Personal Growth and Self Improvement by Asking Yourself Questions?

Questioning and answering yourself is the only way to achieve personal growth and self-improvement. It's a simple yet mind and life altering process. It's best done in a journal of some sort. Starting basically works like this ...

• you gather something to write on and something to write with

• you stop the world for 15 minutes or more

• you sit down in a quiet, comfortable, well-lit place

• you write and then answer a question along the lines of Where Am I In My Life?

After throughly answering the question (this might take you one sitting or several) you sit (or walk) and just think about your answer and the path your mind traveled to get to the answer.

Phrase 2: Get ready to talk to yourself past, present, and future

Your intial writing gave you a starting point. Where you go next depends on a lot of factors. Defining and diving those factors is what this section of MultiPurposeWoman is about. We'll also learn about lot about self talk and journal keeping.

Phrase 2 1/2: Learn to split words and phrases

The terms personal-growth and self-improvement mean different things. I'm not just talking about in that abstract way of “every thing means something different to every person”. I mean each speaks to a different process that could be helpful at different times. While acknowledging that the connotations might vary from person to person it's important to define each and operate from those definitions if you are really interested in achieving either state.

How are diaries different from journals?

Again, with the necessary word splitting. Some people use the words diary and journal to refer to the same thing. We're not going to do that.

For our purposes of personal growth and self-improvement, let's define a diary as a stream-of-consciousness record of happenings with a focus on the personal feelings of the diarist. Diaries are not about self-improvment or growth of any kind. They are for spewing and musing and expelling thoughts/feelings that are clogging up your head.

Journals have a more specific purpose. And journal keeping is a process worth exploring deeply. We'll do that together here at MultiPurposeWoman's Random Interviews and Self-Knowing section.