Have you done an individual growth checklist on your lifestyle lately? Many goals are never reached due to absence of self-assessments. It is frightening and overwhelming to sit and have to face yourself. Yet, in order for personal growth to happen, it is precisely what you must do.

Get yourself a tiny notebook to be used for all thoughts concerning you. Inside these pages you will continue notes, to-do lists, inspirations and fundamentally, everything about you. When becomes a life management bible. Seeing who we are in written form is magic to personal growth. There is value contained here about your aim in living. By privately writing down your daily to-do’s, aspirations, or even 5 year plans, these pages outline where your our life’s are going. Where your life has been. The notebook becomes your intimate novel to personal growth growth. It makes you self- conscious of your behaviors and addictions. It puts your dreams in your face to incite self-actualization. In spite of how terrifying the pen gets, you have chance to change the way you live on the very next page.

Getting your personal growth I.Q. involves mastering the pages you’ve written about yourself into new pages of re-inventing yourself and your circumstances. It is through doing an even assessment of the way you live, and bravely finding new means to approach setbacks. Questions about who you are and where you are planning are constant within these pages. You have made yourself accountable for your life by writing everything down. It is easier to take personal responsibility for what happens to you if you acknowledge it with a pen. You cannot grow if you don’t know. So much happens to us among a day and can easily be missed as a chance for growth. By keeping notes, it can be measured and evaluated. Days can melt into months, and years, leaving us in the exact same spot as we began. And then the moment comes where we wonder why our life didn’t come the way we planned. This is why time moves forward, and so should we.

Consider this self bible your lifestyle directions. Critique yourself honestly. Applaud the little successes you see, because had you not wrote them down you probably would have missed them entirely. Our life’s are a nonstop process of renewal and opportunity. To measure your personal development growth I.Q., remember on the pages of yesterday and see if you have climbed ladders or fell steps down. What can be discovered? What is within your power to change? How will you recreate yourself in small ways the next day? Even a step different than the one before begins a new path. By writing all of you down on paper you have induced yourself aware of you. Consciousness acknowledges our existence in this world.

An added bonus to purging your thoughts on paper is the release. What is in your body should come out to keep a nourishing mind and attitude. This is why journals exist. This is a reason people have day timers and diaries. Humans can take in so much facts daily, and then swirl it around into a notion or opinion, even a stressor. It is imperative to good mental health to release all this a different place–preferably to paper and not another person.

Incite good things to happen in your lifetime. Help the process through timely self-assessments. Re-invent yourself through writing. Face the written words and change them.