The Hidden Link Between Personal Development And Financial Success

Without improving yourself as an individual, it is almost impossible to achieve anything worthwhile in life.

Unfortunately, most financially challenged people believe learning ended with school.

It’s a shame that the most important things in life including how to have a successful and fulfilling marriage and family life, how to become financially independent and how to raise happy responsible children aren’t taught in school.

Without growing and developing as an individual, it is almost impossible to cope with the challenges life throws at us.

People who are financially successful are usually keen learners who are profoundly aware that if you are not growing and developing as an individual, you are dying.

Here are four important disciplines that can help you improve yourself as an individual and put you on the path to financial success.

1.  Always be learning

Learning goes way beyond simply becoming a perpetual student who does not implement anything.

For instance, if you are frustrated by your current financial situation, how many books have you read about how to get out of your predicament in the last month, and how many ideas have you implemented from what you learnt?

Having the right information and not doing anything about it is no different from not knowing anything at all.

2.  Change your reality

For most people whose finances are in a mess, the truth about how they can change their reality is usually beyond the realm of their belief system.

If you find yourself in this predicament, your self-confidence can be negatively affected by your financial situation, forcing you to dwell on negative thoughts, which invariably produce negative results.

Your belief system is designed to motivate you to take action because belief alone without any corresponding action amounts to delusion.

Train yourself to seize opportunity when it presents itself while maintaining a positive expectation of success, which is not the same as wishful thinking.

3. Personal goal-setting

Your personal goals create a framework that allows you to focus your life on what you want to achieve.

Listing your goals and reviewing them constantly can have a profound impact in helping you quickly discover what won’t work, when it comes to getting what you want.

If you are longing to be your own boss but you opt to give up on your dreams in exchange for what appears to be a steady paycheck from an employer, you will realize that starting a business of your own will require you to do just the opposite.

The desire to achieve your financial goals may force you to close the path of least resistance because it normally keeps you from getting ahead financially.

4.  The right attitude

Having the right attitude allows you to put yourself in a frame of mind that forces you to take responsibility for your financial success or lack thereof.

Years ago while I worked at a corporate job, I was often amazed at lazy people who would proclaim how hard they would work if they got a raise, or a promotion, or if they became the boss.

What they failed to realize is, to a certain extent we are absolute beings. Getting rid of unproductive habits is not as easy as flipping a switch.

You have to start by being the person you want to become. Nothing happens until you proactively make a move in the right direction.

Simply reacting to the environment in which you find yourself won’t do.

When it comes to establishing the link between personal development and financial success, it is important to understand that the cumulative effect of seemingly insignificant but bold steps to improve your life can make a tremendous difference.

As Goethe stated in his poem on commitment, “boldness has genius, power and magic in it”.

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