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The Territory of Self Persuasion

"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

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.

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.

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.

Learning how to persuade ourselves allows us the ability to explore this new territory. When we begin the process of self exploration and self knowledge, we become the cartographers of our lives. This can be as messy or as elegant as you want it to be, it can be a struggle or you can transform with ease. Many people operate under the assumption that change and growth are 'difficult' like child labor. I choose to operate under the assumption that change flows through me and struggle only comes in when I resist. When I was a young man my father offered to train me to take over for him in his very lucrative business in convalescent homes. My future was laid out before me with all the money I could ever need. Of course, I had to work my way up from dishwasher through the ranks, but if I stuck with it, I would one day be the owner of this in no time.

It was a crossroad. Do I work my way up the ladder to a guaranteed spot at the top in a business that was not in my heart? Or do I go it alone in the world and create something from nothing for myself? Obviously, I chose the latter. And it was a struggle because at that point I hadn't yet realized the key to living life with elegance and ease and still had old, outmoded information that I needed to shed. Are you alive? If not, what do you need to come alive?

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Kenrick Cleveland teaches strategies to earn the business of wealthy prospects using persuasion. He runs public and private seminars and offers home study courses and coaching programs in persuasion strategies.

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