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Personal development is the enhancement of specific life skills which are necessary to facilitate happiness and success in one's personal life. These life skills are the basic building blocks that form all the success or failures in life. Personal development skills become the foundation from which all your achievements in life flow from and it has a direct relationship with winning or loosing and life success or failure. Personal development of individuals include goals, plans or actions oriented towards aiming to improve self-awareness, improve self-knowledge, building or renewing identity, developing strengths or talents, identifying or improving potential, building employability or human capital, enhancing lifestyle or the quality of life, realizing dreams, and fulfilling aspirations.
Beyond improving oneself and developing others, personal development is proven a field of practice and research. As a field of practice it includes personal development methods, learning programs, assessment systems, tools and techniques.
Any sort of development requires a framework if one wishes to know whether change has actually occurred. In the case of personal development, an individual often functions as the primary judge of improvement, but validation of objective improvement requires assessment using standard criteria. Personal development frameworks may include goals or benchmarks that define the end-points, strategies or plans for reaching goals, measurement and assessment of progress, levels or stages that define milestones along a development path, and a feedback-system to provide information on changes.
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