Brian Tracy - Personal Development & Attracting Success

Brian Tracy talking about faith, setting goals, how to get rich, increasing your probability in becoming healthy, wealthy, successful.

Critical Questions for SWOT analysis

You may find the the transferable skills questionnaire useful when answering some of the questions about your strengths and weaknesses.

When considering the opportunities and threats in your field of work, looking at job descriptions may give you a clearer idea of what is required to progress in your field.

Strengths

•          What are your advantages?

•          What do you do well?

•          Why did you decide to enter your field upon graduation/ leaving school?

•          What were the motivating factors and influences?

•          Do these factors still represent some of your inherent strengths?

•          What need do you expect to fill within the University/ your department?

•          What have been your most notable achievements?

•          To what do you attribute your success?

•          How do you measure your success?

•          What knowledge or expertise will you bring to the University that may not have been available before?

•          What is your greatest asset?

Weaknesses

•          What could be improved?

•          What do you do badly?

•          What should you avoid?

•          What are your professional weaknesses?

•          How do they affect your job performance? (These might include weakness in technical skill areas or in leadership or interpersonal skills.)

•          Think about your most unpleasant experiences in school or in past jobs and consider whether some aspect of your personal or professional life could be a root cause.

Opportunities

Where are the promising prospects facing you?

What is the "state of the art" in your particular area of expertise?

Are you doing everything you can to enhance your exposure to this area?

What formal training and education can you add to your credentials that might position you appropriately for more opportunities?

Would an MBA or another graduate degree add to your advantage?

How quickly are you likely to advance in your chosen career?

Useful opportunities can come from such things as:

•          Changes in technology and markets on both a broad and industry-specific scale

•          Changes in government policy related to your field

•          Changes in social patterns, population profiles, lifestyle changes, etc.

Threats

What obstacles do you face?

Are the requirements for your desired job field changing?

Does changing technology threaten your prospective position?

What is the current trend line for your personal area of expertise?

Could your area of interest be fading in comparison with more emergent fields?

Is your chosen field subject to internal politics that will lead to conflict?

Is there any way to change the politics or to perhaps defuse your involvement in potential disputes?

How might the economy negatively affect your future company and your work group?

http://pd.nottingham.ac.uk/eng/Personal-Development/Planning/Self-Analysis-Tools/Critical-Questions

99 Personal Development Questions Your Brain Will Thank You For

There is a saying ‘ask the right questions and you’ll get the right answer’.

Perhaps too many of us are asking questions that limit our thinking. Or we declare statements to the world which limit all the possibilities.

Going by experience, you’ll probably skim the questions below, that’s okay, that ones that need to stand out to you will show themselves to you. (Not spooky, you actually can probably read much faster than you think you can!)

Who do you blame?

Do you play to work, or work to play?

When did you last laugh so much it hurt?

Can you picture the child you once were?

What advice would you give the ‘5 year old you’?

If you woke up tomorrow with no fear, what would you do first?

What was your biggest worry five years ago, do you still feel the same about it at this minute?

What’s the most marvellous thing you have ever seen with your own eyes?

Who did you last gossip about, how do you feel about it now?

What promises have you never carried through for yourself?

If you could change one personal rule, what would it be?

What relationships have ended? But you can’t let go?

Are you a starter or a finisher?

Where would you take a road trip?

Who in your life do you wish you’d met sooner?

Have you ever expected ‘love in return’? Did you get it?

When did you last say thank you and sincerely mean it?

Can you remember what present you received on your last birthday? Who did you spend it with?

When did you last talk yourself out of something when deep down you wanted to do it?

Do you always want the answer to ‘what are you thinking about?’

Who do you need to get in touch with because it’s been to long?

When did you last do something for nothing in return?

Do you live your life around days of the week?

When did your heart last ‘skip a beat’? Why?

How are things going for you, now?

How do Mondays feel for you?

Do your practice ‘self love’ or ‘self loathing’?

What’s your greatest achievement to date?

What must you do daily to keep yourself ‘sane’ ?

Is a year past more important than the next hour to come?

What scares you about your future? Does it matter if it isn’t even here yet?

If you could spend ten minutes with your ‘hero’ alive or dead what would you ask them?

How many hours a week do you spend watching tele and on the internet? How many hours do you spend alone with you?

If we all died at 35, what have you still to do? What did you miss?

If you had to move country tomorrow, where would you go?

What answers are you seeking about your life?

Why does pizza come in a square box?

What are you just not seeing?

Would you love to spend quality time with you?

What aspects of you, do you keep hidden from close friends but expose to loved ones?

Do you like the sound of your own voice? How does it sound when you are complaining?

When did you last listen to the sound of your own breathing?

Are you a goal setter or a ‘whatever will be, will be’ person?

When did you last judge someone who you didn’t know?

What do you need to learn but won’t admit to?

What would you call your autobiography?

How would you hate to be described?

What genius would you be? Why?

When did you last make a mistake and be okay with it?

