The WDEP System is a set of counseling procedures used within Reality therapy that you can easily adapt to help speed up your spiritual growth. Each letter stands for a strategy that can be used for change.
Wants
Direction and Doing
Evaluation
Plan
Use the following questions to evaluate your spiritual growth process. Based on your answers, modify your behavior to increase your ability to achieve your goals.
Wants
What do you want?
How does what you want help your spiritual growth?
If you were the person that you wish you were, what kind of person would you be?
What do you think stops you from making the changes you would like?
Doing
What are you doing to get what you want?
What are you doing today to further your spiritual growth?
What will you do tomorrow to further your spiritual growth?
Evaluation
Is what you are doing helping or hurting your spiritual growth?
Is your behavior helping you?
Is what you are doing aligned with what you believe?
Planning
Do you have a spiritual growth plan?
Is your plan of action realistic and attainable?
Does your plan help you achieve your spiritual growth goals?
How committed are you to executing you spiritual growth plan?
Is your plan overly dependent on the actions of others?
I find this technique very useful for making quick adjustments to my behavior so that I can maintain spiritual growth. The key is making sure that all of your goals will lead you toward spiritual growth.
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Hugh’s WDEP System for Spiritual Growth (Wants, Direction and Doing, Evaluation and Plan) is an easy to remember plan for working on your spiritual growth. Most people put spiritual growth at the bottom of their list of important endeavors in life. After reading Hugh Russell’s plan on spiritual growth using the WDEP system I think there’s a more structured way to look at that aspect of my life. You can tell that Mr. Russell has done some deep thinking and serious contemplation to come up with his no nonsense, clear, concise list of steps to help you with you spiritual growth.
Good questions. Interesting idea–a spiritual growth plan. I think it does take some planning to create space for a disciplined spiritual practice. I’m not sure if this is what you’re meaning or not.