Investment in Excellence - Course

[Danielle La Belle]

Excerpts from "Investment in Excellence:" Copyright – 1983 The Pacific Institute – Seattle, WA 98101


I was trained in 1990 to become a facilitator for EG&G Florida, the then base operations contractor (BOC) for Kennedy Space Center. (Yes, I was indirectly involved in several successful shuttle launches from 1989 – 1991 as a member/employee of the BOC.)

This program, IIE, has been around in early development by the copyright holders since 1970. Louis Tice and his spouse Diane, developed this institutional program that has been delivered around the world many times over.

I recently came across my manual and notes. They quickly reminded me about my personal responsibilities for my behavior, for my thinking and for my perceptions of my self as an individual.

This course is not for the weak at heart or weak in the knees personality. Point blank, it makes you take responsibility for whom you are, where you are, what you are. No "escape goats" to send off to another village in hopes that all of your troubles will go with the “escape goat,” (a reference to what villagers did to rid their community of it’s problems).

The very first installment is titled: 1-A Possibility Thinking.

“People limit themselves by the way they think. We must learn to think outside our limitations”.

The course then asks: “What thoughts or beliefs do I have that may be limiting me?” Something that I am now asking myself today as I open this course.

An example: What role does Danielle Marie play in my life? Is she a limiting force or one that propels me forward, in a balanced state or unbalanced state? What does Danielle Marie do for me? Am I in charge or has she become the center of my attention, distracting me from the things that need to be done in order for me to be successful and serving my family.

Hardball questions for a real world. “Do I have blind spots that are preventing me from seeing the truth?

So this course of material is designed to jar the employee or the personal individual into seeing things in a different light perhaps. Taking responsibility for his/her actions. This is life in the now. There is no practice session for life. No pre-game warm up. You are born, the ball is pitched and you decide to take a swing or not. It happens everyday when you rise from your slumber and start your day, no matter the time frame. We all have a period of time every 24 hours that we consider it our work shift, regardless of what the clock says.

I am making this first entry as I work on unit one of the program. There are 15 units in this course. I intend on completing everyone, documenting as I did in the past my answers and my intentions. I will for the most part, provide that information here.

I have provided the url web link to the company that provided this course so that anyone may contact them for their business to consider this as a form of training.

http://www.thepacificinstitute.com


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Danielle Marie

[Kari]

Hmmmmm, i shouldn't but.................

With the greatest of respect to those involved with such things.

What does it actually produce ?. I work for quite a large company in the Uk
and they have spent obscene amounts of money on similar schemes over
the years and to my recolection, not one of them has ever made the
slightest difference to anyone as far as i am aware.

Someone convinces senior managers that these schemes will move the
company forward and inspire the workforce to greater things, never
works in reality. Usually get lunch out of it though.

The bottom line is, the people who actually do the work, aren't interested
in such schemes. They are designed for upper management and those
are usually the ones who have no idea what the job entails in the first
place. So it makes no difference if they 'think outside their limitations'
in fact, it makes things worse because they think they know what they're
doing.

In the Uk, we're probably a lot more cynical about such things, i dont know.
We don't seem to need this kind of soul searching in our lives, or at
least the people i am in contact with don't.

In these meetings, we do like to play a little game of Bullsh*t Bingo though.

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No offence intended but when i hear the words 'Investment in Excellence',
or 'Investment in People' or 'Ucan'. My eyes roll up because i know
exactly whats coming...

But, as with everything in life, each to their own..

Good luck with it though...

[Virginia]

In business, I guess I have to agree with Kari. I was with a company for 26 years and saw pretty much the same thing she saw. I do not wish to be cynical either, but it has been my experience and I can site numerous examples that the true inter action comes only in the phrase" "Its not what you know --- it's WHO you know!" I know of one example, one of our senior managers had his head so far up the Executive Directors @#$
that once he got the company fined over $400,000.00. Had a couple of us not gotten the Insurance Director drunk one night and he blurted out the strory, none of us would have been the wiser other than had it been one of us we would have been on the street so fast......... well one of many stories!
My I continue that these types of programs would be wonderful for any of my sisters struggling with crossdressing. First it may help them determine if indeed they are "one." then if they determine that they are, where on the CD continuum are they? Do they need, want or desire to be somewhere else on the continuum? of do they need to consider the next plateau? It can defintily give someone the "hard" questions to answer and help them to see where they are!
Virginia

[Danielle La Belle]

Hi girls:

I too have seen as many different programs in quality oriented applications while in aerospace manufacturing.

