98: The Problem with Personal Development and how the Enneagram can solve it

Given the gift of time.⁣⁣Lockdown, quarantine...this gift of time has sparked a personal development journey for many of us.⁣⁣⁣Listen now⁣⁣⁣Gen X and Personal Development⁣⁣In many households, Gen Xers were the first generation to dabble in personal development. We didn’t have the idea of personal development modeled for us in our home during our childhood. I personally am proud to be a first-generation personal developer in my own family.⁣⁣The problem with personal development⁣⁣It all starts with awareness: Awareness is important because we can’t change what we don’t know. Once we’re aware of what we want to change in our lives, however, many of us want to jump directly into action.⁣⁣But hold up: for anything to be sustainable, we must acknowledge before taking action.⁣⁣It’s not the ‘what we do’ part, but the ‘why we do what we do’ part⁣⁣This is the missing piece in personal development.⁣⁣We must acknowledge where everything is rooted: we must connect the dots and start to put all the pieces of the puzzle together.⁣⁣This way, we’re able to look back and discover where the belief came from that has had us behaving and acting a certain way—and why we started doing it in the first place. ⁣