Community Thoughts: How Writing Benefits Personal Growth

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Personal growth is the process of understanding and developing oneself to enable the individual to achieve their full potential. It is an essential role for an individual to actively seek out feeling success and happiness through personal development. 

Breaking this concept down to its simplest form: 

What personal growth is: 

• Continuous  
• Small steps 
• Awareness of your faults 
• Initiative to change  
• Recognize strengths 

Personal growth comes in many forms from physical and mindset to intellectual and social alterations. 

What personal growth is not: 

• Perfection 
• A destination 
• Only about oneself (improving others too!) 

Forget about perfection, such a harsh ideal to put on yourself is unrealistic. Strive for your best self. Focus on the little things you can do to improve as a person and attain your life goals. Yes! That sounds more like it. 

Writing is largely known as a hobby or career, but it can be so much more! 

4 Ways You Can Stimulate Personal Growth By Writing 

1 | Self acknowledgment 

Start at the beginning: you. 

Knowing who you really are, what gets your heart pumping, what ignites your fires, what scares you. Also known as personal reflection you’ll end up learning a lot about yourself. 

How can I go about this? 

Morning pages. This is well known writing exercise that you do first thing in the morning. Before I lose you, learn a little about it. 

Morning pages are simply a stream of consciousness, this exercise only purpose is to scribble (long hand) down everything on your mind. 3 pages full. 

Aiding you to find solution to your problems. There is no pressure, if you’re stuck about what you should physically write about, write about that. 

2 | Writing Goals 

Personal growth comes in the form of setting goals some of the time. However, it is not always enough to think of what you what to achieve. 

Thoughts are foggy. In other words, they can lack detail and worst of all – be forgotten. 

Writing down your goals gives you time to find clarity in what, how, when and why this goal is important. 

Periodically reading your goals helps you look for little ways in daily life to achieving them. 

That sounds hell of a lot less stressful than trying to remember your personal growth goals all the time. 

3 | Learning More Of Your Language 

To better articulate your thoughts. This can be done by learning more of your language. The more words you can get a hold of, the less you will experience: 

“I want to express ___ but I can’t find the right words” 

Making you happier in the process because you have grown to be able to express yourself exactly how you would like. 

Learning is key in personal growth, from learning about yourself to skills for your career. 

Happiness through achievement are great but expressing yourself in the way you want also brings confidence behind your words. 

4 | Memoirs 

This is a collection of an individual’s real-life events and memories that are constructed into stories.  

Why would you want to write about yourself? What has that got to do with personal growth? 

• Empowerment 

Not only does recalling triumphs build a path for more victories in the present, it induces mindfulness that will help bring you a sense of peacefulness and empathy you may not have had before you wrote a memoir. 

• Increase Self esteem 

Writing about your experiences gives you a chance to let go. Destressing from those memories will give you more confidence. 

• Increase Memory and Knowledge 

Think of your brain like a gym, you need to exercise it to be able to retain more. Making more room for the happiness you’ve found in life.

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