Personality Development

Have you ever heard the phrase, “You’ve got a big personality?”
Usually, that means the person is very outgoing and noticeable, which can be good or bad depending on the opinion. However, personality is not something measured on a scale of having more or less. It’s a part of who we are and our myriad of traits.
Let’s take a look at personality development and personality types, you might recognize your own 🤗.

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Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the second article from The Reality Step Out Package 💃.

Our second topic from the reality package is “personality development” and it is from the area of mental and personal development.

This article discusses how personality is defined, personality types, personality disorders and what you can do if you are interested in developing a healthy personality.

What is Personality Development ?
Personality development is an ongoing process of an intentional, and conscious effort to improve your personality.
Personality development refers to the process by which the organized thought and behaviour patterns that make up a person’s unique personality emerge over time.

Personality Types

One of the most popular and widely accepted assessments that feature personality types is The Big Five, also known as the Five-Factor Model. This model focuses on five personality type descriptions which assess different personality based on five spectrums.
•Conscientiousness: This factor looks at a person’s ability to be disciplined, careful, organized and attention to detail.
•Agreeableness: This factor looks at a person’s willingness to be trusting, helpful, and cooperative.
•Neuroticism: This factor looks at a person’s emotional responses to pessimism, moodiness and emotional stability.
•Openness to experience: This factor looks at how imaginative and spontaneous a person is, and level of creativeness and responsiveness to change.
•Extroversion: This factor looks at a person’s emotional expressiveness and need to be sociable.

Personality Disorder

Personality Disorder is a persistent, long-term, unhealthy pattern of thinking and relating to others.

Signs and Symptoms of Personality Disorders

The signs and symptoms are chronic and severe enough to interfere with the person’s daily functioning at home, school or work.

Types of Personality Disorders

There are 10 specific personality disorders which are organized into 3 clusters (A, B, and C), based on similarity of the traits that characterize them, namely:
Cluster A Personality Disorder
Cluster B Personality Disorder
Cluster C Personality Disorder

Cluster A Personality Disoder:

Cluster B Personality Disorder:

The causes of Cluster B Personality Disorder include environmental factors, trauma, genetics and brain structure.

Cluster C Personality Disorder

Many factors influence personality, including genetics and environment, how we were parented or early life experiences, cultural influences and societal variables.
However, your personality is not fixed, and you have the power to work on improving through personality development.

Personality Development Tips

Our personality makes us unique, but how can we develop a healthy personality? Keep scrolling to know how 😊.

•Identify your current traits: Learn more about your traits, strengths, and weaknesses. Reflect on your thoughts, behaviors, actions and how they impact your life and relationships. Identify areas where you need improvement and work on them to become a better version of yourself. This self-awareness lays the foundation for personal growth or development. The most important thing a person should know is to know themselves.

•Identify your values: You can identify your core values by thinking about the values that are most important to you. After you do this, you can prioritize your goals and better reflect on how your behaviors and actions align with your goals and values. To increase your value, be a better version of yourself today than your yesterday. The secret of value is in personal development. When you keep improving yourself, your value will never drop.

•Discover your purpose: The beauty of you is your purpose. Develop whatever has been placed in you. Once you develop your purpose, you will experience growth immeasurably. Anything you have discovered about yourself, keep improving, and you will become a man or woman of value and success. If you are a writer, write better than you did yesterday and did five years ago. Wherever you are, whether at home or office, make yourself valuable, and you will be elevated.

•Developing your personality starts with understanding yourself. By understanding more about yourself, you can have a happier and more attractive personality and let your positive qualities shine.

•Set a daily personal development goals: Commit to doing at least one thing every day to help develop your personality. This doesn’t have to be a big action, either. Baby steps will move you in the right direction. Celebrate your achievements and learn from your failures.

•Be sacrificial: Sacrifice is denying yourself of certain pleasures for achievement of an assignment or goal. You must sacrifice time for what God has called you to do. Study people ahead of you and the materials in your desired endeavour, be disciplined and dedicate yourself to continuous learning. It is the extra input that makes the ordinary extraordinary. Make a commitment to grow daily. Do not wait to be inspired, be your biggest inspiration.

•Keep a positive mindset: Developing yourself can be difficult, especially if you’re working on a part of your personality you’ve had for a long time. Staying positive along the way helps you pay more attention to the pros. Take care of your body, mind and spirit by finding ways to stay positive and be healthy. It also makes the journey more enjoyable for you and everyone around you. When thinking of past stressful events, focus on what good came from them, what you learned or what you appreciate more. This will help you believe that something good can come from future challenges, and not feel hopeless. Surround yourself with positive influence.

•Be open to new experiences: Being open to new things makes you more flexible and interesting. If you are nervous about trying something, research about people that have done something similar because it can build your confidence.

•Be confident: Maintain good eye contact, smile and have a good body language. Focus on the positive things in your life, and what you do well. Think about any recent event in which you worked hard, did well or overcame a struggle. Remember those times, rather than the times when you messed up.

•Avoid negative talk or mindset: If there are others putting you down, avoid defining yourself on their terms. You determine who you are. Find others that welcome you, make you feel loved and share with them your concerns.

•Tune into your resilience: Resilience is the ability to positively adapt in response to a challenge. This is an important trait, particularly to cope with and even thrive after adversity.

•Exercise patience: You may feel out of control at times, or don’t know what to do with your emotions. Find ways to stay calm and positive. If you feel yourself getting out of control, make your exhales longer than your inhales for a few breaths, to get yourself out of fight-or-flight mode. Find ways to reduce the stressors by reflecting on yourself. Instead of thinking about how much something makes you anxious and angry, take a minute, breathe and imagine yourself in a calm and relaxed place.

•Speak up more: Learn to stand up for yourself and others. The more you try, the better you will be with time. Consider taking a public speaking course or if you are in school, there may also be debate classes or other opportunities to learn public speaking. Try talking more often with acquaintances through school, social gatherings, etc. Build your communication skills.

•Stop comparing yourself to others: You may see someone who is happier, smarter, and better looking than you, and wish that you could be them. If you continue to dwell on what you don’t have, you miss out on appreciating what you do have and living in the present. Remind yourself daily of at least three things that you are grateful for ❤️.

•Study the Bible and Pray: Pray for wisdom, knowledge and understanding daily from God. Pray for the grace and peace of God which surpasses all understanding and will keep your heart and mind in Christ Jesus. This is a key to personal development.

•Believe in yourself: It starts with finding your inner happiness. What gives you peace? What makes you feel calm, relaxed, and rested? Learn ways to cultivate happiness in yourself. Engage in relaxing activities, meditate, listen to music, take a walk in nature and take time for yourself. Appreciate who you are because you are one of a kind. Remember that developing a sense of self and your own unique personality starts and ends with loving yourself. Be kind to yourself daily.