The Psychology of Achievement Classic by Brian Tracy
Palladio International Enterprise begins our first global study of achievement on Valentine's Day 2012! We are thrilled to share this opportunity of world-wide study among all our small and large communities planet-wise. This first-time concerted effort to nourish and develop common ground knowledge is initiated by our recently-founded Utica Campus (UC) in the Mohawk Valley of central New York.
Founders of Palladio International Enterprise (our Rev. & Dr. Palladio) joined this pioneering pod of students, global families, and representative adults (formerly of Manhattan's Central Park ground-breakers) one year post-migration. Monitoring UC's rates of accomplishment in key arenas drew the founding team to plan a six month residency in Utica, interviewing, recording, working side by side with the pioneers as they continued their efforts to establish roots, secure Global Family Homes, activate Academies, and sustain Market Place Connections. The UC pioneers' attributed their rates of successful engagement to their community consensus (to adhere in all communications and personal thought) to guidance and direction of Brian's interpersonal wisdom. Throughout their first year pioneers allowed their focus and interactions to be guided by Brian's 6 part workshop on discs. Visit the Utica Campus On-line to further explore recorded artifacts (videos, data, documents, and blogposts).
The Utica team, at the encouragement of our founders in residence along with members of the International Development Council (also now "in-residence") approach readiness to lead campuses throughout the world in what they have identified as their best practices. All parents, teachers, administrators, advisers, developers, researchers, and council guides prepare to integrate contents of achievement thinking into our diverse curricula over the next three weeks. This "Winter" focus on content and dialogue will be followed this Summer by a series of "know-how development" mentorships, internships, on-site theatre groups, as well as electronic streaming and modeling opportunities.
All adults and high school students may preview achievement thinking content by streaming UC's introduction to Brian's beginning workshop: The Roots of Self-Esteem
(Click link: www.UCPIE.org/achievementthinkingnow)
Monday, January 23, 2012
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Which human qualities do our "helping" programs actually support?
As a veteran teacher/professor of humanity (preschool through graduate school in the United States) across my career span of forty-five years, I continue to dig deeper discovering gems of truth hidden within richly layered human experiences. My quest is to decipher, to deconstruct then reconstruct the myriad facets of this most important question of structuring human learning for success.
Our constitution serves us by offering a lofty definition of success here ... capacity for life, liberty and the persuit of happiness. So how can we better structure our thinking and supports of each other, particularly across the youth years, in oder to generate adults who are self-reliant and generous in sharing, contributing ther natural talents and resources for the good of all?Unless we persist in deepening our engagement in this quest, we run the risk of being distracted, side-tracked, losing attention.
After persisting for twenty years in a field that includes diverse populations, truth becomes strikingly clear: The apparent intentions of program designers do not always match the results expected, planned, and/or obtained.
Judge Judy offers the viewing public a very important sociological lesson. Click the link that follows:
http://revolutionarypolitics.tv/video/viewVideo.php?video_id=15915
Any learning that does not stimulate change in our thinking first, then in our actions becomes wasted learning. To use this learning experience wisely, let us unpack some concepts buried within the Judge Judy exchange:
What we attend to unfailingly grows more palpable and pliable. It looms larger and reveals more layers. As in the field of physics, so to sociologically: what is observed also "changes" through the process of being observed! Both the observed and the observer have immense power. Both behold the other. In the eye of each beholder is a projection of his/her thoughts of reality.
Their thoughts may be in actuality opposing, in conflict, or simply misaligned in a million and one ways ...or just one essential life or death way. When the focus of observation is alive (thus harboring capabilities), careful observation of the observed at their best, most satisfying, and most productive must precede outside intervention. Any intervention must align with nature at its best. If these are mismatched, misaligned, we make a mess of the resources within each human being, each environment, each out-sourcing of generous supports.
When the gaze of the observer projects a human being who needs to be given to (instead of activated, encouraged, guided to generate their own good), much becomes amiss, "deliverance"jobs are created unnecessarily (wasting resources), and those "given to" are deprived of generating their own deliverance, their own self-respect, their own self-reliance. We all thus miss the mark in cultivating our individual and collective sense of worthiness. We all get side-tracked. We deprive ourselves of long-term goods and resources yet to be experienced ...resources we may likely need in a relatively unpredictable future.
Fathoming that which underlies each apparent layer of a societal conundrum, requires seekers to stay on track, remain focused, sustain attention on the prize. It behooves us to move pieces of confounding problems apart, search beneath any given pile of distracting factors sitting atop of any heap, just layers of the perennial onion.
