Kukatpally Bhagyanagar
Personality Development-
A Synopsis
Every effort is bound to bring success and satisfaction proportional to the attempt. Personality development is essential for success in any sphere. The development of personality calls for hard work, dedication, commitment and internalization of what is learnt.
Meaning of Personality:
Your personality is the type of person you are, which is shown by the way you behave, feel and think
Whole nature or character of a person
Mind plays a vital role for determining the behavior, feelings and thinking of a person under certain circumstances. Appearance, mannerisms, and speech do not reflect the real personality. We should have a clear grasp of the nature of our mind, and how it functions.
Why we should know our mind?
In order to execute the resolutions we make, our mind should be well trained and disciplined. We should take control of our mind from wandering.
What are the functions of the mind?
Memory: Past experiences and memories present various possibilities before the mind. The mind stores the good and bad impressions and the sum total of these impressions determine our character.
Deliberation: The mind examines the many options presented before it and deliberates on several things.
Decision making: It is the aspect of a person to discriminate between the real and the unreal, the moral and immoral. The will power is very essential for personality development to make decisions.
Self-consciousness: Human life is dictated by events and circumstances of the world. Once the mind gets refined one gets to know the real source of self-consciousness and becomes balanced.
What is character?
The impressions in our mind determine how we behave at a given moment, how we behave at a given moment, how we respond to a given situation. The sum total of all our impressions determines our character.
Personality Development- Essential Qualities:
Positive thinking
Self confidence
Learning from mistakes
Self reliance
Service
Personal magnetism of a person is what impresses others and hence it is personality that counts. The person who influences is a dynamo of power and when the person is ready, he/she can do anything and everything he/she likes. The person who has control over his own mind definitely will have control over every other mind.
The cause of all miseries is that we think pleasure to be the ideal to strive for. After a time we find that it is not happiness, but knowledge, towards which we are going and that both pleasure and pain are great teachers, and that we learn as much from evil as from good.
Our mind gets impressions for every work that we do, every movement of the body, every thought we think. What we are is decided by the sum total of these impressions on the mind. A person’s character is determined by the sum total of these impressions. The character becomes good if good impressions influence. If we continuously hear bad words, think bad thoughts, does bad actions our mind will be full of bad impressions, and influence our thought and work.
We have to control our negative emotions in order to build our personality. We have to be friendly towards others, merciful towards those in misery, happy when people are happy, and indifferent to the wicked people.
Before trying to change the people around we have to change ourselves. We have to own the responsibility ourselves for the past, present and future. Let us not throw blame on others, for our faults. We make our own future by taking the whole responsibility on our shoulders. We are the creators of our own destiny.
Let us do well and be good towards the poor. Let us not have any selfish motives and be patient in carrying out the work assigned.
Improving our strength stepwise we may reach a state in which it shall be our privilege to do the most coveted and honored duties in life and society.
A person who helps the world helps himself. Thinking of ourselves first results in selfishness, being unselfish brings success.
A person who shows heroism shall be acknowledged great by the world. Having faith in oneself is one of the essential traits for personality development.
A person develops his personality by innovation but not imitation. Sympathy towards fellowmen is an ethical part of personality development.
All success in any line of work is the result of concentration. We are all equal and inequality should not be practiced.
One should go ahead with commitment and execute the tasks assigned for a fully developed personality.
