The root of personal growth is self understanding. If we do not take the time to know who we are and what we want our growth will never lead to successes. We must take the time each day to listen to our selves to quite the world and come to understand who we are. These times are important for they give us an opportunity to understand why we do what we do and to know what we want.
The problem is we have to listen to the bad stuff as well as the good. When we start looking in to our hearts we see the doubt the worry and the things we don't like. These things are as much a part of who we are as the things we love about ourselves. Worries must be addressed; doubts must be examined to see if they are founded in act or are just meaningless fears. And the parts of us we don't like those are the areas we need to figure out how to work on, how to change and how to transform our selves to being the people we want to be
This process starts simply by listening to our own voice, and understanding where it is we are coming from.