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Grandparent (and remarkable philosopher!) Tom V. Morris, is overflowing with great ideas for creative adaptation in our lives. On a recent interview on The Mommy-Muse Is In: Empowering Your Journey into Motherhood, Tom shared essential elements on the Art of Change. Today’s focus is on the third aspect, the Art of Achievement.
“The first art within what I call the Art of Change is the Art of Self Control. It kind of starts us, and allows us to center ourselves. Then the Art of Positive Action gets us moving. We don’t want to just be moving in life; we want to be moving successfully. We want to have the right kind of success. We don’t want to chase the wrong things; we want to pursue things that are right for us, and make the right things happen not only for ourselves, but the people around us that we care about. Most of us want to make a positive difference in our world.
The third art of change, the Art of Achievement, talks about how to do this. Remember, it’s not something we have to make up now. It’s something the great philosophers have been talking about for thousands of years. We’re talking about ideas that have stood the test of time. They’ve gotten people through much worse situations than our current economic downturn. We’re talking about the sacking of Rome, the Black Plague, and the worst times in human history. These are the ideas.
That diaper full that has to be changed is small potatoes compared to what the people in the past have been through. We can use what helped them through their most difficult times, to get through what for us are inconveniences and minor difficulties.”
As Tom writes at his Huffington Post blog, this requires that we focus our energies toward the outcomes we want by living in accordance with seven universal conditions for success, which Tom has distilled from the great philosophers and calls “The 7 Cs of Success.”
Stay tuned for practical applications of The 7 Cs of Success for your life! And be sure to check out the first two posts of my Parenting and the Art of Change series Step One and Step Two!
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