After some study, we can sense many "sources" of this conundrum. After further thought, conversation paired with extensive on-site experience (and relevant research), causative factors become not only identifiable, but recognizable. With reformed intention and sustained effort, changes aligning causes and effects become sustainable.
Change just one principle operative thought, and perceptible changes naturally occur in actuality. Causes bring consequences. All consequences have causes that are traceable...we simply need knowledge, know-how, will, and courage. Ignore these operative laws and consequences unfold at great peril to human health and prosperity.
Implicit in our cultural miasma is the thought that we all want a piece of the pie. But nothing is without cost. And some costs incur great peril to true prosperity and peace among people kind.
Why is this so?, we may ask ourselves, stymied by the actual exchange between Judge Judy and the plaintiff-defendant witnessed in her court of law. The YouTube link below is an eye opener for those who really want to help humanity develop the internal strength of character and corresponding thinking required for reaching levels of self-care, self-reliance, and self-respect expected in any civilization of merit.
Watch the video once, just to get a sense of content. The second time, have a paper and pen handy to make note of Judge Judy's line of reasoning. The third time round, make note of the defendant's attitudinal and behavioral responses ... and finally, those of the plaintiff.
Connecting the dots:
From observations gathered, do some backwards problem solving to answer this positive position question:
Which "supports" or "help" (principles, initiatives, expectations = PIE) actually work together to generate a society in which 90% of children become adults who in actuality reach levels of self-care, self-reliance, and self-respect that create a civilization of merit.
There are many questions you will come to ask in this process. List these questions in the comment box below. Grab someone at home, call a friend or relative, and together watch the Judge Judy exchange, list the questions that flow from witnessing actual results of programs intended to "help" ...what kind of helping actually supports the development of generative capacities???
How do societies (families, schools, institutions, free markets) cultivate reasonable to high levels of psychosocial characteristics identified by Erik Erickson (or any self-motivated adult) as necessary and sufficient to generate a viable and satisfying life ...and the capacity to care to contribute to those around him/her?
Our constitution serves us by offering a lofty definition of success here ... capacity for life, liberty and the persuit of happiness. So how can we better structure our thinking and supports of each other, particularly across the youth years, in oder to generate adults who are self-reliant and generous in sharing, contributing ther natural talents and resources for the good of all?Unless we persist in deepening our engagement in this quest, we run the risk of being distracted, side-tracked, losing attention.
After persisting for twenty years in a field that includes diverse populations, truth becomes strikingly clear: The apparent intentions of program designers do not always match the results expected, planned, and/or obtained.
Judge Judy offers the viewing public a very important sociological lesson. Click the link that follows:
http://revolutionarypolitics.tv/video/viewVideo.php?video_id=15915
Any learning that does not stimulate change in our thinking first, then in our actions becomes wasted learning. To use this learning experience wisely, let us unpack some concepts buried within the Judge Judy exchange:
What we attend to unfailingly grows more palpable and pliable. It looms larger and reveals more layers. As in the field of physics, so to sociologically: what is observed also "changes" through the process of being observed! Both the observed and the observer have immense power. Both behold the other. In the eye of each beholder is a projection of his/her thoughts of reality.
Their thoughts may be in actuality opposing, in conflict, or simply misaligned in a million and one ways ...or just one essential life or death way. When the focus of observation is alive (thus harboring capabilities), careful observation of the observed at their best, most satisfying, and most productive must precede outside intervention. Any intervention must align with nature at its best. If these are mismatched, misaligned, we make a mess of the resources within each human being, each environment, each out-sourcing of generous supports.
When the gaze of the observer projects a human being who needs to be given to (instead of activated, encouraged, guided to generate their own good), much becomes amiss, "deliverance"jobs are created unnecessarily (wasting resources), and those "given to" are deprived of generating their own deliverance, their own self-respect, their own self-reliance. We all thus miss the mark in cultivating our individual and collective sense of worthiness. We all get side-tracked. We deprive ourselves of long-term goods and resources yet to be experienced ...resources we may likely need in a relatively unpredictable future.
Fathoming that which underlies each apparent layer of a societal conundrum, requires seekers to stay on track, remain focused, sustain attention on the prize. It behooves us to move pieces of confounding problems apart, search beneath any given pile of distracting factors sitting atop of any heap, just layers of the perennial onion.