The differnce in this program is that for me, after going through it, I set goals and reached them all including finishing my college degrees (brick and mortar) over the next 10 years. So for me, I was perhaps motivated to begin with. I really cannot say at this time, 16 years later. But, as I re-re-read the first unit, I have already found that I did not want to really answer the questions truthfully. I danced around today just to avoid the answers that made most sense for me.

Again, I respect your opinion girls and it is far and away true that these programs are often just money makers for the vendor. Another way for management to pretend it is going to fix the things that everyone is complaining about. A band-aid on a band-aid. I think in honesty, these things work for those that find interest in them. Tennis anyone?

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Danielle Marie

[Virginia]

Well Hon, you kinda answered your own question in that you took it by yourself, not as a requirement for an employer. I think something like that would help someone who was open to it and apply it to their struggling as a crossdresser (as an example )
Love you,
Virginia

[Danielle La Belle]

Hi Virginia:

I took the course as a requirement by my then employer, EG&G Florida while the BOC for Kennedy Space Center. This time, I am re-reading the course material of my own accord.

The fact that it was a business-sponsored, required program, was my initial introduction to the concepts and strategies of the IIE materials. From there, I was inspired to follow through with the training to complete my advanced education and to implement several of the ideas into my day-to-day living.

While it may not have generated extensive cash-flow for me, it did things that cannot be measured by "currency of the realm." We are forever changed after reading most anything in some form if not, just by the act of reading and retaining ideas of thought that otherwise would not have been made available to us through our simple existence.

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Danielle Marie

[Virginia]

Thanks, Hon,
I did read that you took the course as a requirement -- I don't have enough stress in my life right now!
But you are right, some things we gloss over in our lives some times do stay with us and can later alter our views and change us.
If we can look back over our lives and try to figure out why we believe what we do and what/who influenced us to think/feel the way we do. Some are easy and some we may never know the why's!
Progams like you mention can definitley make us think and examine ourselves if we are honest with ourselves!
Thanks for sharing and again I apologize for misinterpreting what you had said!
Virginia

[Danielle La Belle]

Hi Virginia:

I have great admiration for your experience, input and judgement. I saw the word "stress" and remembered what Dr. Wayne Dyer wrote in one of his many philisophical books:

"We bring into our lives what we feel is lacking. The result of this is the very thing that we try to avoid most..., stress."

I wish to add to this that in my ramblings, at times, I seem to invite problems as if I was starving for something to solve. While in reality, I only seek to resolve myself.

I am that I am!

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Danielle Marie

[Danielle La Belle]

Unit 1-A-B

Possibility Thinking and Wizards

Many options are open to us in life but we “lock-on” to our beliefs and often ignore those other options.

We have a preconceived way of seeing things. Developed over our lifetime, we have collected information from those that teach us what they believe, right or wrong. It has always been the way we develop as children and continue into adulthood.

Accountability and responsibility belongs to our individual selves. Learning to think outside our “current limitations,” as we have learned over this lifetime so far. Becoming analytical and observant along with critical thinking are a means for you to improve and further develop your life.

We all have “blind spots.” And we act in accordance with how we see things, not how it might really be. Rather, we can only see what we do not lock out. What we let in, what we believe.

Someone that is “successful” has no doubt learned how to use this technique. How to see “the truth,” to see how it can be used in their life at the moment. Locking on too firmly prevents a person from developing and then setting limitations that they may never escape.

We tend to seek out only those that will “verify our beliefs,” our point of view. We choose self-help books that agree with our current belief system rather than chose books that may express a different set of ideas and principles.

We chose articles and friends that support our current belief system. Forums where we get the support that we want to hear. “Birds of a feather, stick together.” If we do not opt for change then we will be forever more captured and controlled by the very group think that we currently seek to support our “truth” as we see it.

We validate ourselves by using these methods of group think. It supports our opinions and truths that we have come to accept and act on. If change is what you seek, then it is within you.

Each person will be their own “wizard!” You can affirm upon yourself through your divine right as an individual the ability to change and make use of these ideas as they unfold. 100 people can read the same statement, but only 1 will take the ball and run downfield with the concept. Be that 1!




