The Little Book of Personal Development, Success and Happiness - Second Edition E-Book

Hannu Pirilä

• Herausgeber: Books on Demand
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 95

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Beschreibung

As the title implies, this book discusses the significance of personal development as a key factor in success and happiness. The book is a collection of the most important and useful thoughts and ideas of the author, which will help you to get new insights and make your life better and happier. Since this book in intended to be as comprehensible and easy to read as possible, the thoughts and ideas have been expressed in a compressed form, leaving space for you as a reader to generate your own opinions on things. The book will give you an abundance of ideas and inspiration to go out and explore your own path on your self-development. Self-development is a lifelong journey that requires constant learning and openness to new thoughts and ideas. The goal of the book is to give you the nudge you need to figure out what you really want, what your passion is, and that you will achieve the success and happiness that awaits for you and that belongs to you. This second edition of the book has been updated with some minor changes to the chapters that existed already in the first edition. Moreover, there are now two whole new chapters in this edition to provide even more insights and ideas.

Leseprobe

Index

Foreword

Introduction

Introduction to the Second Edition

Why Do We Need Personal Development to Be Successful?

How to Find Authentic Happiness

The Four Elements of Success

Vision

Goal and Sub Goals

Purpose

Five Tips for Setting Goals

Values and Meaning – What Is Important and Why?

”The Purpose Behind Your Goals”

What Is Preventing Us from Achieving Our Goals?

Limiting beliefs and paradigms.

Where have these limiting beliefs and paradigms come from, then?

Changing Beliefs and Paradigms

Beliefs and Their Effect on Our Lives

Personal Development as a Part of Professional and Career Development

Self-Development vs. Team-Development – Or Can They Be Combined?

Peak Performance and Success

The Right Kind of Goal

The Right Kind of Emotional State

Burnout, Boreout and Flow

Feeling Bad vs. Feeling Good

More Good Feelings, Less Bad Feelings

My Truth vs. Your Truth

The Point behind Self-Help Books

How to Live a Happier Life

Letting Go as a Vital Part in the Universal Cycles of Change

How to Generate a Change in Life?

Five Reasons Why (at Least) an Entrepreneur Should Have a Mentor or a Coach

Six Self-Improvement Tips You

Cannot Afford to Ignore

Briefly About NLP

Resources for the Quotes

About the Author

Foreword

It is an honor to get to write a foreword to Hannu Pirilä’s first book.

I have known Hannu for more than ten years now. Hannu has worked as a Consultant and Mentor for my business and as a Mental Coach in my preparation for different martial arts fights. During the years we have become good friends and business partners. We have also sat long nights together and “improved the world,” as we tend to say in Finland.

I have always been fascinated by Hannu’s desire to help people to do more of those things that are important to them. I have also witnessed how Hannu has himself taken some brave steps in his life, abandoning a well-paid job to become an entrepreneur and leaving the field of hotel consulting, that he mastered so well, to the background.

Hannu is doing those things in his life that he feels are important and that he really believes in. In our numerous conversations I have been impressed by how Hannu particularly wants to help individual persons and smaller companies to achieve goals that are important to them.

I have read Hannu’s book several times and I am happy to notice that its content genuinely looks like the way he is. I hope that everyone who gets this book in their hands, reads it with an open mind and that they find those keys to success and happiness – and that they also take them into good use.

I want to congratulate Hannu for this close-knit book on personal development, success and happiness. Furthermore, I respect the fact that he has taken the time between all other work to write it.

May this book bring us all clarity and light as we steer our lives toward our future goals and great adventures!”

Helsinki, 3rd of January 2013

Timo Räkköläinen

Helsingin Itsepuolustuskoulu Oy, Hipko (Helsinki Self-Defense School Ltd)

CEO, Founder and Head Instructor

Introduction

I had my first touch on personal development almost two decades ago, when my girlfriend at that time introduced me to books like The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey, The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck and The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield.

Since then, my interest toward personal development and spirituality has gradually increased to what it is today, which is my profession.

Today, personal development and spirituality to me mean to continuously study and develop myself in different areas of life. My studies include certifications like executive Master of Business Administration, Licensed Master Practitioner and Trainer of NLPTM, Licensed NLP CoachTM, Licensed Master Business NLPTM Practitioner, Licensed LAB ProfileTM Practitioner and Licensed Sports Performance CoachTM.

As a sort of a byproduct of my self-development process, I have gained huge amounts of knowledge and skills that I can use to help other people, as well. Therefore, I am nowadays a professional consultant, coach and trainer helping businesses and individuals to achieve the results they want. Oftentimes, this also means achieving success and happiness.

