We started the year by looking at our Circle of Perception and the six segments that make up the circle.
Over the last few months, we've focused on our financial segment (April), our physical health segment (May), our spiritual health segment (June), our career segment (July), and our relationships segment (August).
Now we've come to the last segment of the circle - our overall well-being.
Over the course of the year so far, we've gone deep into ourselves to understand where our actions and reactions - or responses - come from in each of those areas. Now we bring that all together in order to look at and address our overall well-being.
Back in January, we talked about our core values and principles, and vetting our goals against them to make sure our actions were in alignment with those values and principles.
In February, we discussed identifying and assessing the roadblocks to our success, and increasing our awareness by moving from unconscious incompetence to conscious competence.
In March, we talked about getting back up when we fall off the wagon, developing our follow-through, working through fear, and doing the spring cleaning necessary so that we can grow our best lives now.
One of the ways we can aid the growth of our best life now is by coming from a place of abundance. I touched on that theme in all of our discussions, and the post that most sticks in my mind and reinforces this is the one from May on Self-Image!
Positivity is a conscious act, and one that must be practiced on a daily basis.
I'm sure many of you have seen, and may even have been tagged for, the exercise of coming up with three positive things in your life right now every day for the next seven days. If you are not already doing this, I challenge you to do so for the next week. You don't have to share and tag others to keep the exercise going, though...
What we focus on is what we bring into our lives.
What are you focusing on - the actual abundance already present in your life right here, right now, or the perceived lack in it?
Over the next few weeks, we will discuss Journaling, Balance, and Harmony & Sync.
Until next time - Namaste!
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Sunday, February 23, 2014
MaXIMIze - Increasing Awareness - Moving from Unconscious Incompetence to Unconscious Competence
I think I have mentioned Entheos before in this forum, perhaps in my previous blog posts. Brian Johnson, the CEO of the Entheos Academy, has a series called Philosopher's Notes, where he synopsizes books by various philosophers and such, capturing the Big Ideas encapsulated in them and showing how these ideas are very relevant to us living our best lives now. Recently, I was listening to his talk on Flow, a book by Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi, and Brian introduced a quad principle of moving from unconscious incompetence through conscious incompetence to conscious competence and finally to unconscious competence.
Serendipitously, I recent bought and read a book titled Reinventing Yourself by Mario Alonso Puig. In Chapter 11, titled "Hope for Victory and You'll be Victorious," I was introduced to these ideas again, as well as the story of the man - Matthias Alexander - who, as a way to overcome a physical difficulty that threatened his very livelihood, discovered this method to work through roadblocks very successfully.
Let's tackle the four parts of this principle one at a time.
Unconscious Incompetence - the state of being where one does not know how to do something and is not even aware that he/she does not know how to do something or the value of doing so - deal with personal finances for example.
Conscious Incompetence - the state of being where one knows he/she does not know how to do something and that something is a valuable skill to learn - balancing accounts, saving appropriately, not buying on impulse, paying bills on time, etc.
Conscious Competence - the state of being where one has learned the new skill and is consciously working to apply it consistently - taking the time to think about need versus want when making a purchase.
Unconscious Competence - the state of being where the skill has become so ingrained in one's psyche that it is an automatic response - saving 10% of one's income.
To understand and remedy an issue, one has to realize he/she has an issue. So, in the case of personal finances, if we are having difficulty getting to our personal goals in that area, whether it be as simple as buying a new outfit or as complex as saving for one's retirement or a child's college costs, we need to first realize we have an issue. Then we need to work to remedy the issue by learning and applying the appropriate skill-set needed. And, as we continue to learn and apply those skills, we can see the progression from conscious incompetence to unconscious competence.
This falls right in line with our discussions on goal-setting and identifying and dealing with roadblocks in relation to achieving our goals.
What steps are you going to take today to move from unconscious incompetence to unconscious competence in your life?
Next week, we will address falling off the wagon - and how we go about getting back on without too many bumps and bruises.
Until then, namaste!
Serendipitously, I recent bought and read a book titled Reinventing Yourself by Mario Alonso Puig. In Chapter 11, titled "Hope for Victory and You'll be Victorious," I was introduced to these ideas again, as well as the story of the man - Matthias Alexander - who, as a way to overcome a physical difficulty that threatened his very livelihood, discovered this method to work through roadblocks very successfully.
Let's tackle the four parts of this principle one at a time.
Unconscious Incompetence - the state of being where one does not know how to do something and is not even aware that he/she does not know how to do something or the value of doing so - deal with personal finances for example.
Conscious Incompetence - the state of being where one knows he/she does not know how to do something and that something is a valuable skill to learn - balancing accounts, saving appropriately, not buying on impulse, paying bills on time, etc.
Conscious Competence - the state of being where one has learned the new skill and is consciously working to apply it consistently - taking the time to think about need versus want when making a purchase.
Unconscious Competence - the state of being where the skill has become so ingrained in one's psyche that it is an automatic response - saving 10% of one's income.
To understand and remedy an issue, one has to realize he/she has an issue. So, in the case of personal finances, if we are having difficulty getting to our personal goals in that area, whether it be as simple as buying a new outfit or as complex as saving for one's retirement or a child's college costs, we need to first realize we have an issue. Then we need to work to remedy the issue by learning and applying the appropriate skill-set needed. And, as we continue to learn and apply those skills, we can see the progression from conscious incompetence to unconscious competence.
This falls right in line with our discussions on goal-setting and identifying and dealing with roadblocks in relation to achieving our goals.
What steps are you going to take today to move from unconscious incompetence to unconscious competence in your life?
Next week, we will address falling off the wagon - and how we go about getting back on without too many bumps and bruises.
Until then, namaste!
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