The future is always subjective
Some years ago I wrote a reflection letter on positive and negative self-fulfilling prophecies. It is time again. We need to remind ourselves of how we create our private and professional life through our positive and negative self-fulfilling prophecies including projecting our own disowned selves onto others. (Our disowned selves are that part of ourselves that we do not wish to recognize.)
We can change our private and professional life if we want to. The future is always subjective and that is why it can be changed. We can create new and more rewarding private and professional self-fulfilling prophecies. It is possible, however, it is not neccessarily easy. We are being influenced by our past, our present and our beliefs about the future. Our self-fulfilling prophecies are deeply rooted within us, so where do we start if we want to change?
Where have my self-fulfilling prophecies taken me up to now?
If the future is always subjective it goes without saying that each one of us have to answer this question and reflect upon whether we want to change or not. If we want to change we can start an individual private and/or professional change process that can take us to the next step in life and at work.
We have to take into account, though, that my country, culture, religion, parents, school teachers, colleagues and more have led to my positive and negative self-fulfilling prophecies of today. It will most likely help us to understand why we are where we are before we take actions for change.
To create or be open to an antithesis in our private and/or professional life
If we want to change we need to bring to the surface a provocation to the way things are in our world. This antithesis will challenge our thesis (the way we think our world is) or our self-fulfilling prophesy. What is then my antithesis if I really want to change and develop? Once we have found our antithesis to challenge our thesis, we will work toward a synthesis of these competing ideas. We need to repeat it 100 times every day as the thesis or self-fulfilling prophecies are so deeply rooted within ourselves.
Take a few minutes for reflection.
These have been and are my positive and negative self- fulfilling prophecies:
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Where have they taken me?
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What would I like to change? What new antithesis and thereby synthesis would I like to see in my life? What are my new self-fulfilling prophecies?
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I know it will be easy for us to integrate our new self-fulfilling prophecies in our private and professional life. (If we said something else it would become a negative self-fulfilling prophesy.)
Finally a question to you who have just read this Reflection letter: ”What positive or negative self-fulfilling prophesy steered your reading and reflections?”
Recommendation of the month
I recomend you to watch this video again and again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7AWnfFRc7g
Best regards
Hans
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