Personal growth planning, sometimes referred to as Personal Development Plan (PDP) is crucial to becoming the best that you can because it is a continuous journey of self-assessment and enhancement aimed at realising your full potential. It involves regularly evaluating and improving your life goals, skills, and personal qualities. Achieving meaningful and sustainable positive change requires ongoing engagement and a mindful approach to growth.

Although personal development and personal growth are often used interchangeably, they differ.  Personal development is the structured effort to learn skills and set goals (the “how”), like taking a course or reading books. In contrast, Personal growth is the holistic, often unplanned outcome of inner transformation and maturity (the “what”), such as increased confidence, deeper self-awareness, and better relationships, resulting from those efforts and life experiences. Development is the process of improving specific areas (skills, knowledge), while growth is the broader result of becoming a more complete, evolved person.