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How To Create a Personal Development Plan

By: Wendy Jones

Do you realise the power of having a personal development plan? It's like having your very own blueprint for success in your life - tailored to create your life exactly how you want it to be. If you could learn how to build your own personal development plan, would you be willing to devote 10 -15 minutes per day to nurture it and put it into practise?

Have you ever wondered what makes successful people successful? And why they actually reach the pinnacle of their careers and earn top dollar, while you seem to struggle even to make a decent living?

The answer is fairly simple - the people who get what they want in life are not inhibited. Situations that are important to them do not make them feel nervous. They don't feel anxious when they have to push themselves out of their comfort zones.

These people still get nervous and anxious when in demanding situations that take them outside of their comfort zone, but they have learnt how to control those limiting and dysfunctional emotions and behaviours and even eliminate them completely from their lives.

Successful people have learned the behaviours they need to achieve their goals, and they practice them on very regular occasions. So much so, their old, limiting behaviours have all but been eliminated from their life, and their new empowering behaviours and now the norm.

If people can follow a simple plan that teaches them how to combat nerves and anxieties when faced with important situations - so can you.

If successful people can learn how to remain relaxed and focused when they get into a winning position in sport - then so can you.

And if successful presenters can learn how to conquer their fear of speaking in front of an audience, present their ideas, and wow the crowd, then so can you.

Successful people weren't always successful - they learnt how to become successful. So if people can learn how to overcome their frustrations and focus on the actions they need to achieve their ultimate goals and ambitions - so can you.

If you can dedicate 5 to 10 minutes each day to practising some simple NLP techniques, you can start to take control of your fears and frustrations and turn them into positive and empowering emotions.

Before you turn tail and run at the thought of learning some NLP techniques, or if you're not really sure what it is, in it's simplest form, Neuro Linguistic Programming is basically a method of helping you change the way you habitually react to any given situation. When you experience anxiety or frustration, you are simply reacting negatively to the situation that is causing those emotions. NLP teaches you how you can easily change your reactions to be positive and empowering.

To help you get started, there are two very simple exercises that you can start practising right away:

1. Firstly, you need to notice when you react and feel negatively about as many situations and events as you can. So every time you feel nervous, or anxious, or fearful about something, make a note of what it was that made you feel that way, and exactly how you felt about it.

The reason behind this exercise is that you need to be aware of your barriers in order that you can start to break through them further down the road.

2. The second exercise is even easier - you simply need to write down how you would like to feel most of the time, and what feelings and behaviours you want to eliminate from your life.

These may seem like simple exercises - and they are - but don't let that you put them off for another time. Take a few minutes and do them now. The more details you have here, the more functional and empowering your personal development plan will be, and the more positive and driven your future will be.

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