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The Search For Significance

The struggle for purpose, meaning and direction has never been stronger. It affects everybody at some level. In an age where we have fewer reference points to build a life foundation, an age where beliefs systems are crumbling left and right it is all the more crucial we become more aware, conscious and directed. This begins with clarity of your goals and values. 

Know what you want! Stop spinning your wheels and stop burning the candle at both ends. Put first things first and start being as effective, as a person, as you can be! 

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Article of the Month: 
Personal Development Is The Issue

"I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. 
That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that one, we all are seeking something better in life. 
So I think, the very motion of our life is toward happiness" 
The Dalai Lama

     Low levels of awareness cause all kinds of unnecessary suffering but we survive and become unique individuals plotting our way in this world to make life significant for ourselves and hopefully for others until we become old and return back to a state of total dependence. Through out this entire process of growth it is our level of awareness that enables us to overcome destructive beliefs, bad habits and anything that prevents us from fulfilling our human potential. Our awareness is a direct result from our personal development. Our level of personal growth will make all the difference in our world regarding the quality of life you enjoy, the level of success you achieve, the love you experience, the purpose and meaning you find and even your salvation. The need for personal development has never been greater for our success no matter how you define it.

The three core characteristics that separate humans from the rest of creation are:

Consciousness - believeing that you and only you knows your true wants, needs and desires and only you can make the right choice, that you have a conscience. And that engaged in the process of seeking, searching, defining and answering lifes questions you can gain tremendous clarity, confidence and the ability to be extremely effective as a human being.

Creativity - the ability to create, design and change. That engaged in the Life Goals Planner processes and personal development one can create new habits and bring about almost anything that they desire and achieve your goals.

Choice - humans amazing ability to make new choices to bring us different results. That we are not a product of our past but a product of our choices. That past experiences many have an affect, and that we can not necessarily control our emotions but we can control our response to them, and make new decisions to move us rapidly toward our goals.

     Human beings are blessed with this wonderful gift of free will. The ability to choose separates us from all other creatures and gives us the incredible opportunity to change any or all aspects of our life if we so decide. It is simply a matter of choice, simple but not always easy especially if you are not even aware of a specific problem, belief or attitude that needs to change. All most of us know is that we want something more, different or better, the basic drives of the human being. In Freud’s view our drive is for pleasure, Alder says our drives for power and Frankl our drive for purpose. In the developed nations it seems the drive for purpose is leading the way. David K. Reynolds in his book Water Bares no Scares points out that we live in a "era of leisure, that technologically advanced countries or developed nations live with a freedom from life threatening insecurity like never before in human history. He mentions that "with out the purpose of the struggle for everyday survival we find an increasing number people drifting into lethargy, drugs and suicides." 

     We have become highly developed on the outside, now its time to become highly developed on the inside. Personally, professionally through all our relationships growing to new levels of awareness is the key to our personal problems and success. I believe it is key for our personal health and the health of our organizations and the world itself. It is my belief that the sole purpose of mankind is to simply grow, development and fulfill our human potential. Being a little better at life tomorrow than you were yesterday because now you have learned and gained experience that can point you in new directions. The key is to consciously act toward goals that will cause you to grow. From the day you are born to the day you die all this universe asks of you is that you grow. We start off growing physically then mature and grow emotionally as we develop mentally and possible end growing spiritually. It is not important that you live up to anyone's definition of success or what you ought to be or should do but to grow from one stage to another consciously becoming more aware, healthy, whole trying to becoming the most that you can be. To "become the most that you can be" is our ultimate purpose which is best achieved through our personal development which we will defined in a moment.

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