The Intentionality in Self-Growth

Intentionality in Self-Growth

The desire of every parents is to see their children grow up, even to their full statures at the appropriate time. Meaning, there is always a required time for growth. A normal child for instance is expected to grow to the level of walking by himself within the range of ten to eighteen months of his life, if such child does not walk within the range of the time expected, fear sets in, in his parents, not only that, they and the people around them will not be happy about the child's condition. In that case, it might be that the child is not fed appreciatly (that is, if the child is not well fed, it can affect his growth) or there is a defect in the Child's brain. However, there is always an iota of intentionality in growth, be it biological or self-growth in various areas like, spiritual, emotional, academical, educational, behavioural,social,mental e.t.c.

        Intentionality means the act of being delibrate and conscious about something. Contrary to the belief of many, growth especially out of biological sense is a delibrate effort. Being Intentional about Self-Growth simply implies being conscious and delibrate to grow oneself up and wide in every spheres of life.

How To Be Intentional About Self-Growth

Since there is need for individual to grow him/her self up and wide in every spheres of his/her life, there is also need to be intentional about it. Therefore, the following are four (4) practical ways to be intentional about self-growth

#1 Learning: The soul of self-growth is learning. Learning is the process of acquiring knowledge either directly from others or indirectly from oneself. Man needs to invest in himself to grow up and wide in all areas of his life which include his spiritual, emotional, mental, social, academic and "all" of his life and the investment simply means learning. We learn through reading, studying people around us, listening to the elders, and learders. The heart of man must be opened to learn at everytime and in everywhere. As I will always say, "you can not have what you don't acquire, and what you don't have you can not exhibit."

#2 Maximizing Your Experiences: Another way of being conscious about Self-Growth is exploring(to seek and bring out) wisdom from every experiences, either self or other people's. Everything a man goes through and sees happen to other people around him are experiences to build him up. Don't just let the experience go without picking a lesson from it, that is one of the best ways to learn and to grow fast.

#3 Take A Step Of Change: This simply means acting on what you've learnt. One of the realest things I have ever experienced in life is the difficulty in changing to what I have never been. It is difficult to change but, it is also expected to turn a new leave whenever you learn a new thing. People eat wisdom more than they grow in knowledge because of the difficulty to take this bold step of change. In another words, People learn more than they yield because they are afraid to abandon their old ways of doing things. In any case, if a man must grow as expected, there is need to adopt the new(positive/helpful) things learnt into his actions.

 #4 Beating Your Pride: Every one has an iota of Ego. We have things peculiar to us and we don't want to stop doing it either it is wrong or right. If it is wrong, the moment we are aware of that fact, it stings our ego and we struggle about it. We don't want to leave doing it and at the same time it is wrong doing it. This is experienced by everyone, but the real thing is, if you must grow, you must beat down your pride/ego. You can never walk in the light of what you've learnt until you are able to beat down your ego/pride. Beat your pride and grow!

Proverbs 12:1 WHOEVER LOVES instruction and correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is like a brute beast, stupid and indiscriminating.