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PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN
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FIND YOUR PASSION!
Epiphany - A pivotal, life-changing experience can create a sudden and intense awareness of an underlying passion; an “aha!” moment.
Change – A major life change that alters one’s view on life and causes closer self-examination as to the way one lives it. This examination challenges one to learn things about self that were previously unknown.
Intuition – One must be sense passion in order to identify it. Passion must be embraced fully, with fearlessness and strong conviction.
Experience - Most uncover passion gradually as a result of day-to-day experiences. One gets glimpses of it--courtesy of intuition--but may not understand its significance or heed its influence. Unless attention is paid to those experiences, one is likely to disregard them. One must listen to and interpret life’s signals and translate them into action.
Personal Mission Statement
Develop a statement or several statements that describe success for you professionally and personally.
This may not be a quantifiable destination or goal, but rather a description of your personal and professional purpose or “reason for being” as you would like it to be.
Defining Goals/Objectives
Broad, long-term aims that define a desired result associated with identified strategic issues.
Targets for achievement through interventions.
The purpose toward which an endeavor is directed
Something worked toward or striven for