Personal Growth Increases Motivation

When you develop your skills, improve your thinking capacity, or increase your knowledge of topics, thus making you more valuable to yourself, your family, and your employers, you are acquiring assets that you can utilize throughout your whole life. Growth motivation has the additional benefit of making you feel good about yourself. That's a benefit because the way you feel about yourself has a direct bearing on the way you perform.

As a child, you felt good when you did well on a test, were promoted to the next grade, got elected class president, or received special recognition because you accomplished some worthy objective. You can get that same feeling as an adult by volunteering to head up a community project; by being the best salesperson, employee, spouse, or parent; or by coaching a team that your child participates on.

Personal growth requires commitment, goal-setting, and responsibility; you can't just say "I'm going to grow" and expect it to happen. But when you work to, say, acquire new job skills and are promoted or given a pay raise as a result, your confidence grows, and your feelings of self-worth increase.

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