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the importance of personal development

Do you know that your emotions have a direct impact on your behaviour and on the way you act?
Do you know that being emotionally stable will make any life activity more joyful?
Do you know that having an emotional problem could make most joyful activities loose their taste?
Do you know that whatever the external conditions were you will never feel happy unless you have no emotional problems?

What is meant by emotional problems here is the full list of unwanted emotions this site focuses on, from feeling like lacking self confidence through being lonely up to being depressed. Whatever you feel directly impacts your behaviour; your life could be totally turned around on fixing an emotional problem that you have, and on the other side, ignoring an emotional problem could negatively impact your relations, your career, your goals and your whole life.

how can your emotions impact your life

Just take a look at the following few examples to know to what extent does emotional problems and bad moods affect you and your life:

• when you become depressed you lack motivation to do anything and so your career and studies may be severely impacted. You may stop studying or even stop going to work and so lose the chance of getting promoted or even lose your job
• lacking self confidence will let you miss lots of opportunities because you wont have the courage to take any risk. Lack of self confidence will also result in having less friends and so getting less involved into social life. You may then stay at home for prolonged periods, feel lonely, become over or under weight or even start some kind of addiction to escape your unwanted emotions.
• lack of self confidence could let you fear presenting your work or your ideas to some other people and so you may suppress your success
• do you know that you can only feel one emotion at a time?, that is if you are anxious you can’t be happy, and if you are under stress you cant feel happy!! whatever bad feeling that you have will replace happiness or other good feelings!!
• do you know that enjoying any activity depends on one main factor which is how do you feel , if you were depressed and did the most thing that you like you will feel less happy than if you were not depressed and did something like hearing a good song. Hearing a song should provide much less happiness than doing your favourite activity but in that case your depression limited your happiness
• finally even if you did get a hold of yourself and continued your normal activities while feeling bad, you life will turn into a miserable one, you will be feeling pain on each moment of work, why live such a life while you can do something about it ?

leaving your emotional problems to time

Some people think that leaving their emotional problems to time will cure them, however on ignoring them you are only accumulating them, and as the time passes the pile of emotional problems will be bigger, until you breakdown one day.

using life experince to deal with emotions

Others think that life experience could teach them how to get over one of this emotional problems, and while part of that is right, why do you want to suffer for three or five or ten years until life teaches you how to get over a problem? Why not use the experience of someone who have already spent that time and documented his experience?

Personal development will not only make you feel better, but it will let you reach your true potential, it will let you live that happy life that you have always dreamt of, it will let you more in charge of your emotions and more in control of your whole life.

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Did that help?

No, am sure life experience can teach me everything I need

No, I hate reading, that’s why I don’t bother learning personal development

Yes, but I have self confidence issues what to do?

Yes, but I am depressed what to do?