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Tag: transformation

  • What Could You Learn That Could Transform Your World?

    What could you learn that would transform your life experience? Nelson Mandela said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

    You may be out of a formal educational structure, but learning continues to be the best way to create positive change.

    As our world grows ever more quickly to connect more of us to each other – AND as more knowledge becomes available on the web – both the opportunities and the requirements for learning will also grow.

    What learning do you have planned for the balance of 2010 that could transform your personal and / or professional lives? How can you create a learning plan for yourself that predicts that you will successfully engage positive change?

  • Transformation In Professional Situations

    Transformation is often not much fun in the moment. Consider the necessity of changing a professional situation that isn’t working. You might have been giving and giving – to the point of imbalance – in a business or client relationship. The giving wasn’t reciprocated, and after you’ve tried all kinds of ways to change it, you have to take decisive action.

    The others involved may resist – they may even attack you because you’ve changed what you’re willing to do and be.

    Gail Sheehy says, “Transformation also means looking for ways to stop pushing yourself so hard professionally or inviting so much stress.”

    Have you had the experience of needing to pull back from stress and imbalance as a means of transforming a business dynamic? What have been the consequences? Did you experience support or resistance from the others involved? What did you learn about getting yourself into that situation and how it could potentially be avoided in the future?

  • “To Change Skins, Evolve Into New Cycles, I Feel One Has To Learn To Discard” – Anais Nin

    One of my dearest friends is moving to a new home that is deliberately smaller and simpler. The move is part of a simplification of her life that she began two years ago – as part of a specific intention to transform her life into being more spiritually-driven.

    Writer Anais Nin wrote:

    “To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally, one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one’s mind and the psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic, living use.”

    How are you with simplifying your life by reducing the amount of “stuff” that you have? That “stuff” could be anything from boxes in the garage – to long and deeply held resentments – to pining for a lost relationship – and on and on.

    What kind of simplification and discarding would it take to transform your life? Where would you start? What have been your fears and concerns about identifying and eliminating the extraneous in your life?

  • “The Happiness Of A Man In This Life Does Not Consist In The Absence But In The Mastery Of His Passions.” – Tennyson

    Do ALL humans have a driving desire to transform something in their lives? In my profession, by definition, everyone with whom I come in contact is seeking positive change – but I don’t assume that that applies equally to all of us.

    How strong is your desire to transform? What are the burning issues that you know would alter your life for the better if you were able to transform your relationship to them? “Everyday” examples like health, diet, exercise, work-life balance, finances, romance, career, family . . . these are the primary places where most of us strive to make progress.

    What is your number one, absolutely most important area of transformation? Most likely, that’s an area where you not only desire transformation, but mastery.

    Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote:

    “The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.”

    What does your primary area of desired transformation have to do with mastering your passions? Assuming that you agree with Tennyson, which of your passions are most relevant to your intention to transform?

  • “The Revolution That Will Save The World Is Ultimately A Personal One” – Marianne Williamson

    The literal definition of “transformation” is to change form.   We humans transform from one stage of growth into another.  Some transformations are painful, of course, but it is the nature of a living being to change, grow and transform into successive stages.

    A useful question for those who wish to move forward is how to transform the world.  Marianne Williamson writes:

    “Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.”

    Do you consider yourself a person who seeks transformation, or is it something that passively happens to you?  What kinds of experiences and events have transformed you?

    Have you noticed whether it’s the so-called positive dynamics that are more powerful transformers?  Or is it the “negative ” ones?  What do you think of Marianne’s perception that your personal transformation will have revolutionary effects on the world?

  • Freedom To Be and The Hero’s Journey

    The promise of the Hero’s Journey is to return safely home – not necessarily unwounded or unscathed – but free. The freedom comes as a result of losing one’s fear of death during the journey.

    The Hero is able to resist looking into the past with regret or into the future with apprehension. Upon the conclusion of the ordeal, the Hero is able to be present in the moment. The Hero is ultimately free simply to be.

    The Hero’s Journey demands courage and fortitude. The journey requires surrender to the journey itself and to its perils. The passion and commitment to a goal larger than oneself. The drive and zeal to return home and be willing to be transformed by the journey and its lessons.

    Think about your life’s significant challenges and / or adventures. Situations in your life where you have defied your comfort zone in service of a goal or calling that demanded that you grow.

    The journey, of course, is often not enjoyable. It is often arduous, but it is most often supremely rewarding. What parallels can you see in your own life using the steps of the Hero’s Journey? How free are you to be?