I just finished my second manual speech (incidentally on changing habits) and I am working on my second. I’ll definitely write some more posts about it.

Claire,

I remember reading from Steve about the different levels of consciousness, from anger to pride to will to joy to enlightenment and in between. I’ve found that model as a very useful explanation for why it is so hard to pass personal development info to others. Simply because unless you are at the right level of consciousness, personal development info is useless to you. I’m still studying ways that we can raise someones consciousness to the point where they could use it.

Thanks for the feedback!

In order to answer the question “who are you?” you have to slow down enough to think about it. People at work (my audience) are often in such a rush that they are only responding to external stimuli, only reacting and trying to keep up. They feel that they don’t have the power to create their environments because their experience is that the environment controls them.

Just getting them to delete emails they know they don’t need or want is hard. They are reluctant to push back and trust their own grasp of the situation. But when they don’t, they only get more overwhelmed and less capable of answering “who are you?”