Every opportunity I have is the result of my commitment to stretching and growing myself every day. Here are five practices I’ve adopted to help me keep a teachable spirit:Īfter forty years, I’ve come to understand that everything I do is predicated on my personal growth. When we’re willing to seek out and learn lessons from others, from experience, and from reflection, then we’re able to increase our capacity for growth. So how can we cultivate a growth environment, our own development garden?īy adapting a teachable spirit. It’s an intentional process-and it must happen every day. As the gardener, you must be willing to prepare the soil, sow the seeds, water, feed, mulch and weed. Gardens require planning, cultivation, and the right environment. Picture your personal growth as a garden-nothing that grows in a garden springs to life on its own. That means having a passion to learn, possessing an intention to learn daily, and reflecting on what we’re learning to know how to apply it. It may sound hokey, but the truth is that growth is only possible when we are willing to adapt a teachable spirit. I want to capitalize on this “new year, new you” momentum to share one of the secrets to sustained personal development: a teachable spirit. I love this time of year because people are so intentional about goals, and one of the greatest shifts any leader can make is moving from goals to growth. In fact, it’s one of the 11 shifts I teach in my upcoming book, Leadershift: 11 Essential Changes Every Leader Must Embrace, which releases on February 5. Social media posts abound of people hitting the gym or making other changes to their daily routine in order to make this year different from last. There’s still plenty of talk about making those resolutions stick. We’re now well into 2019 and I love the optimism that people have about their goals.
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