After some study, we can sense many "sources" of this conundrum. After further thought, conversation paired with extensive on-site experience (and relevant research), causative factors become not only identifiable, but recognizable. With reformed intention and sustained effort, changes aligning causes and effects become sustainable.
Change just one principle operative thought, and perceptible changes naturally occur in actuality. Causes bring consequences. All consequences have causes that are traceable...we simply need knowledge, know-how, will, and courage. Ignore these operative laws and consequences unfold at great peril to human health and prosperity.
Implicit in our cultural miasma is the thought that we all want a piece of the pie. But nothing is without cost. And some costs incur great peril to true prosperity and peace among people kind.
Why is this so?, we may ask ourselves, stymied by the actual exchange between Judge Judy and the plaintiff-defendant witnessed in her court of law. The YouTube link below is an eye opener for those who really want to help humanity develop the internal strength of character and corresponding thinking required for reaching levels of self-care, self-reliance, and self-respect expected in any civilization of merit.
Watch the video once, just to get a sense of content. The second time, have a paper and pen handy to make note of Judge Judy's line of reasoning. The third time round, make note of the defendant's attitudinal and behavioral responses ... and finally, those of the plaintiff.
Connecting the dots:
From observations gathered, do some backwards problem solving to answer this positive position question:
Which "supports" or "help" (principles, initiatives, expectations = PIE) actually work together to generate a society in which 90% of children become adults who in actuality reach levels of self-care, self-reliance, and self-respect that create a civilization of merit.
There are many questions you will come to ask in this process. List these questions in the comment box below. Grab someone at home, call a friend or relative, and together watch the Judge Judy exchange, list the questions that flow from witnessing actual results of programs intended to "help" ...what kind of helping actually supports the development of generative capacities???
How do societies (families, schools, institutions, free markets) cultivate reasonable to high levels of psychosocial characteristics identified by Erik Erickson (or any self-motivated adult) as necessary and sufficient to generate a viable and satisfying life ...and the capacity to care to contribute to those around him/her?
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Syracuse Airport: News to Rewire...
so what's happening with
... primary candidates (with good to offer everyone and real national/government issues to address). How does media-prompted DEBATES and public demand for certainty invite a collective descending to "common denominator behaviors" (i.e. tearing at and thinking of each other as "opponents")... distracting from the good each has accomplished -and is capable of accomplishing to make our national state of being better in the future? Instead, we invite them to wallow in the land of distorting what the other did or said so as to cast him in lesser light?
...(and we all know this happens with the other "party" as well ... this behavior is not partisan, it is going to the least common behavioral denominator of the people who live, school, work, and retire in this nation of many cultures. The integrity of each person who breathes and behaves in this nation is reflected in the competitive style of our leaders and celebrities.
... a woman who says her dead toddler may have been the result of a ruffie rape ...does this excuse or mitigate murder of our child? What factors in our legal system, our dating system, our chid-rearing system make desecrating behavior excusable?
What else is in our face in the news each day that brings YOU back to your senses?
... primary candidates (with good to offer everyone and real national/government issues to address). How does media-prompted DEBATES and public demand for certainty invite a collective descending to "common denominator behaviors" (i.e. tearing at and thinking of each other as "opponents")... distracting from the good each has accomplished -and is capable of accomplishing to make our national state of being better in the future? Instead, we invite them to wallow in the land of distorting what the other did or said so as to cast him in lesser light?
...(and we all know this happens with the other "party" as well ... this behavior is not partisan, it is going to the least common behavioral denominator of the people who live, school, work, and retire in this nation of many cultures. The integrity of each person who breathes and behaves in this nation is reflected in the competitive style of our leaders and celebrities.
... a woman who says her dead toddler may have been the result of a ruffie rape ...does this excuse or mitigate murder of our child? What factors in our legal system, our dating system, our chid-rearing system make desecrating behavior excusable?
What else is in our face in the news each day that brings YOU back to your senses?
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Tolle on "Enjoyment"
A New Earth poses this thought...
Full surrender to, full engagement in the act of enjoying what we are doing becomes in reality, an "awakened doing." (p.297)
He further notes that in this state the "peace that comes with surrendered action turns to a sense of aliveness."
He explains his thinking this way: enjoyment becomes the "second modality of awakened doing. On the new earth, enjoyment will replace wanting as the motivating power behind people's actions." (ibid)
Eckhart clarifies that the sense of wanting comes from the ego's delusional belief that we are separated, disconnected , from the power that fuels and sustains all creation.
The good news?
