How to Use Your Alone Time
for Personal Growth
Whether you’re an introvert or an extrovert, you need to block off some alone time if you want to experience lasting personal growth. You can’t face your limiting beliefs, examine your expectations, and transform your mindset if you don’t take a break from outside influences.
And, if you’re committed to your personal growth, the act of simply scheduling some alone time is not enough. You have to be intentional with the way that you use that time, and you have to define what your objective is — what you want to gain.
Here are 3 excellent objectives to consider:
- Gain self-awareness – During your alone time, you can focus on listening to yourself and uncovering your core values and priorities.
- Become emotionally self-sufficient – When you’re self-sufficient, you don’t rely on anyone else for your happiness or to bring you out of the doldrums. That’s not to say that you never seek comfort or advice from anyone else but that outside care is a supplement to your own self-care.
Keep scrolling to for objective #3.
Objective #3
#3 – Become individuated – We’re subject to so many outside influences, all doing their best to tell us who we should be, what we should want, and what we should believe. And, we tend to conform to these standards because we are social creatures and, at a base level, we want to fit in with our community. So, we end up repressing a lot of our own thoughts. We create a persona — the person we show to the world — that isn’t a true representation of who we are. Individuation is the process of bringing these repressed thoughts to consciousness and using them to dismantle our personas and become our true selves.
Want to learn more? I dedicated a full-length post to diving deeper into each of these objectives, plus I cover two more objectives. 5 Superpowers You Gain by Spending Time Alone
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