Is Assessment a Pathway or a Prison? Part II

This article is part II of “Is Assessment a Pathway or a Prison“.

People examine the world around them, and create assessments for just about everything they encounter.  I do it, you do it; we all assess our world. What I offer to you today is a glimpse inside that habit. How often do you assess someone and walk away with a tightly knit concept of who they are and what they have to offer?  It happens all the time, and while we need some way to determine how that person will affect our own world we can take that ability and build it into a tool that guides us into more empowering thinking.

If thoughts are energy, and our thoughts are able to build the world around us, how much are the thoughts we hold of the people in our lives affecting our world? Do you see others from the perspective of their potential and the strength of their character, or by the tasks they are performing in this ordinary moment? Let’s take it a step further: how we see others always draws its resources from how we see ourselves.

Highly successful people know how to hold on to their vision, and let that vision be the wind that carries them to success in their endeavors. The sleepwalkers in life live in the safe little containers that gives them the expected, this way they never have to open their eyes and face the challenge.  How much is our assessment of the world and the people around us, and ourselves for that matter, a pathway or superhighway to our own excellence, or a prison that holds us in a mediocre way of thinking?

We typically find that we have a blend of both ways of thinking, and this article or exercise in self awareness is an opportunity to see which way the scales tilt.  You may find, as I did, a slippery thought pattern or two that is ready to be modified or uprooted altogether. Rethinking and retooling our internal resources, it’s all a part of the day of the highly successful entrepreneur.

Author Estee Taschereau takes an unusual spin on developing success consciousness through unique references such as the Mayan Daily Insights.   As a visionary counselor her knowledge of the business world blends with the subtle perspective of the infinite possibilities to give you a powerful look at both your underlying limits and your potential so you can live life as your greatest achievement.  The book Being Here Now is a great tool to developing Success-Focused patterns in everyday life.