Personal Development is the buzzword of the new millennium. Self improvement has never been bigger business. It would seem that in an attempt to improve their prospects in the ever increasing pace of this new technological world we are having to focus more and more on bettering ourselves. People launch into self improvement courses and try out new personal development techniques in order to “improve” themselves. However, what most people fail to realize is that the personal development ethos is that “you are perfect already”. What personal development is really about is the uncovering of your true identity – your unlimited potential.
However, the belief that you can change and adapt to new environments and develop greater skills gives a new personal development trainee hope and encouragement. Many “newbies” believe that the techniques incorporated into personal development are merely designed to convince themselves that an untruth is in fact true and by convincing themselves of this truth eventually becomes fact. They believe the task of a self improvement product is to convince them that their goal has been realized before it...