Personal And Professional Development In The Face Of Your New Purposes For 2021
With the beginning of this new year, it is easy that you have proposed resolutions with which to make the most of the coming months. These dates are a source of inspiration for millions of people, a stage of closing a cycle and beginning a new one that encourages us to try new things and not stay anchored in what we already know.
Therefore, in this article we will talk about the pillars on which you can build your new personal and professional projects for 2021
6 Areas of personal and professional development from which to set goals
If you have decided to take advantage of the beginning of the new year to motivate yourself and give a boost to your personal and/or professional career, look at these areas in which you can grow and improve. They will serve as reference points on a map that It will help you set goals, perceive your progress and make corrections as you progress
1. Know how to set new challenges for yourself
The simple act of specifying (putting into words, among other things) the challenges you want to prioritize over the next few months is a key activity. There are some simple tips that you can apply to do it in the best way, such as:
The situation of economic and health crisis from which we start makes it necessary to learn to tolerate uncertainty more. If we let the fear of making mistakes paralyze us, everything will have been in vain
In this sense, anxiety and stress management skills must be developed; If you need help, it is always possible to start going to psychotherapy either in person or via video call.
3. Know how to measure our strength
It’s very important control well the rest times, planning and execution of plans, so that we neither stay without doing anything nor get frustrated and end up throwing in the towel at the idea that we are not moving forward as we wanted. Challenges always have to require a certain amount of effort, otherwise we will not progress.
4. Boost your self-esteem and self-confidence
Your self-esteem and self-confidence have to develop as you progress through your projects You must be able to recognize your progress as such, so that there does not come a point where you feel a certain “dizziness” when facing the next phase of the challenge, and without the imposter syndrome holding you back (especially if you are focusing on your professional development).
5. Promote your development of professional skills
This involves both having as references (whether teachers or mentors) the best in the areas in which you want to improve, on the one hand, and knowing how to “map” from the beginning the professional skills that you want to perfect and polish.
Something that usually helps in this is to take into account the distinction between soft skills and hard skills The first refer to knowledge that cannot be expressed in words and have to do with the management of emotions, communication and social skills, and even the fact of having physical preparation, in certain cases. The second are related to knowledge and experience that have a direct relationship with a specific field of work: knowing how to program, mastering the use of a computer program, knowing the jargon used in a sector, etc.
Knowing this, and assuming that progressing along one path does not mean advancing by leaps and bounds along the other if we do not invest time and efforts in improving in both, it is easier to reach our objectives.
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6. Improve your ability to self-motivate
None of the above will be viable if you do not adopt certain habits and strategies to motivate yourself especially at the beginning, when you face new challenges that can catch you “by surprise” and demoralize you when you see that at that point you don’t know how to do almost anything.
The good thing about getting used to taking care of this aspect of professional and professional development is that this experience can be useful for many types of projects that you propose; The bad thing is that to achieve this you cannot limit yourself to observing what others do and copying it, because each individual has their own sources of motivation and gratification, interests, values, etc.
Of course, there is a rule that is followed in almost all cases: not subdividing big goals into small short-term objectives or even achievable in a matter of a few hours is fatal, so make sure you always do it.
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