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Create Your Greatness
Posted on November 15th, 2009 7 comments
Breaking the Cycle.
From early childhood to adulthood we are trained and conditioned to think, act and believe certain things about life and the way we should live it.
We may not be complete conditioned response creatures…..(Pavlov’s Dogs), but we do tend to fall back on the conditioned response from the past for example, Learned Helplessness.
So many people never become aware that this has happened. The moment you are aware is the moment you begin to create your true self.
Look around and you will see many people that are living the same broken existence of past generations because they have been conditioned to do so.
A life without:
*Education
*Goals
*Career
*Responsibility
*Accountability
*Discipline
*Direction
*Respect
“The tragedy of the War on Poverty is not that its measures have been too small to reduce the proportion of the population living under the poverty level today to anything less than it was in 1968.
The tragedy is the multitude of able people who became welfare recipients every year when they would have found their way out of the poverty trap in the absence of these programs.
Social programs may supply some important benefits to the genuinely helpless. But the inevitable irony of government transfers to the poor is that they induce other people to qualify for them — people who could work for a decent living, but choose idleness and a welfare check instead.
More tragic still are the children of welfare families whose role models are parents who can’t or won’t hold a job or who have given up trying. Not only do these children fail to learn the importance of work and self-reliance, but the value of education — already hard for a child to appreciate — becomes incomprehensible to them.
Not surprisingly, this results in poorer attendance, more frequent classroom disruptions, higher dropout rates, lower literacy and overall competence levels, and higher juvenile crime rates.
Many children of school age in our inner cities now are third-generation welfare recipients. “
*Note that statement was written by David Beer a doctoral student in economics at George Mason University in 1989. Full Article.
Once you become aware of the people and things around you that condition you, now you have the key to unlock those shackles and free yourself to discover your greatness.
Learn to embrace the challenge of change and the challenge to create greatness in your life by conditioning your own mind and body with your own choices and decisions.
Be the first in your family to finish college, start and build a million dollar company, become a leader in your community or influence others yet unborn to follow your example of greatness.
Leave that legacy behind for others to follow.
Gratitude-
I am so thankful for the positive friends, family and mentors that showed up in my life at age 24-25 and for all the ones that continue to show up today because I seek them out.
Lane Resources Inc.
Lynn Lane
Embrace the Challenge!
7 responses to “Create Your Greatness”
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Hi Lynn,
Indeed, I remember reading a book in 9th grade I think it was about the inner-city Boston school system. And then years later reading John Giotto (NY State award winning public school teach working in inner-city schools doing innnnnnteresting new things with education rather than schooling).
To wake up from the trance and realize that those programs are pretty much a new slavery and indentured servitude offering no liberty (freedom w/responsibility, invigorating idea, isn’t it?). In presses down on people’s potential. All those wasted lives. All those wasted gifts that could have been sown into communities’ lives. That is indeed a tragedy.
Books are often free or near-free and offers access to wonderful education and learning and hopefulness for breaking out of that slavery cycle.
I always enjoy reading your Warrior of Success blog, Lynn. Keep it up and keep inspiring us from the trenches.
Happy Dating and Relationships,
April Braswell
Single Boomer Dating Expert -
The magic of the time we are in now is that we can change the outcome.
When my youngest was four years old she was a shy child. Once we went to the mall and there was a song contest. She really wanted to compete but hid behind me obviously torn. I explained the people were conditioned to clap and support her no matter what. We watched a few people get up and perform – sure enough the audience applauded even when the acts were terrible. The MC called for another performer and out from behind me climbed my shy little daughter. She didn’t seem nervous as she sang, and of course the crowd applauded as their parents, and their grandparents did before them.
Yet this is their choice.
Keri Eagan
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Sadly there are people whose lives depend on others being dependent on them. These are often the people tasked with helping those in poverty to fight their way out. You have pointed out a hard truth, that we all need to struggle and to be responsible for our own success and our own welfare.
I wish more people would read this post and follow it’s advice.
Steve Chambers
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Lynn,
We need to stand up for oursleves to creat greatness.
What we all need is INDEPENDENT thinking & subsequent massive actions. Many of us think irrationbally that we need others’ approval to survive.
But then, there’s a fine line of between being self-indulging or irresponsible and self-disciplined & accountable.
Just read Mark Joyner’s sale copy for one of his offerings. In it, there’s a gem:
Irrational Belief:
“I need the approval of the people I love and respect to be happy.”
Healthier Alternative:
“Approval can be very gratifying but I don’t need it to survive. In fact, getting approval all the time simply isn’t possible and seeking it guarantees unhappiness.”
Both Mark & Kevin Hogan advise us not to be obliging to social & cultural pressures when we live our life.
John Ho
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I’m living proof that it doesn’t have to be the welfare way. My family was on welfare when i was a kid. My dad was disabled and had five kids to feed when he lost all means of support. I watched dad work very hard to learn a new skill to bypass his disability, and fight his way out of the welfare system. Incredibly the social worker for my family threatened to have us kids removed if dad went to work. Yes the system works to keep itself alive. Guess that’s why i have always been self employed.
like Steve said, everyone should read this post. Great work Lynn.Don Shepherd
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Great reminder that we are 100% responsible for are own lives, and that one of the best levers we have for helping others is to encourage them to accept responsibility for making their lives better.
Martin Wright
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I am a firm believer in “give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he’ll eat for a lifetime.” Unfortunately, a lot of government programs are more along the lines of giving the man a fish!
We do need to create our own greatness indeed!Lisa McLellan
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Las Vegas Boomer Dating Expert November 15th, 2009 at 18:50