Today, to achieve your dreams, you need at least three tools

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To dream and to achieve those dreams in today’s world, you must understand  both objective physical reality and subjective people reality. Version 1.0 of achievement is over. In Ver 1, understanding and mastering objective reality of physical world – building software, cars, bridges, or missiles was enough. Version 2.0 of achievement is now in play. It requires negotiating subjective world of people-interactions either in work, family or social situations. Only when you understand these two realities, you can produce results in work, relationships and life.  

Subjective reality is becoming more dominant. In organisations, professionals do not leave companies; they leave managers. Interacting in social media is complex, because when we express our views on social media, we are unwittingly putting our feet in someone's territory. In family, as both partners wish to fulfill their individual dreams through the family-unit, one has to trade off one's priority actively.  

But to meet this demand of producing results in people-world, our tools are woefully inadequate. While we have mastered the tools of understanding physical world by using thinking tools learnt in our education, we have barely understood, let alone mastered, the tools of understanding people world.  

Pausetive model of achievement fills the gap by offering three tools to understand as is reality:

·         Unclutter emotions  

Emotions have cluttered our mind because of suppression and repression of emotions. Therefore, instead of responding, we react. Instead of understanding that Boss is stressed, we react to Boss aggravating the situation further. Like Rajesh, you can use unclutter your emotions to see as-is reality.Uncluttered mind is not free of clutter; it is aware of the clutter. 

·         Unclutter Beliefs 

Creating results in the present is not enough to shape future. One must also find the results one want to produce. To find one's results, achievers use Beliefs. Using your core beliefs, one can find one’s meaning in work too (called as Purpose) by creating a unique vision of ‘what future one wants to see’.  Like Devidas, you can verify beliefs to articulate your future.

·         Unclutter thought

To produce results , one has to use thinking mind. But thinking mind has one big limitation. It is untrained to incorporate soft variables like emotions and beliefs and arrive at a better view of reality. It can feel love, dreams, satisfaction, values, but still cannot articulate it fully. So it values 'what' and 'how' more than 'why'. It does not use the power of thinking mind to understand 'why he wants to produce x results and not y'.  

If you are mad enough to dream wildly and then have the courage to achieve those dreams, you can start using the tools of Pausetive. To start with, sign for getting regular updates for this blog.