PERSONAL GROWTH VS SELF ACTUALIZATION

ACHIEVING SELF ACTUALIZATION

PERSONAL GROWTH vs SELF ACTUALIZATION

PERSONAL GROWTH CAN SIMPLY DEFINED AS THE PROCESS OF GROWING.........................

Personal growth is the process of learning new things ,accepting new things , expanding our horizon and generally improving ourselves , the list of descriptions can go on and on but i'm sure you get the picture , this process can also be described as self growth or personal development.
All of these terms are process. None are destinations. Self-actualization on the other hand is a destination. It is a state of being. If we grow or develop in our daily lives, we can become self-actualized.
Dr. Abraham Maslow first coined the term "self actualization. This is what he had to say on the subject:
"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be. This is the need we may call self-actualization ... It refers to man's desire for fulfillment, namely to the tendency for him to become actually in what he is potentially: to become everything that one is capable of becoming ..."
But self-actualization is also a process. Nobody arrives at a point where they can simply say, "Now I am self-actualized. I don't need to grow anymore." Simply put, personal growth is a fundamental element of self-actualization , but clearly a very important one.
To achieve self actualization you must feel at ease with your personal growth path , you must be happy with yourself and what you do and not find achievement a strain, if you do you will have grown personally and reached some of your life goals but you will not have self actualized, simply because the sense of comfort in achievement eludes you.

Personal growth is very important, but you want to achieve the ultimate heights and happiness which is self actualization .

"This above all, to thine own self be true."
William Shakespeare.

This definition by Dr. Abraham Maslow, who first coined the term "self-actualization".
For everything there is a season,
And a time for every matter under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
A time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn, and a time to dance
A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to seek, and a time to lose;
A time to keep, and a time to throw away;
A time to tear, and a time to sew;
A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate,
A time for war, and a time for peace.