The right personal development program can mean the difference between success and failure in any endeavor in our lives. Whether you are looking to improve your financial situation, career, relationships or your health, the first and only thing that must change is your thoughts and attitudes toward that which you see to improve.  Our thoughts create our reality and if you don’t believe it try this little exercise.

Think back to the last social function you attended, ask yourself how you felt before the event, were you excited and relaxed or were you tense and stressed. Now look at how much you enjoyed the event, and if you are totally honest with yourself, I believe you will see that the feelings you had before and your view of the results will be harmonious. Now granted there are exceptions to this rule based on the intensity of the feelings beforehand.

A good personal development program will help you bring your thoughts, beliefs, actions and results into harmony. You will learn to see the self-sabotaging thoughts as they rear their ugly head and adjust them before they have a chance to spread their roots and become beliefs. As for long standing beliefs, which you may not even recognize as self-limiting, you will learn to eradicate them from your mind thus opening yourself up for more abundance.

When selecting a personal development program you will find several routes which you can pursue, all of which have their pros and cons. Below is a brief overview of a couple of  options available and what you can expect.

Self-Help Books

The benefits of using self-help books as the basis for your personal development program include the fact that they are readily available both online and at your local bookstore, they tend to be very affordable and I have yet to read one that doesn’t offer at least some solid advice and many have great strategies. Some of these strategies I have incorporated into my coaching practice.

The draw backs to limiting your personal development program to the use of self-help books include the fact that one often feels more lost than before they read the book, having little direction and no accountability to take step one let alone finish the program. Which is not to imply they can’t be completed, it’s just that we as humans tend to let ourselves off the hook. We read the book, believe the ideas can change our lives but then we set it down go back to our lives and forget the strategies because we are “too busy”,  a couple of months later we see another book and the cycle starts all over and we ask ourselves why my life hasn’t changed. Unfortunately it’s obvious to all, except us.

Success Coaching

Incorporating a personal coach into your personal development program is definitely the quickest way to manifesting your goals. A good coach doesn’t care where you have come from or why you haven’t achieved your hearts desire to this point. A coach will work with you to get very specific with your goal and help you create a strategy to finally succeed. With a coach you will have weekly and possibly even daily meetings, depending on what you and your coach agree upon, this will keep you accountable not only to your coach but to yourself. And accountability, I believe to be the most important factor for anyone to successfully manifest any goal.

A couple of possible drawbacks to working with a coach are the time commitment, after all “I do have a life to live”.  Then there’s the financial investment and yes I said “investment” can be difficult in the beginning. However, I have yet to have a client who commits to working with me, not reap incredible benefits they would have never seen on their own. After all if we don’t invest in ourselves how can we expect others to?

In conclusion this is only scratching the surface on the many ways you can design a self development program. I will continually be updating this site as I find strategies and tools which I feel are beneficial to all our development.

As you begin or continue the journey on your path of personal development I wish you all the best and if I can be of any assistance please email me at

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