Live Large -Success Characteristic

Success:

Opportunity is presented to all of us equally. In fact, the opportunity is infinite. But, success comes only to the handful of people. These people have mastered to abode their awareness in the gradient zone and explore the things regularly in their area of interest irrespective of the results. These people, when the opportunity presents they have the upper hand over the ordinary because they get the ability to cross the tough boundary that the opportunity demands. Can you see the characteristics for the success here?

These people, when the opportunity presents they have the upper hand over the ordinary because they get the ability to cross the tough boundary that the opportunity demands.

Live Large - Solution

Design the platform that exposes the gradient of the comfort zone and discomfort zone vividly which provides an opportunity to tap the evolutionary energy.

We have been discussing, on one hand, the powers within and how to channelize those powers for our growth. Also, we have discussed the traps & limited belief which hold our progress. In this chapter, I would like to put forward the solution.

The solution is to create a right platform that provides an opportunity to tap the evolutionary energy. For this, whatever one does in his life, the platform should create an opportunity for an individual to push himself little further to the next level mindfully. This allows him to gain new learning & new experience.

The result becomes futile when one step into the discomfort zone mindlessly without utilizing his full awareness. This means to move mindfully from the termination of the comfort zone to the commencement of the discomfort zone. This transition is not a step response but it is a gradient. The whole point is to keep our awareness in this transition region (awareness area as shown below). So, design the platform that exposes this region vividly that provides an opportunity to tap the evolutionary energy.

Live Large - Limited Belief

Limited belief is a belief that one cannot execute certain task & he feels that he has limited resource and unable to perform the tasks. This kind of situation naturally constricts the person and eventually hampers the growth.

Initially, a person tries to do a new task which he has not done before. Let us assume that he has failed in executing the task. He tries again & he fails one more time. With multiple failures, he may come to the conclusion that he is not good enough to execute the task. This is now imprinted in his memory.

But the questions: What are his resource capabilities? What are the resources that the task demands and what are the resource gaps? Now, if one moves mindfully in extending his resources (not too far or too less) then he will get sufficient time to gauge in real time the resource needs that the task demands. Eventually, he may not end up completing the task at one go but he would have learned to step into that unknown area mindfully and get adapted to this new demand. This is really a big step and a great achievement. He has now experienced this area which allows him to stretch his resource little further next time when the opportunity presents. Over a period of time, he will develop the ability to enhance the resource to complete the task.

With the absence of the mindfulness, a limited belief constricts a person. Then over a period, this construction really takes a shape & practically starts to limit a person. It is unfortunate that we only nurture the construction that is being imposed upon us. We are not experimenting ourselves with the evolutionary energy & hence we are limited.

Live Large - Trap 3 Mass Copying

Mass copying: This is yet another trap which hampers our growth. Human are social animals by nature. We live as a tribe for the security reason. We are more powerful as a group of people than the segregated individuals.

Security and protection are the very basic needs of the human. When one is too aligned in securing himself, he tends to mimic the pattern of the masses. If all of them do a particular action then he tends to similar action so that he is not odd out. By doing so, he feels that he is secured. It requires some additional power & guts to do something different than the masses. Because this person is taking a very different path than others in the tribe and the support structure is going to be minimal from the rest of the tribe. This new path of him is less known & travelled by none or only a few.

A person with the new exploration competency goes through the hardship but he is the one who is going to set the trend. So, the question is: Should we need to mass copy and stay secured or should we need to come out and explore from the protection loop?

Those, the so called successful people have explored the regions falling beyond the protection loop. But, knowingly or unknowingly, we seek for security and do things in life what others do.

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Since our behaviour pattern determines the result of our action, is it not important to scrutinise the faith & belief structures which form the foundation for our behaviour pattern?

The behaviour pattern is completely an automated process that we don’t even aware of a given situation in order for us to take conscious favourable action. If the automation of our behaviour aids in our growth path then it is alright. But, what happens to the pattern that does not aid in our growth path?

We can’t change the automation but we have the liberty to change the components of the automation. If one wants to change the result then he has to change his action & thinking and that in turn calls for the change in the faith& belief components. Most of the programming of the faith & belief were done at a very young age especially in a situation when one did not have the maturity and power to control this programming. But, now as a grown up adult, we have the choice and hence, it is the right time to work on the programming of ours imprinted by someone else. The simple strategy is to eradicate that faith and belief which are not serving us anymore & add new components that aid in our growth.

Early childhood programming is a deep-rooted pattern & hence, one needs the right tool to work at the deep subconscious level. There are well-developed tools & techniques available to reprogram the belief & faith structure.

It is up to us to change the faith and Behaviour pattern automation which uses the above flowchart.

Live Large - Trap2

Autopilot mode: We lead our life in a kind of autopilot mode. This means we do things without the involvement of our conscious mind. In fact, ninety percent of our daily activities such as brushing the teeth, taking bath, the way how we communicate & the way how we perceive the external situations are governed by the autopilot mode. There are two levels to this auto pilot mode.

a.            Behaviour pattern

b.            Inbuilt Intelligence

Inbuilt intelligence is the one which we have discussed in our earlier chapter. These are the involuntary automated systems such as our heart beat, blood circulation, digestive systems etc. All these systems function by themselves without our conscious presence.

Let us understand the behavior pattern, a level above the inbuilt intelligence. This is yet another pattern that runs on autopilot mode. Behaviour pattern is the specific way we think & act to the numerous situations. Our thinking & action to a given situation is not the same as that of the others. Each one thinks & acts differently for the same situation. Hence, the results are always different for different people even though the situation presented is the same.

Our thinking & action are based on the individual belief & faith structures. These faith & belief structures are constructed and developed over years. The majority of the beliefs were imprinted at the earlier young stages of the life by parents, society, teachers, friends etc. Some are developed by his own past experiences to certain situations.

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LIve Large - Trap1

Traps: We are invariably caught in three different traps. For growth and successful transformation, it is not only important to become aware of these traps but also to know the rightful means to come out these webs.

1.            Information overload

2.            Autopilot mode

3.            Mass copying

Information overload: We live in the information age where the science and technology advancement is rapid. The new technology such as Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, mobile and the internet are overwhelming enough and expose anyone to the abundance of information. We are constantly bombarded with plentiful of information on a daily basis. The brain has not been trained by evolution to handle such massive information leading one to distract very easily.

To become successful, there is a demand to stay focussed but we are easily distracted by the external world very easily especially in the presence of the gadgets around us. The mandate here is to stay focussed but the situation is causing one to get distracted & this is completely a contradiction. Even few decades before, we did not have this web of information in the form of distraction. The attention faculty of the brain has deteriorated in the last few decades. People cannot stay attentive for an extended period of time. The brain has not evolved for this kind of this new external situation and it is a challenge now to deal with this new circumstances. Research says that on an average fifty percent of the time, our mind roams and moves out of task in hand. This is a real trap & one needs special skills to train the brain to develop his attention span. These are learnable skills and the brain can be trained within a span of few months to come out these traps.

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