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Boldly Exist to Prosper

Feeling prosperous and safe while performing at work or, really in any of your tasks creates a sense of comfort that survival is possible and can improve your pace, focus, and the ability to reach completion. Instinctually, safety is primary. Stretching yourself outside of normal or comfortable practices and tasks may compromise a true sense of feeling safe.

Although, prosperity through whatever is new to you does have an element of vulnerability. This is what helps you to get through what may appear as ambiguous. "If you're comfortable in life then you're not maturing," is a saying with the notion that the ability to mature will, in fact, include discomfort. Following is an acronym that addresses this notion.

B.E.I.N.G. - an acronym for Boldly Exist In Necessary Growth.

Boldly

Occupational Justice is the rights, responsibilities, and liberties that enable us to commit to occupations (activities) for health and quality of life needs.

Feeling overwhelmed, underwhelmed, deprived, or unsatisfied jeopardizes our commitment to participate.

Boldly claim responsibility by identifying actions (or lack of) that cause barriers to fully perform. 

Existing

Biochemistry is the chemical processes of our body that drives behavior. To 'act logically' is to produce only a fraction of performance. 

Exist through accepting your unique complexities of mind, body, and soul - a fingerprint with an incomparable performance history. 

In

Living is being and engaging in the 'now'. 

In β€œit” is presence through observing with all senses the next steps to performance achievements. 

Necessary

Values are abstract and withhold great influence. 

Necessary actions are a reflection of personal values for achieving performance goals. 

Growth

The latin root meaning of be is 'I become' and the greek root meaning is 'cause to grow'. Both convey movement. 

Growth by servanthood moves an attitude from performance victim to performance survivor.

REFERENCES

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Eyal, T., Liberman, N., & Trope, Y., (2008). Judging near and distant virtue and vice. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 1204–1209