Steemit Engagement Contest4 ; What I do for personal development by @msquaretk

Hello everyone. I hope you are good wherever you are seeing this post from. I am glad to submit my entry in Steemwomen club community in this fourth week of steemit engagement challenge. The past three weeks were awesome. I hope this week will also be great. This week, the steemwomen club has created a new challenge titled "Describe what you do for personal development". I'm going to be sharing what I actually do for personal development. I hope you find it interesting and encouraging. Let's get started.

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What I Do for Personal Development

Like I said, I will be sharing what I do for personal development. I will take them one after the other. Personal development is one of the important things everyone needs to be doing. The world is moving and we can't just sit down and don't develop ourselves. If you set goals and don't develop yourself, you may not be able to meet those goals. So it's important that we keep developing ourselves to better ourselves and change our world.

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Reading the Scriptures

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One of the things I do to improve myself spiritually is reading the Bible. I have learnt that, if I want to be sound spiritual, I need to take reading the scripture serious. And so I read the Bible daily to keep myself fit and alert spiritually.

_{A Picture of a Portion in my Bible}

Reading the Bible makes me develop spiritually. It strengthens my faith in God, especially when I read His promises.

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Reading Motivational Books

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Another thing I do for personal development is reading motivational books. I have found out that motivation helps in developing me spiritually, mentally, emotionally, financially and every other area. I have read quite a lot of motivational books which have blessed my life. When I read motivational books, I learn from experience of authors, how they faced a challenge and how they were able to overcome the challenge, what they have done to improve themselves, and many more.

"Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn" by John C Maxwell is one of the books that has blessed my life so much. I learnt that mistakes, failures and challenges of life are inevitable, but we can learn to handle them. You see, you can't win all of the time, but you can learn all of the time. And if you keep learning, you will win eventually.

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_{A Picture showing some of my books}

Currently, I'm reading "As a man thinketh and the eighth pillars of prosperity" by James Allen and "Quiet Steps to Becoming Prodigal" by Lanre Adeboye. The image below shows these books.

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_{A Picture of the book I'm currently reading}

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_{A Picture of the book I'm currently reading}

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Trainings and Seminars

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Further, attending trainings and seminars are what are I do to develop myself. I attend seminars or trainings in line with my career. For example, I have attended training on renewable energy which is part of what I have interest in. Also, last year, I attended a training tagged "Waste to Wealth Initiative" organized by the Planet 3R. The goal of the training was to reduce the waste in our environment by recycling it so as to encourage the reuse of waste. The pictures below shows us at the training

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_{A Picture of us at Planet 3R}

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This picture belowshows the bag made from sachet water nlyon. The sachet water nylon was recycled and converted to sustainable products.

_{A Picture of us holding sustainable products at Planet 3R}

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The last training I attended was in March 2022. In this training, I learnt about business and career. The main speaker really tried, he encouraged us not give up and that we can achieve whatever we set our hearts on. The picture below shows my brother and I at the event center we used after the training.

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_{A Picture of My Brother and me at the Event Center After the training}

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Surfing the Internet

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In addition to the things I have shared I do for personal development, I also surf the internet. There are some of the things going on in the world that one may not know or aware of if you don't surf the internet and read about them. Knowing what's going on will keep you updated and learn one or two things about other countries or communities.

There are many reasons I surf the internet. Part of the reasons is what I have mentioned, to get updated. Another reason is to learn new things being put on the internet, especially when someone share something with me. I will want to know if the thing is real or genuine. I also surf the internet to Lea more about cryptocurrencies and blockchains. For example, during trading competition in the Steemit Crypto Academy, I used the internet, google to learn a lot about cryptocurrencies and their developers.

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Writing

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Moreso, writing is another important thing I do for personal development. I have learnt to keep on writing. There's no way to develop your writing skill, except by writing. Part of it is what I'm doing now, I'm writing. Also, I write motivational qoute daily which I call daily drive. I not only use that for personal development, but also use it to motivate people around me. Below is an example of daily drive qoute I do.

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_{A Picture of My Daily Drive Qoute}

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_{A Picture of My Daily Drive Qoute}

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Mediation

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Furthermore, I do meditate daily to think through some things. Mediation has a way of helping one see where one needs to improve on. When I feel frustrated or I'm going one challenge or the other, I like to be alone and meditate. I use some verses of scriptures to mediate and think through the issues. Sometimes, when we engage in mediation, we will discover how to overcome the challenge of lives.

As a matter of fact, one we give ourselves time to think through what we are thinking about, we will realize that it's even not worth thinking about in the first place. Challenges of life are inevitable, but we can learn to mediate and think through them to have victory over them.

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Conclusion

In this post, I have been able to share some of the things I do for personal development. I hope you have found some of them interesting. You can let me know if you do any of what I have shared in the comment box and let's see if we have some things in common. Thank you all for reading.

I invite @jueco, @steemdoctor1, @ebunoluwani @patience90, @beautybb, @temitopef, @nane15, @fredquantum, @patjewell, @beckie96830, @badmus-official and @msquaretwins to participate in this contest.

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