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Monday, February 1, 2010

Living to Change (cont.)

All professionals have a team of professionals surrounding them to give them the best advice. This could be as simple as the advice your family gives. For some, it is just an accountant and a lawyer. Others have a more complex team of multiple lawyers and accountants, managers, publicist, agents, life coaches, nutritionist, personal trainers, wellness coach, financial advisers, golf coaches, yoga instructors, doctors, chiropractors, massage therapist, etc...

Each of those people specializes in one area of expertise based on the one area they have studied. You can learn a lot about yourself when you are willing to take criticism from so many different specialists. When holding yourself personally responsible and accountable, you have to ask one of two questions. “What can I do to help?” or “How can I help?”

This is what each specialist can do for you. Who are these people in your life? Are you even willing to accept criticism to better your life?

We all start life with basic needs. A psychologist, Abraham Maslow, put together a pyramid theory of those needs called Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. As I strive towards self actualization, the top level of the pyramid, I have begun to notice many things about myself and I have learned about the changes I need to make in my life. I have accepted each of us as our own unique individual. We each travel through our own journey in life with different learning curves.

Clare Graves took this hierarchy one step further in order to create the Graves Value System, known today as spiral dynamics. It is at the top level that I strive to attain. A person at the top level is a global, holistic thinker who is trans-personal with collective consciousness. For instance, spiral dynamics is used by corporations to expand the psychological levels of their management team(s). Clare Graves discovered the different psychological stages people transform through, although not all people evolve. The potential for all people to evolve is possible.

Learn to evolve through accepting different criticism from different specialist that make up your team in life!

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