Personal Growth

The best opportunities for emotional growth and development come when we are emotionally charged. Although we can work to prepare ourselves, it is difficult to practice overcoming our anger, boredom or depression until we are confronted with these emotions. Furthermore, I believe that the more intense these emotions are the more we can grow by overcoming them. For example, the best time for us to work on developing self-denial is when we are confronted with doing something we would really like to do, but that isn’t in line with our responsible goals and purpose. And the more we would like to do it (or the harder it is not to do it) the greater our opportunity is for growth. Similarly, the best opportunity to improve our self-discipline comes when we are confronted with obligations that need to be fulfilled, but we really don’t feel like taking the initiative to do them. And again, the more we don’t want to do them, the greater the opportunity we have for personal growth by overcoming our feelings and taking the initiative required to fulfill the obligations.  This principle is the same for any type of personal growth.