When we choose to enter and re-enter, choose to maintain and sustain our state of enjoyment, then we directly experience "universal creative power itself." (ibid)
Focusing on our present moment then enhances our capacity to enjoy what we do and dramatically increases the quality of our life.
And how does Tolle define joy?
"... the dynamic aspect of Being. When the creative power of the universe becomes conscious of itself, it manifests as joy. You don't have to wait for something "meaningful" to come into your life so that you can finally enjoy what you do. There is more meaning in joy than you will ever need." (ibid)
Full surrender to, full engagement in the act of enjoying what we are doing becomes in reality, an "awakened doing." (p.297)
He further notes that in this state the "peace that comes with surrendered action turns to a sense of aliveness."
He explains his thinking this way: enjoyment becomes the "second modality of awakened doing. On the new earth, enjoyment will replace wanting as the motivating power behind people's actions." (ibid)
Eckhart clarifies that the sense of wanting comes from the ego's delusional belief that we are separated, disconnected , from the power that fuels and sustains all creation.
The good news?
When we choose to enter and re-enter, choose to maintain and sustain our state of enjoyment, then we directly experience "universal creative power itself." (ibid)
Focusing on our present moment then enhances our capacity to enjoy what we do and dramatically increases the quality of our life.
And how does Tolle define joy?
"... the dynamic aspect of Being. When the creative power of the universe becomes conscious of itself, it manifests as joy. You don't have to wait for something "meaningful" to come into your life so that you can finally enjoy what you do. There is more meaning in joy than you will ever need." (ibid)
Tolle goes on... "If you can neither enjoy or bring acceptance to what you do ---stop."
"Otherwise, you are not taking responsibility for the only thing you can really take responsibility for, which happens to be the one thing that really matters: your state of consciousness." (p.296-7)
Tolle concludes "Acceptance" by reminding us that when we take responsibility for our state of consciousness that we are in fact taking responsibility for the life we are living.
Tolle concludes "Acceptance" by reminding us that when we take responsibility for our state of consciousness that we are in fact taking responsibility for the life we are living.
A NEW EARTH ... an exerpt to guide any today or tomorrow as we go about "doing"
Last night we melted into our cushy chocolate brown recliners with a book of choice before bedtime. The bright copper-colored cover of Eckhart Tolle's New Earth filled my field of vision. I allowed chance to lead me ... and opened to page 296, "Acceptance."
Here, I found bits of brilliance all human beings can connect with, no matter our changeable circumstances, variable climates and seasons, progressive stages of life:
"Whatever you cannot enjoy doing, you can at least accept that this is what you have to do. Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly."
(...for in the greater scheme of intention, life, and living...this is what has become present to me)
(...perhaps precisely in such situations it suits us to recall reference to "not my will, but Thy will be done." These words remind us that there are times when it behooves us to lend our support willingly to a wisdom superseding our own ... A WISDOM far greater, more encompassing than our own current myopia.)
(...and perhaps Tolle's earlier phrase "have to do" connotes not so much that there is something we must do, as it signals we have been given this to do ...we have it so that we may do something good with it)
Tolle proceeds to note that he had already addressed the importance of "inner acceptance
of what happens, and acceptance of what you have to do is just another aspect of it." He goes on to say that, "Performing an action in the state of acceptance means you are at peace while you do it. That peace is a subtle energy vibration which then flows into what you do. On the surface, acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it is active and creative because it brings something entirely new into this world."
Here, I found bits of brilliance all human beings can connect with, no matter our changeable circumstances, variable climates and seasons, progressive stages of life:
"Whatever you cannot enjoy doing, you can at least accept that this is what you have to do. Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly."
(...for in the greater scheme of intention, life, and living...this is what has become present to me)
(...perhaps precisely in such situations it suits us to recall reference to "not my will, but Thy will be done." These words remind us that there are times when it behooves us to lend our support willingly to a wisdom superseding our own ... A WISDOM far greater, more encompassing than our own current myopia.)
(...and perhaps Tolle's earlier phrase "have to do" connotes not so much that there is something we must do, as it signals we have been given this to do ...we have it so that we may do something good with it)
Tolle proceeds to note that he had already addressed the importance of "inner acceptance
of what happens, and acceptance of what you have to do is just another aspect of it." He goes on to say that, "Performing an action in the state of acceptance means you are at peace while you do it. That peace is a subtle energy vibration which then flows into what you do. On the surface, acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it is active and creative because it brings something entirely new into this world."
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