Personality Development is the key to success. How often you hear this from your teachers, mentors/coach, on the banners of institute. On a large scale of usage this term signals toward its importance in today’s modern life. Personality development help everybody to be positive in attitude, performance and personality in life.
What is personality development?
Personality development is a method of developing a series of feature or characteristics which improve the overall personality of a person.
10 Personality Development Tips
1. Try to be a Patient/Better Listener
When in a conversation most of us tend to have an urge to speak our mind instantly. True is that to be a good listener achieving better personality in his life. Those are actually a great at listening first is the best conversation. When you talks with someone or someone talks with you, listen with passion and give them all the attention and respect. Keep an eye contact direct to speaker and do not get confused by the surroundings. This will help you knowing better about the people and accompanying them in a better way. Not only just take time to listen the words but also try to understand the full message. This way you can be a better listener. Please remember that a good listener become a good speaker. It will help you develop your personality.
2. Always be happy and lively
Abraham Lincoln said that “People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be”.
Audrey Hepburn said that “The most important thing is to enjoy your life-to be happy-it’s all that matters”. “If you want to be happy, be”. Leo Tolstoy
Try to see the joy and fun in the world of your life. Laugh with others, but not at them. Everyone admire someone who is lively and jovial. Smiling and laughing a lot will be a huge part of having a great personality. It will help you development of personality.
3. Try to stay calm in tense situations
Always try to stay calm and cool . We think most of us have a good personality until we are in tense situation. Under tense situation a lot of people lose their coolness. Try to remain relaxed and calm under tense situation and look that what you could do to resolved the situation.
4. Become a Good Learner
Good learning skills of a person are truely appritiateable. Everybody should have an interest to learn new things at life. Learn from the mistake done in past and don’t let yourself repeat the same mistakes. Learn learn and learn there are no alternative of learning.
“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” – John Powell
“All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.” – Winston Churchill
5. Develop Leadership Qualities
If you want to be a good leader you need to develope your personality. Leadership is not only mean that how you can drive your troops or your subordinates. It means that how well you can manage your subordinates or troops to achieve a particular task. Always try to do as you say. Set an example to your subordinates.
“Leadership grows like tall trees. It needs both toughness and flexibility – toughness for accountability – flexibility to adapt changes with a compassionate & caring heart for self and others.”
― Amit Ray, Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management
6. Be Confident
Confident is the key to development of personality. Always be confident about yourself that you can do this. Never bring off doubt in your mind about your capabilities and your efforts. Gain confidence by reading success stories. Believe yourself and determine that you are confident enough to do any job or handle any situation. Being confident is the most vital part to development of personality.
7. Improve Your Communication Skills
Communication skill is one of the most important part of personality. The way you are speaking which reflects that who are you. While talking try to be gentle and polite with your words. English is the international language so try to improve your English speaking. You can read English newspapers and magazines. Always think before you speak and try to use simple word.
8. Correct Body Language
Try be positive all the time with your body language. Body language plays a vital role to judge a person’s confidence and personality. It speaks the volume of our personality and improve your verbal communication skills. Body language tells a lot about yourself and helps people’s in making guess about you. When communicating or interacting with others try to make use of positive posture. Try to avoid of your bad habits and find out how to leave them permanently. Body language is something may help you develop personality.
9. Dress Up Well
Keep in mind that how you should dress up for any occasion, party or office. Everybody should wear according to the situation and according to how well the attire suits him/her. Good looks no doubt will add to your personality but what matters the most is how you are dressed up. You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure. It plays the vital role in personality development.
10. Handle your emotions and Try Become a Leader
Emotions sometimes may get painful. Emotions is something you need to control yourself otherwise your opponent will take control of you. Whatever you know and learn try to use them nicely.This will help you stay calm and in correct place during challenging situations. Express yourself to your subordinates and always try to do what you say. Become an authority in whatever situation you tackle.
“Never strike out of anger if at all possible, this will give your enemy the advantage and strengthen his resolve and psyche” ― Soke Behzad Ahmadi
“Remember, NO ONE has the right to control your emotions, thoughts, and actions, unless you let them.”
― Kevin J. Donaldson“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” – John C. Maxwell
