Juicy one for you today. I want to talk about… where personal growth comes from? Have you ever wondered?
Well, it comes from THREE specific places:
1. 
From the crap that happens to us in life: unwanted CURVEBALLS force us to grow, whether we like it or not, to expand to cope with whatever craptastic life event has come our way.
2. 
From positive circumstances that come into our life: new baby / new job / more money / OPPORTUNITIES that are welcome, but stretch us to meet them.
3. 
When we CHOOSE to expand and grow as people by CREATING INTENTIONAL personal growth. This might be signing up for a half-marathon, or for a programme of guided personal growth like my coaching Academy*. This is where you consciously choose you are ready to EXPAND who you are, and who you are BECOMING.
Notice the first two are largely PASSIVE: we grow by default because of what life throws AT us. It’s a kind of uncontrolled personal growth: it just happens TO us, we HAVE to grow to COPE.
The third option is OUR CHOICE. It’s ACTIVE. It’s where we say to ourselves that we are READY for MORE of something in our lives. That we will DELIBERATELY CREATE CHALLENGE for ourselves in order to grow and become the expanded version of ourselves we can be.
The challenge we choose in order to stimulate our personal growth might be:
PHYSICAL (learning to windsurf, dropping eating sugar)
MENTAL (getting on top of our finances or learning techniques to reduce overthinking)
EMOTIONAL (having that difficult conversation we have been avoiding)
Or it might be 
SPIRITUAL in terms of personal expansion (developing a meditation practice)
We CANNOT help but GROW through life because life WILL throw things at us – good and bad, wanted and unwanted – all the way through life…till the day we die! That is a fact. What I find the coolest though…is the people with the CAPACITY to SEEK ADDITIONAL personal growth through CHOICE.
Who actively STEP TOWARDS expansion and make it happen for themselves through challenge, as well as the inevitable coping with what life brings stuff.
However you get your GROWTH, passively or actively, know that it’s all about a reaction to CIRCUMSTANCES.
Either your GROWTH RESPONSE to meet circumstances that happen TO you. This is inevitable.
plus,
Your GROWTH RESPONSE to circumstances you CHOOSE to introduce into your life in order to CHALLENGE and change you.
I want to let you know, that although crap in life does indeed make you grow, there are TWO other ways to do it.
This is a big concept, and I’d love to know if this resonated with you today, Test? Have you been growing more passively, or actively choosing and channelling it?
