Personal Mastery: Personal mastery is knowing and doing what is important to you

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Personal Mastery: Personal mastery is knowing and doing what is important to you. Personal mastery can be though of as approaching one's life as a creative work, living life from a creative as opposed to reactive viewpoint; this comes when one is doing what is important to them. Spending so much time working on problems that continually get in your way and not facing your ability to obtain personal mastery. Discuss whats is important to you in your career. Discuss what gets in your way of achieving the results you want in your career.

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This has to be really answered by yourself. But I will give out some inputs you may use in writing on your own..

Humans are innately social beings. We crave for acceptance from people around us – parents, friends, colleagues and everyone we interact with. As a result, we end up doing most of the times the things everyone around say are important or good for us. Parents usually say getting a good job should be our priority. It is from their point of view may be even the right one. However, people have their own priorities which they fail to recognise or give importance to in order to gain social acceptance. One has to come out of being over obsessed with social acceptance and find out what he/she really likes to do and more importantly how to do.

Like social acceptance, knowingly or unknowingly, we all want to do what we want to do. Its about giving importance to your own desire than the wishes of people around is what makes one attain personal mastery. Discovering one’s self is very important in order to really know what one needs/wants. People find out about themselves in many ways – Arts, sports, charity and many or any form – what is important is to have complete involvement in doing the activities and feel/think about one’s purpose. As a result, one can really find out what they want to do in life or in career.

Its one thing to know what is needed and completely another to know how you can get it. Goal setting is what is needed to make sure that the career is not going out of control. A long term goal and the short term goals to reach the long term goal will help in keeping the focus on the present with the aim in the future intact.

It is natural that one does not reach his/her goals in a smooth way. There are always obstacles that hinder one from reaching goals. In fact, if there are no obstacles, you could say either the goals are not up to your calibre or you are not trying hard enough to reach the goal. All the successful people that we see on TV today are the ones who overcame these obstacles. Each on has their own life and each one has their own kind of problems. But the biggest obstacle towards achieving ones goal is one self. In the words of Abraham Lincoln – “Remember that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.” When one is focused on the goal, every obstacle is a means to achieve it as long as the resolution isn’t shaken.

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