Philip,
Change "Personal Development Programmes" to taking responsibility and leadership for own growth.
I disagree with a system of total submission to someone else's leadership over my own growth. I refuse to submit to someone else's ideas of what is good for me. If a subliminal programme is making me feel bad I will stop using it. If the author suggests a certain method and I disagree with it, I see nothing wrong with doing something else if I think it will make a greater improvement or sometimes even a smaller step that I can cope with.
I do everything you have listed in your list of requirements, but not for PDPs. I refuse to engage in those requirements with another person's leadership over my growth process. In other words you could change PDPs to my own personal growth process, with my leadership. I refuse to intergrate those characteristics for the sake of someone else's plan for my life, BUT they are very worthy characteristics to intergrate if they are for one's own sake. "Stickability" to someone else's plan shows a lack of self-leadership and maturity to use one's own mind. Following a PDP system totally often means denying using your own mind and you can end up far from where you wanted to go.
Although one of the characteristics is:
"If they need to revise the programme to suit their personality they will do so."
I feel that you haven't put enough emphasis on the the fact that a person with initiative wouldn't follow all the requirements you've listed for the sake of somebody else's plans for their lives.
I think what you are suggesting is a cult-like adherence to somebody else's plans. I always take what I can use and leave the rest. I don't honour the maker of the programme more than I honour myself. There is a fine line to be drawn here about who has the leadership, and I think the line is deceptively blurred.
I have printed your post and will file it because it is very valuable to know those characteristics in terms of my own growth process but not for the sake of PDPs. You almost had me taken, but not quite.
