Writing for Personal Development: Putting Words into Action that Further Personal Agendas

Writing paths that are expressive of you and impact your life

Pitch and timbre, tone, accent, style: your words are stamped with a particular feeling, beat, or pattern. People can subconsciously hear your writing voice as they read your text through subvocalization.

This essay is about diverse ways of writing but focuses on writing for personal change and development.

Writers write in ways that fit their beliefs, not their reality. We believe that corporate people use big words, need to sound impressive to be taken seriously, that friendly people use a warm, nurturing tone, or that authoritative people write with short impact statements.

Writing aims to have words read and get the message across. To have people feel the message is genuine and worth listening to is to sound completely natural.

By being true to who you are in daily life, you write more comfortably and familiarly than with any other tone and style. Thus, you develop your writing voice, the unique stamp of a ‘sound that’s all yours.’

Because you simply are being you and not trying to be anyone else.

You change your writing when writing to a friend vs. writing to a stranger or formal business associate. Your voice should be expressive of YOU, not what you think you SHOULD sound like or because so and so writes like that., in that style.

The Journal Option

One of my favorite activities is writing in my journal. I do it as much to evade an audience as to entertain myself. Writing like this allows me to focus on an activity for prolonged periods because there are no worries about an audience and how they might respond. Yet this eventually becomes boring.

I can be free flowing, going from thought to thought, and not be concerned about how others might evaluate the quality of the offering. Writing can lead to new thoughts, but that isn’t why I do it. Since the new thoughts aren’t all that interesting. I am writing for self-understanding to achieve that in the shortest possible time.

Have a Purpose

But this is a lifelong activity, especially related to self-mastery, which is my main interest. I am looking for formulas that permit me to activate personal development resolves reliably and effectively.

Until I discover some viable routes to self-mastery that I and others can use, I don’t see much point in writing for publication. It would help if you had something valuable and vital to say.

My best formula in this regard is the GIRDA formula. It is explained in the following link.

I like to write about things that interest me in the striving arena, like what to go for and how to get there. To me writing is a kind of voyage of self-discovery. Topics deal with my wish for change since I decided to improve myself long ago due to a lack of self-confidence and self-esteem.

This belief that I lack the requisites for successful living drives most of my writing. I am happy to report that this writing has resulted in significant personal changes.

Take Aways

· Be true to yourself when drafting personal essays

· Writing can be used as a tool for self-understanding

· Such writing can be a lifelong pursuit tied to your personal growth and self-improvement

· Writers write in ways that fit their beliefs, not their reality.

· Skillful writing is a product of proficient reading

· It is essential to write with a purpose, as this makes writing more accessible and compelling.