NOTES: Obtain a notebook for keeping a diary of your thoughts and other ideas while reading the units as they are posted. Commit to being honest with yourself. Write down words or phrases as they come to you in the moment. Anything is fair game. This is not a test of right or wrong. This is called brainstorming and does not require that you be right. No judgment. No need to bare your soul. This is just a process to provide you with another means of personal understanding. No one expects you to respond in this thread. Email your thoughts to me directly, good, bad or indifferent. This course is free! Do with it as you may.

Here are the questions to consider today:

01. Do I lock-on and limit my circle of friends?

02. Is tradition a help or hindrance to my personal growth?

03. Do I cling to one life style?

04. Do I value the opinions of strangers but lock-out those of my

family and co-workers.

05. What do I believe that I can do?

06. What do I believe that I can’t do?

07. Can I write examples of how I lock-out or lock-on to
one thing or another?

08. When have I locked on to the wrong information about
another person?
What did this do to my perception?

09. Who are the “wizards in my life? (Teachers, spouse, mangers).

10. Are they a positive or negative influence on my life?

11. How do they make me feel?

12. Who has declared these people to be wizards?
Why do I accept them as wizards over me?



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Danielle Marie

[Danielle La Belle]

Have you made an answer sheet for the list of questions from Unit 1? If not, now is the time to try and put into perspective your own set of answers. Remember, this is not just about an issue of CD/TG, it is more about an issue that [YOU] find relevent in your life. That can be any number of things that are important to [YOU].

To give a further example of how this course approaches it's objectives, the following is from UNIT 2. THe discussion is about the 3 areas of the mind; conscious, sub-conscious and creative sub-conscious areas.

The selected page highlights the following:



C. Creative Subconscious

This part of our mind which controls behavior can be divided into three aspects, or can be said to have three functions.

The creative subconscious maintains your “reality” by making you act like the person you see yourself to be. It maintains your self-image, or your picture of yourself. In order to keep your sanity, you must act like your subconscious picture — the “real” you. Let me give you an example. If you see yourself as a poor public speaker, your creative subconscious will cause you to stutter, stammer and be nervous during your speech. “That’s like me, I’m a poor public speaker.” So your creative subconscious keeps you acting in a consistent manner with your image of yourself. That action can be positive or negative.

I now ask you to ponder the following statements. Do any of them remind you of the “truth” you believe about yourself? Some are positive, some are negative.

— I always mess things up.

— I’m terrible at remembering names.

— I’m very good at remembering names.

— I always enjoy a strong challenge.

— I’ve never been able to warm up to people.

The second function of the creative subconscious is to creatively solve problems. Most people

— you have them in your company or organization — consistently avoid potential growth challenges. They tend to remain in one place. Now this is important: Deliberately giving your creative sub-conscious challenges or problems to solve can be very rewarding. Note that I said “deliberately,” because this will recur again as we go along. So by deliberately giving challenges to your sub-conscious, you allow the solutions to be worked on without conscious effort, without struggle and stress.

The third function of the creative subconscious is to provide us with drive and energy. When it senses a problem or an obstacle in the way of our goals, the creative subconscious provides great energy (motivation, if you will) to find answers and solutions. The process works like this: The challenge or problem that is presented to the creative subconscious causes dissonance and disharmony. In order to regain psychological harmony, to get rid of dissonance, we work toward finding a resolution.

Now again: As we proceed together into this course, you will see ever more clearly that all meaningful and lasting "change starts on the inside and works its way out."

Stress comes when you act differently from your picture of yourself — differently from the way you believe you should act. Once you alter your picture — your image of yourself — you will change and grow and move toward your new picture. What a tremendous gift that is!

So in order to improve the quality and quantity of our decisions, what should we do? We choose to improve the quality and quantity of our thoughts.

We have seen in the above description of separate functions of the mind that the conscious mind is forever perceiving. This begins before birth, but for our purposes it begins in childhood. We take this sensory perception and store it in the subconscious. Every radio program we have heard, every school experience, every class we took, every television program, every parental encounter, every social gathering, the books we have read all this is stored in our subconscious. We refer to that stored information as “the truth.” I put quotation marks around it, because all this stored information is only our version of the truth. We also refer to it as “reality,” and again we use quotation marks because it is our version of reality. No person can interpret the same thing in the same way as another. We act according to the “truth” as we perceive it to be.

From the beginning, then, we have been “conditioned” by the world around us.

