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Accept Change As a Way Of Life

"The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."

Marilyn Ferguson

A lot of people fear the changes.

They remain in the same place not because they would not know how to be in a new environment, but because they are afraid really of the change.

Nevertheless you can be certain of a thing: neither us neither the others, remain the same.

The change is the true essence of the life.

If we didn't change, we will stay exactly those that we are.

There would be no growth, neither life, neither death, nothing, if the change didn't constitute the base of our humanity.

What you like or not, the change represents a big part of you.

If you want to possess the fleeing sense of purpose, you will have to learn to cohabit with the whole concept of change, to consider it a friend and not to fear it.

To learn to be happy about a change can represent a big footstep in your life and naturally also in your process of continuous self-improvement.

Toward Self-Honesty

"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."

Henry Louis Mencken

The greatest obstacle to our personal growth is inside us.

It is more exactly the way according to which we think that who prevents often from becoming what we are.

If you want indeed to make giant footsteps, you have sooner or later need to settle up with yourselves and particularly with the auto-honesty.

If you ever asked yourself who you are trying to deceive with your way of thinking and your behaviour checked by the outside and you have concluded that is wrong to pull whoever's leg, because this way you also pull yours leg, then you are on the good road to reach the total self-honesty.

Perhaps you have already succeeded in identifying some of the defences and the falsehoods that you had adopted up to this moment.

If it is so, the next footstep to reach self-honesty doesn't impose you to confess, neither to feel yourself guilty for what you have done in the past.

It is simply necessary to accept the fact that some of your past choices were misleading, then to settle up with such choices, trying day by day to beat them submitting you to your internal signals.

Self-honesty means to get rid oneself of the need to measure one's own value according to the external terms and to observe instead oneself more objectively with the intention to live the way you want to live the present and not to try at any cost "to be as you have always been".

Self-honesty imposes you to testify your strength and your weakness in a much more realistic way, it imposes you to identify the defences that you have erected against the inside signals and it imposes you to work for eliminating them from your every day life.

Know The Leader Inside Yourself

"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."

Peter F. Drucker

Know The Leader Inside Yourself

Let's not limit us to manage, we optimise.

Do you appreciate the others for what they are and do you help them to draw the best from themselves?

The true leader understands the demands, the desires and the limits of his/her collaborators; he/she discovers their values, their convictions and the causes to which they vote;

The true leader helps them to understand what they want and sustains them to undertake the best walk to reach their objectives.

The true leader encourages them to exploit their qualities and he/she is firmly convinced that there is no better occupation than to stimulate a really similar to give the best of itself.

The leaders most involved illustrate histories that stimulate the maximum performances.

When their men know the defeat, they remember them the successes gotten in precedence.

They speak of the struggles, of the conflicts, of the perseverance and of the triumphs of the others.

The optimal leaders don't need to manipulate the other ones trying to convince them to do what it is not in their interest. They push them to act only in their interest.

Dr.Maurizio Cucchiara Business Consultant And Educator MC2 E-Learning srl - Italy Continuing Education for the Web http://www.mc2elearning.com maurizio.cucchiara@mc2elearning.com

Do Your Best In Every Situation

"No man can always be right. So the struggle is to do one's best, to keep the brain and conscience clear, never be swayed by unworthy motives or inconsequential reasons, but to strive to unearth the basic factors involved, then do one's duty."

Dwight D.Eisenhower

Dear friend, I perfectly know that there are some moments in the life in which it is not so effortless always to know if you are making the right choice.

Also I have been so many times in this situation.

I had to make a choice between two alternatives and I didn't know what pits the road to be taken.

Of a thing however I have always realized: after a few times from the decision time I always knew if I had taken the correct one or not.

If you are particularly careful and sensitive as enough, you will have realized that we have a whole kind of sixth sense.

Something warns if we are doing well for us and for the world, or there is something that doesn't works.

Something happens, always for example a small accident, a psychological discomfort, and a sense of inexplicable anxiety.

It is easy to liquidate these events as adversity or as simple effects of the case.
I don't know how do you think about it, but I am firmly convinced that the case doesn't exist.

They exist some laws that we don't simply understand.

Someone call them laws of the nature, somebody else calls them divine laws, other again they calls them laws of the big numbers or probability.

The wise men of every culture and every time have always taught that the man possesses a power called free will but at the same time he/she is subject to particular universal laws.

At the end you know what it counts indeed?

To do really one's best, but do it really.

I have always tried to do of my best without worrying me so much about what others may think.

