Human Development and Happiness

 We all have seen or heard prompts towards answering the age-old question Who am I?  phrases like "Know thyself" and "The unexamined life is one not worth living." have encouraged self-awareness and self-mastery throughout the ages. The subjective observation of self that the question lends to any person answering it, is a rich one that has been asked by the elite and powerful as well as the broken and surrendered.   Who am I? Encourages us to assess our nature, perhaps leading us to an understanding of our core self. The intimate interview with our own nature lent by the question may guide us to finding an orientation of our personal life.                                                                                  However, If we...

As I ponder the growth I want to see in myself, my world, and in my connections with the people in my life, I cannot escape my subconscious mind's suggestion that my interactions with the world and associations are based on the values that I hold to be true.  My personal values of Attentiveness, Dependability , Fidelity, Education, Harmony, Judiciousness, and Organization are like a focusing lens for the life I live. This is true for the majority of us.  We live life based on the values we hold.  Maybe these values came from childhood and part of the home we grew up in, maybe we witnessed them displayed by a leader we respected and began to weave them into our own lives, or perhaps we did an intersubjective assessment of ourselves and found values that direct us to our desires which we anchored into our life.   Whatever the route values developed in our lives, I am confident the majority of humans are value-driven.         ...