So we perceive. Then what? Now we associate. “Have I seen anything like this before?” If the experience was unpleasant, you say, “No more of that for me.” If it was pleasant, you say, “Hey, let’s try that again.” After we associate with past information or perception, we evaluate. We ask, “What is this leading me toward?” Is it going to lead me toward something that will make me happy, fulfill my goals? Or will it lead me toward something that will be detrimental, harmful, or cause pain and discomfort? The final thing we do is make a decision.

But most of us are making decisions based on what has already happened to us. Because we perceive, we associate, then we decide:

“Ah, this is going to be good.” Or:

“This should be avoided.” In negative instances, we decide not to draw because we were once ridiculed for our drawing.


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Okay, see from this entry we can draw many conclusions and we can apply any nunber of topics including CD/TG issues or not.

I will make the next entry cover Unit 2 and provide the questions. This UNIT is also in A/B sections. I will combine them for the sake of simplicity.

Remember, as a course, like any other school course that you have taken, you may not agree with the content in it's entirety, but, this is not here for social review as we do other entries on the forum. It is here for you to consider and privately apply what you have read to your own life if you find an interest.

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Danielle Marie

[Danielle La Belle]

Unit #2: A-B

“Your behavior automatically produces the behavior that is consistent with your self-image.”

We often are unable to “see” the options that lead to enhanced creativity, growth and happiness.

Subconscious
Conscious
Creative Subconscious

We perceive, associate, evaluate and then decide on information everyday. This is the conscious mind at work.

“The subconscious mind is your recorder.” Our life experience adds up to our picture of reality and from this we call it “our truth.” It is not “everybody’s truth.” It is only the “truth” as we perceive it. Thus, our picture of ourselves and those around us may be distorted, inaccurate and prejudiced – if we compare it to an objective interpretation of reality.

We form attitudes about ourselves and our individual abilities and the potential to develop and change. They may not be true. They may be distorted as was said previously.

“The creative subconscious” maintains your “reality,” by making you act like the person you see yourself to be. In order to keep our sanity --- you must act like your subconscious picture --- the “real” you.

“Stress comes when you act differently from your picture of yourself,” --- differently from the way you believe you should act.

Review Questions:

01. What was the worst scolding I ever got?

02. What was the most embarrassing thing that ever happened to me at home, school, with friends?

03. When did I last sort out and discard old belongings in my closet?

04. Do I reluctantly hold on to old products, methods --- as I do to old clothing?

05. What did I fear as a child ---- unreasonable fears that may affect how I react to day (darkness, kinds of people, animals, etc.)?

06. How do I feel about people that are different?

07. What was the best winter I can remember, the best spring, fall? Why would I say so?

08. What was the best summer I ever spent --- why?

09. Does this give me any clues for what I might do in the future?

10. What have you recorded about yourself that you would like to change?


Keep in mind that as you keep this personal diary of answers that you will begin to see perhaps patterns that you have fallen into, keeping you from the next level of development as a person.

We all get stuck. For that matter, the very concept of being stuck is how we routinely get up every day for work and by doing so over and over, we hope to retire and live the golden years in comfort. We became stuck with going to work. This is a good thing. It benefits us. In the long run, as you will see in time, you have to change this as well as you enter into retirement. Creating a new set of habits. Even if you do not retire, you may start a business etc. A new set of habits that by repeating them over and over, you hope to gain something of value for your time.

Hugs

Danielle Marie

[Danielle La Belle]

Hi Girls:

I have been busy with other matters but UNIT #3 is about ready. I am reading and performing the exercises before posting so there is a little delay between the two events. I will post UNIT #3 between Friday Night and Sunday night as time permits.

Good Luck. If you get stuck with a question, take a piece of paper and just start writing down words that come to mind over the question. When you are satisfied, 10 -20 words, go back and circle those that are perhaps relevent to the question you are working on. Scratch out those that are not. This method of "brain-storming," often generates at least one if not two words that can help you answer the question to your satisfaction.

Hugs

Danielle Marie

[Danielle La Belle]

Unit 3 A/B

Your Self-Image / Self-Image and Belief


Self-image is the sum total of all beliefs we hold about ourselves. Also, there are “group” images, (company, athletic teams, clubs), even a National self-image. You cannot consistently act otherwise than how you see your self-image.

What do you think of you? What are you good at? What are you not so good at? When the situation occurs, you will pretty well act like the picture you hold of yourself. You cannot automatically and consistently act otherwise.