What would happen if you knew you could not fail?

How does it feel to be photographed?

What do you wish you had invented?

Is trust more important than love, or is it the other way round?

If you could erase an event from your mind, which one would you choose?

What learning from today are you taking into tomorrow?

What makes you special, unique and talented?

If you could ‘dare yourself’ what would it be?

What would your perfect day look like?

What life legacy are you leaving?

Who do you dispose your garbage on?

Are you living your life, or having a life?

What have you given up but used to love?

What one thing do you need to do next to improve your life?

Do you want your children (if you have any) to be ‘just like you’?

Do you stand for what you believe in or are you pleasing others?

What do you consistently attract in your life that is no longer good enough for you?

What questions here have you skipped over because they are too hard for you to handle?

Are you playing games with yourself where the rules are preventing you from reaching your goals?

What does praise and admiration sound like to you?

What does the life you want to live look like?

What risk do you need to take?

How long are you going to be dead?

Would you fall head over heels in love with you?

Are you making your difference in the world or stagnating?

If you woke up tomorrow with a habit gone, what would it be?

If money were no concern, what would you do for the rest of your life?

What negative experience keep happening time and time again for you? When are you going to learn from them?

What (or whom) drains your energy, why do you let it happen?

Where in your life do you give up accountability?

What’s your earliest memory of achievement?

What does it feel like to change?

Is tomorrow really another day?

What are you thankful for, this moment?

Do you need to see things before you believe them?

If your life were a TV programme, what would it be?

Would you rather be poor and healthy or rich and ill?

If you could learn a new skill today, what would it be?

What in your life exhilarates you? Do you do enough of it?

Do you have any questions you are scared to ask yourself?

When did you last argue with yourself? Was it purposeful?

Would you defend a loved one, if they were breaking the law?

When did you last say something and automatically regret it?

Can you hear your enemies talk about you? What are they saying?

If you could talk to everyone in the world for 5 minutes, what would you say?

Who’s permission are you wanting on to achieve your goals? Will it actually come?

When is the right time to start a new goal?

When did you last speak well of you?

When did you last lie and regret it?

Would you risk making a mistake?

http://dawnbarclay.com/99-personal-development-questions-your-brain-can-thank-you-for

10 Power Questions to Improve Your Personal Development

How much time do you really spend on your personal development?

Today I want to ask you ten questions about your personal development and I’d like you to give yourself a score out of 10 for each question. After each question there’s a few other questions to help you answer the main question. Just give yourself a score out of ten for each of the main questions in bold.

Question 1: How clear are you about where you are going in life?

Do you know what you want from life? Do you know where you are going in life? do you have plans to get to where you want to go?

Question 2: How competent are you in the things you do in life?

Do you do just enough in your work to get by? Do you have mastery over the different areas of your life and work? Do you need to learn more to become more competent?

Question 3: How confident are you as a person?

How confident are you in general? How confident do you feel within yourself in new surroundings? How confident do you feel speaking up?

Question 4: How open are you to asking for help in your life?

Can you ask for help, when needed, or do you tend to struggle along?

Question 5: How expressive are you about your thoughts, feelings and life plans?

Can you express your thoughts and feelings to others when required or do you keep everything inside?

Question 6: How creative are you as a person?

Do you express your creativity in life, at work, at home?

Question 7: How open are you when it comes to trying new things in life?

Are you able to try new things without fear of embarrassment? Do you try new things without really bothering what others think?

Question 8: How empathetic are you as a person?

Can you put yourself in someone else’s shoes to see things from their point of view? Are you open to listening to what others feel? Are you open to different beliefs?

Question9: How true to your beliefs and values do you live your life?

Do you live your life according to your beliefs and values or do you stray from them when things get a little tough? Do you listen to others first before putting your own values first?

Question 10: How much control do you have over your own emotions?

Can you control your anger? Can you show your emotions appropriately? Do you think irrationally a lot?

Your score

Once you have completed this, add all the scores together to give yourself a score out of 100 – What was your score?

What do you notice about all the questions above?

All the questions are internally driven. So there are no external factors involved in trying to improve these areas of your life, it’s all you.

This means that if you worked on each area above and tried to improve your score by 1 or 2, your life would improve dramatically. Not only that, but if you improve your score in one area it will have a knock on effect in other areas of your life, so improving each of the above ears has a cumulative effect on other areas e.g. If you improved how clear you were about what you are doing in life, this would improve your confidence, your competence, and your determination to live by your values. So all of the areas are intertwined and have a knock on effect on each other.

Asking questions like these often enough will keep you focused about your personal development and willingness to improve your life in all different areas. Breaking it down into questions like these don’t make the task of personal development so daunting, and it gives us areas to focus on and try and improve.

What areas could you improve upon?

http://www.stevenaitchison.co.uk/blog/10-power-questions-to-improve-your-personal-development/

Jim Rohn - Personal Development

Interesting video from Jim Rohn