Personal Development

1. Personal Development James J. Rooney

2. Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.  Anonymous

3. Purpose of a Development Plan • Identify your passion • Draft a personal mission statement • Define specific goals/objectives as it relates to your career development • Create a measurable action plan to accomplish your goals/objectives

4. Find Your Passion! • Epiphany • A pivotal, life-changing experience can create a sudden and intense awareness of an underlying passion; an “aha!” moment. • Change • A major life change that alters one’s view on life and causes closer self-examination as to the way one lives it. This examination challenges one to learn things about self that were previously unknown. • Intuition • One must be sense passion in order to identify it. Passion must be embraced fully, with fearlessness and strong conviction. • Experience • Most uncover passion gradually as a result of day-to-day experiences. One gets glimpses of it--courtesy of intuition--but may not understand its significance or heed its influence. Unless attention is paid to those experiences, one is likely to disregard them. One must listen to and interpret life’s signals and translate them into action.

5. Personal Mission Statement • Develop a statement or several statements that describe success for you professionally and personally. • This may not be a quantifiable destination or goal, but rather a description of your personal and professional purpose or “reason for being” as you would like it to be.

6. To make a difference in my communities (i.e., family, work, quality) by giving some of my talents

7. Ask Yourself… • What would I really like to accomplish in my life? • What makes me the happiest? • What am I truly good at? • If I had a large sum of money, what would I do? Is it really the money that keeps me from pursuing that? • What contribution can I make? • What do I define as success? What does it mean to me? • What will my legacy be? How would I like to be remembered?

8. Defining Goals/Objectives • Broad, long-term aims that define a desired result associated with identified strategic issues. • Targets for achievement through interventions. • The purpose toward which an endeavor is directed • Something worked toward or striven for

9. Goals and objectives should be S.M.A.R.T. • Specific - Focused; detailed; definite; precise • Measurable - Course of action; measurements • Aggressive - Determined; self-assertive; vigorous; tenacious • Realistic - Practical; prudent • Time-framed - • Short-term (six months or less) and • Long term (more than six months)

10. Objectives Worksheet (Example)

11. Create an Action Plan • Develop some specific steps to acquire the capabilities you need to move toward the achievement of your mission, goals and objectives.

12. Short-Term Action Plan (Example)

13. Long-Term Action Plan (Example)

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