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Self Actualization




8 Ways to Self Actualise - Abraham Maslow

Filed under: Mental Health by Matt Emery on August 31, 2007 @ 03:31 PDT
Maslow studied healthy people, most psychologists study sick people. The characteristics listed here are the results of 20 years of study of people who had the “full use and exploitation of talents, capacities, potentialities, etc..”
  1. Experience things fully, vividly, selflessly. Throw yourself into the experiencing of something: concentrate on it fully, let it totally absorb you.
  2. Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth): Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
  3. Let the self emerge. Try to shut out the external clues as to what you should think, feel, say, and so on, and let your experience enable you to say what you truly feel.
  4. When in doubt, be honest. If you look into yourself and are honest, you will also take responsibility. Taking responsibility is self-actualizing.
  5. Listen to your own tastes. Be prepared to be unpopular.
  6. Use your intelligence, work to do well the things you want to do, no matter how insignificant they seem to be.
  7. Make peak experiencing more likely: get rid of illusions and false notions. Learn what you are good at and what your potentialities are not.
  8. Find out who you are, what you are, what you like and don’t like, what is good and what is bad for you, where you are going, what your mission is. Opening yourself up to yourself in this way means identifying defenses–and then finding the courage to give them up.
Check out the full article: Maslow Self Actualization

My WOD
MU 5-5-5, will go to sets of 6 starting next week...I have come a long way on this particular movement!

Squat 5RM:  worked up to 285 (no spotter and limited area to dump weight if need be, 300 plus for sure next time)  my current 1RM is 315, which I did back in October...time to retest that lift.

Bench 5RM:  worked up to 205 (no spotter, possibly could have gone up to 215, but satisfied with this number for now)

6rds        45 second break between rounds

3 HPC @ 145#
3 20 yrd shuttles
Time: 5:50  forgot to break after the first round so I just kept moving for the remainder of the workout. 

Whatever you're doing in your life right now, if it's become routine, it's time to move on to something new and scary (cavemanpower.com)







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