20 Tips to Grow in Life and Become a Better Person

Personal growth is a lifelong journey of human beings. Whether it be intellectually, morally, physically or all of the above, personal growth is the direct result of efforts made to improve yourself. Sometimes referred to as self-improvement or self-actualization, the purpose of personal growth is to improve one’s habits, behaviour, actions and reactions. Some examples of personal development include:

• Learning to control your anger
• Learning to overcome the urge to procrastinate
• Taking time to be there for your body through exercise and a healthy diet.
• Learning to break the habit of laziness
• Learning to be more considerate
• Learning to become more responsible
• Developing new skills and learning new things
• Changing your mindset
• Adopting a more positive attitude

Strategies for personal growth

While everyone’s personal growth path varies, here are some habits you can adopt to get your transformation started:

1. Continuous learning

The ability and desire to learn are powerful skills that can have a positive impact on many areas of your life. Learning can take place in a traditional sense through reading or studying, or in a more interpersonal sense through listening. Either way, it’s a crucial aspect of personal development.

2. Volunteer your time

Volunteer opportunities are a wonderful way to do some good, learn some new skills and gain valuable perspective. While volunteering, there are skills that a volunteer coordinator would love to teach you, but that you might otherwise never learn. Helping others can also aid in your personal development by growing your ability to empathize, as well as by expanding your worldview.

3. Experience new places

As with volunteering and learning, travelling is a vital part of gaining perspective. It can be easy to forget that there are people and places that are radically different from what you’re used to. Travelling can challenge your thought processes, senses and personal growth.

Though international travel offers the most stimulation, you don’t have to go to a different country to see something new. Oftentimes, even a different city or state could be the catalyst that inspires your creativity and happiness.

4. Be creative

Creativity does not always come naturally; it is a conscious effort to be innovative, different, and better. Creativity promotes self-awareness, which is an important aspect of personal growth and development. It’s unnecessary to be a particularly skilled creative in order to experience the benefits of creativity. Whether you decide to dance, draw, write, photograph, play music, act or choose any other creative pursuit, you will find that the act of creating is cathartic and, ultimately, it’s way more important than the end result.

5. Prioritise your health

Personal growth requires commitment and self-discipline. It means prioritizing what is good for you, rather than what’s easy. Treating your body with care and respect is an important part of your individual development. Personal growth is an active endeavour and it requires strength and endurance, which is why getting in shape is so beneficial for personal development.

Making your health a priority may be eating a balanced, healthy diet and exercising. It’s getting enough sleep and taking balanced vitamins. A healthy lifestyle will lead to many benefits, one of which is that your self-perspective will absolutely change for the better.

6. Evaluate your life

Self-awareness is a key aspect of personal growth, so it’s important that you take some time to do a full evaluation of your life. Here are some important questions to ask yourself that will help guide you through effectively evaluating your life:

• What is your life like now? What areas are you happy with? What areas do you feel need to improve?
• What would you like your life to be like? How do you hope to improve yourself, and why is it important that you do so?
• How do you accomplish these changes, and what do you need to do so? What knowledge and experiences will aid in your personal development? Spend time looking for resources to help you along your journey.
• What is your timeline? Make a list of activities and things you’d like to experience, and create milestones, to keep track of your progress.

Once you’ve confronted your shortcomings, make plans to improve them. Being aware is only part of the struggle. Creating change and self-growth requires action, so start by taking small steps to improve your situation in life.

7. Manage your time

Time is precious, Wasting time is all too easy, and most of us do it for hours every single day without realizing it. It can feel like you don’t have time, but that’s likely just an illusion. You have time, you’ll just need to modify how you spend it. Prioritizing your personal growth will radically change how you spend your free time.

Here are some common time-wasting activities, and how you can restructure them to benefit your personal development:

• Watch less television and when you do watch, truly focus on watching shows and films that you love instead of binging something you’re really uninterested in.
• Reduce the amount of time that you spend aimlessly surfing the internet. Consider setting a timer to make you aware of how much time has passed.
• Rethink your commute and consider taking the bus instead of driving. You could then use the time to read, meditate or listen to podcasts and learn new information or skills.
• Make some of your friends turn a mindless hangout into something more constructive and/or productive, like volunteering, spending time in nature by hiking or kayaking, playing a sport or taking a class together.

8. Create powerful habits

Positive habits magically multiply personal success rates. It may be

• Speed reading- Start by reading 10 pages every day (Non-Fiction)
• Prioritisation- Find your one, most important task for the day and execute it accordingly.
• Money Management- Manage your money which could grow while sitting.
• Wake up Early- Early to Bed and Early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. Start waking up 1 hour earlier every day that’s, 365 hrs extra a year which equals more than two weeks.
• Goal Setting- Set your goals in writing and follow through.
• Exercise and Diet- Make sure you get the recommended physical activity every day and have a recommended diet.

9. Become a natural leader

Improve your negotiation and communication skills. Below are the traits to be followed by a natural leader.

• Communication
• Caring
• Knowledge
• Height
• Confidence
• Honesty

10. Do what you love

Follow your own way. If you avoid following the crowd, you will find success.

11. Learn from failure stories

We tend to focus only on the success stories, and forget that failure stories have bigger lessons to teach. Understand why they failed, and learn from them.

12. Be ambitious, but plan

Ambition and planning go hand in hand. You need to think big, but also plan in smaller portions.

13. Follow your passion

Chase your dreams and visions to the greatest depths and heights; they will surely bring you success.

14. Read books

Books such as The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma, The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle, and Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell will condition your mind towards growth.

15. Be practical

It’s all about being realistic, while at the same time being positive and learning from your mistakes.

16. Avoid being materialistic

Materialism breeds greed, which leads to failure.

17. Be a good listener

Listening promotes better relationships.

18. Always Give your best

Always give everything you do 100%, but also know when to step back.

19. Teach others

Imparting knowledge is one of the fastest ways to practice skills and even learn something new yourself.

20. Spend time with great people

Spend your some times with great and creative people. If you surround yourself with people you want to be like, it can only make you better.