Personal growth involves four things: <\/p>\n
(1) Environment.<\/i> You must place yourself in a setting that fosters growth. Certain fish grow according to the size of their surroundings. If you keep them in a small tank they stay small, but when you release them into the ocean they grow to their intended size. The same principle applies to you. You must spend your time with the right crowd, in the right place, doing the right things, in order to grow. <\/p>\n
(2) Strength.<\/i> Leadership expert Peter Drucker said: \u2018The great mystery isn\u2019t that people do things badly, but that they occasionally do a few things well. The only thing that\u2019s universal is incompetence. Strength is always specific!\u2019 When you try to be good at everything, you end up being good at nothing. God gave you specific strengths\u2014identify them and use them. <\/p>\n
(3) Change.<\/i> Most of us want things to get better without having to change anything. The Bible says, \u2018Let us\u2026 be taken forward to maturity.\u2019<\/i> (Hebrews\u00a06:1\u00a0NIV<\/sup>) To grow, you must commit yourself to not only accepting change, but to pursuing it. <\/p>\n (4) Enjoyment.<\/i> Most grandmasters of chess learn and relearn their moves over a period of fifteen years before winning their first world title. That\u2019s almost one-fifth of their lives! If you\u2019re going to spend that much time doing something, you\u2019d better enjoy it! If the destination appeals to you but you\u2019re not enjoying the journey, you\u2019d be wise to seek God\u2019s guidance and make sure you\u2019re heading in the right direction. If you\u2019re on the wrong train, don\u2019t keep going\u2014get off at the next station!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Personal growth involves four things: (1) Environment. You must place yourself in a setting that fosters growth. Certain fish grow according to the size of their surroundings. If you keep them in a small tank they stay small, but when you release them into the ocean they grow to their intended size. The same principle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}