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The Five Practices of Personal Growth

Practice #3: Tenacious Application – The knowing/doing gap is the toughest to close but can actually happen when you put this “action equation” to work: Inner Resolve x Outer Support = Tenacious Application.

Inner resolve combines conviction and courage so you have the determination to act on what you’ve learned. Outer support is a combination of accountability and dependence. It taps ongoing accountability from others while being fully dependent on God for His strength. When you multiply inner resolve by outer support, the result is the tenacious application of the things you’re learning. Tenacious application helps you move from learning and thinking to actually doing. It ultimately results inpersonal transformation.

Practice #4: Intentional Investing – The fourth practice shifts the focus from growing yourself to growing others. That transition begins with intentional investing—the process of inspiring growth in others by making meaningful deposits in their personal growth.

Intentional investing means taking full responsibility for the influence you have with others by modeling personal growth, engaging in equipping relationships (like coaching and mentoring), and inviting others to participate in growth opportunities. It means using your talent selflessly to serve others, allocating your resources to help people grow, and leveraging your network of relationships to open doors for others. The ultimate outcome of intentional investing is growth in others.

Practice #5: Empowering Others – The final practice of personal growth is empowering others. Empowering is a three-phase process that includeschallenging, equipping, and releasing.

You begin by challenging others to own their growth and develop a lifelong learning posture. Once they own that decision, you equip them with a tool (like Growth TRACing) to make their growth personalized, customized, and self-directed. Finally, you release the people who you’ve helped grow to do the same for others. The outcome of empowering others is growth replication.

Regardless of where you are in your personal growth journey, these five practices can help you go to a new level and accelerate growth in you, around you, and beyond you.