Thursday, January 5, 2012

What's Keeping You Stuck?



Our culture is full of deceptions, distortions, delusions, and deletions that confuse us and keep us from stepping onto our strengths path. They include:

Deception # 1: Doesn’t Everyone? (Self Depreciation)

Deception # 2: Depreciation (Disguised as Humility)

Deception # 3: Destructive Ego

Deception # 4: Do Be Do Be Do (Confusing Doing with Being)

Deception # 5: Delay The Dream (I’ll Pursue My Strengths Later)

Deception # 6: Developing Personality (Personality Change)

Deception # 7: Deficit Attention Disorder (Grow Most Fixing Weakness)

Deception # 8: Do What It Takes (Regardless of Strengths)

Deception # 9: Dream It Do It (Potential Equality)

Deception # 10: Dead End Jobs

Deception # 11: Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys (Parental Desire)

Deception # 12: Dollars (“You Can’t Make Any Money At That”)

Deception # 13: Degrees: Generalized Intelligence, Academic Scorecards and College

Deception # 14: Demand: Hot Careers

Deception # 15: Depressing Job Statistics

Deception # 16: Done It Before (Employer Experience Fixation)

Deception # 17: Definitive Method Management – Taylorism (One Best Way)

Deception # 18: Distinguish Work/Play (That’s Why They Call It Work)

Deception # 19: Disease Models, Diagnostics and the DSM IV

Deception # 20: Difference (Gender Roles)

Let's look at them one at a time, along with a corresponding "Moment of Truth" that will get us back on our Strengths Path.
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