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Focal Points of Personal Growth: Respect
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There are certain core elements in our life that need attending to, to gear us up for personal growth in any avenue of life. After these elements or focal points have been attended to, the more specific or mundane tasks of growth can be worked on. Meaning, that before changing outcomes by changing responses, being able to complete past projects, heal past relationships, prepare for opportunity, ask for and get what you want, and so on you need to come from a position of stability. But where does that stability come from? If you don't understand or know about Focal Points of Personal Growth, you will be less effective or slow in your obtaining the previously mentioned growth skills.
We know about the self-help field or the self-improvement or success fields and the millions of people who buy and apply various teachings. However, the majority of people don't even get to the point of asking for help, never mind buy the tapes and not only follow through but continue to apply these success principles and teaching for an extended period of time.
Tony Robbins tells the story that only about 20% of the people who buy his tapes listen to them all the way through. Allegedly, 10 million people have listened to his tapes, meaning bought but not necessarily listened to them all the way through (like that exercycle you use for a coat rack) or been able to learn the seemingly endless amount of information supplied or been able to apply the information over a consistently lengthy period of time. Not to knock Tony Robbins or his system or the people buying his product.
The question is why are so few people not even enquiring into how to improve their possibility of success?
The main reason 90% of the people don't even get to the point where they consider personal betterment is because they have certain abilities, skills, and understandings that are going unfulfilled. And without filling these gaps or holes, few get to the point where they are healthy enough to see or understand the need or want to seek improvement.
This list was created so that it will aid you in overcoming a lot of obstacles, calm you, center you, motivate you, help you to feel good about yourself and your place in this world and, most importantly, just downright create more joy in your life than you’ve probably ever experienced before. If you attend to these matters you will find greater consistency in your emotional state (majority of it on the up and up), greater purpose, and, probably most importantly, greater strength in handling the trials in your life.
Nevertheless, don't get to thinking that these improvements will cause the stars to align, the kids to stop arguing, make their beds without being asked, and serve you dinner with a smile every night. Miracles do still exist, just not at this level. But you will find greater calm in your life if you apply these principles on a consistent basis. Lets begin our closer look.
* Respect
Respect is the willingness to show consideration or appreciation for someone. And of course, if we don't have respect for ourselves we can't transmit it to others. Consider the angry person is often not angry with you but with himself; they are projecting that self-anger onto you. But what's so important about respect in regards to living a better, more joyful life?
Consider this, John Adams, the great political philosopher, said that democracy is about consideration and compromise, but unfortunately, few ever do so--consider and compromise, that is. They weren’t doing it then and they aren’t doing it now. But that’s a topic for another book. Nevertheless, our government, according to Adams, was founded on the principle of being open minded and meeting others at least half way. How is this helpful in your reaching toward greater joy? Let’s take a closer look.
"Getters generally don't get happiness; givers get it. You simply give to others a bit of yourself, a thoughtful act, a helpful idea, a word of appreciation, a lift over a rough spot, a sense of understanding, a timely suggestion. You take something out of your mind, garnished in kindness out of your heart, and put it into the other fellow's mind and heart."--Charles H. Burr
Let's get back to having an open mind or not having it. Once the mind becomes shut off to possibilities, possibilities are shut off to the mind; meaning, that if you don't examine all your options, the good, the bad, even the dead wrong, you will not have a greater understanding or greater possible solutions. And an open mind also allows one to see possibilities. For instance, why does someone feel a particular way about a subject and how can I meet them middle ground to satisfy both parties as much as possible? The greatest offshoot of respect is that it enables you to come to the aid of others.
It's really about a mindset of non-judgmental openness. It's about listening to what others have to say and shutting off that constant editor. It takes time and effort but if we are aware of and can focus on respect it will aid us in our ability to be calm and centered. Instead of thinking, why did that person cut me off? Why not think, well, if I let this person upset me, it takes away valuable time as I focus on my anger towards this person without constructive consequences. It is really a matter of not getting lazy and focusing on controlling ones thoughts.
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