If you see yourself as overweight then you will act accordingly and will draw to you those that see you in the same light. What do you believe about your business or employer? If it is of a positive/negative nature then you will respond accordingly and so too will your fellow employees.

What is the “truth”? If we want to change ourselves, we must change our idea of the “truth.” The picture of what we are must match how we perceive ourselves. This is a check and balance system. When I, meaning what I am inside, does not match what I’m perceiving – when those two do not match – the creative subconscious gets very busy to correct for any “mistake.”

What size of income is good enough for me? “Poverty conscious people will go and gamble and win, only to lose their winnings and the stake they started with. They lived up to what they think of themselves. “Oh, that’s like me.” “I never seem to have any money.”

Change your picture of yourself. Then you will automatically start acting like your new picture. This is the essence of self-image psychology. How good do you want to be at something, a career, a TG person. What distance are you willing to go, so that you can be the best that “you can be.”

Do I hold family members to a higher standard than myself? Do I expect more of them than myself? Do I ask more of them than myself? What is the truth about me?

Change the way you think and you change the way you act!

Questions:

01. What do I worry about – needlessly, true or imagined?
02. Where are things not going well for me?
03. Where am I discontent?
04. Where are things going well for me?
05. What would it be like if I were content in that situation?
06. Where do I feel like I am trying to maintain my sanity?
07. When am I doing things well once or twice and then going back to old and more comfortable ways?



Section .


Our self-images causes us to act out the person we believe ourselves to be. This image also causes others to treat us that way. “If you walk into a roomful of people feeling important, sending the image of high-self-esteem, then perhaps others will treat you with the same respect. You are important. “There is only one of you on the planet with this exact configuration and DNA. Even perfect twins are not perfect!

With this change of perception, of reality and truth, will come a new quality and quantity of excellence. This is what we are “Investing” in.

Questions:


01. How do I think of myself?
02. What do I deny myself?
03. Where do I try hard to be different than I am? Why?
04. How do I see my family, friends, teams, company? As winning, struggling, or losers?
05. Who do I feel listens to me in my family/company?
06. What is it that holds me back? What is it that locks the door?
07. Who Am I? ( List 10 descriptions of yourself).
08. What do I believe I can do and cannot do?
09. What kind of reputation do I choose to have?
10. Who is the happiest person I know? What and how does this person influence me?

[Danielle La Belle]

Comment:

If you cannot answer a question right now, leave it blank in your "diary" and go on. As we move forward, you may find that you have answers to previous questions. Fill them in then. Keep a neat organized diary of each UNIT.

This is going to become your "life planner". You will want to refer to it several times each year as you make small noteworthy changes for the better.

Does it work? For me yes! After this course, I went on to complete two advanced academic degrees over a 10 year period. Before this, I was stuck in my personality and "truth" about myself that came from others years ago. Convinced that I could do no better at the time. This course material made a difference in my life, it can be the same decisive program for you.

The choice has always been yours! The decisons have always been yours! Even in an accident, you had to first put yourself there for the event to take place! Choices!

Hugs

Danielle Marie
Working on Unit 4 next.

[Danielle La Belle]

Unit 4 A/B

Section 4-A
Habits and Attitudes

Habits are good for the most part. Forgetting to tie your shoes can lead to a serious accident. Ignoring the fact that recently, teenagers are doing this deliberately to get attention from adults, we should consider this less than positive for the most part.

So let’s look at a habit safely. You have a favorite type and brand of baked bean. One that you always buy when running low at home and want to restock. WHY? Well perhaps over the course of your life you developed a “taste” for a specific baked bean product. We can now say you are in the “habit” of buying a specific type and brand. You formed an association with this particular product. “Taste” or consistency, no matter, for our purposes, the brand has disappeared off the shelf at your favorite market.

We go to other stores first to see if it is just an out of stock situation. Not finding it at other stores, we ask a store manager and they confide in us that the brand is no longer being made. YIKES!

Time to panic! We now are faced with the choice of never eating baked beans again or finding a new “favorite brand.” It took years for us as children to perhaps develop the “taste” for a specific brand. Now we are challenged to “change a habit.” Biting your nails (yuk) is okay this one time, ha ha LOL.

Eventually, with time passing, we go to the shelf and look over the various brands and types of baked beans once again. Searching for that right one. That picture on the can that seems to be what we like to eat in visual appreciation.

