditionally let others pioneer a new market, the personal-computer development and pricing cycles were much faster than for mainframes, with products becoming obsolete quickly.[2] Another observer claimed that IBM made decisions so slowly that, when tested, "what they found is that it would take at least nine months to ship an empty box".[16]

Many in the microcomputer industry resented IBM's power and wealth, and disliked the perception that a company so staid that it had its own employee songbook would legitimize a market founded by startups.[17][16] The potential importance to microcomputers of a company so prestigious, that a popular saying in American companies stated "No one ever got fired for buying IBM", was nonetheless clear.[18][11][19]InfoWorld, which described itself as "The Newsweekly for Microcomputer Users", stated that "for my grandmother, and for millions of people like her, IBM and computer are synonymous".[20]BYTE ("The Small Systems Journal") stated in an editorial[11] just before the announcement of the IBM PC:

Rumors abound about personal computers to come from giants such as Digital Equipment Corporation and the General Electric Company. But there is no contest. IBM's new personal computer ... is far and away the media star, not because of its features, but because it exists at all. When the number eight company in the Fortune 500 enters the field, that is news ... The influence of a personal computer made by a company whose name has literally come to mean "computer" to most of the world is hard to contemplate.

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Human development is a lifelong process. People are capable of growing, learning and improving throughout their entire lives, and the ability to do so has an impact on many areas. Personal growth is necessary both in the workplace and in relationships. There are various components of personal development, including responsibility, learning, behavior and attitude. Striving to improve these areas will lead to greater opportunities in the workplace and healthy relationships.

Personal growth and development are relevant to the workplace. Employers want employees who are learning and growing. People who are becoming more knowledgeable and adept at their positions are more valuable than employees who remain stagnant. An ideal employee will be capable of handling and understanding more than one position, as this allows for greater flexibility within the organization.

Relationships often require work and effort on behalf of the individuals involved. When a person is able to grow and develop, it helps to foster healthy relationships. Additionally, having a significant other to offer support can be immensely helpful when one is looking to develop potential and grow into a more complete person.

One area for personal growth is responsibility. Being responsible is a trait often identified with adulthood and maturity. The ability to accomplish and take on new responsibilities is especially important in the workplace. Employers evaluate their employees on how well they do at completing tasks. Beyond just meeting tasks, employees who seek out additional responsibility are more likely to be rewarded with greater compensation and the opportunity for better positions. Developing the ability to be responsible helps enable one to grow in her career.

Humans grow and develop by learning new skills and acquiring additional knowledge. One way for a person to develop is to further his education. Education is a valued commodity in the business world, and institutions of higher learning provide ample opportunity for an individual to grow. Colleges and universities promote critical thinking. By using this resource, an employee can take steps towards developing his career.

By developing and growing, one's attitude can change for the better. Self-confidence will be improved with the acquisition of new skills and knowledge. The more one comes to respect herself, the more respect she can, in turn, offer others. An improved attitude can lead to further growth and development and help one achieve her full potential. The better an attitude one has, the more she is able to accomplish. Employers will notice those workers who have great attitudes and get a lot done. Employees like that are the ones who become promoted and reap greater financial benefit.

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I don't do different things, I do things differently. Shiv Khera (Management Guru)

We are urged to form goals from very early on in our lives. Forming goals is considered important because it gives our life a direction; and the efforts taken to achieve those goals helps and leads to personal development. Though one might be inclined to think otherwise, personal development is not necessarily achieved by doing something extraordinary -- it can just as well be achieved by carrying through the most simplest and mundane acts. The only criteria that needs to be fulfilled is that it should meet the person's own needs and help propel him/her forward in life and achieve success.

Personal development can be achieved through both, self-development and the development of others. Which is to say that helping others, or being of service to others leads to personal growth as well. To give an example of the same -- mentors, teachers, doctors or managers bring about development of others along with the development of their own personality.

The Importance of Goals

Goals lead you to the path of success, allow you to take risks and set challenges for yourselves. Only if one has set goals do they keep trying to achieve them, despite obstacles and difficulties. Goals help you control your emotions and fears when the going gets tough. Achieving smaller goals helps gain and increase confidence levels and prepares you for achieving major goals.

The S.M.A.R.T. Rule

One should set meaningful, realistic and professional development goals to make progress towards an ideal life. Setting long-term goals is just as essential as setting weekly or daily goals. When it comes to setting goals, one needs to check the impact of the goal on four areas of life, namely -- body, heart, mind, and spirit. Furthermore, it is believed that goals can be successfully achieved if they are based on the S.M.A.R.T. principle. This includes goals which are:

Specific. Measurable. Attainable. Relevant. Time-Bound.

Have you ever noticed that activities such as praying, music, dance, singing, chanting, poetry, writing and sports etc., are all forms of personal development programs or tools? These tools were designed to help perform various functions such as health improvement or aesthetic satisfaction. Interestingly, they can also be linked to 'final goals' of personal development because they bring you closer to discovering the true meaning of your life or help in living a good life. Personal goals cannot be considered 'personal' forever, as they often continue to influence family values, education, and most other aspects of life.

Building your own identity. Becoming the person you aspire to be. Fixing your priorities Specifying your values. Determining your lifestyle. Defining your ethics. Improving your knowledge, potential and awareness. Enhancing the quality of your life by being more spiritual and healthy. Developing strengths, learning techniques or methods to achieve wisdom. Fulfilling aspirations. Building human capital. Defining and executing personal development plans. Developing spirituality. Improving health.

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