The right direction is the one that leads you towards realizing your best self. The wrong direction is the one that does not lead you towards realizing your best self.
How do you avoid the wrong direction?
When it comes to avoiding the wrong direction, There are so many unique and varied external voices that can take you in the wrong direction, That is impossible to list them all and simply avoid them.
What wrong voices all have in common however, Is that they do not lead you to where you can realize your divine and best self.
Listen instead to the voice that leads you to your best self.
The definition of the right and wrong direction that you see above is a simple divine-brain definition, but it can be clouded easily with lizard-brain and monkey-brain rationalization.
Remember rationalization means “Rational lies.”
Keep the definition of the right direction versus the wrong direction simple.
If you are finding that it's more difficult to count on the community as a whole to help you be your best self, The most reliable solution is to help yourself and also to help those you care about learn how to listen to their inner voices of character.
So how do you help yourself or others listen to that inner voice? The first big question you need to answer to more consistently listen to your voice of character is to decide:
What do you really ultimately want?
Deep down, When all the pretense and complexity is stripped away, What you truly want or desire will come down to one of two things—to do what is right or to do what is wrong.
Answering this first question will determine your direction.
Again, let me define doing what is right as doing whatever is necessary to realize your best self or your devine self and build on your character.
Think back to very early in the article when I defined my time-management challenge as weaving together the wrap of character and the weft of activities and goals. https://read.cash/@Sarahmay/redefining-the-time-management-challenge-f602b9fb
What do you really want to weave together?
When you are engaging in activities that will help you realize you best self, You are focused on the divine brain.
When you are focused on divine-brain activities, You are doing the right thing.
Doing the wrong thing, Again, Is defined as not doing what is necessary to realize your best self, Chances are you are in the monkey-brain or lizard-brain mode.
Having a heartfelt commitment and desire to do the right thing is the first and biggest personal victory you can achieve.
Your thoughts and feelings that would yield results are first influenced by your desire to do the right thing or the wrong thing.
If you desire to do the right thing or your best and divine self, This will lead you to the source of best self, Your character.
Granted, We won't be perfect in always doing what is right versus what is wrong, But the question here is not to analyze your actions but to simply declare your desire.
If you Are unsure as to whether your desires will lead you towards your best self, Consult members of your advisory board and those whose character traits you admire, And get their advice.
In our quest to be our best selves, I believe every person who has had the desire to do the right thing has had set backs at one time or another, And it is certainly human to make mistakes.
The second step then after having a desire to do the right thing is to have the desire to pre-forgive.
Remember to pre-forgive yourself, And make the commitment to simply get back on course every time you get off course.
The older I get, The more I realize the need to make corrections in my life sooner rather than later.
Delaying course correction only delays your arrival to being the divine person you have in you.
Desiring to be your best self by doing what is right is something we simply need to hold with childlike faith.
Little children are quick to forgive and pre-forgive.
We need to recapture this mindset.
I mentioned earlier that our thoughts and feelings are influenced by the collective internal voices that we listen to.
Looking at the graph below, And on a scale of -100 to +100, With negative numbers representing the wrong direction that leads you away from being your best self, And positive numbers representing the right direction that leads you toward your best self, Assess the strength and direction of the internal and external voice that you listen to now.
Have your advisory board also assess how you are doing.
https://read.cash/@Sarahmay/assemble-your-advisory-board-71abd3b0
Compare the two to validate where you are currently.
The strength of the voices you listen to is determined by simply combining the strength and direction of the internal and external voices.
STRENGTH and DIRECTION of VOICE = INTERNAL VOICE + EXTERNAL VOICE
The voices that lead you to your best self, Represented by the positive numbers, Are your divine-brain voices.
The voices that lead you away from your best self, Represented by negative numbers, Are lizard-brain and monkey-brain voices.
As you make commitments to listen to the voice of character, Choose which character traits you will emulate in your own life.
I hope you took some time to ponder and identify at least three from the exercise on article “Learning from without”. https://read.cash/@Sarahmay/learning-from-without-6579f810 . if not, please take the time to go through that exercise at some point, As choosing character traits to start with a big part of this time management philosophy that involves piloting your life to a culture of being more, and not just doing more.
Consider again the influence that the inner voice of character has on your thoughts, Feelings, and eventually your achievements.
Ponder this great quote from Henry David Thoreau.
How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seed-time of character?
—Henry David Thoreau.
This is a very interesting quote from Henry David Thoreau, Because to me it says we either currently possess strong character (Where our thoughts and feelings come from) Or we can make a conscious decision to nurture our character now.
As we develop our character now, We can harvest the fruits of character later.
The development of our character will lead to the maturation of our thoughts and feelings.
The evolution and maturation of your thoughts and feelings will improve your behaviors and guide you to know the words to speak, Which will in turn improve your results and contribute to your achievements.
Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are to some extent a gift. Good character, By contrast, Is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece—by thought, Choice, Courage and determination.
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