Personal Development: 19 Unique Courses. Real Experts!

In this section, we take a look at the science and psychology of purpose. This lecture serves as an introduction to the idea of "purpose" and highlights the health and social benefits and cognitive advantages of knowing your purpose.

In this lecture, you will be given seven key indicators that could suggest you're are not in line with your purpose.

Download the Purpose Awareness Worksheet, which will prepare you for the next secion.

This section deep dives into self-awareness. Having discovered the importance of having a purpose in the previous section, this lecture will be an introduction to explore areas of yourself and your life to uncover and/or create your own purpose.

Download the Core Values and Purpose Discovery Worksheet.

In this lecture, you will critically evaluate your own assumptions about success. Firstly, you will list your ideas about what success is. Secondly, you will examine whether your list is influenced by culture, peers and your upbringing, before working out what is truly aligned with your purpose. Lastly, you will divide your list into internal vs external metrics.

In this lecture, you will analyse and evaluate your energy levels across various time periods. You will look at a variety of factors that can influence these energy levels. By having a realistic picture of your energy levels, you can then set realistic goals. You will be encouraged to continue this energy-level tracking as a regular habit, even after goal-setting has been completed.

Download the Energy Levels Worksheet.

This section looks at the science and psychology of goal setting. In this lecture, you will discover how goal setting creates changes in the brain and in one's behaviour, based on psychological and neuroscientific studies.

In this lecture, you will be exposed to scientific studies illustrating the ways in which goal setting has a positive effect on outcomes and success rates.

This lecture will ensure that you have the information you need to make goals that are important to fulfilling your purpose. It gives practical tips on finding inspiration for goals that are meaningful to you across different areas of your life.

Download the Identifying Goals Worksheet.

Here, you will learn how to complete a personal SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) matrix, in order to have realistic data upon which you can build your goal setting. You'll then be encouraged to write a list of considerations to take into account based on your goals, and/or filter your goals through your findings to make sure you are not setting yourself up for failure.

Download the SWOT Matrix Worksheet.

The purpose of this lecture is to ensure that you learn how best to organise your goals in the most efficient way. It breaks down various aspects of this process, including creating a timeline and breaking goals into manageable steps.

In the last of this section, you will learn how to devise a plan and integrate it into your daily life using positive habits and actions, as well as tools and software to stay organised and motivated.

In this section, we take a look at how to review, optimise and stick to your plan. This lecture provides helpful tips for you to stay motivated and avoid distractions when working towards your goals.

In this lecture, you will gain a greater understanding of how to track your goals, measure success and hold yourself accountable using various techniques.

In this lecture, you will learn the importance of evaluating failure, and how to embrace a Growth Mindset before evaluating weaknesses and failures. You will then be taken through a Failure Analysis process to help work out why the goal broke down. Finally, you will use this data to reactivate the goal under new conditions for greater success.

In this lecture, you will look at the importance of giving extra attention to areas of strength and explore why this is important. You will then be guided into thinking about how you can create new goals to capitalise on your areas of success.

This lecture covers long-term change and how it can affect the goal-setting process. You will learn how to evaluate your changing feelings about the goals you originally set and how to take action from there, in order to create new goals or to develop an environment conducive to attaining your original goals.

The goal of this course is to give you a greater understanding of how your mind works and thus become a stronger, healthier, happier person. We discuss what resilience is, what makes an adaptive mindset, and the possibility of increasing resilience levels. Resilience is not a trait, it is a mentality.

Download the Resilience and the Adaptive Mind worksheet.

This lecture covers personality traits and your brain, resilience as a neuroplastic process, and increasing your brain's resiliency. It discusses the Big Five personality traits: neuroticism, extroversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. Resilience is a neuroplastic process, treat it like learning a new skill.

Download the Your Brain and Resilience worksheet.

This lecture is a self-diagnostic test. Compare resilience to a rubber band pulled taught versus left totally slack. The qualities of low resilience include irritability, persistent illness, becoming isolated or clingy, overreaction to normal stress, trouble sleeping, and poor memory. The biggest negative impact of low resilience is not being fully present at work. High resilience people know their boundaries, keep good company, cultivate self-awareness, practice acceptance, are willing to sit in silence, do not expect to have all the answers, have self-care habits, ask their teams for help, consider possibilities, and are out of their own heads. As a result, they are adaptive in the workplace and are more attractive job candidates.

Download the Low Resilience Versus High Resilience worksheet.

This lecture identifies obstacles that keep people from being highly resilient. The common obstacles are social training, stress perception, external loci of control, and unhealthy coping mechanisms. Social training that defers obedience and codependence discourages us from finding peace within ourselves. We must defend ourselves from toxic stress and strain. We must reject the idea that we have no control over our circumstances. Lastly, in the absence of mental wellness, we tend to turn to unhealthy coping mechanisms. By recognising these obstacles, we are one step closer to overcoming them.

Download the Identifying Your Barriers worksheet.

This lecture is a self-directed guide to increase your level of resilience. It defines self-directed learning, outlines resilience skills to learn, and goes over some reading recommendations. The goal of self-directed learning is to help you accept the responsibilities that fall on you. It outlines eleven different resilience skills and discusses how to prioritise your goals. Lastly, it offers some self-help books to study.

Download the Self-Directed Learning worksheet.

This lecture looks at models of philosophical resilience from five groups of ancient philosophers: the Stoics, Epicureans, Pythagoreans, Plutarchans and Aristotelians. Each philosophy takes a different approach towards living a better, more fulfilling life. Any of them can be incorporated by any individual.

Download the Ancient Philosophy and Resilience worksheet.

This lecture goes over the differences between pessimism and optimism, the benefits of optimism, and outlines an ABC method of adopting optimism and eliminating negative self-talk. In short, pessimists allow events to reflect negatively on their self-worth while optimists accept events as short-term setbacks. Being an optimist means you have a stronger immune system, encounter fewer perceived negative life events, and maintain relationships. By eliminating negative self-talk, you can start your journey to being an optimist too.

Download the Learned Optimism worksheet.