WHEN PROGRESS COMES TO A HALT
There are times in life when it seems you have tried all you know to do but just can't move ahead. You have success stories but they have become stale. You know you should have achieved more or that you are more than your experience makes your life appear to be. What could be wrong? Please read with open mind as we try to run a check few things that could bring stagnancy.
CAUSES OF HALTED PROGRESS
1. Pride: manifests in different ways: Not seeing the need to ask God for help, treating subordinates and junior colleagues or people of lower social class as inferior, not seeing the need to say please or thank you, finding it difficult to apologize when you discover you are wrong, oppressing others with your position or with your advantage over then, being unforgiven, disobeying divine instructions, refusal to ask for or receive help, frequently finding fault in superiors or finding it convenient to expose the weakness of superiors instead of helping to make it less obvious, frequent involvement in arguments and always wanting to be the last to speak, not listening to what others have to say but waiting for when it is your turn to speak
etc
Pride is a negative spiritual force that creates the right environment for making poor decisions. And decisions determine destinations. The best pride can do is to stop
progress; it is capable of worse things.
2. Mental Road Block: thinking like someone in the level you are will make moving to the next level difficult. Mental attitudes usually precedes visible accomplishments. Once you see where you can be, think like someone going there otherwise you will feel like struggling pass through an invisible wall in life.
Mental obstacles cannot be overcome without correcting ones knowledge and skill deficit. You need to humble yourself to learn, even sometimes from subordinates. Anyone who knows what you don't know is your superior in that respect. Observe what he or she does differently and ask questions when you don't understand. Read, read and read. Do research and learn from results.
To overcome mental road blocks, it is also important to attempt new things. Until you try, you will never have experience. So avoiding certain opportunities to attempt new things on the basis of having never done it before is not wise.
...to be continued.
Have a sweet day.
CAUSES OF HALTED PROGRESS
1. Pride: manifests in different ways: Not seeing the need to ask God for help, treating subordinates and junior colleagues or people of lower social class as inferior, not seeing the need to say please or thank you, finding it difficult to apologize when you discover you are wrong, oppressing others with your position or with your advantage over then, being unforgiven, disobeying divine instructions, refusal to ask for or receive help, frequently finding fault in superiors or finding it convenient to expose the weakness of superiors instead of helping to make it less obvious, frequent involvement in arguments and always wanting to be the last to speak, not listening to what others have to say but waiting for when it is your turn to speak
etc
Pride is a negative spiritual force that creates the right environment for making poor decisions. And decisions determine destinations. The best pride can do is to stop
progress; it is capable of worse things.
2. Mental Road Block: thinking like someone in the level you are will make moving to the next level difficult. Mental attitudes usually precedes visible accomplishments. Once you see where you can be, think like someone going there otherwise you will feel like struggling pass through an invisible wall in life.
Mental obstacles cannot be overcome without correcting ones knowledge and skill deficit. You need to humble yourself to learn, even sometimes from subordinates. Anyone who knows what you don't know is your superior in that respect. Observe what he or she does differently and ask questions when you don't understand. Read, read and read. Do research and learn from results.
To overcome mental road blocks, it is also important to attempt new things. Until you try, you will never have experience. So avoiding certain opportunities to attempt new things on the basis of having never done it before is not wise.
...to be continued.
Have a sweet day.
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