Can Personal Development Make Me Rich?

Copyright © Tan Hai Liang

Whenever people mention personal development, what is the first thing that comes into your mind? Do you think “Oh yeah its one of THOSE things to improve yourself and its not my cup of tea”. Or maybe its something like “I’m fine with myself now and I don’t need to improve myself”. Or more commonly “I don’t have time for it”. Talk about personal development and people will give you a blank stare as if you’re from space or you have some form of rare disease and avoid you. More often than not, they roll their eyes and look as if you’re recruiting them for some MLM.

Regardless, what do we understand by personal development? Many people may give you different definition but to me, its a term which means “Learn”.

If you can define something then it is more finite, tangible and we can see the parameters. Without a definition, things are subjective and intangible. For me, it means Learn.

In our everyday life, people are always learning about something. In a way, we learn so that we can be better at it and also to do things more efficiently. It doesn’t have to be a formal classroom type lesson, most of the time it’s hands on learning. Other more technical knowledge are best taught by experts. If you are interested in making your own furniture, don’t you think learning carpentry skills from a qualified carpenter will accelerate your learning curve and saves you time than doing it yourself?

Many of us think that after we leave school, we don’t need to study anymore. That is actually a wrong thinking. Regardless of what we do, we are constantly learning, whether formally or informally.

In the past 3 weeks, my belief in the importance of personal development deepens. I had enrolled in Fabian’s internet marketing bootcamp in KL despite of some of my other friends’ bad experience. I believe than he is qualified to be a trainer because he is successful in what he does. This is a paid bootcamp in a formal learning environment and its for my own personal development. I want to learn and develop my own internet marketing skills, so learning from an expert accelerated my learning curve.

In pursuing to develop my internet marketing skills, I met new friends who help to encourage and motivate me in my life as well as my internet marketing journey. Also, the event also opened up new opportunities for me to make money and improve my skills to make money online.

Last week, I had attended Dr Clemen’s graduate gathering, an ongoing update meeting between Dr Clemen and his students in options trading. This is again a paid and formal 5 hours learning session. Though there were many classes held in Malaysia, the number of students returning to further their learning and understanding of options trading is very small. I find that the continual graduates meeting is highly beneficial to graduates of his Freely School. This is because Dr Clemen updates his students on issues and strategies, encourages people to keep going after their life’s goal and also present opportunities to make more money or to improve your trading skills.

The small turn out may indicate that many graduates have given up options trading. But if they had continue to attend the graduates gathering, they’ll be able to strengthen what they learned and also expose themselves new opportunities which was reveal last week.

In the past 3 weeks, if I had not put my mind to continually develop myself and to push myself to learn more things, I will not be able to see such opportunities to make more money. Many people are not willing to pay to learn from others. They always think that the price is too high. However, they fail to see the importance of new knowledge and skills or an improved skill. Without such new knowledge and skills, we won’t be able to spot potential opportunities. We must always remember that we can be robbed and our physical materials taken away, but nobody can take away our knowledge and skills to make money.

What I am trying to impress on readers is that, personal development is not just to improve your well being. Many people think that personal development is all about getting motivated and positive thinking etc etc. On the contrary, personal development can be also mean to learn more knowledge or skills in addition to what you already know. Or to further deepen your knowledge or hone in your skills. When you put effort in doing these things, your perception will change and you will discover more opportunities opening up to you. Opportunities don’t just fall on your lap. You have to go look for it.

That being said, I believe that personal development not only improves your well being, it also improves your money making potentials!

About the Author:
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Hai Liang is the co-founder of PersonalDevelopment4All.com. He has experienced ups and downs in his life and through investing in his own mind that he pulled himself through. Now living a more fulfilled life, he strives to help novice to succeed in their home based internet marketing business. For more information see http://AutoPassiveProfits.com.
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