A Basic Law of _ _ _ _ _

LC

"For any organism to survive, its rate of

learning must be at least equal to or greater than, the rate of change in its environment".

For the word "organism", we could substitute "organization" or even "individual".

Sharpen the Saw - (Renewal)

Some day in the years to come, you may be wrestling with the great temptation or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here now _ _ _ _. Now it is being

decided whether, in the day of your supreme

sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made

except by a steady; long continued process.

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Phillips Brooks

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I know of no more encouraging fact than the

unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life

by conscious endeavor.

___ Henry David Thoreau

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Self-Awareness : Ability to think about your very thought process

It enables us to stand apart and examine even the way we see ourselves our self paradigm, the most fundamental paradigm of effectiveness It effects not only our attitudes and behaviors but also how we see other people
It can enable us to examine our paradigms to determine whether they are reality or principle based or if they are a function of conditioning and conditions

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The Social Mirror

The reflection of the current social paradigm:

Largely determined by conditioning and

conditions

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Three Social Paradigms (Explanation of Nature of Man)

Genetic Determinism

My mental attitudes are in my

DNA

Psychic Determinism

Our upbringing, our childhood experience

Environmental Determinism

Someone or some-thing in our environment is responsible for my situation

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We are conditioned to respond in a particular

way to a particular stimulus.

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Fundamental Principle about the nature of man

discovered through Endowment of SelfAwareness:

"Between stimulus and response, man has the freedom to choose".

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Within the freedom to choose; Endowments:

Self-Awareness

Imagination
Conscience

Independent Will

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Our human endowments lift us above the

animal world.
The extent to which we exercise and

develop these endowments, empowers us

to fulfill our human potential. Between stimulus and response is our greatest power __ the freedom to choose.

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Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.

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Behavior of highly proactive people is a product

of their own conscious choice, based on values,

rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.

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Reactive people are often affected by their physical and

social environment.

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Reactive people are driven by feelings, by

circumstances, by conditions, by their

environment.

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"No one can hurt you emotionally
without your consent".

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Eleanor Roosevelt

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"It is not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us".

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In fact, our most difficult experiences become the crucibles that forge our character and develop the internal powers, the freedom to handle difficult circumstances in the future.

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Do you believe?

With severe physical handicaps, there are

individuals who maintain magnificent emotional

strength.

How?

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Three Central Values The experiential - which happens to us The creative - we bring into existence

The attitudinal - our response in difficult circumstances

The highest of the three is attitudinal, in the paradigm or reframing sense. What matters most is how we respond to what we experience in life.

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Take the Initiative

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Proactivity is part of human nature

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Act or Be Acted Upon

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Listening to our language;

Reactive Language
Proactive Language

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A serious problem with reactive language is that it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. People become reinforced in the paradigm that they are determined and they produce evidence to support the belief.