Why Personal Growth Techniques Do not Always Work, and When They Do

Sometimes, after reading about the results of personal growth techniques, people start enthusiastically repeating affirmations, visualizing and using various inner growth techniques.

They expect immediate results and might get them if they aim at minor changes in their life.

Gaining immediate results can make you feel happy and satisfied. However, change can take time when it comes to more important matters.

You might feel frustration, anger, and bewilderment if you don’t get immediate results. This can make you wonder whether these techniques work at all. Sometimes, this conclusion might lead you to abandon the whole matter.

This is quite a common occurrence, and you might have faced this situation yourself.

Ups and Downs in Personal Growth

After reading a book or attending a workshop on personal development, the law of attraction or any other subject related to personal development, you become inspired and motivated. You suddenly discover that you can make changes in your life.

You start practicing what you have learned and soon obtain visible results.

This makes you feel joyful and satisfied, but suddenly, nothing seems to work anymore. You affirm and visualize or follow other techniques, but nothing happens. This can be pretty frustrating.

In this situation, some people might abandon their hopes and expectations, feeling they are facing a wall.

Others continue reading book after book or participate in endless workshops, believing that this will help them understand better what they need to do.

This behavior can become an obsession with reading one book after another and going from one workshop to another.

Ups and downs, motivation and lack of motivation, obtaining results, and then stopping seeing progress are common in every area of life. It would be best if you had patience and perseverance to succeed.

Why Personal Growth Techniques Do not Always Work

Sometimes personal growth techniques do not work. They might work at first, and then stop bringing result.

Here Are the Reasons:

1) When you first learn about techniques that can change and improve your life, you become enthusiastic and motivated. It suddenly dawns on you that you can improve your life. You act with emotion, desire, motivation, and happiness, bringing fast results.

2) It is not always possible to stay feeling “high”. Even if you get results, motivation, elation, and emotions might begin to wane, and without them, nothing seems to happen. You stop directing emotional energy into your desires.

3) Minor goals, such as getting a check for $100 or finding a parking space, do not require so much dedication, persistence, and skills, such as owning a business of your own or making big money.

4) After making some minor changes in your life and finding that the techniques work, you desire to do something bigger, but now you face a problem:

• A) You might discover that there is nothing in particular that you want to achieve.
• B) There isn’t enough desire force to achieve big goals.
• C) You don’t know what you want to achieve.
• D) There is a lack of patience because bigger goals require more time to achieve and sometimes also require certain skills and knowledge that you need to acquire.
• E) Too big goals require a certain character and mental and emotional makeup that you may not possess.
• F) You might discover that you do not wish to make big changes in your life. Many prefer the life they know and don’t want to make changes.
• G) Achieving success requires patience, self-discipline, and persistence, but you don’t possesses enough of these qualities.
• H) Success with affirmations, visualization, and the law of attraction depends on several factors. One of them is the ability to think big and see far beyond your current lifestyle and circumstances. However, not everyone is able or willing to do so.

The same holds true when you try to improve your concentration skills and practice meditation.

Stay Persistent

You might notice progress in the beginning, and then it seems that you arrive at a standstill. The remedy is, of course, being persistent and not giving up.

Do not feel bad about it. This is all part of a natural inner growth process.

Inner growth, personal development, affirmations, and visualization do work, but they require dedication.

It is as if you are at first shown that they do work, get some personal proof so that you believe that they work, but then you need to work harder to make progress.

Some understanding and knowledge about a few techniques are not enough. You need to persist despite the difficulties and delays you might face. You need to acknowledge the difficulties and problems on the way.

By browsing this website, you will find various techniques to improve yourself and your life, strengthen your motivation, and increase your prospects of progressing with any personal growth you choose.