Report on Personal Development: Goals, Plans, and Strategies

This report delves into the concept of personal development, emphasizing its significance in enhancing individual skills, self-awareness, and overall life effectiveness. It explores the benefits of personal development, including improved direction, increased motivation, and updated skills. The report examines the value of short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals, providing insights into how each contributes to personal and career advancement. It highlights the importance of setting a foundation, enhancing communication skills, and completing studies successfully as short-term goals. The report further discusses medium-term goals, such as acquiring new skills, achieving financial independence, and starting a business. It also addresses long-term goals, including business success, savings, and building lasting relationships. Finally, the report presents a personal development plan, outlining strategies for skill development and resource allocation to achieve desired outcomes.

Raport on Personal
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BOBY...................................................................................................................................1
Analysing the concept of Personal development.........................................................................1
Determining the short-term goals ...............................................................................................2
Access the value of medium term goals......................................................................................3
Discussing the value of long term goals .....................................................................................4
Development of personal development plan................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Personal development is lifelong process that people assess the skills and qualities, that
consider their aims in life and set goals in order to maximise the potential (Carbonie, Guo and
Cahalane, 2018). This is enhance the employability prospects and learn to attain the quality in
life process and can make relevant, positive decision. In this report it is covered the concept of
personal development and its benefits in life and build the performance in individual and
discussed the value of short term goals, medium term goal and long-term goals. Apart from that
value of personal development is developed with identified goals with certain example is being
studied.
MAIN BOBY
Analysing the concept of Personal development
The concept of personal development is important to build new skills and experience to
improve the overall development in individual and helps in making the whole life very effective.
It is important to build the efficiency and making it worth it in order to achieve the desired
objectives and fulfilling the goals. Some of the benefits of personal development are as follows-
 Provides direction- It is being important to provide direction and build self- awareness
in individual and it makes easier to develop and maintaining the efficiency and pursue in
life and creating the happiness. Some important ways to chase your goals in life is to
design certain values and dreams that will be useful in achieving the desired goals and
objectives (Ekaterine and Natalia, 2017).
 Promotes in self awareness- The main objectives of personal development is to create
self awareness about themselves that what we need to do, what is objective of life and
how to achieve it. Many times it happens that through self evaluation and self awareness
the chances to achieve the desired objective is fulfilled. It makes the life valuable and
achievable and makes it necessary to build a sense of happiness in individual life.
 Increase in motivation- It boost the motivation in every individual who develop the
personal development and adding some value in someone;s life and build that
effectiveness and attain the objectives. To achieve the clear goals, the more productive
need to be achieve that and make more aware about strength and weakness. It is more
essential to being resilient when it comes to face difficult situation and develop the self
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motivation to achieve more higher growth in life. Many of them pursuing their dream
career and giving best in their life.
 Updated CV- It concern with dealing with many situation that will come in way to fulfil
that objectives and through development of personality in individual it will add new skills
and knowledge (Hjort, 2018). It also facilitates in fulfilling the updated CV and this will
enhance the achieving new heights in career.
 Enhance in focus- This develop the focus and effectiveness in individual and make it
more leaned towards their goals and objectives. It is continues journey that never ends
and resist in distraction and ensure commitment in the process of individual. In each step,
this become easier to find actual value and importance of activities and make it more
focused to develop personal development.
Determining the short-term goals
This is important step that comes in deciding the goal and development of personal career
and it necessary to identify the objectives that require to achieve (Horn, 2020). These are short
in time period and could be easily achieved and they are quite easy to fulfil for individual in
continuous basis. The value of short term goal are as follows-
 To set the foundation- This is concern with maintaining the skills that required to
develop in every individual to make it more effective to achieve the objectives. It is being
essential to attain the foundation before setting long term and short-term goals. This is
short term goals that become necessary to build the effectiveness in university career that
is core objective of every student. My short term goal is also to strengthen my academic
skills to achieve desire grades and perform better.
 Enhancing communication skills- This is become important to develop the
communication skills nowadays for everyone to achieve or acquire this skills to be
successful in life. As this will help a lot to survive in competitive market and will help in
development of personality. This is being necessary for every individual to achieve the
desired skills and knowledge and maintaining the efficiency in career growth. My short
term goal is to develop this skill to fulfil my career dream and to develop my overall
personality. This will assist me to add some value in life and will add confidence in me to
face all circumstances in future way. This is core skill that need to have in every
individual to fulfilling their dream and career and I am working in bringing the
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excellence in this particular skills to get better option in future (Johnson, Robertson and
Cooper, 2018).
 Complete study at good level- This make it more effective when someone finishes it
studies to order to decision further about what need to do and what to achieve. In taking
decision this will facilitates in making major decision for future growth and for that it is
essential to focus on completing the studies and achieve good grades. It is like foundation
for every individual to before they start their career and works as foundation in growth.
