Breakthrough comes when you are prepared for the big break. To breakthrough is a function of you, positioning with a growth plan ongoing for you.
-Odunayo Ajani ‘2021.

The beginning of every great achievement starts from a point where you see the end from the beginning. Counting your cost and realizing what you need to put in place to achieve your desired success will be pivotal in 2021. Real greatness comes from the place of yielding to learn, to be better, to read, and generally to grow. The limit to your growth is greatly dependent on how much you really want to succeed.

Growth is one phase of life that makes you forgo your previous successes (though you can still reference them), challenge yourself on the next big thing to do, and summarily, prepare for a better version of your previous success.

Only the restless learners can heal and change the world. Here I mean those who are desirous of growth despite the present challenges or limiting factors. While commuting to my office this morning, I heard over a radio broadcast, a caller saying that if you ever want to succeed this year, then you need to look beyond where you are. He further added that you need to change from the limiting factor that everything has to be done physically and ultimately, grow. In his word, we are in a new normal and this connotes that things can never be run in the usual way unless we have chosen to remain where we use to be. To you, this may not connote taking a lesson, a course, or reading a book. But that you leave a formal way to a better one simply tells of one who has exhibited growth.

Hard work as it were is not enough to sustain relevance or be successful in a world daily changing with innovative ideas and approach to doing work. The truth is if you have goals and things you need to achieve, deliberate commitment to growth will go a long way to help you achieve them.
The long-standing myth that says growth is automatic is as fallacious as the one who invented that saying. No one in the universe ever grows automatically. As a matter of fact, the infant we see today doesn’t grow automatically. Growth for infants in this case comes to be as a result of deliberate feeding and taking proper care of such child which also translates as an intentional commitment to ensure a physical change in such child. This therefore makes clear that, growth comes from a deliberate intention to see improvement. If you won’t factor growth into your plan this year, then breaking through might be a mirage.

How do I Grow?

This is one common question for people passionate about improvement. Growth comes with doing certain activities continuously per time. That you will experience growth is a function of you committing to doing certain task and doing them right. Before you consider how to grow you need to attend to these few issues.

• How bad do you want to grow?
• Do you have a growth plan?
• What growth-hindering habit(s) have you taken note of and decided to stop?
• How do you know you are growing?


How do I grow?
1. Answer the questions above

2. Create a plan flexible enough for your development. What this connotes is working through a plan that allows for your ease of achieving your personal development goals. Of course, this doesn’t connote that things will come easily but that, you have to be able to modify things when there is a need for it.

3. Set certain growth Discipline. Discipline makes us stick to plans. Here you need to set boundaries and instructional limits on yourself and the activities you do. For example, this could be; Reading at least 3-5 chapters of a book before going to bed per day or praying for one hour each day before seeing any movie. When you do these, your life can never remain the same again, in fact, you get better at the things you need to deliver on.

4. Read books. Real personal development is achieved when a book is read. You can never develop yourself in the real sense when you are not reading and the beautiful thing today is that the internet and libraries around us are filled with valuable materials you can glean from.

5. Submit to mentorship. It is a pride for you to say you don’t have a mentor. I have heard a couple of people make this statement but the truth is that this set of people often experience growth challenges and will plateau at a certain point they shouldn’t have plateaued at. How much you will grow and see the future you want to feature in, is a function of how much you have seen such a future through the eyes of people that have gone ahead of you. For every profession there are professionals. These professionals didn’t get to that position by the night but as a result of constant use of their skills and adequately deploying such skills for their organizational profiting. There are literary mentors, spiritual mentors, professional mentors, industry-based mentors, and many more. You can maximize social media for your mentorship. Most of your would-be mentors are online and as a matter of fact, they are a direct message away from you.

6. Attend Conferences, take courses. Part of what makes growth happen is your willingness to take courses and attend conferences. By attending conferences or taking courses, you develop in the area of your expertise and hear from others what has been sustaining them.


https://www.healtheworldmovementng.org/blog/grow/

Over time, discipline has been the hallmark of growth.