Are you growing or dying?

Are you stretching yourself to expand your talents, achieve better results, be a better manager or leader, or develop a new skill? I’ve been doing quite a bit of reading on success principles, and what successful people do differently, and how to become more successful as a person. These principles can be applied to our work life as well as our personal life. I have begun to see some patterns or common practices as I learn more about successful people and one of common practices is that successful people constantly stretch or challenge themselves to grow and learn something new. If we are not stretching ourselves to grow and learn we are doing the opposite-dying. With growing comes some discomfort, but with that discomfort come some of your best learning experiences. I help people become more effective in selling products and services and one of the learning activities is video tapping them in a client interaction. Boy does it generate a lot of anxious and nervous learners, but consistently the feedback is positive and that it wasn't as bad as they thought and it’s the most valuable part of the program. They grow more from that 10 minute learning activity than from the entire 2 day program. What are you doing to grow?