Understanding The Concept of Chronos and Kairos and How To Utilize Them For Your Personality Development

Understanding the concept of Chronos and Kairos is an article that will help personal and professional development seekers in their journey to achieving it.

Before we go into this, I would like us to understand the meaning of the two terms Chronos and Kairos.

What is Chronos and how did it come about?

Chronos is from a Greek word "xpovoc" which means "time". This is to say that Chronos refers to chronological time.

What is Kairos and how did it come about?

Just like Chronos, Kairos is also a Greek word.

Kairos is used to describe the right time to do something. It is used to explain time or a moment that is most favorable to execute an action for something significant to happen.

Unlike Chronos, Kairos is more of the quality usage of time. It centers more on the right timing for events and actions rather than just referring to chronological time.

How do you utilize the knowledge of these two concepts for your personality development?

As someone who is seeking to go far beyond mere existence, knowing how to apply these two principles will guide you towards achieving your goals.

How can you acheive this?.

Let's take Chronos first. 

Recall that Chronos refers to chronological time. By chronological we mean order.

So as someone who is on mission to personality or professional development, using the principle of Chronos will require that you set up regular routines and habit that will contribute to your personal growth. It requires that you dedicate some hours of the day, weeks or months on activities that will foster your growth.

Activities like: reading, writing, exercising, reflection. Setting specific goals and breaking them down into small achievable daily or weekly tasks that you can achieve through consistency.

This is how to use chronos for your personality development.

Kairos

This is the second principle of time that deals more on the right time or moment to take action. This is more like seizing the moment. Seizing opportunities when it arises. 

It goes beyond your daily routine like the Chronos but deeply into recognizing critical moments for growth and change by seizing opportuned moments. By pushing yourself, knowing when to take on that career, stepping out of your comfort zone, taking up a new challenge.

It could be taking up that public speaking invitation even though you have stage fright but you have committed yourself to practice day and night. Accepting that invitation means you're seizing the moment to shake off that stage fright - Kairos.

You see, a lot of people are actually failing to identify with opportunities maybe because of fear, inferiority complex or other reasons peculiar to the individual as to why they shy away from opportunities when it arises before them.

I would like to say that while it is important to build yourself consistently in order to have a strong foundation, it is important that you're able to discern opportunities before you 

In summary, Chronos opens you up to kairos - pst. John Anosike.

This means that consistent practice opens you up to opportunities but it shouldn't end there. You need to discern, you need to identify with opportunities and seize the moment.

I hope you got value from the post. Thank you for reading.