To grow physically or naturally can be said to happen by default, given that all other things are being equal. That is normal growth. This, in other words, is bearing in mind that there are no mutations or defects or illnesses that may impair growth in anyway. Even those can be prevented if there is the right information and application of same information at the right time.
When a child is born, it is only normal for the child to grow. The same applies to all other animate beings but where there is good intention based on relevant information that pertains to purpose, growth can be made a deliberate thing. This is the duty of the parents even before conception.
In business or other areas of life, the principles are the same. As an adult driven by the passion to win, whether in education or career, to grow deliberately in any endeavour of your choice, requires specific discipline: you have to deliberately stop doing some things and start doing some other things, deliberately, too.
From new thinking, you have to develop new habits. With the right thinking, you can have right action; with great action, you can birth great outcomes. Great thinking is the foundation of all great accomplishments. Where your actions become a habit, your character is formed. Positive thinking followed through to a conclusion earns good character; and outcomes.
Character is victory and that means that a victorious person must have built great allegiances with strong values of patience, endurance, tolerance of diverse views and opinions, has found a way to work with different persons who are sold to different ideologies, enjoys separation as well as interdependence, and have mastered the ropes to deal in every situation of life as they go through same in the search for relevance and meaning.
Everyone seeks something, but not everyone knows what they are looking for. The question is, do you know what you are looking for? One of the first things that anyone equipped with a growth mindset ensures is that they know what they seek. This is an important requirement for growth. The fact is that unless you know where you are headed, you will definitely end up anywhere.
Mark S. Lewis said, “The way to be happy is to like yourself, and the way to like yourself is to do only things that make you proud.” One way to do things that make you proud is to stop doing unproductive things and to start doing smart things. And this must be a routine you follow to kill old limiting programs and write new freeing programs that would set you on the course of sustainable impact. It then becomes a lifestyle that you lead religiously. And you cannot quit some things and adopt some things if you do not know your definite chief aim.
Choice precedes every other thing. You have to choose what you desire and decide how you want to go in the area of your choice. This is the vision that gives you focus. You choose what you sow. What you sow is what you reap. This retributive lifestyle is sacrosanct with your growth or otherwise decision. You can, through this, determine your outcomes. No other person’s vision may supersede the true vision you have about yourself. You can prophesy daily to yourself based on the lifestyle you have chosen, and this would never fail.
The choices you make in every area of your life: what you choose to see, read, watch and the company you choose to keep, all get saved in your subconscious mind. They become your paradigm and run your life consistently, whether you like or not. The programs in your subconscious mind are responsible for how you live and turn out. They determine your outcomes based on the choices you make. You almost are not aware that those programs are there. They were written based on the genes you carry and the environment you were raised in. You earned them unconsciously most of the time, but they end up ruling you through the options and suggestions they present to you.
Where the programs running in your subconscious are less desirable to you, you must be deliberate to rewrite the programs working against your growth. That takes you beyond intentions and wishes. That pushes you into making goals of your desires and living them each day, far away from the throng. Even beyond goals, you push for purpose. It requires the commitment of a lifetime.
To grow deliberately, you may need to change your friends and associates. You may need to think differently from the environment that you are in presently. Environmental thinking is often generic thinking. The influence may not do you much good. Separation is required in order to find yourself through connecting with the potential value that resides within you and guiding same towards solutions need in your environment.
Talking about environmental thinking and behaviours, we realise that children who grew up in the same area like an estate or community speak the same slangs, dress the same way, act almost in a uniform manner and are given to such attitudes that are common to all. To get away from such mindset requires personal sacrifice. To make your children different from that template also requires that you are not influenced by same. You are separated from that stream.
Deliberate growth means that you have to be specific. Decisions lead you to making choices made through informed thinking. You cannot grow by doing many things at the same time. You can only do things that would help you evaluate and appraise your performance and the results you are getting per time. Specificity is earned through much brooding, musing, circumspection and meditation. During these moments of separation, inspiration visits you.
You may have to evolve an entirely new mindset in order to create and develop new values. New values require time to grow to the level of proficiency through practice. Constant practice helps you to attract or create opportunities to yourself. New core values become personal philosophies and ideologies that help you grow personal growth culture. These become your growth core; your Midas and magic wand. You spin it to winning ways always till you become one with them.
There is normal growth and there is deliberate growth. Deliberate growth is earned through prudent and calculated efforts that begin with conscious thoughts that push you to doing definite work. You study, you research, you observe, you seek to know, you know and apply; and you are consistent through it all. Due to these activities, you make change happen through empowering others that you work with.
Deliberate growth is a dedicated life. Men re-invent and change the course of history growing deliberately. Outside this, there is no definite chief aim. This is the search for purpose and meaning that gives focus. The vision is a definite one.
