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Capítulo I MARCO TEÓRICO

1. PUNTO DE PARTIDA: CONSTRUYENDO LA TEORÍA

1.1.3. Corrientes feministas

1.1.3.4. Feminismo postmoderno

Hold on to your negative thoughts and your world will unfold as those values, inner beliefs, attitudes, and perceptions become reality. Change your thoughts, and your world will unfold in new and more positive ways.

In other words, if you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Fortune favors the bold. Wishful thinking will not make your dreams come true. Bold action will. He who hesitates is lost. You won’t ever have to be a loser again if you take bold action. If you want to be free, realize that your resources are unlimited. Your mind controls your limitations or freedom from limitations, so don’t let your limitations control your mind. If you think the latter, you have declared yourself a prisoner, and you will be a prisoner. Once you are fed up with that kind of thinking, you can move yourself into a kind of freedom greater than you have ever known before. You will remain where you are only as long as you wish.

You don’t have to be superman to break through your barriers. As you may know, a certain sports shoe manufacturers ad says, “Just do it!” As Richard Simmons once put it, “Get that paint brush in your hand and sit down with your canvas. This is your life. You are the artist and creator of your future. All you need to do is to paint the picture of your life on your

imaginary canvas. Paint it the way you want it with positive brush strokes and watch it begin to unfold.”

Expanding our Greater Self requires awareness, wisdom, courage, and action. The more we know, the more we realize that there is more to learn. That’s the true adventure of life. You can do it with the following ten steps to actualizing your Greater Self:

1. Identify what is not working for you and choose to get rid of all that undermines your success. Know your current reality.

2. Get in touch with your Greater self, your soul, your values, your purpose, and align your true essence with your talent.

3. Clarify your vision by aligning your values and purpose with your goals. Everything you do, no matter how mundane, has meaning, a purpose.

4. Check your vision against all your personal assets. Conduct a reality check, for delusion is the enemy of the winner. Be realistic about your assets and liabilities.

5. Check your skills. Get more information, seek advice from others, and get more training. Continuing education is vital.

6. Be self-aware and observant. Honestly check your psyche for neediness, greed, fear, jealousy, and self-righteousness. Improve your mind, with counseling if necessary. Emotionally detach from all that is negative. Also, avoid being too emotionally attached to the result you want.

7. Be dynamic and innovative in how you create what you want.

Remember, purpose is why you want something, goals are specifically what you want, and creating what you want is how you will accomplish getting what you want.

8. Recognize which are winning patterns and which are losing patterns.

Recognize failures, correct them, and get on course – an adjusted course. An airline pilot is constantly changing the setting of his controls of the aircraft in order to remain on course to get to the final destination. If he gets word that there is an overbearing storm, he will instantly change his course. When the red flags of warning are there, it is time to change promptly.

9. Set up your own rules for success and failure and know that possibility thinking will bring you what you want no matter what challenges arise. You have the power to make the impossible possible.

10. Solidify your commitment to yourself and others. Always stick to your word. Consider a win/win environment for all who are around you.

You don’t have to gobble up others to get what you want. As you build your own success, build your Greatest Self along the way, for this is your most finite purpose on earth. Eleanor Roosevelt wrote,

“The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”

Have you ever heard the joke about a man, who kept praying every day,

“Please God, please, let me win the lottery, oh please.” On and on, day after day, he kept praying, and finally God said, “Hey Joe! Buy a Lottery Ticket!”

Eastern philosophy tends to believe that everything is predestined, and that you have little to do with what happens. Western philosophy tends to be in overdrive about making things happen. Americans particularly tend to think they can control everything. To get it right, it takes a balance between these two philosophies.

We are born with our own innate capacity to create our own life dynamics. No one has the same capacity as another. Clearly we are as different as our fingerprints. No one else can make things happen for us.

Not even talent agents can make the talent, they discover the talent.

You can discover your own talent and then market it in your life.

Discovering our own talent (or further discovering it) involves expanding your Greater Self as opposed to your Created Self. Our gateway to expanding our sense of our Greater Self is affected by how we perceive what is outside us, within us, and all around us. Our ability to create is constantly affected by our sense of self.

Our Created Self has been developed by all the outside stimuli that make us has a contracted sense of self. Below you will find a list of influences that affect our sense of self. They either make us constrict ourselves unfavorably, or we can build them up in order to expand our Greater Self.

GATEWAYS TO EXPANDING YOUR GREATER SELF