{"id":3703,"date":"2008-08-25T08:35:39","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T13:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/25\/charting-your-self-persuasion-territory\/"},"modified":"2008-08-25T08:35:39","modified_gmt":"2008-08-25T13:35:39","slug":"charting-your-self-persuasion-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/?p=3703","title":{"rendered":"Charting Your Self Persuasion Territory"},"content":{"rendered":"
by Kenrick Cleveland<\/div>\n

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” Howard Thurman<\/p>\n

Life is about learning. Planet earth is our school. I believe these statements at the core of by being. And yet, we are sometimes given bad information. As babies and children, we are given a huge amount of input from outside sources and don’t really have the consciousness to chose. Sometimes the information given to us by people who love us with all their hearts, is wrong and unraveling the stuff that works for us from the stuff that doesn’t is our journey in life.<\/p>\n

If you frame these life lessons as maps, you will see that these maps don’t always lead us in the right direction because they are inaccurate; if the map doesn’t agree with the reality, then the map is most certainly wrong. So many people get caught up in conflicts because they never realize that the pillars of their education, the pillars of their faith, and the pillars of their social orientation, might not have been laid out accurately for them.<\/p>\n

When the map is wrong, we recalibrate and overcome. We do not fret over the discrepancies. We just continue on with new coordinates. Persuading ourselves means we are fluid and malleable in the face of adversity, able to be the cartographers of our own lives.<\/p>\n

Persuasion ourselves in this way allows us to explore this new territory and like any good explorer or cartographer, we learn some new things along the way through self knowledge and exploration. Whether we decide for this to be messy or elegant is a personal choice. It can be done with struggle or it can be done with ease. I know a good many people who think that growth necessitates pain and difficulty, much like childbirth. This will be their reality as long as they continue to think this way. I choose to believe that change flows through me and the only struggles I encounter come into play when I decide to fight change. My father was the owner<\/a> and proprietor of a very successful business, several convalescent homes, and when I was a young man, he offered to train me to take over for him when he was ready to retire. My path was laid out, financial success was inevitable, all I had to do was work my way from the bottom up.<\/p>\n

I was at a crossroads. On the one hand, there was this ladder which led to a guaranteed position of success in a field that did not ignite my passion. Another way to go — and the path which I obviously chose — was going it alone with only my instincts and passion. It was a struggle until I realized it didn’t have to be. I simply needed to shed the outmoded information and inaccurate maps I was using to guide my life. My question to you is: Are you alive? If not, what do you need to come alive?<\/p>\n

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About the Author:<\/div>\n
Kenrick Cleveland teaches techniques to earn the business of affluent clients using persuasion<\/a>. He runs public and private seminars and offers home study courses and coaching programs in persuasion techniques<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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