My journey of personal development and improvement has been going on for about 3 years or more now. One thing that has always been somewhat of a pain is that I’ve always felt that I was kinda doing it alone.

The difficulty was that there weren’t many, if any people that I could talk to about such things. Even worse was that no one I knew truly held similar values as mine or consciously worked towards a better version of themselves.

Friends of mine wouldn’t be interested and if they did hear me out, they weren’t convinced with the merits of what I was putting forward; that was because from their perspective, life took a very pessimistic slant so what was the point of trying was their takeaway.

Or my friends would want to change the subject to something less exciting, like what new tv show or movie they had watched (what an overdone conversation piece that is in the 21^st century). Nevertheless, I wasn’t offended, I knew that the things I was thinking and talking about just weren’t what people were into, especially in the early twenties life stage.

I do lament not finding someone who shared the same passion as I did, that kind of relationship is usually uplifting, even more so when that passion is personal development. Being able to bounce ideas off someone else and also to be able to provide feedback and advice to them was something I wished I had.

But it wasn’t meant to be, well at least for now.

The point I want to get across to you is that even though I would have liked to have had a confidant in this arena; it didn’t happen but that didn’t mean I was doomed to fail or anything like that. No, the reality is personal development is just that, personal, so there will always be an overwhelming proportion of the responsibility that will lie solely with you.

If you have connected with people who help to support you on your journey, then great. I am delighted to hear that because as the saying goes, many hands make for light work. But if you don’t like I didn’t, don’t despair. The private victories you attain by yourself will lead to public victories which will well and truly make up for anything you may feel that you missed out on. That last part was something I learned in the past year or so.

When it comes to your plans and goals, I want to leave you with this final thought:

“Those that are not helping you to attain your goals can never truly understand the motives and mechanisms behind your designs”

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