Personal Evolution

Personal Evolution Within Your Lifetime

"Consciousness is destiny. Instead of being dictated to by your genes and chemical processes in the brain, it may turn out that you are the author of your own life -- capable of change, healing, creativity and personal transformation."

I was recently told by a mentor of mine that growing up is a choice.

Age is just a number and does not mean one is more mature.

Yes. I know everyone says this but it has never been so obvious then in the people I interact with daily. People in their late 40s with children, still stuck in the mind set of a middle school. 

Maturity, growth, and evolving, are a person choice and one must consciously work on it. 

Her wisdom has inspired me to dig deeper into ways to evolve myself. 

Below is an excerpt from an old article I found discussing ways to better yourself. I urge you to read. And I challenge you to work on evolving your personal self. 

Five Ways To Evolve Within Your Lifetime

Research shows you can evolve during your own lifetime

Posted Mar 28, 2011

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-new-resilience/201103/five-ways-evolve-within-your-lifetime%3famp

Stretching towards new challenges

When you challenge yourself to stretch towards a higher level of your abilities, you also increase your overall well-being. Interestingly, this research demonstrates the power of having a vision of what you want to stretch your capacities and abilities towards. Holding a vision of possibility in your consciousness tends to pulls you towards it. Research shows that your actions that follow lead to noticeably increased happiness with your life.Other studies indicate that people who consciously build positive emotions, such as empathy and compassion, also increase their resilience in the face of new challenges.

Seeding well-being in yourself and others

What goes around, comes around. Studies at UC Berkeley and elsewhere find that when people consciously behave generously and compassionately towards others, they become more valued and esteemed by others, in return. And, that this, in turn, contributes to the common good.

Behaving "outside the box"

There's evidence that you can evolve by choosing to behave in ways that are different from -- even counter to -- what you think of as your usual or "fixed" personality traits and characteristics. That is, you can evolve by acting more like the person you want to be. This isn't faking; it's pushing yourself outside the box of your usual "self," and bringing your behavior into alignment with a picture of what those new features would look like if you demonstrate them.