Have You Reached Your Peak?

Self – Actualization

Achieving Your Full Potential

Michael Broder Self-Actualization: Achieving Your Full Potential Michael Broder 1 – The Psychology of Self-Actualization 7 – The Growth Experience Introduction. Some questions to ask yourself. Some assumptions about the personal growth The untapped resources within each of us. process. The Johari window. Letting creativity Rogers’ fully functioning persons (FFP). happen. A visualization exercise designed to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. The sixteen stimulate your creativity. Some basic characteristics of self-actualized people. meditation methods. Exercises to help you get past those inevitable slumps. 2 – Your Unique Potential 8 – Getting Out of Your Own Way Optimal human functioning: What is it? The Feelings, beliefs and attitudes as potential most important factor determining optimal obstacles: Low frustration tolerance, poor self- functioning: Motivation. The chief categories evaluation, anxiety, anger, blaming, of motivation. Metamotivators: The resentment, entitlement, jealousy, dependency, motivations of self-actualized people. Finding regrets, guilt, approval seeking and worry. How your map to personal self-actualization. feelings are layered. 3 – Stages of Personal Growth 9 – Self-Actualization in the Workplace The blocks to emotional and spiritual growth The types of motivation commonly found in and maturity. The seven stages of emotional the workplace. Employee Motivation: Theory and spiritual development: The infant stage, X vs. Theory Y. The four levels of leadership. early childhood, later childhood, adolescence, The utopian workplace. A visualization the normal adult, the mature adult and the self- exercise to help make work a calling. actualized person. 4 – Where You Are Now: A Se;f-Assessment 10 – Relationship Applications Evaluating areas in which you are satisfied The dynamics of self-actualization in with yourself, and areas that need relationships. B-Love vs. D-Love. Developing improvement. Twenty-five tips on applying the a synergistic relationship. The role of self- traits of self-actualized people and following actualization in parenting. The greatest gift you your metamotivations. can give to children: acceptance. 5 – Discovering Your mission 11 – The Power of Peak Experience Where would you like to be in life? Some Peak experiences: Connecting with your questions to ask yourself. Recognizing your spirituality. The characteristics of peak purpose. A five-step exercise for examining experiences. An exercise in positive sensory your accomplishments. How to use overload. Two exercises to demonstrate the visualizations effectively. Some considerations power of a peak experience. about your ultimate fulfillment. 6 – Making Crucial Choices 12 – Staying On Your Path The concept of safety versus growth. The process of self-actualization: being aware Overcoming fear. The path of safety: of the voices of doubt. Suggestions for staying homeostasis. Expanding your ability to take on the path. A question and answer session risks. How to break through the fear. with Michael Broder: self-actualization in Developing a healthy sense of selfishness. A everyday life. An ongoing source of support problem solving exercise. Making the growth and nourishment. choice. Have You Reached Your Peak?

The great psychologist Abraham Maslow’s life’s work was devoted to studying the nature of personality. But rather than focusing on mental illness, like many of his contemporaries, he was interested in personally at all levels. The special importance of his insights for us is that he described and codified the state of ultimate mental health. The peak which we all might strive towards. He called it self-actualization. He described human motivation as emerging from a hierarchy of needs – as basic needs are met like food and water, higher needs arise like love. At the pinnacle stands self-actualization. Becoming personally, socially and vocationally fulfilled – that is what self-actualization is all about. It is about growth and experiencing life fully and vividly, with joy and sadness, with complete concentration and total absorption. It is about appreciating life for every thing it brings you rather than feeling unsatisfied, wishing for what life could be but never is. Gaining self-actualization is not a simple task. Maslow estimated that as mere 1% of us ever achieve that state. Unfortunately Maslow died before he formulated a practical approach to helping individuals reach for self-actualization in their own lives. Self-Actualization: Achieving Your Full Potential by Michael S. Broder brings new insidghts to this challenge offering valuable ways to put Maslow’s concepts to work in your won life. Using self-assessments, exercises and visualization techniques, Michael Broder leads you toward your own personal peak – greater peace of mind, confidence and maturity. Move toward change by daring to risk. Overcome obstacles like the fear of risk taking, negative attitudes, and feelings of failure. Feel the deep joy of real satisfaction. Motivate yourself and others to expand and improve personal and professional ties. Along the way you’ll learn to:

 Develop the 16 traits of self-actualized people  Discover your own position on the hierarchy of needs  Set goals that maximizes your strengths and potential  Conquer blocks preventing risk taking and growth  Increase your capacity for creativity  Enhance career performance and leadership ability  Identify and live the feeling of peak experience  Enjoy the benefits of enhanced spiritually

The best time of your life is still ahead, waiting to be realized. The pieces needed to create a more complete, more satisfied, more perfect you are ready to come together. With Michael Broder and Self-Actualization: Achieving Your Full Potential, you can join the 1% who live at their peak and enjoy the depth and beauty of life live to its fullest.