I think there as 2 things to consider:
1) Why you want to grow (with personnal development): if you cannot give yourself a reason for growing that you sincerily believe and endorse fully, you just won't do it, even if want you planned to do looks like a great project or goal. You can come up with a hundred reason as why you you do something, but if not even one of those reasons convinces you to do it, you won't. That is the first key to ditch an old habit and get a new one. It seems more logical to me that this can generate long term motivation.
2) You have to go by small victories. You can't, in less that a week, start to eat right, exercise, sleep enough, have more confidence in yourself, have an abundant social, start helping a local charity, etc. if you're not doing any of those things right now. You have to choose a goal or two, the most important to you, and work on them consistently until you integrated them in your life.
Also, I don't believe in being a selp-help junkie. For the moment, I have 2 books on personnal development I have bought, and I have been reading and re-reading them for over 6 months, and I'm still learning from them (and finding out I have forgotten what I have read!). There is so much information in a book, that I prefer to work on absorbing the infos of a book completely before moving on to the next one, rather than buying a lot of books and getting a "rush" from the personnal development infos you read. You then have to much informations and you don't know where to start, so you end up depressed and you doing nothing. Anyway, that's from my personnal experience, everybody is different so maybe other people have other ideas on how to approach personnal development.
See ya!
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