Three Steps for Developing a Personal Growth Plan
Tis’ the season to think about New Year’s resolutions. As you do, I would encourage you to channel that desire for change into developing a personal growth plan for the next six months. Here are three important steps to develop a plan that will help you put feet to your desires:
1. Identify 1-3 areas of your life where you would like to see change
Where would you like to grow? It’s important that you are fairly specific. For example, you may want to grow spiritually over the next six months. That’s great! Yet, I would encourage you to think about a particular area of your spiritual life that you would like to grow. For me, I would like to strengthen my prayer life. At this stage, we are simply expressing good intentions. In my experience, most people stop here. The next step is critical to actually translating the good intentions into life change.
2. Develop 3-5 SMART action steps around each area where you would like to see change
As you think about actions steps that you can take to develop the area(s) you identified in step one, make sure that they are SMART: