How

Successful People Grow

Peter Ngu Tayong
Consultant and Motivational Speaker
Leadership, Management and Communication Practices.

HOW SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE GROW

GROWTH IS THE PATHWAY TO YOUR POTENTIAL
Potential is one of the most wonderful words in any language. It
sets a high sense of optimism, hope, fulfillment and success. In fact,
potential is a word based on endless possibilities.
A personal potential is what you could bethe person you can
become.
Since you are taking this training course, it is obvious you desire to
reach your potential.
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 The BIG Question is HOW???

The answer is GROWTH. And to grow is highly INTENTIONAL.

This course will give you the best tips on how to grow everyday
so as to reach the apex of your potential.

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1)-BE AN INTENTIONAL LEARNER

Growth doesnt just happen
How do you get better at what you do? How do you improve
your relationships? How do you gain more depth and wisdom
as a person? How do you gain insight? How do you over come
obstacles?
Work Harder? Work longer? Wait for things to get better?

If you focus on goals, you might hit goalsbut that doesnt

guarantee growth but, If you focus on growth, you will grow
and always hit goals.
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2)-DEVELOP SELF-AWARENESS
You Must Know Yourself to Grow Yourself

If you want to grow to your full potential you must know

yourself: your strengths and weaknesses, your interests and
opportunities. If you dont know yourself and where you stand,
you cannot know where you want to go.

Growing is like learning, you constantly build on what youve

already acquired so as to improve and get better.
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3)-BELIEVE IN YOURSELF
You Must See Value in Yourself to Add Value to Yourself

All people have seeds of success within them. All they need to
do is cultivate those seeds, water them, feed them, and they
will begin to grow.
So why do many people fail to reach their potential?
Low self-esteem is one major reason for that. Many people just
dont believe in themselves or even if they do, they dont do so
sufficiently.
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4)-SET ASIDE TIME TO REFLECT

Learning to Pause Allows Growth to Catch Up with You

There are many different ways of growing and an infinite

number of lessons to be learnt in life.
But there are some kinds of growth that come to us only if we
are willing to stop, pause, and allow the lesson to catch up with
us.

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5)-EMBRACE DISCIPLINE DAILY

Motivation gets you goingDiscipline keeps you going

Everyone wants to be encouraged. Everyone enjoys being

inspired. But heres the truth when it comes to personal
growth: motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you
growing.
It doesnt mater how talented you are or how many
opportunities you receive. If you want to grow, consistency is
key.
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6)-SET OUT A POSITIVE ENVIRONMENT

Growth Thrives in Conducive Surroundings

At some particular point in every persons lifetime, there comes

a need to change environments in order to grow. That may
seem obvious in the case of someone who grew up in a terrible
situation or suffered abuse.
This is also true for people who grow up in positive, nurturing
environments. You must be in the right environment if you
want to grow and reach your potential. This always require us
to make changes in our lives.
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7)-BECOME HIGHLY STRATEGIC

To Maximize Growth, Develop Strategies

In order to prevent that life simply happens to you; In order not

to just float along in the waters of life, in order not to just sit
back and wait then react to situations that happen in our lives,
we must learn to be highly proactive and strategic.
Develop a stronger sense of urgency and a pro-active mind-set.

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8)-TURN NEGATIVES INTO POSITIVES

Good management of Bad Experiences Leads to Great Growth

Each time we encounter a painful experience, we get to know a

little more about ourselves.

Pain can cause us to make decisions we would like to put off,

deal with issues we would rather not face, and make changes
that make us feel uncomfortable. Pain prompts us to face who
we are and where we are.
What we do with that experience defines who we become.
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9)-GROW FROM INSIDE OUT

Character Growth Determines the Height of Your Personal Growth

It is no surprise that people want to work with people of good

character. Very few people want to work with unreliable people.
But before seeking to follow or work with other people, you have to
rely on someone everyday; YOURSELF! That is why character is soo
important.
If you cant trust yourself, you cant also trust others and thus, you
cant grow.
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 Character growth determines the height of your personal

growth. And without personal growth, you can never reach
your potential.

Good character, with honesty and integrity at its core, is

essential to success in any area of life.
Most people make the mistake of focusing more on
competence than on character. Without character, a person is
building on shifting sand. Thats why you need to grow from the
inside out.
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10)-GET USED TO STRETCHING YOURSELF

Growth Stops When You Lose the Tension Between
Where You Are and Where You Could Be

Potential is GODs gift to us and developing it is our gift to

GOD.

Like Rubber bands, our talents and potentials are useful only
when they are stretched.
Only continual physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual
will take us to the peak of our potential.
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11)-MAKE SMART TRADE-OFFS

You Have to Give Up to Grow Up
Among other things, letting go of some of the things that you
love and value most is essential in moving to the next level.

Take or leave it, giving up something to get another is one

thing that often holds people back, even those who have
achieved some level of success.
Sacrificing requires you to give up some of your rights and
privileges temporally in order to get closer to the big picture;
your potential.
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12)-LEARN TO ASK MORE QUESTIONS

Growth is Stimulated by Asking Why?

Curiosity is the key to being a lifelong learner, and if you want

to keep growing and developing, you must keep on learning.
Curious people possess an insatiable thirst for knowledge. They
have a habit of always asking why?
People who remain curious dont need to be encouraged to ask
questions or explore. They just do it all the time and they love
the experience and they keep repeating it.
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13)-FIND A GOOD MENTOR

Its Hard to Improve When You Have No One but Yourself to Follow

Find somebody already successful in your domain of interest.

Most people found their mentors by reading their book or just
reading/hearing about them.
Finding a worthy mentor for yourself helps you take a lesser
effort and time to reach your potential because you will be
under the able guidance of your model.
Trying to depend on yourself alone to grow is counterproductive as you will only be moving in circles.
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14)-FOCUS ON ENLARGING YOUR POTENTIAL

Growth Always Increases Your Capacity

In order to reach your full potential as a person, you must

change how you think and how you act. By growing in these
two key areas, you increase your capacity dramatically.

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15)-HELP OTHERS REACH THEIR POTENTIAL

Growing Yourself Enables You to Grow Others
It is my hope that this final tip will inspire you to be all you can be so you can
help others to be all they can be. You cannot give what you do not have.
Buf if you have worked to learned or earn something, you have the ability to
pass it on to others.
If you keep growing and determine to help others reach their potential, you
will have much to give other people and make a positive impact on your
world.

Choose to put your family ahead of your own desires, your team mates
above your advancement, serve others instead of yourself.
Keep Growing to Keep Giving.

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