5 Areas Of Personal Growth You Should Focus On

By Julia Rees, Senior Managing Editor

Posted on 3 min read

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Personal growth permeates every aspect of your life. Whether it’s your career, love life, mental health, or spiritual well-being, you most likely want to look back a year from now and see progress. While you can make strides in different areas of your life, personal growth is the string that pulls it all together. There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to personal growth, and you cannot expect it to happen overnight. However, you need to target five main areas of your life to grow. 

5 Areas Of Personal Growth You Should Focus On

Spiritual growth 

Spiritual growth doesn’t always mean drowning yourself in endless religious creeds and rituals. It means being able to connect with yourself on a holistic level. It recognizes the role divine hands play in the universe, how to connect divine dots, and how best to tap from the universe to your benefit. Spiritual growth also helps you to attain inner peace. 

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While some opt for a structured approach to spiritual growth, like meditation, others look for it in the serenity of nature. Still, others find spiritual growth by noticing the spiritual interpretations behind physical manifestations. For example, you might notice a string of an ordinary number 811 popping up in different ways throughout your day. Still, a spiritually inclined person will see an angel number 811 and take advantage of it to grow.

Mental well-being

Mental growth focuses on your mental health, your way of thinking, and so on. It relates to your cognitive functions and how it affects your behaviour. Many people find stress-relieving tasks like reading books, relaxing, or hanging out with positive friends.

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Such activities help boost their mental health. However, mental growth takes it a step further. It requires you to invest in things that improve your thought process. If you want to improve your mental growth, consider furthering your educational understanding too, as this can help you to further your knowledge, social development and general understanding of the world. The Eva Carlston Academy is a great option if you want a solid starting point.

Self-awareness

The last thing you want to do is put your life on autopilot, powering through your day completely oblivious of everything else around you. While this can help in many cases, it can also create a lack of self-awareness. And why is this important? Being self-aware keeps you from being reactive and makes you more proactive. It breaks you free from living your life on default settings and allows you to see opportunities for growth around you.

Self-control and emotional growth

Humans are supposed to be naturally emotional. Even those who appear indifferent and apathetic have suppressed emotions. However, maturity and growth come with the ability to control those emotions, not suppress them. Suppressing your emotions bottles them inside of you and poisons you, especially if they are negative emotions. On the other hand, controlling your emotions allows you to acknowledge and express them, but with good judgement, not letting how you feel get the best of you. Emotional growth gives you better self-control.

Physical growth

Finally, adopt the right self-care practices to take good care of your body. Your physical state can affect other aspects of personal growth. So, eat healthily, adopt and commit to an active lifestyle, get enough sleep, and exercise regularly. It is easier to chase other areas of personal growth when you feel good in your body. 

Looking after the body and mind is very 2022, so incorporate these tips to better both this year. We hope that you have found this article about  5 Areas Of Personal Growth You Should Focus On helpful, and you can have a look here for more of our health and wellness features.

I’m Julia, the Senior Managing Editor and I can’t wait to share some more articles with you again soon! In the meantime you can find more style, lifestyle and travel inspiration on  “The Velvet Runway” .

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