Don't abdicate your desires, if these are in harmony with the universe and if you feel deeply that they are correct, go on and follow your own way firmly.

"Fortuna Audacia Iuvat" (Luck help audacious), ancient Romans said, and they were right.

Then stay serene lives your life, respect yourself, respect the others and also the nature and then always do Your Best!

To Whom You Place Your Life Experiences Responsibility?

"A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life."

James Allen

Do you take on you full responsibility for what it is your life or do you blame the others?

Do you believe in your right to take on you full responsibility to create your future?

Perhaps since you was a child somebody inculcated in you the conviction that it was precisely your duty to have to first of all help the others and that your objectives and desires were secondary.

For this reason felt you selfish when you think first to yourselves?

You perhaps believe to be able to be happy only if you are in love of someone.

There is nothing bad to be in love, personally I have rather lived several beautiful romantic and sentimental histories, but while I was living her I felt me terribly dependent from the women that I loved.

If you make to depend your happiness on the others, is giving them the power to create you or to destroy you.

Many divorcés (among which also me same, I admit) they have rebelled to this kind of conditioning.

Some people are considered victims of the life.

They are convinced that all of this that happens is out of their control.

Until you won't feel you responsibility to the 100 percent of your life and of your experiences, in the good and in the evil, you won't succeed in moving you of a single step.

This is the first and the hardest obstacle to overcome in the walk of personal growth and self-learning.

Why Not Bet On Yourself?

"Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe."

Saint Augustine

The difference between a man of success and a failure doesn't often consist in the fact that one has a greater ability or best ideas, but in its courage to bet on his/her own ideas, to assume him a well calculated risk, and therefore to act.

We often associate the idea of courage to heroic actions on the battleground, in a shipwreck or in similar moments of crisis, but also daily life asks for courage if we want to be constructive.

To stay inactive, the fear to act, make nervous who owes to face a problem, one feel "in the cage", "hunted" and this manifests him with a quantity of symptoms physic.

Study attentively the situation; try to imagine the various phases of your possible actions and the possible consequences of them.

Choose the way of acting that it seems you more advantageous and apply it.

If we wait to act up to when we are not completely sure of the result, we will never move a finger.

Whenever you act, you can be wrong.

Every decision we take can reveal wrong, but this doesn't have to hold back us to continue toward the goal we have appointed.

You have to have every day the courage to risk being wrong to risk failing.

A footstep in the wrong direction is better whether to be immovable the whole life.Dr.Maurizio Cucchiara Business Consultant And Educator MC2 E-Learning srl - Italy Continuing Education for the Web http://www.mc2elearning.com maurizio.cucchiara@mc2elearning.com

Do You Use Both Sides Of Your Brain?

"I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking."

Albert Einstein

In the majority of people the left part of the brain concerns the logic, the language, the reasoning, the cause-and-effect process, the analysis and all those so-called "rational" activities.

When this part is at work, the other (the "right") is found in the "wave alpha" or is of rest.

The right part, has in turn, to whether to do with the rhythm, the music, the images and the imagination, the color, the ability to compare the day-dreams, the physiognomy, the recognition of examples and maps.

I have always been fascinated from the book "Use your Head" of Tony Buzan, in which she sustains that if an individual is encouraged to develop a mental area that he had previously considered weak, this development, instead to escape energies to the other areas, seems to produce a synergy effect of good mental output in all the areas.

The brains of the great minds appeared at first sight unbalanced.

Einstein and other great scientists had all the characteristics of individuals in which the left part of the brain resulted dominant, while the contrary one was worth for exactly personality as Picasso or Cézanne.

But the history denied these theories.

To school Einstein was rejected in mathematics and among his various activities he showed up the passion for the art, the study of the violin, the practice of the sail and "immagination games".

The numbers, the formulas, the equations and the words with which Einstein dressed again the new image had for resulted the theory of the relativity, a synthesis among right part and it departs left of the brain.

The great artists were likewise revealed gifted in everybody and two the parts of the brain.

But the supreme example of that that a human being would be able to do if the two parts of the brain were simultaneously developed he is constituted by Leonardo da Vinci.

To his times he was unquestionably the most gifted man in all the following disciplines: art, sculpture, physiology, general sciences, architecture, mechanics, anatomy, physics and inventions.

The conclusion is that once more an holistic approach results that more proper for self-improvement and personal growth, because, to my notice, it allows to melt and to harmonize all the aspects and the expressions of our being.

In my experience I can confirm only whether to alternate rational activity to imaginative activity is a real secret of our auto-improvement.