Areas of Life That You Can Improve with A Personal Development Plan

A personal development plan can enhance your life in every single way. It doesn’t matter if it’s your love life or your professional life you want to improve. Crafting a plan will help with all aspects of your life. Let’s explore the different ways in which you can improve your life with a personal development plan.

• Career – When you construct a plan for your working life, it’ll help you become more aware of your skills, including identifying skill gaps. You can then focus on areas to study as well as help you locate sources of information that you will use to move forward in your career.

• Love/Marital – One of the most important aspects of any human being’s life is their relationships with their spouse or life partner. Embarking on personal development can help you improve your experiences in many ways by focusing on you and how you can change and react rather than others. 

• Intellectual – Most people who use any type of personal development have a love for lifelong learning. Even if you don’t right now, as you work on yourself, you’ll be able to identify ways you can boost your intellectual abilities by going back to school, reading more books, listening to podcasts an so forth but with a plan, so you learn the things that help you more.

• Emotional – As emotional creatures, emotions play a bit part in our lives, with little thought on our part. Learning how you use them can help you become more thoughtful about your actions. You’ll learn how to take time to consider your actions before acting emotionally. Even if you have severe issues like high anxiety, professional development plans can help you deal with it if you are honest from the start. 

• Physical – If you want to improve almost anything about your physical appearance such as by losing weight, or gaining muscle, or taking steps to look and feel younger a personal development plan can identify to you want is possible. 

• Family – If you want to experience a more satisfying family life, there are ways to ensure that you do. You just need to know what you want and how to ensure you have it by modifying your behavior when you need to.

• Social – If you want to learn how to become better at networking, making friends, and being there for your friends in social settings, personal development can do that for you too. Again, it’s all about knowing what you want, figuring out the steps needed to achieve it, and then implementing the plan.

• Financial – Your financial life is a big deal and one that a lot of people aren’t managing very well. Stagnant wages, the high cost of necessities, and a poor understanding of money and credit can damage anyone. However, if you make it a priority to learn what you can and then develop and implement a plan for yourself, you will experience a lot more success.

Anything you want to improve about your life in any category can be improved with a well-thought-out crafted personal development plan. It’s a good practice to tackle one thing at a time so that you can perfect your implementation chops before you tackle the next item on the list. Let’s look at this process so that you can get started crafting your personal development plan.

Conducting a SWOT Analysis of Each Area

One of the very first things you need to do when you want to craft a well thought out personal development plan is to choose from the areas above to study more in-depth. You can do all of them at once, or you can do one at a time. 

Regardless, you’ll want to make a list for each of the SWOT analysis areas.

First, for each of the life areas, you may want to work on your goals for that area. You can have more than one goal for any area. When you are setting the goal, look at your life in two years, or five to ten years to see right where you really want to be at that time. 

Once you have written out the goals individually, then, you can conduct the SWOT analysis. 

Goal Example

• Career: Within the next two years, I want to earn $100,000 a month in revenues by selling at least 36 units of our youth skin lotion per day through our retail website by boosting the targeted traffic using social media ads. (Note: Assuming a 2 percent response rate, that means you need to send at least 1800 people to the landing page per day.)

Notice that the goal is a SMART goal. It’s specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and timely. You’ll need to work on writing down your goal for each area of your life that you want to work on improving with a personal development plan. You can have multiple goals for each area of life.

SWOT Analysis

• Strengths – This will include what you’re good at, what helps you move forward, and all your qualifications, resources, and positives you have going into this category for the area of life you’re working on.

Fantastic product, cosmetology expert, large personal Instagram following, personal YouTube channel is growing, and $2500 to devote to ads.

• Weaknesses – This part is critical; you will build on your strengths, but you want to identify the gap so you can improve. You can improve it by learning about it, or you can outsource (or delegate) that to someone else. What do you still need to learn, what do you want to be better at, and don’t forget to identify anything you really dislike doing in that category? 

Need more content, no brand name recognition, competition is fierce on Amazon FBA, don’t know how to run ads yet.

• Opportunities – Depending on the area of life you’re working through right now, you may want to note anything you see as a future opportunity. For example, if you are working on career development and you have identified the potential for internships or certifications that will help note them.

FBA, influencers, social media advertising expert, SEO, PLR, content marketing.

• Threats – Anything you have identified that is a stopper or roadblock to you archiving the goal that you have identified in that area of your life should be listed here. Whether it’s a killer app changing everything or a person you have no control over, or something else, it’s important to note them.

Tariffs, quality control, credit cards, Amazon, not focused, not in belief. 

The point of this exercise is to get to the root of any roadblocks. Find out what is causing the weakness to start with and then work toward fixing that problem is the answer. 

For example, if you cannot tell time, and you choose to work on time management, the first thing you need to tackle is learning to tell time.