Prof Steve Peters shares his top tips to get started on your personal development journey

Professor Steve Peters, author of best-selling The Chimp Paradox and A Path Through the Jungle, has some tips to consider before you step foot on your path to self-development. Getting into the right frame of mind is so important whenever you take on something new but even more when it's about exploring your own world. Keep these three tips in mind as you learn, develop and grow.

Top 3 tips from Prof Steve Peters


Having a structured path to follow will help you to succeed
Creating and following a program that leads to emotional skills is the basis for success, confidence and happiness. Emotional skills include the ability to understand and manage emotions within yourself and others. This leads to successful relationships and discussions with others.

Use commitment and not motivation
Learning to work with commitment yields better success than working with motivation. Commitment is a structured plan of action regardless of emotion. Whereas motivation is an emotional driving force which can be inconsistent.

Be your biggest fan and not your worst critic
Understanding your emotions, thinking and behaviour is the first step to a great relationship with yourself.

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