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Your Virtual Upline Podcast

325: Are You Doing Too Much Personal Development?

Your Virtual Upline Podcast

Bob Heilig

Careers, Self-improvement, Education, Business

4.91.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

We've been taught that personal development is critical.

If you've been listening to this podcast for a while, you've heard me say that social selling is a personal development program with a compensation plan attached.

Here's the thing: personal development and personal growth are not the same thing.

As leaders we spend too much time doing personal development without actually having personal growth. 

So let's revisit how we previously viewed personal development and how it's changed over the years. 

In this episode, I share the distinction between personal development and personal growth, and why we need to pursue true personal growth.

Transcript

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0:00.0

A bob here and welcome back to the your virtual upline podcast where we give network

0:12.4

marketers the mindset, strategies, and skills that you need to build the business and life

0:18.8

of your dreams.

0:21.8

A bob here, welcome back to the show episode 325 today, I want to have a really important

0:28.5

discussion with you that I suspect a lot of you are really need to hear.

0:34.5

And this discussion is around the topic of personal development.

0:39.8

Maybe the title of the episode caught your attention.

0:42.4

You know, we're taught in the network marketing, social spelling space that personal development

0:47.6

is critical, right?

0:49.1

And I've even said this in the past that network marketing and social selling is a personal

0:54.4

development program with a compensation plan and that's something that I think resonates

1:01.3

with a lot of you because I've seen a lot of you resharing that I'd actually like to

1:05.0

revise that statement today.

1:08.0

After some further thought and really taking a look at why so many people in this space

1:13.2

struggle so many of our clients that come to us to our programs, you know, they join

1:17.7

our love serve grow program.

1:19.4

They go through all the training, they complete all the lessons and then they get to the

1:23.0

end of the process and they're like, Bob, I don't have the results that I want.

1:27.1

And almost every single time without fail when you dig a little deeper, here's what you

1:31.1

find out is yes, they completed the lessons, yes, they went through all the videos, yes,

1:37.3

they checked all the boxes, but they didn't take enough action.

1:43.1

They didn't take the type of action that felt scary to them, that stretch them, that forced

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