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A Successful Success Formula

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The key to healing in any context is the ability to make changes. If you can’t change the way things are, you’re stuck with something you don’t want. To heal disease, heal finances, heal work, relationships, whatever you are struggling with in life, you need to change.

Yet change is one of the most feared and resisted aspects of living—ask any coach or psychologist. Even when a person says they consciously want change, often the resistance it at a deeper level.

I’ve put together a few thoughts on change which I hope will be enlightening and helpful.

Working to a success formula

It is possible to structure the need for change in one’s life into a sequence of events that might be called a “Successful Change Formula”.

Aristotle had one; he said that there are three basic steps that you must take to get what you want out of life:

1. Understand that you can achieve success

2. Define what success represents, for you

3. Organise your life around its achievement by making the necessary changes

Don’t under-estimate the value of these simple steps because here you have the ultimate success formula. It is the secret that everyone who has ever been successful, in any field of endeavour, has used.

Properly adhered to, this will ensure far more efficacious actions than most people usually engage in.

However, I’d like to suggest something a little broader and more modern. Success is seen in terms of decisive change. Obviously, if you haven’t got what you really want, you need to change something. But what? It is vital to recognize accurately what it is that holds you back. Then remedy it. Dealing with the wrong problem will lead to failure. So this is pretty important stuff.

The formula given here will help you. All success and improvement can be mapped in these terms, whether the individual has consciously applied them or not. Obviously, knowing and willing application of its steps will bring a far higher success rate than mere unknowing and random encounters with one or two of the steps. Continue reading →

Degrees of Consciousness from Dead to Divine

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One of my recurring “structures of thought” is the SCALE of values.

The definition of a scale is an incremental series of steps—like a spectrum.

The key to a scale is that each step along the way is not so different from the ones on either side. But as change continually progresses, there is eventually a major shift in values. One end of the spectrum is very different from where you started; often, in fact, the complete opposite or reverse.

My scales are trying to be comprehensive and cover ALL related values, even opposites. So a scale of “truth”, for example, would include lies or falsehoods at the opposite end. These are reverse values but quite clearly related to each other. As with a dichotomy, one defines the other. So “truth” is defined partly as the opposite of “lies” and vice versa, of course.

But not all scales are opposites. You met my “Ladder Of Emotions”, for example. The top and bottom are not really opposites: bliss is not the reverse of despair and numbness. These are qualitatively different steps. But there is still PROGRESS from one level to the next and a person will still pass through all intermediate stages, no matter how fast [I need to expand on that, some day].

Recently, a whole new scale popped into y head, which I think you’ll find interesting. It’s a Scale of Awakening, from dead to divine, and all degrees of consciousness between.

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Knowledge As A Trade Commodity

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I first published this piece in Dec 1993. That was the last time my first wife and I could have described ourselves as lovers. The family gathering at Christmas that year my youngest son always calls our “Shooting Party”, after a wonderful movie with James Stewart, depicting the Edwardian culture literally falling apart in the last months before WWI changed Britain and Europe forever!

Anyway, in this piece I wrote about the rise of the “Information Age”. See for yourself how close I got with some of these concepts (many from Peter Drucker, as you will see).

I was a little bit off with “Educational Entrepreneur”; these days we would probably say Infopreneur. 

Did I foresee the rise of social networking in the section of “The Human Element”? I think so 🙂

Drucker was spot on in talking about New Social Classes. He described perfectly the high wage and social status of those who live and work in Silicon Valley. 

I called my writings then Applied Philosophics™. I still have the trademark for that name in the UK. 

The promised knowledge and skills will be coming to you, via this website…

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