Self-Actualization Footnotes
Self-Actualization Footnotes
The starting point to personal achievement and self-actualization beginswith definiteness of purpose coupled with a burning desire for itsachievement. Equally important is accurate thinking and timelyplanning.
General background knowledge is important. The person who has a broadknowledge of many fields and an abundance of accumulative experience cancome up with new and significant creative ideas easier and more rapidlythan can the individual who has specialized knowledge in only one field.
Collect and file notes, clippings, and ideas that seem interesting,provocative and original. Ask yourself "how might I be able to use orimprove on this or that?"
Engage freely in hobbies, games, crossword puzzles! Read at least onebook a month.
Travel! There is a big learning experience out there. It doesn't haveto be expensive or international.
Continually ask "Why?" "How come?" and "Who says so?"...and then ask itagain and again! Dumb questions are often penetrating questions indisguise.
Avoid rigid, set patterns of doing things. That's a little dull! Go ona retreat, or simply choose to meet new people.
Be open and receptive to your hunches as well as to other's ideas.Ideas are fleeting and quite often, fragile. Listen positively to themand above all, jot them down in your idea book or journal.
Stop...look...and pause! In other words, pay attention, to yourself,others and the things around you. This is how we learn.
Adopt a "let's try it attitude!" All of history's big ideas andbreakthroughs were originally risks.
Polish you self-image, and have it say YOU are important! No matterwhat we are thinking or feeling, be it positive or negative, comesacross loud and clear.
Choose to be bold, courageous and curious! Weak people seldomaccomplish things of significance!
Sift fact from opinion or others' assumptions. This vital!
The world seems to tolerate mediocrity! Choose to be a winner! Aninnovator! An explorer! There is room here for everyone.
Laugh freely and often! "Life is a bubble...so why worry and trouble?"Serious, serious people are often bores in disguise.
Think BIG! It takes as much energy and effort to think "BIG" as it doesto think "small".
It doesn't matter where you are from or what schooling you possess, butrather it is"what you do" and "how you do it" that really counts!
If it is said "it can't be done" ask him or her..."What have YOU done ofsignificance that qualifies you to say it can't be done?"
And keep in mind Isaiah 43:18-19, "Remember not the events of the past,the things of long ago consider not, see, I am doing something new!"
Copyright © 1998 Daniel J. Yovich --- Indiana