KNOW THY SELF, GROW THY SELF
Equip yourself, to become your best self
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AWARENESS
Growing is a fundamental nature of the world we live in, it happens by default. Where your focus goes, energy flow, where energy goes, that’s what will grow. As far as the story goes it’s easy to be aware of where others are or perhaps need to grow. But to look at one’s self identify our fears fault and failing is not easy task. here lie the measure of your true strength, the Strength of your Character. We first need to understand Growth can only happen happens when you become aware that you need it. Other wise you development will be guided by your environment and not by design.
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FACE YOURSELF
We create neurological lenses, Filtering based our past and current experiences that shape our perception of the world; often well constructed around the best part of ourselves/our world. A frame solely focused on bring into view our well engineered, in-control, organised, tidy life; you could liken it to image of a City. This can sometimes provide a comforting delusion that we have conquered the wild best with in the shadowed wilderness of our lives. hiding unwieldy, unpredictable, messy, dangerous wilderness that sit outside the city’s current inferstucure, here we find the untamed impulse, thoughts & actions we suppress, push into the shadow and hide at all cost. it precisely here we come face to face with our raw self, It’s here we find the endeless war full of worthy battles waiting to be fought and won, the victors price ‘Growth’ be it personal, profession, relational or spiritual. A battle not won with brute streagh but rather with discipline, Awareness, truth and a mindset of love.
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TRUTH
The truth will set you free! But being free comes at a cost the cost of your time, energy and unhelpful thought, actions and habits. The truth can hurt as it cast light on the part of ourselves we try hard to keep in the shadows. But where does truth come from, is it a natural law or personal, social, spritural, religious moral subscription. is it the law or at-least a law or the spirit in witch the law has been written.
Module one - What Game are you playing.
We have all played games; board, card sports or recreational games. Be it in a team or solo, some for a bit of fun where the stakes are low others are highly competition where the stakes couldn’t be higher and everything in between. When we take a closer look at life through the lens of game theory, we discover the different types of games and the different ways each should be played. we will quickly identify where the game of life sits and understand the most productive way to stay in it for as long as possible for the necessary benefit of the “game”.
Module two - Play your role.
If you took a main character from one movie storyline say we took ‘Woddie from the classic toy story movies’ and without context put his charter into Star Wars… not only would it offend die-hard fans it wouldn’t make any sense. Playing the right Character in the right storyline or vice versa is important for the success of the film. The same could be said for a real-life understanding of the current storyline/your situation is needed in order to understand the character required to achieve a successful ending to the scene. it is also crucial to note and hard to hear but we are not going to or need to be the main character is everyone’s story.
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have you ever watched a movie or read a book and couldn’t help liking yet simultaneously not liking one of the characters or at least their action? Who’s the main character in your story?
Module three - Rome wasn’t build in a ..., but was it destroyed.
every played Jenga or its, more challenging and painful bigger sibling ‘mega Jenga’. To begin you must build the tower making sure you place an upcoming row of blocks adjacent to the previous ones. In most cases a process that takes a painfully longer than expected amount of time to archive. Especially when the tower’s in-pending collapse arrives perpetually due to poor judgment, sabotage or poor impulse control. You know who you are!
Module four - Newton’s third law.
“for every action in nature, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” Ever heard, ‘what goes up must come down!’ or perhaps we could look at it this way “what goes in must come out.” needless to say that if what goes in is ‘Rubbish’ then what comes out will also be ‘Rubbish’. A lot can be said for what we allow to enter the 6” of Space between your ears that space that holds the ever-powerful always changing thinking machine also known as your brain.
Module Five - Revenue -Expenses = Profit
In the language of business, the simplest way/equation used to determine profit (profit being the value you have left after you pay any bills) is “ revenue - expenses = Profit. when we go outside of the business to our everyday lives what does revenue look like in this space? What do Expenses look like? Lastly, where do they come from? It’s only when we learn & understand this language we can unlock the real profit.
Module Six - Where’s the line... depends where your focused.
Remember the times you tried to see how close you get your finger to the candles naked flame before it got to hot to handle or you got burnt, only to trying again as if the outcome might be different. We are often focus on finding where the line is, how far is to far, wheres the limits, i’m just curious to know if i push here what will happen. Some could clames these questions are fundamental to understanding personal/ social and moral boundaries. Yet the focus is almost always placed on finding the threshold where ok becomes not ok healthy to not healthy. A threshold thats more of a slop then a doorway further more a slop that is hard to recognise in the subjective view.
Module seven - Important or Necessary
“ its import you … so you can achieve …” After time your will power often gets eroded by high, sometimes impossible barrier set by this vage, lofty promise of ‘IMPORTANT’ and our lack of real commitment to the goal in the first place. You know yourself to become the person we want to be, our ‘ULTIMATE SELF’ it’s not about doing what important but rather doing whats simply Necessary.
Module Eight - Not all thoughts are created equal.
Ever given a thought more think time than it needed, maybe you find it easier to get stuck in your head, than getting stuck into life. the thoughts of what ‘if’ took over the reality of what actually is. Thus effecting your choses and behaviours to no positive outcome. trying to think yourself into greater control then what realistic.
Module Nine - rate your responsibility.
Bringing awareness to your perceived level of responsibility and it relationship with your perceived level of control. feeling a lack of control over our perceived responsibilities can lead us to greater stress and unpleasant emotions, drawing our focus inward. a lack of perceived responsibilities is more in our control then we are often lead to believe, it when we focus on other we often grow ourselves.
Module Ten - The Story of the shortcut, not always quicker.
the fable of how looking for shortcuts can sometime lead to you missing the point.
Module Eleven - What times follow you.
hard times create tough people, tough people create easy times, easy times create weak people, and weak people create hard times. no matter where you are the ingredients that decide where you move to is discipline and delaying gratification.
Module Twelve - what side of the magnet do you use?
The law of attraction and its laws.
Lesson Thirteen - The tiring reality of selfishness.
We are told to look after number one, yet why is it that when we do we feel like someone also trying to take from us? being asked to help here and clean that pick up this and just help for a second here. could you play with them for, i need your help over here.
Lesson Fourteen - Rate your control.
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Lesson Fifteen - liven out of a dream.
The great thinker of the past suggests that our personality is inhabited by other sub-personalities that inform the subconscious thought often projected in our dreams.
Lesson Sixteen - The tool that unlock capacity
As a car need tool to be fix a unlock problem, so knowledge is the tool for the human
Lesson Seventeen We get used to what we are used to.
unpacking the struggle the Hebrew dealt with throughout the exodus story.
Lesson Eighteen - There is no traffic on the extra mile.
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Lesson Nineteen - The two-way street.
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Lesson Twenty - Burning out.
BLURBHarvard Business Review - Burnout
= High responsibility
= Low control
= Low reward
Signs of Burnout
Passion fades
You know longer feel the highs and lows
Your reactions are disproportionate
Everybody drains you
You are growing cynical
Nothing satisfies you
You can't think straight or logically
Productivity is tanking
You are self-medicating overwork food booze
Rest and sleep no longer fuels you
You don't laugh any more
