How Did I Get This Way? – Part 3
So far we’ve looked at these environmental influences in your past that have made an impact on your hierarchy of values, including:
1. The home environments you grew up in
2. The friendships that have influenced you
3. The state of your finances and your work life
4. Your attitude towards your health and fitness
Values are what is important to you and are visible in the actions you take, the beliefs you hold and your attitude towards people and things.
Let’s now look at three more of the nine, Spirituality, Education and Geography.5. SPIRITUALITY
Did you grow up with formalised religion? No formalised religion? An informal form of spirituality?
What was the attitude towards religion during your formative years?
Did you make a conscious change in your spiritual persuasion?
Do you have any form of spiritual persuasion, or none?
What is your attitude towards religion now? Has it changed?
Did you grow up under a political system which disallowed religion?
Was there a “survival of the fittest” attitude in your environment?
Is your world “I “centred or are you community-minded?
Do you really care what happens globally?
6. EDUCATION
What was the attitude towards formal education in your home? Was there a gender difference?
What sort of role models did you have as you were growing up?
What is your highest achievement in formal education? Are you satisfied with that?
What have you done to self-develop?
How serious are you about life-long learning?
What are you doing to enhance your personal growth?
When you embark on a course of personal development, are you always fully committed to it? Do you not only read, but ACTION whatever the course requires? Do you complete courses?
Are you a seminar junkie?
7. GEOGRAPHY
Did you grow up in a rural area, a small, mid-sized, large city, a metropolis, a megapolis?
What was the economic situation of your larger environment?
What was housing like? Lots of room or congested?
Was the area peaceful or were you threatened by external events?
Was there cultural diversity that caused issues?
What about pollution, necessary utilities such as fresh water, sewerage, etc?
How friendly and trusting were people? Are people where you now love?
When you walk down a street in your suburb, do you lower your eyes, or smile and greet others?
Have you been answering the questions?
Have you had any epiphanies, or revelations?
Do you see a lot of one of your parents in you or other relative?
Remember, you have all the resources in you to achieve whatever you want on all levels, personal and professional.
You are in charge of developing the ideal you, happy, joyful, content, inspired.
We show you how in “Master Your Destiny: Master Your Mind And Change Your Life”.
If you can’t get around to answering the questions each week, get around to them later – it’s really important.
There is a saying: “A problem well stated is a problem half solved.” The questions are there to guide you stating effectively what an issue could be that’s responsible for sabotaging your efforts to move on.
Next week, the final 2 – Relationships and Media.
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