Hooks: Obstacles To Your Target Stage—Part 2

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As noted before, in Stage Climbing, hooks are your thoughts, feelings, and/or behaviors that are characteristic of stages (other than your default stage, which is the stage that you tend to identify with currently) in a given life area. Hooks are anomalies to the way you normally function.  And in order to be considered a hook, it needs to be identified with a specific stage. Read more

Hooks: Obstacles To Your Target Stage

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As you Stage Climb, you’ll encounter hooks – parts of yourself that act as  obstacles standing in your way of living life at your target stage.

Hooks are anomalies to the way you normally function. Think of them as your  connections to stages other than your default stage, which is the stage that you  tend to identify with currently. Read more

Typical reasons for making Job or Career Changes:

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You may be aware that a job or career change is necessary for you, but feel stuck. If you currently are nowhere near a Stage Six default with your work (as discussed in last week’s blog), but wish you were, take this opportunity to ponder what you really want to be doing with this part of your life. Make a list of all the excuses that are holding you back and deal with each one separately, or, for the sake of this exercise, pretend that your excuses simply don’t exist. Read more

Your Best Attitudes about Your Career and the Work You Do

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Let’s start the month of May by looking at your typical career outlook by the stages:

  • Stage One―“It’s safe and provides me with feelings of security.”
  • Stage Two―“It’s an easy way to find lots of opportunities to feel powerful by manipulating and bullying others as well as (perhaps) to make easy money.”
  • Stage Three―“It is the type of work my family/ ‘tribe’ does (or always did) or values most.”
  • Stage Four―“It gives me prestige and/or a steady stream of good people contact.” In addition, “It pleases the people in my life whose approval I value most.” Read more

How Families Operate at Each Stage

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A major aspect of who you are is a result of the family you grew up in—your family of origin. The principles of Stage Climbing can explain much about your family and your own default stage in almost any area of your life. See what resonates most for you as we explore how families operate by the stages: Read more

Your View of Spirituality by the Stages

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Spirituality and religion are often used interchangeably. I refer to spirituality as an internally generated set of beliefs that reflect your connection to whatever you consider to be your God, source or higher self. Religion, on the other hand, is a set of spiritual beliefs that are learned externally. Lets sort this out by the stages: Read more

How to Grow Up to Your Highest Potential, In the Shortest Time Possible

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On this week of “new beginnings”, I thought it would be a good idea for this week’s blog to introduce the basics of the Stage Climbing process in case you are new to it (and this site) as well as for those who can use a refresher or motivator to put it to work for you. Read more

How Grief (over loss) is Typically Handled by the Stages

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We each grieve in our own way. When we allow ourselves to express our feelings of sadness, they tend to clear out of us naturally and usually lead to acceptance of the loss. However, when this process becomes blocked as it often does for a variety of reasons; grief can lead to chronic depression, anger, anxiety, and a variety of other stifling emotions and conditions. Read more

What Typically Trigger Depression in You at Various Stages

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Depression is a condition that can be medical, psychological, or both. More importantly, it can negatively affect the quality of your life and every aspect of it. To gain an understanding about depression, along with strategies and exercises to manage it as well as information about when more treatment is necessary, visit the “Downloads” page on this site, to download your complimentary MP3 audio, Overcoming Your Depression. I wrote this program to be a major step toward bringing your mood under your own control. Read more

What Typically Trigger Anxiety in You at Various Stages

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What typically triggers Anxiety in you at each of the seven stages:

  • Stage One―Fears concerning such things as abandonment, physical or mental disability and extreme poverty … Being, living, and/or dying alone where you would be or even merely feel unable to survive or change a dreaded fate. Read more