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**I. BASICS: Fundamentals
A. Ideals:**
Excellence, Quality
Mastery, Perfection
Responsibility
Traditions
Stability
Endurance
Persistence
Practical, Application
Building
Improvement
Integrity
Wholeness
Manifestation
Conservation
B. Goals:
To achieve excellence and mastery.
To be the best at what they do.
To be able to manifest ideas and plans in the Earth.
To practice continuous improvement.
To be responsible for a lot and handle it well.
To be ethical and upright.
To find the best methods to achieve a goal or result.
To understand whole systems, and offer key insights based on whole sytems awareness.
To develop and build something valuable that will last.
To develop a legacy.
To be initiated into higher levels of being, knowing, and action.
C. Forms of Attention:
Attention goes to what is excellent, and to continuousimprovement and progress toward achieving greater excellence.
Attention goes to what others have done, and are doing in one’s own field of interest. Whose performance or results do you have to match or exceed?
Who are the exemplars, role models, competitors, the ones to beat?
Attention goes to what would impress others.
Attention goes to winning and achieving, setting the standards, and “raising the bar.”
Attention goes to keeping whole systems in view, integrity, intuitions of wholeness, including ethics.
Attention goes to abstract design, modeling of essential elements and interrelationships.
Attention goes to what is practical, do-able, and methods to best achieve desired results. What works, what doesn’t, and why? An idea/proposition is considered as true as it can be applied.
**D. Qualities
- Virtues (+), positive, to be cultivated and enhanced:**
Responsible.
(Ideally, responsibility is the “ability to respond” appropriately and even masterfully to true need and spirit of the moment, which extends our ordinary-language meaning of the term. This extension requires intuition, instinct, and certain experience to operate.)
Reliable.
Ethical, integrous, impeccable.
Conscientious.
Constructive.
High standards.
Organized.
Orderly, methodical.
Applies self in learning and tasks.
Broad systems view.
Practical, makes things happen, gets results.
Resourceful.
Leadership.
2. Vices (-), negative, to be minimized or eliminated, pulled out like weeds:
Operates based on feelings of inferiority or superiority.
Competitive attitude.
Coming from win-lose rather than multiple wins.
Manipulating others to gain advantage.
Bragging, posturing, showing off.
Ostentatious, flaunts the trappings of wealth.
Overconcern with impressing others.
Rigid, fanatical, “knows best” attitude.
Collapses when realizing he can’t live up to own or others high standards, or hasn’t prepared well, or has over-sold and can’t deliver in a timely or integrous manner.
OR denies the above are problems.
E. Modus Operandi
Ambitious.
Persistent.
Ethical vs. manipulative.
Prepared.
Planned.
Conservative.
Careful.
Responsible.
Practical.
Conscientious.
Competitive.
Resourceful.
E. Issues and Preoccupations:
Feeling inferior and/or superior.
How to gain advantage, compete, and win.
Continuous improvement toward excellence.
Achieving goals: issues of success and failure.
What IS success and failure in a situation?
Having faith over the long term.
“Great comebacks” and turnarounds: coming back from failure.
Staying on top after success: sustainability.
When to persist vs. cut bait in difficulties.
When is effort well applied, when counterproductive?
Maintaining professional and personal reputation.
Getting past fears of what something might look like to others.
May be “out of touch” with feeling.
Difficulty expressing a full range of emotion.
Dropping the mask, being real and authentic, getting out of formality and roles.
Issues with worldly temptation: lust, greed, ambition for power.
Saving face in error or disgrace.
Protecting the ego or image.
Building a healthy ego.
Differentiating between healthy ego and being egotistical.
Developing instinctive intuition.
Developing healthy social relations.
** Roles:**
Professional, architect, general contractor, carpenter, construction, plumber, farming, real
estate, real estate development, soil analysis, ecology, environmental protection, scientist, engineer, lawyer, judge, entrepreneur, financier, manager, supervisor, consultant, expert, repairs,
refinishing, renovation, restoration, recycling, used (“pre-owned”) goods, mathematician,
systems analyst, professor, law enforcement, psychologist.
Colors:
black, navy blue, grey, brown.
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