My short term goal is to complete the studies with good grades and maintain that
effectiveness to find better career options in future and building the foundation.
Access the value of medium term goals
These goals are generally made by many individual as they are easy to fulfil them as
compared to long term goals. There time period varies between three to five years and according
to the success of this goal, many individual formulated there long term goals (Maharaja, 2018).
These decided the achievement and success in life, so it is necessary to carefully concentrate on
this goals while formulating. Following are the values of these goals are as follows-
 Seeking to add new skills- In order to acquire good growth in career, there is need to add
new skills or knowledge in order to fulfil the growth and success in future. It will be
beneficial in many ways as it will facilitates in stands out in the crowd and helpful in
developing personality. I will be looking for adding new skills in my career to develop
my personality and maintaining my effectiveness for future competition.
 Becoming financial dependent- In every individual this is essential to become financial
stable and make enough money to fulfil all dreams and growth. This is important build
the plan through that an individual able to take certain decision to maintained there
efficiency and fulfil the long term plans and build proper execution. It makes a big
difference in decision. My medium term goals is also to make proper plan of financial
activities and start taking action to fulfil that as it become necessary to become
financially dependent in next three to five years. As it will be beneficial for my long term
plans and easy for me to live rest of life in comfortable manner and will be helpful in
future situation.
 Starting own business- Everyone has their own goals and dream to attain in their career
and become necessary to fulfilling it to be happy and successful in life. This is important
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to fulfil the dream and make it worth it and starting own business will be main decision in
life. To achieve major objectives the need to focus is essential and start planning for your
medium-term goals. I have dream to start my own business and I make certain plans and
try to achieve them in order to make it successful in future period. I make it more
effective through extensive research, investment and acquiring practical knowledge is
essential before start my own business. Having adequate planing and organising is
important in this decision.
Discussing the value of long term goals
They decide the long term benefits in career and building the appropriate planning is
essential to make it possible in life (O’Brien and Lomas, 2017). This is become necessary to
satisfy the needs and wants of individual decision to maintain the required growth and fulfilling
long term goals. These are long in period and consist larger period of time to fulfil it and takes
time to achieve the goals. Certain value of long term goals are as follows-
 Successful in business- This need is developed after formulating the medium term goals
and it longer in period and it will take time to achieve long term goals. Successful in
business is necessary to achieve as everyone wants that in their career, as it is become
important to achieve this goal. I have this long term goal to be successful in business and
that can be attain easily if it has planned appropriately and executed accordingly.
 Thinking of savings- To ensure better and comfortable living life, it is become necessary
to start thinking about future savings and make appropriate planning to fulfil all needs. It
is essential to plan about future to cope up with uncertainty and to avoid that
accumulation of savings is essential. To achieve that many planning related to savings
and investment need to make to ensure comfortable and tension free lifestyle in long term
period.
 Building long term relationships- To enjoy in life it is essential to build and manage
trustable relationships in personal and professional life (Osgerby, Marriott and Gee,
2018). This could be friends, family and colleagues and this is will be very helpful in
joyful experience in lifetime. They should be effective part of life and play important role
in everyone' s life. I believe that building long term relationships is necessary to share our
sorrow and happiness and can spend quality time with them.
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Development of personal development plan
Developing personal development plan is necessary to decide that what we want to
achieve and what are resources that is needed to fulfil that (Bertelli, 2017). It is necessary to
build the personal plan to identify future growth. Following is the personal development plan-
Skills to be developed Development plan Resources Target Date
Achieve good grades
in studies
As, I am student and
studied in university,
so my basic
requirement and area
that need to focused is
to achieve good
grades. I have planned
certain methods to
avoid the
circumstances will
distract my studies.
Proper focus is
required to maintained
to get better grades.
Other than that
consulting with
teachers about doubts
is necessary and will
help in getting desired
output.
I required proper
environment to focus
on study and guidance
from teachers.
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Communication skills I am at medium level
in this skills. So I has
to work hard to
achieve this skills. To
master on this I have
Resource that I need in
this are good teacher,
determination. I
require an proficient
teacher that will me to
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to take proper classes
and regular practice of
it to ensure
consistency.
Secondly, I will
participate in many
presentation and take
active interest in many
activities.
achieve this skill.
CONCLUSION
From the above it is concluded that Personal development plan is build to make relevant
decisions that could impact positive and negativity on someone life. It helps in building
motivation, self awareness and increase focus in life to maintained and enable the personal
empowerment. In this report it is disused about the value and importance of short term goal,
medium term goal and long term goal and they help in fulfilling the dreams has been studied.
Apart from that personal development plan has created to achieve the objectives and goal in life
and what are plans that need to be created is analysed.
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