Growth is an ongoing process of self-improvement of skills, knowledge, connections, life goals, personal qualities, and outlook in a focused direction to achieve one’s fullest potential. The meaning of “growth” changes from person to person. Broadly speaking, here are some “types” of growth that people today focus on:  

1. Career Growth

• Clarity about career

• Ready to take advantage of opportunities provided by your existing organisation or beyond

• Learning new skills and implementing them

• Taking on new challenges or responsibilities

The idea of growth here is to reduce the gap between your point today to reach your mapped goal of the future.

2. Social Accomplishment

• Your capacity to survive, function effectively in relation to other people

• Successfully carrying out activities in society to fulfill personal goals like: education, employment, independence, family, social acceptance

We learn from our life experiences and thereby continuously enhance our capacity for accomplishment in life. 

3. Spiritual Progress

• Learning to be more tolerant

• Handling pressure well

• Letting go off regrets

In this growth classification, the idea is to contribute to each other’s progress without resentment thereby creating goodwill for self. This helps you experience fulfillment in growing together.

4. Transformation

• Manners-Behaviour-Character-Personality-Individuality are the factors that shape this growth

• These factors then classify a person into a thinker, a man of action, a leader, an organizer, a follower, a patriot, etc.

Every individual has a unique combination of these factors which is represented by their overall capacity to change, influence people around them, and adapt to the environment they live in.

5. Economic Growth

• Does not depend ONLY on the net income

• Includes capability to invest in educational pursuits, mental and physical well being and so on

This growth classification is the most to compare the relative position of the past and present with what we aspire to be in the future, rather than as a means for comparing self with others in some absolute terms. 

6. Emotional Maturity

• The ability to recognize, express and manage feelings

• Displaying self-control

• Having empathy for others

• Exercising responsibility

• Acting from integrity

• Having a clear vision and so on

Based on these classifications, can you answer the following 3 questions:

1. Which type of Growth is the most important to you?

2. Which of them would impact all the other areas of your life?

3. Which one should be your priority?

Now that you have the answers to these questions, the next step is to create an action plan to reach your desired growth stage. In this newsletter, we have attached a tool that will help you determine where do you stand today on each of these growth types. To get the tool, connect with us.