Personal Growth Barriers Series: (Introduction)

What’s the deal with all this personal growth and self-development business? Why bother in the first place? Charles Atlas who earned himself the title as the ‘the world’s most perfectly developed man’ had this to say: ‘Truest SUCCESS is but the development of self.’

It’s so easy to treat personal development as ‘optional’ and so few people ever take the time to actively improve themselves. Your personal growth and self-development are arguably one of the most important things you can do with your time.

True Potential, Truest Success

You can even argue that to actualize your true potential is the purpose of being here. In many ways, all your actions are geared towards ‘self-improvement’. Everything you do, you do with positive intent. This, however, is mostly unconscious and for the majority of people, it’s a case of pursuing ‘things’ and ‘stuff’ with the (all too common) assumption that when they get enough stuff they will be happy.


You don’t have to search too far to find just how wrong this theory really is. Every day we read about ‘extremely successful’ people who end up in rehab or who kill themselves. Why? To return to Charles Atlas' quote  – "Truest success is but the development of your ‘self' " At no point in your life can you just stop and say ‘now I am successful – I think I’ll take the next 10 years off’. Unfortunately, this is ‘the dream’ that so many people aspire to.

Personal Growth is the Key

The key to a lifetime of happiness lies in personal growth. Real and lasting fulfillment in life comes from consistently improving the quality of your life. Life is dynamic and it has to keep moving. Like in nature, everything that does not grow, dies! You will either grow or die and although you probably won’t die a physical death, you most certainly will suffer a psychological death. Depression is but one example of the effects of failing to grow as a person. If you are not growing you will feel like you are dying.

Use Opportunities to Grow

Everyday life hands us opportunities to grow. They are mostly disguised as problems and unfortunately, most people curse them instead of seeing the wonderful opportunities that they present. Earl Schoff once said ‘Don’t wish for fewer problems. Make a wish that you were better’. This is where personal growth comes to play and you must do it on purpose and with an active state of mind.

Why is this happening?

So why do people fail to actively participate in their own personal growth? Well, there are certain personal growth barriers that prevent them from actively progressing in any area of your life. The keyword being ‘actively’. The three biggest personal growth barriers are three interrelated behaviors that tend to keep us immobilized and locked up in inaction. The result being the failure to progress with our lives.

What are the three biggest, ginormous, mind-controlling growth barriers?

Stay tuned for our next post in this series.

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