Putting Stage Climbing to work for you in any area of your life is a lot simpler that you might think. Here is the basic drill, which is a protocol you can apply to an issue in any area of your life:
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Two Sources of Mentors
If you could have any mentor in the world (who is ether alive today or has ever lived), who would that person or those persons be? Take a current dilemma or situation you are considering or with which you are now struggling. When you have something in mind, write a short essay—even a paragraph or two—on how that person would handle (or advise you to handle or resolve) your issue or dilemma. What do your “mentors” believeabout your circumstances that you would be much better off believing? Keep in mind the fact that you can have as many of these kinds of “mentors” as you want—even different ones for different aspects of your life. With this exercise, think of them (your “mentors”) as your “strongest self” (or even the voice of your highest potential) which you can access 24 hours a day.
Connecting With Your Source of Your Passion
To the extent that you believe, as I do, that the most powerful answers and guidance you seek reside inside of yourself just waiting to be accessed, it’s crucial to find a regular practice to tap into this precious source of information, passion, and peace. Examples include regular meditation, yoga, long quiet and reflective walks, visualization and journeying, or a combination of them that uniquely suits you. They all provide excellent tools to deepen your conscious connection with your inner core. Whatever gets you there is the best intervention at Stages Six and higher. There are numerous sources of information available to help you develop and enhance these practices as staples in your life. Some of the best books as well as places where meditation and other practices are taught can be found right here at StageClimbing.com/resources.
A Roadmap to Fulfillment
We’re fortunate to live in a world that makes progress and doesn’t usually allow things to be the way they were. Thus, there is more opportunity, equality and encouragement for everyone to follow their dreams and passions.But then what?
The first real step to maximizing your potential is to ask yourself, “What do I really want?” That’s the question I asked when I wanted to move from my early accounting career. I realized that what I really wanted to do was tohelp people resolve non-financial life issues. This lead me to go back to graduate school to become a psychologist.
Ideal Attitudes for Stage Climbing, by the Stages
These are some ideal attitudes for removing a lower-stage hook and climbing to a higher stage that you have chosen for virtually any area of your life, according to the stage you are operating at presently. Tweak them to fit you exactly and then use them as motivators whenever you need to throughout your Stage Climbing process:
The Power Behind Our Hooks at Each Stage
Since it’s our attitudes and beliefs that power our hooks to each of the seven stages, let’s take a look at exactly what they are and how to gain mastery over them, so that they don’t control you.
How to Climb Through the Stages of Life with Maturity
The world is a virtual classroom and simply by living in it you’ve learned practically all you now know about life. But sometimes along the way you may need a little “tutoring” to get to a higher “grade” or stage—especially when your organic or natural process becomes stuck or you are anticipating a major life change.
As a psychologist, I have yet to meet the person who does not have to help their natural maturation process along to some extent in order to stay on the path to their potential, in an area of life.
Virtually all of us have difficulty with something that to them may seem so easy for everybody else. For example, some people are generally happy and fulfilled career wise, but leave much to be desired with respect to their love relationships or their degree of self-confidence. In your case, perhaps these things are okay, but you often find yourself worried about how others perceive you, feel disconnected spiritually, or you are now even bored with hobbies you once considered fun.
If there are people you look up to for what you perceive as their ability to master an aspect of life that’s difficult for you, chances are you merely perceive them (whether or not with accuracy) as operating from a higher stage than you are. The same can be said for those you may look down upon as being representative of a lower stage in some life area or issue.
How can you determine what’s holding you back and climb to a higher stage? One way is to understand how we mature. Most of us at times have experienced the notions of success, happiness, fulfillment, and even spirituality; as paradoxical and confusing. But remember, our capacity for achieving those things develops within us – or matures – in stages, very much the way we physically mature in stages.
Each of us is born with certain seeds that give us an innately unique potential, along with talents and such things as emotional, spiritual, and even creative specifications. As we evolve through our interaction with the world, it becomes our nature to find and then manifest all of our distinct preferences. This process is what psychologist Erik Erikson (1963) called “finding ourselves”; and it is the essence of maturity.
Just as optimal body maintenance (barring death, disease, or accident) will ensure physical maturity, and learning will promote intellectual maturity, the psyche has definite needs in order to mature as well. However, as we grow, certain parts of us are slower to develop than are others, and may need to be helped along.
To do that, you need to find ways to recognize those less-developed parts of you, while optimizing your natural process so that you can reach your highest potential. And that can be done in each and every life area that you choose to pursue. In Stage Climbing: The Shortest Path to Your Highest Potential, I outline many strategies to identify the problem that’s holding you back and resolve it in the shortest time possible. The first step is to recognize that this process is in your hands. That is— the ball is in your court to make your life exactly what you want it to be—regardless of what your life has been up until now.
This realization is true freedom; and each time you experience it with something new, you are changed forever!
Seeking Answers, and Finding Them in the New Book Stage Climbing: The Shortest Path to Your Highest Potential
I’ve always been a seeker and I have followed many paths towards becoming enlightened. I studied yoga because I thought it would help me find some of the answers to life’s biggest mysteries. I took a meditation course wanting to tap into my highest state of consciousness. I went to hear the Dali Lama speak in New York City to learn from this wise and holy man. And I’ve read his teachings and those of many others including self-help gurus Deepak Chopra and Stephen Covey.
I’ve read many wonderful words of wisdom that helped me to find inner peace and happiness. But as a seeker, the journey is constant and so I’ve sought out more readings to help myself grow. One of the books that’s had the biggest impact on my quest for knowing myself is Stage Climbing: The Shortest Path to Your Highest Potential by Michael S. Broder, Ph.D.
Benevolence is Your Calling: Find More Meaning in Your Life by Giving Back
If you have achieved a high level of accomplishment in your career and personal life, you may have found that you’ve become a victim of your own success— by realizing that things which used to motivate you no longer do. If this situation speaks to you, then giving back may be the answer.
Something more may be needed to bring meaning back into your own life; and there’s no better way than to shift your focus to the needs of others. The perfect starting point is often a place of gratitude for all the good things you have been able to manifest and enjoy in your own life, or even simply gratitude for life itself.
Out of Work in a Down Market? Base Your Next Move on Your Passions and Desire, Not Fear
Career change has become a natural choice for many at some point in life, but it’s an entirely different situation when you’re forced to make a change, while the U.S. jobless rate is hovering at over 8% and you’re part of that statistic.
Instead of being desperate to take any job that comes along in this difficult market, now may be the time for you to finally make your career about whatever is your true passion. Many people have discovered— even in this economy— that they could successfully do this with much less difficulty than they thought. You only have to look beyond your fear!