We may have to try more than one brand so we buy one of each of two brands in a small package (can). We will try each one over more time to see if one of the two choices meets our needs. We may need to repeat this exercise several times with one brand to develop a new “taste” reference and even newer “habit.”

How did we get past the need to implement the change? How did we get past the “procrastination” and the “creative avoidance” that one encounters when a change is needed in our lives? Marketing Psychologists have studied these questions for years. The answer lies in the simple fact that your desire to eat baked beans was much stronger than the desire to avoid making the decision to find a new “favorite.”

Deep down, desire as we translate it, is the human inertia that motivates us to make a change in our lives. Everyone, has different levels of this inertia that expand as we measure a change to be less significant and inertia contracts when challenged with what we see as more serious changes effecting our most intensely etched habits over time.

Thus we procrastinate and practice “creative avoidance” when we are confronted with changes that reflect on our most complex habits, such as where we live, where we work, what school we go to. There really cannot be a set of answers that we all can buy into. The variables in our lives are too great for that. We can though apply the same tried and true principles of change based on our perception of what we can and cannot change.

We all have a set of rules that we live by. Well established over time, we incorporate these into our lives on a daily basis. That is a simple explanation of why one person will become the CEO and another will be the shipping clerk, Rules that we believe govern our successes and our failures.

Before “pilots” can fly a large commercial jetliner they are “trained” and tested over and over in a “simulator. They are tested to hone their skills and to help them develop new “habits” that will make emergency procedures automatic if the time should come to implement them.

We all need a “simulator” of our own for life’s many ups and downs. A place that we can practice changes before we implement them. You have such a “simulator” in your own mind. Your sub-conscious collects data about your life’s experiences and keeps it stored for future reference as needed.

This brings us to the “attitude” part of this unit. Attitude is described as, “sub-conscious habits within themselves; kind of a deliberate emotional response to a perceived situation. A pre-determined emotional reaction to a given situation or stimulus.”

We have both positive and negative attitudes. I want it, I do not want it. I can do it, I cannot do that. We are drawn to doing something or drawn away from doing something that may be of benefit to us but at the time, we perceive it otherwise.

Attitudes come from a life long conditioning process and they can be changed. The desire to change, the amount of inertia we apply to a change that we desire is directly proportional to the result that we get.

This UNIT is perhaps the most important in that it deals directly with what and why you have or have not reached you potential as a human being. That only you can decide on and what represents success or failure for you. We all use money and manufactured goods to decide on this and there are other medium that are just as important that also can be used in such a manner.

Habits, attitudes and perception is the summary of this unit. Fashions change, people change, laws change, ideas change. So can you!





Section 4-B
Adjusting attitudes to reach goals

Find a person that you deem successful and then ask, “how did they get to that point in their life?” No doubt you will have some fixed answers that will immediately tell you that you cannot do the same. That you were born different. Wrong place, wrong time. That you have DNA working against you for the most part. No “silver” spoon in your mouth!

We conjure up all of the reasons that we cannot do the same and be as successful. But wait, I did not say you had to be that person. No one told you that you have to be a carbon copy of their life. What you measure as success is up to you. Forget about what others have set as bench marks of success. What does success mean to you? For some it might mean just getting up in the morning. Others, have far more reaching goals.

You get about 100 years in this human life form. Disregarding any concept of rebirth or reincarnation, this is it. One cycle. Do with it as you will. Your choice to be all that you can be. Your opportunity to change as the times change. To adapt to what is now and current, not what was and has since been dismissed by the “current future.”

Manufacturing has gone to the lowest bidder and that happens to be overseas. So, get into another area of endeavor. Hire on with a company overseas that can use your experience. Change or “be changed.” That is really up to you.

Attitudes can be unlearned. The can be changed by someone that wants to make the change. Desire translates into inertia and the momentum to change begins.


Questions:

01. Where do I feel too busy, overloaded with work, pressured by people asking me to do things for them?
02. In these areas, do I need to change or find new ways to do things?
03. Where do I feel awkward?
04. If we set a new goal and I’m already busy, do I believe it is going to be possible to reach it without changing some habits?
05. Where do we/I need a more constructive attitude?
06. How often do I get sick?
07. Where do I creatively avoid?

Projects:
01. Make a list of attitudes that you consider positive.
02. Make a list of attitudes that you consider negative.
03. How did you acquire them?

[Note]: This is only going to work if you accept your responsibility in this. Blaming others for things that effect you in a negative way will never resolve the issue.


Hugs

Danielle Marie