Steem Women club Engagement Contest | Describe What you do for Personal Development | by @pearlofwisdom

Hello there welcome to my blog once again. This is another engagement challenge and this time I'm writing in the Steem Women Community on the topic "Activities that I do to improve my personal and career development".

Here we talk about what we do to improve ourselves, which in turn makes us better.

As you read my post I hope you enjoy it.

There are so many activities that can be done to develop yourself. It can be in the form of physical training, it can be digital, and it can be spiritual.

Here are some of the things that I do to develop myself every day.

Engagement on the Steemit Platform

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This has to be my starting point because I have really improved since joining the Steemit platform. I noticed that since I joined Steemit, there has been a marked improvement in my abilities to assimilate and comprehend things. Not that I didn't have these abilities, but there has been an improvement that even I have noticed and I'm overwhelmed.

It has also made me improve as a writer. Writing a lot of articles has made me improve my writing abilities. I also see that I get to have a lot of information as I research articles and I then know how to put them in their respective places.

in addition to improving my writing skills, it has also improved my research skills. Now I can research a given topic to get the desired information that I need to put in my write-up. This has also made me learn a lot of things in the process.

I have also learned how to communicate with others. As it is well known, Steemit is a social platform where users interact with each other in the form of writing and get paid. That said when a user writes a post other users can engage the post by commenting on it. This way has improved the way I communicate with others online and offline. Because we are encouraged to comment on people's posts with good comments, it has changed the way I engage with people normally.

Reading Books

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There is a saying "a room without a book, is like a body without a soul". This saying holds true as reading books helps to grow a man.

By reading books, you get knowledge of things that you previously didn't know existed. It opens up you to certain realities that you wouldn't have experienced if you didn't read books. It also opens you up to see that you can achieve anything because of some of the writings in books.

The book I'm currently reading is on Copywriting. I hope to someday be a great copywriter, so I'm reading some books about it. The beauty about it is that with the digital world, you can read books using your phone. So I have been reading the book using the pdf application installed on my phone.

I have learned a lot about copywriting and it has given me perspective on how to be a good marketer. It has also opened my eyes to see how professionals do with trying to make people get interested in a product or service.

Listening to Tapes and Messages

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One of my favorites is listening to the messages of speakers. By doing so you get a whole world of information that the speaker is giving out for free. It also speaks directly to your soul, because this time you are not just reading it and trying to process the information you are reading, you are getting everything directly from the source.

Now, this act can be for either message given in the church or from a great speaker that you admire so much. They both have the same effect as the messages are given directly to you and your brain accepts them immediately.

The sweet thing about messages is that you can always pause and go back to it at any time you like. You can repeat it countless times by rewinding the part you want to listen to and you can also fast forward it anyhow you like.

Paying For Courses

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This is another way I try to develop myself. It is a sure-fire way because you are paying for something that you so greatly desire. By paying for it you get the content that you wish to have which helps you get the requisite knowledge to get to where you want to go.

It is also a very specific activity because you are paying to get something in a particular area. In the past, I have paid for some online courses like WhatsApp Building, PayPal Business, and Social Media Growth.

The WhatsApp building is a course that allows you to build your contact list on the social platform called WhatsApp. It is one of the best platforms that anyone can be in because it allows you to have direct access to people. In this way, you can have direct contact with thousands of people on your phone. Another benefit is that it also helps foster your business. By having that amount of people on your phone you can make sales for whatever product or service that you are into.

The Social Media Growth business follows the same pattern as you are going to grow your social media presence in the online world.

If you notice some of these courses are business and money-related. It's simple, personal development also includes financial development, because without strong finance you become stagnated and as such, you won't grow (develop). By getting these courses you are creating an aspect of yourself that would help you do well financially.

Spending Some Time in an Eatery

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This is another part of my personal development routine. I sometimes go to an Eatery to relax and unwind after a long period of work.

During this time, after eating I just sit and watch people when they come in and go out. Doing this always makes me realize some aspect of life itself, it also makes me appreciative of still breathing and still being alive.

Seeing so many people without any form of work and without any need to connect with them or contact them shows me how much there is to this life. By looking at them you begin to see other humans like you breathing in and out and presenting themselves in different styles and appearances.

It actually helps a lot in developing yourself.