Steem Women Club Engagement Contest | What I do for My Personal Development| by @wase1234

Hello Steem family, greetings to you all. It's once again another splendid challenge to partake in. I want to believe at the tail end of this challenge, we can be able to learn various self development skills from steemians all over the world. This will go a long way to aid us work for ourselves and make ourselves better. So here's my entry on my personal development activities.

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1) Building My Faith

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Most of us are religious, even those who aren't have something to believe in. So the religious people chose to believe in God. Like I will always say I wasn't a strong faithful of Christ but there was a time I was at my lowest and I felt like there's no one out there to help me. I couldn't see things any different than they were and I believed there wasn't any help for me. So I had to pick up myself and face the fact that a mighty being could help me. That's how I started building my faith. To be honest it's not an easy journey because there are alot of things to let go but it's all worth it. When I began entering the system I decided to do a post on steemit.

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The reason why I decided to turn to God was because the bible preaches positivity, forgiveness, betterlife and forgetting the past and those where the things I needed in my life at that point. So from that period I began building my faith. I read devotionals and the bible every day. I am not yet there but I can pat myself on the shoulder that I've come very far. I've really improved myself alot and I am a different person from the past and now. So I count this as my number one self development activity.

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2) Reading Novels

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Okay okay I know I am saying this for the hundred time but I will still say it. I am a book lover and I'm proud of it. Reading books has really developed my vocabulary and I've lived so many lives and learned so many things just by reading. I heard somewhere that if you read and book and you don't find yourself living in the story, if the book doesn't impact you then that's not the book you are supposed to be reading. I also heard that normal people live one life, but writers and readers live many many lives. Reading let's you concentrate and gives you peace. Reading a book is also a source of fantasy and it feeds your imagination. Imagine someone who paints and reads, I am sure this person can paint magnificent things just from the images books have created in his head.

I have read books like

Things fall Apart by Chinwa Achebe

After by Anna Todd

Storm and silence by Sir Robins and many more.

Reading is sometimes my escape from the real world. I have read drama to romance to thriller to sci Fi and even books about the old chauvinistic days. Reading has developed me because from reading I became a write. I can imagine stories and pen them down. My imagination is always up. I have hard copy and soft copy novels, now let me wow you with how many soft hard copy novels I have read only on Wattpad (the app where stories live).

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3) Eating Healthy

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I am kind of a fruit junkie and a fruit freak. I like to always keep the balance between food and fruit. If I have fruit for breakfast, I will have food for lunch or vice versa. Of course I have an aim for all this. I am actually consuming all this amount of fruit because of easy digestion. I have a slow metabolism so the fruit helps me hasten things. Only on the first month of therapy, I lost 3kg. I think that has self development written all over it right.

My fruit combination is mostly cucumber, pawpaw, pear, water melon and orange. I chop all or some of the above ingredients and and mix together and I have it almost everyday. Aside from the weight loss, I gain other health benefits from eating these fruits such as fibre and vitamins.

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4) Sharing my Knowledge

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Trust me I have no aspirations to be a teacher, but when I have something new or anything else, my first instinct is to share it. Like normally I can't even sustain being selfish with my knowledge. From normal basic things to school work and everything, I love yo share. But the one thing I love sharing the most is cooking recipe. I named it as one of my talents so it's something I like doing and teaching at every opportunity I get.

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As we all know making origami is one of the contests in the engagement challenge. So I have grown an interest in making them. So once I learned one how to make different types of origami, I just hurriedly went to teach my nieces.
This act of sharing makes me he able to always express myself in the simplest of terms since it entails making people understand the knowledge I'm m trying to communicate. Maybe I can say I could pass to be a teacher now if I wanted to.

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My Recommendation

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From all this I have only one recommendation to make. It's that in all our acts of self development, we should be consistent. Consistency and self development is almost the same thing for me because it's when we are consistent in doing the things that will make us better that we actually become better.

So we should be consistent, don't stop don't get tired.

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To end this post, I'll like to invite @vanessa-04 @juichi @ngoenyi @ubongudofot @solar-star and @alegnita to join this contest. Link: https://steemit.com/hive-188403/@steemwomensclub/steemit-engagement-contest4-describe-what-you-do-for-personal-development

Thanks for reading 👐