“Let us cultivate our garden.” ― Voltaire, Candide

If we talk about cultivating a garden ,most of us think about garden full of flowers, vegetables or plants. But famous French writer Voltaire meant our personal growth by telling us to cultivate our garden. We live in a society where we have to develop ourselves each day to not be lacked behind the time. This development includes adapting new skills ,habit ,actions or reactions and also trying to get rid of bad habit so that one can have a positive impact on life and increase overall well-being. And we call these development process "self growth" or "personal development".

Self growth is very much required in ones life .It can help us to have a positive outlook for our career and personal life as it helps us to achieve our full potential .It also helps us to develop ourselves both mentally and spiritually .It is a matter of fact that , every person have individuality ,they have their own personality .By improving ourselves ,we can clearly express our true uniqueness to the world. 

Most of the famous person have told us to develop ourselves .Aldous Huxley said ,“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self” . Moreover, kobiguru Robindranath Tagore once said ,"Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it" .And self growth helps us to increase our capacity to receive what we want from our life. It is also called a belief that a person is worth the effort, time and energy needed to develop .

Now people can ask what to do for self development and the answer is very easy .They have to do what they think that can help them to develop their mind, their mentality and so on. But we all have to understand one thing that self growth can look different for all of us. This concept varies from person to person. Some examples of self control are:

• Developing a growth mindset
•  Improving emotional intelligence
• Learning resilience
•  Knowing yourself
• Connecting with your body
•  Defining success
• Accepting what you cannot change
•  Being confident                                      

In our society ,self growth is not given so much importance. But self growth can be directed toward 

intellectual ,physical or psychological development .This process can help us to be confident, to be creative, to see vision and to stay always positive or motivated. It helps us all to set our goals more prominently as it makes us believe that we worth the effort and time and we can fulfil a goal if we try hard enough. It always encourage us to learn new things. A person cannot develop himself by staying in comfort zone and self growth forces us out of out comfort zone.

Self growth need practice and it is a long term commitment. It takes 21 straight days to form a habit. And we have to be patient and consistent in this period. Things we can practically do to develop ourselves are:

• Mediate

• Read books 

• Journaling

• Use positive affirmations and words

• Be curious and gentle

• less is more

Self growth helps a person in many aspects in life. Growth is like facing a storm .It is uncomfortable ,messy and full of unexpected feelings. But once we finish struggling it helps us to develop our strength for the next step. At the end of the day we all have to remember that life is growth and if we stop growing technically and spiritually ,we are as good as dead. That is why Eric Butterworth said ,"Don't go through life ,grow through life."