7 Life-Changing Personal Development Goals You Need To Know

Are you looking to change your life? Here are some of the best personal development goals you absolutely need to know!

A lot of people are currently on a journey to becoming the best version of themselves. In order to do that successfully, you have to do a bit of research to even decide which goals are worth picking up and which are not.

This post is going to give you tips for some of the best personal development goals for work, personal development goals for leaders, self improvement goals personal development, and best practices on how to change your life.

This post is all about the best life-changing personal development goals.

LIFE-CHANGING PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT GOALS YOU NEED TO KNOW:

Where to start

Firstly, it is important to know what personal development goals are. They are objectives set for yourself to improve your character, skills, and knowledge.

Here is an extremely helpful post with the best personal development definition in simple words ever!

You should read that post as well to truly have a better starting foundation. If you’re ready to begin your journey, keep reading!

1. Improve physical health | Personal development goals

One way you can insure a future is to take care of yourself. Staying physically active has an entire list of benefits!

When you begin to look out for your physical health, it builds your confidence. Nothing can make you feel inferior to knowing that you have put in work on your physical appearance. Seriously!

I once asked my professor why he works out daily and he simply said, “So I don’t embarrass myself when I take my shirt off.” Haha! Whatever motivates you, do it! Who cares what your reason is. Just do it!

2. Improve your time management | Personal development goals

If you let it, the day can completely fly by without you having done a single productive thing. Been there!

While it is important to have moments of rest periods, managing your time can help you affectedly get all of your tasks done AND even have time to relax.

You know it doesn’t have to be one or the other, right? It doesn’t have to be either work hard or play hard. You can literally do both!

How you’re able to do both all comes down to how well you are at managing your time.

Time Management examples:

Wake up early
Include breaks in your schedule throughout the day
Have a start and stop time for work – for example: after 6pm I will not work anymore. (that’s when play time can begin)
Have a trial and error period to see how much time it takes you to complete certain tasks, how long you’re able to stay focus, and which time of day you’re the most productive.

In order to find these things out you have to get to know yourself a bit. I highly recommend!

3. Proper mindset and balance | Personal development goals

Take care of your mind, body, and spirit. Have you heard this phrase before?

There are a few things you can do to take care of your mindset. You can start off by meditating. Try meditating first thing in the morning even if it’s only for one minute.

Similar to physically working out daily, meditating daily has a plethora of great benefits. I mean, to truly pay attention to what’s going on in your head can be very powerful!

There are amazing apps that you can use for guided meditation. Try using the Headspace App. The graphics are amazing and very useful for all levels of meditation- from beginners to pros.

4. Financial Stability

“We buy things we don’t need with money we don’t have to impress people we don’t like.” – Dave Ramsey

“Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving.” – Warren Buffet

“Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have big TVS and small libraries.” – Zig Zigler

Does any of these quotes resonate with you? I mean, the first two quotes are from billionaires who are currently alive… and Mr. Zigler was a great motivational speaker who specialized in personal development.

One of the smartest things you can do is to learn from the pros. Do your research and start saving now so you can live stress-free later. (Note to self 😅)

5. Develop a reading habit

If you’re a person who doesn’t read for fun, it can be really annoying to hear people say, “read books!” because I’m sure your first thoughts are “I hate reading”, but you know what’s great?

You reading this article counts as reading. You looking up stuff on Google and *reading* about it -counts as reading.

Who says you have to go to a library, check out a book, and read this thick object on something you’re not interested in?

Grade school took the fun out of reading for millions of people. It’s funny how most people enjoy reading AFTER they’ve left school. When you have the choice and are not forced to read certain books, it CAN be enjoyable.

Start by reading things you’re interested in. Comedy, romance, fantasy, self-help, mystery, horror … and the list goes on. These are examples of genres you can read. There is something for everyone, you just have to find it.

*I’ll have a post filled with book recommendations for young adults if you’re interested. Coming soon!*

6. Build up your self-confidence | Personal development goals

Have you ever wondered why people with the same level of knowledge and skills get very different results?

CONFIDENCE.

Here are a few facts about having self-confidence:

It causes you to expect to succeed
Allows you to take risks and set challenging goals
It helps you to keep trying even if at first you don’t succeed
It helps you control your emotions and fears when life may throw more difficult things your way

Now if we all could just snap our fingers and acquire confidence, we all would be millionaires by now, BUT the reality is so many people lack confidence for several reasons.

Goals to set for yourself list

How can you overcome a lack of self-confidence? I find that it begins when you start to invest a little more time and attention in yourself.

Start by actually doing the things in this article. Once you start working out and taking care of your physical health, it’ll build your self-esteem which will also boost your confidence.

When you save more money than you spend, it’ll teach you how to budget and you’ll end up creating financial freedom later. Being financially stable can aid in you having confidence in yourself… especially if you’ve started from the bottom.

Reading more can help you become more knowledgeable in certain areas which will definitely boost your confidence. You don’t want to be the person in the room who doesn’t know/understand what’s going on. That’s the quickest way to lose your confidence!

This is where it begins. It begins with you. Just start!

Hey, I REALLY hope you found this to be helpful and practical. Did I forget a very important goal? Feel free to leave a comment and let me know! We’re all on a personal development journey here.

Denzel Washington says, “each one teach one”, so how about you leave a comment on how things are going for you? You never know who it might help.