How Whole Person Development Leads to Success

Leadership

Sep 16

As an executive or entrepreneur, you aspire to have a blended life with less stress and a better focus on your passions, which give you the happiness you strive for.

But let’s face the facts. With today’s time demands from work, family, and social commitments, trying to find that blend is like trying to find the holy grail.

As individuals, we’re like flowers that haven’t bloomed yet. The BDA method of whole-person development helps us understand our habits with its 6 factors or “petals,” which include our Current Self, Desired Self, Well-Being, Professional Skillsets, Relationships, and Spiritual Life When combined, these petals form a finished flower, which represents the success and joy that we all hope to achieve.

How the BDA Method Brings Success

The BDA method of whole-person development expands social- and self-awareness. This allows you to build stronger relationships, manage priorities, and achieve a better understanding of your self.

This leads not only to joy but to the ability to use joy to find awareness of who you are and success in who you can become. It helps you become aware of the seed so that you can find the flower.

What is Whole Person Development?

Whole person development strives to help people bloom. The 6 petals of Bloom’s whole-person development method are your Current Self, Desired Self, Well-Being, Professional Skillsets, Relationships, and Spiritual Life. They are the units that the BDA method combines to help us visualize our path to success.

Current Self

Let’s think of the Current Self as another term for the seed. Acknowledging this self allows you to understand your current habits. With a better awareness of “why,” whole person development helps you move from your current to your desired self.

Desired Self

The Desired Self is the flower, the goal of whole-person development. Reaching it allows you to achieve situational awareness – you can make your dreams of success closer to your reality. This allows you to trust your self-worth and feel accomplished as you grow.

Relationships

Building stronger relationships helps us feel fulfilled. Whole person development emphasizes connectedness as a way to build priorities and achieve balance.

For instance, self-value may not be achievable by working harder. Instead, building relationships based on long-term romantic commitment may provide this fulfillment.

Wellbeing

In order to achieve wellbeing, you have to find confidence in your physical and mental health. The BDA method acknowledges that stressing over finances, health, education, work, or love is normal, but strives to foster a state of healthy awareness that helps you look past how these things are to see how they could be.

Professional

As an entrepreneur, you may have trouble understanding how to prioritize, manage time, and achieve a balanced mindset. For instance, you may find that you are too focused on work to maintain a social life.

However, according to a study done in Frontiers of Psychology, social support has a positive effect on career decision-making. Whole person development helps you understand your goals to unify these seemingly separate areas of life.

Spiritual

The spiritual aspect of whole-person development teaches the value of finding gratitude in achieving your full potential. It does so by acknowledging the connection between how we value ourselves and how we receive and give support in social settings. Religious and social communities can provide routes to self-value that isolation may not.

Takeaway

Whole person development takes normally conflicted or separate petals of our lives and combines them into one flower. This allows us to recognize our current selves as seeds that the BDA method can help to grow and bloom.

By understanding the shortcomings in ourselves that make aspects of life conflict, whole-person development can unify them. Achieving success may not be easy. But, with whole-person development, it becomes visible.