Saturday, June 6, 2009

ACHIEVEMENT LADDER PROGRESSION ENCOURAGES ACTIVE LISTENING AND UNCONDITIONAL LOVE FROM ENTHUSIASTS

To observe the progress that Ladder of Achievement Enthusiasts establish, you may want to reflect on their self-motivation, their self-awareness, and their positive persistence as they grow in their active listening techniques and their unconditional love emphasis. For all of the communication tools that are available for the person to use throughout their lifetime, effective and active listening are the most demanding and the most neglected instruments of efficient communication progression. In addition, unless there is a passion for growth through desire, dedication, determination, discipline, diplomacy, discernment, and depthness, the willing life participant needs to discover the holistic aspects of unconditional love. This unselfish love requires reflective and willful action that asks for nothing in return for services rendered. There are no strings attached for acts of love by these individuals who seek the best for their beloved.

Achievement Ladder enthusiasts are strongly encouraged to renew and to rediscover the meanings of active listening and the powers of unconditional love. For active listening to be worthy of attention, paraphrasing and empathy are the key components of this special skill. In addition, active listening means to remove all distractions that may in any way impair a sound reception of what the encoder (sender) to the decoder (receiver) in every communication exercise. Also, the barriers of effective and efficient communication need to be recognized and understood to avoid any confusion that barriers are meant to bring to the listener. These barriers include language, age, sex, experience, ideology, status, cultural differences, economic and political philosophies, religious differences, customs, traditions, disabilities, environments, geography, psychological challenges, and many other barriers that affect the holistic intelligence of the receiver. There is no communication unless there is a clear understanding. Active listening is assertive rather than aggressive. Active listening is positive rather than negative. To our knowledge, we are all asked to LISTEN but we seldom have actual formal training in active listening. We are expected to actively listen in any given day at least 70 percent of the time. No wonder there is so much confusion on the part of those who think they HEARD something but really avoided LISTENING to what was presented in any given situation.

To understand unconditional LOVE, we need to find examples of exemplary love shown by individuals for other individuals in times of crisis as well as in everyday challenges. To lay down one's life for another is one of the criteria for identifying UNCONDITIONAL LOVE. A Mother's Love is unconditional when she gives of herself to protect the life of her child, unborn and born, in bringing about new life, a unique human being. Also, a Father's Love is unconditional when he respects totally the woman who gives herself to bringing about new human life through marriage commitment. Anyone can be a Father, but it takes a special someone to be a DADDY. In a working mutual relationship that demands respect on both persons in a marriage relationship, children are raised through the unconditional love of each parent toward their children. The uniqueness of each human being through the three-fold collaboration of mother, father, and Creator elicits a loving relationship that is unconditional and worthy of honor and dignity. The sacredness of each human life is brought about by the unconditional love of the couple in a marriage relationship, and the generations that follow are reminded of that unconditional love by the loving family that these responses deliver. Family love expands toward all the community where love may be made manifest through the ordinary love actions rather than the heroic or extraordinary actions on given time frames. During the ordinary actions of each day in an extraordinary way demands unconditional love if completed with the proper positive attitude.

Yes, there is a connection between Active Listening and Unconditional Love in aspiring after greatness in any human encounter. These special gifts ignite a contagious enthusiasm for those who make progression in their daily growth and development in achieving the goals of the Ladder of Achievement. Going from negative to positive, from "I won't listen, I won't love" to "I learned to actively listen, I learned to unconditionally love" is a tremendous accomplishment that impacts all that hope to achieve in our daily challenges and in growing in our holistic intelligences up and up the Achievement Ladder Challenges of Life.

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