One of the ways I offer my help to people is to write articles and blogs on things I come across in my work. This way I can give some pieces of advice to people who are seeking that kind of information. And it also helps me, because putting my thoughts down in writing is a great way for me to get some clarity of my thoughts.

This little book is really based on some of my articles that can be found in different places on the internet and that I have somewhat modified and perhaps updated for this book. In this book I have tried to put together some of the most important or helpful thoughts that I hope will help you as a reader to get some new insights and ideas on how to make your life at least a little bit better and happier – no matter how good or bad, happy or sad your life is at the moment. So, if you will get even one insight or idea that will improve your life, one way or another, writing this book has proven to be worth the effort.

Since I wanted to make this book as comprehensible and easy to read as possible, I have tried to express my thoughts as compressed as possible. On one hand this means that many of the subjects are left without in-depth explanations or pondering, but on the other hand, it leaves room for you as a reader to form your own opinions on things and also gives you ideas and inspiration to go out and explore your own route on your self-development.

The point, however, is that you will not get the whole picture of what personal development really means by just reading a book or taking a course on the subject. Personal development is a lifelong journey that requires constant studying and being open to new ideas and perceptions. I have read countless number of books and studied dozens of courses and programs, and from every book, course, program or seminar I always get something that deepens my knowledge and inspires me to be even better at what I love doing.

Therefore, if nothing else, I hope this book will give you a little nudge to dig in deeper to find out what you really want, what is your passion, and achieve the success and happiness that is out there waiting for you.

In January 2013

Hannu Pirilä

www.hannupirila.com

Introduction to the Second Edition

As I state in the Introduction of the first edition above, I think self-development should be continuous and life-long process. Thus, I have (at least in my opinion) evolved quite a bit during the seven years of the publication of the first edition of this book.

Along the way, I have read a large number of books, visited numerous seminars and completed, among other things, a Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapist at International College of Clinical Hypnotherapy in London. I have also developed myself constantly in NLP (Neuro-linguistic programming), including attending regularly seminars of the developer of NLP, Dr. Richard Bandler, in a team of assistant trainers in London and Orlando.

In the meantime, I have also published a new book, Your Own Blue Ocean, which also contains an abundance of exercises and NLP techniques to help you make desired changes.

Since I have experienced more development myself over the years, I felt that it was time to upgrade this book a little bit. I have not made any major changes to the texts of the first edition, some minor updates, however. Instead, I have added to this second edition two new chapters that I have felt important to bring to this book. Although the number of pages in the book has increased slightly, it should still fit into the title of a little book.

I wish you inspiring moments with this second edition.

April, 2020

Hannu Pirilä

Why Do We Need Personal Development to Be Successful?

In order to be able to examine personal development as a part of our overall success in life, I feel it is necessary to define first what we mean by personal development. In my opinion, personal development is:

Growth as a conscious human being

Activities that improve self-knowledge and identity

Development of talents and potential

Development in different areas of life

Building of human capital and employability

Enhancing the quality of life

Contributing to the realization of dreams and aspirations

Is not limited to self-development but includes formal and informal activities for developing others

In the context of institutions, it refers to the methods, programs, tools, techniques, and assessment systems that support human development at the individual level in organizations

(Hard) Work that requires discipline, determination, consistency, patience, time, courage and forgiveness

Increasing sensation of happiness

Let's then take a closer look at some of these bullet points in correlation to success.

Improving your self-knowledge and identity means, among other things, that you become more aware of who you are and what you want. Knowing what you want and where you need to improve yourself in order to achieve what you want are essential parts of success.

If you have already achieved success you cannot stay put if you want to remain successful. The world and other people around you are constantly evolving; therefore, you need to keep on developing your talents and potential further. Otherwise your success will remain short term.

Depending on your goals, you need constant development in different areas of your life, not just in one. Some of these areas might include health, finances, relationships, emotions, habits and beliefs, to mention a few. A good health will ensure that you are able to do what you want to do. It is obvious that you can do a lot more as a healthy person than you would if lying sick on a bed. It is also obvious, in most cases, that you can achieve more and free yourself from many of the worries when your financial situation is stable. Furthermore, it is obvious that you can achieve more when you have sound relationships with supporting and loving people to back you up. And so on.

Having activities for developing others, in addition to developing yourself, is really what gives you the final boost for success. The old saying "what goes around, comes around" applies here quite well. Helping other people succeed will ensure that they willingly help you in return. It is much, much more difficult – and in most cases even impossible – to achieve success just by yourself. You can't be the master of everything. And you shouldn't even try to be. Concentrate on doing well what you love doing and let other people help you in the areas that they love doing. Help others develop themselves and they will help you develop yourself. That is for everybody's benefit.

“I think self-improvement is such a noble pursuit because it helps