Personal Development for Smart People: The Conscious Pursuit of Personal Growth
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Personal Development for Smart People
Creative Self-Expression
The path for intelligent human beings is to master the art of c o n - scious, creative self-expression. This is far more important than acquir- ing money and possessions, w h i c h can never compensate for a lack of conscious growth. Your creativity is the very mechanism by which you'll achieve everything y o u could possibly want, including financial abun- dance, well-developed talents, fulfilling relationships, and meaningful contributions. W h e n y o u commit to creatively sharing yourself with the world, it's much easier to meet your needs and satisfy your desires. Self-expression requires both a medium a n d a message. Your medium is the collection of creative outlets y o u use. For example, I 118 Intelligence express myself creatively through writing, blogging, and speaking, so those are my media. Your message is the most powerful truth y o u wish to share. My message is to share conscious growth with others, and that includes the content you're reading in this book as well as w h a t you'll find on my Website. By embracing the principles of truth, love, and power, y o u a c - complish t w o things. First, y o u tune in to your primary message. You discover what's most important to y o u , and your connectedness mo- tivates y o u to share it for the benefit of all. S e c o n d , y o u develop the power necessary to cultivate a medium that suits your message. You invest the effort required to learn h o w to write, speak, act, d a n c e , build, and so o n . You do whatever it takes to create the outlets y o u need to share your message with the w o r l d . W h e n we creatively express ourselves, w e ' r e honestly sharing what's most important to us. This act of sharing connects us with oth- ers and offers t h e m a glimpse of truth. W h e n we enjoy the authentic result of someone else's creativity, such as a p o e m or painting, we can perceive the principles of truth, love, and p o w e r radiating from it. W h o are y o u ? W h a t d o y o u w a n t t o share with the world? W h a t elements of truth, love, and power can y o u contribute through your o w n acts of creative self-expression? Are y o u here to teach us to be more nurturing, compassionate, organized, generous, productive, honest, joyful, creative, or loving? W h a t ' s the most intelligent w a y for y o u to express those qualities? Will y o u feed us, clothe us, teach us, motivate us, entertain us, support us, advance us, or lead us? You're the authority here. W h a t ' s your decision? Growth A fascinating quality of intelligence is that it seeks its o w n im- provement. Perhaps the smartest choice we can make is to attempt to b e c o m e smarter, and growth is the mechanism through w h i c h this is achieved. It is intelligent to grow. By improving your alignment with truth, y o u gain access to n e w truths. By improving your alignment with love, y o u increase your 119 PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR SMART PEOPLE connectedness. A n d by improving your alignment with power, y o u b e c o m e more powerful. Since intelligence is the combination of truth, love, a n d power, y o u can also see that as y o u increase your alignment with these three principles, y o u effectively b e c o m e more intelligent. This is precisely h o w y o u g r o w as a h u m a n being. G r o w t h is rarely linear, so y o u can expect plenty of diversions and setbacks along the way. But as long as y o u strive to increase your alignment with these principles, y o u will certainly grow as a result. You w o n ' t be the same person tomorrow that y o u are today. W h e n I w a s 19 years old, I decided to make personal growth the guiding force of my life. At the time, I had no idea w h e r e it w o u l d lead. Initially, it w a s just a w a y to escape the hopeless situation I w a s in. I realized that no pain w a s permanent and that given e n o u g h time, I could eventually g r o w out of any problematic situation. I didn't fathom the principles of truth, love, and p o w e r until m a n y years later, but focusing on g r o w t h alone w a s e n o u g h to turn my life around. Three years after being arrested for grand theft, I graduated college with t w o degrees in only three semesters by taking triple the normal course load. A few months later, I was launching my o w n business with my girlfriend, w h o later became my wife. I still had many difficult les- sons ahead, but I finally became the driving authority of my o w n life instead of being a slave to unconscious compulsion and addiction. A commitment to growth was the solution to all of my worst problems. Working on your personal growth may seem like a completely selfish undertaking, but in fact it's the most selfless thing y o u can pos- sibly d o . As y o u improve your alignment with truth, love, and power, y o u increase your capacity to serve others. T h e more intelligent y o u b e c o m e , the more g o o d y o u can d o . If y o u haven't already discov- ered this, you'll eventually realize that w h e n y o u improve yourself, y o u inspire others to do the same. Those people then inspire even more people, and your positive ripples of growth ultimately impact everyone. As y o u improve yourself, y o u improve all of us. As the cells improve, the w h o l e body improves. If y o u forget everything else from this book and remember only one piece of advice, it is simply this: The most intelligent thing you can Download 1.6 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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