Audio Books – Perfect for Some Difficult Times in Your Life
Sometimes, life throws sudden and difficult challenges at us. A sudden injury like a fracture or some illness may tie us to a bed for days and sometimes even for months and we cannot do anything about it except taking it in our stride. The best way to handle these situations is by just letting the time pass and wait for the recovery. But more than the physical discomfort, these situations can be psychologically very difficult.
Lying in one place day in and day out is one of the most difficult things to do in life. Especially for an active person who is used to of roaming around the whole day, this can be the worst punishment possible. It is quiet ironic that when we are healthy and incredibly busy with our lives, we would kill for complete rest where we don’t have to do anything all day. But when it comes to actually doing that, it becomes a herculean task for most of us. Yes, we can watch TV or listen to music while on bed-rest but nobody can do that for 16 hours a day.
You Can’t Change a Person but You Can Encourage Self Awareness
“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.” – Abraham Maslow
Before my disability I used to sell a unique kind of training which I call TL Facilitation. It embodies the major attributes of Jack Mezirow’s Transformative Learning Theory plus more. For those of you that know me you know I have been a Trainer for 17 years since 1991. It’s only in the last 7 years of the 17 that I have developed my own philosophy of training. Training as it existed around me was just not hitting it as far as I was concerned. I saw far too many bad trainers and teachers in my life. I swore I would not become the dull guy standing up there in front of a classroom full of half-asleep students, just reading information off a page. I instinctively knew that was wrong, but what I did not know for years was what was right. The longer I was a trainer the more inadequacies I saw in the system. The more I knew; the more I knew I didn’t know. One phrase being muttered by trainers all around me that I knew was wrong was “a Good trainer motivates people.” That was gibberish and I knew it.
My website explains “The truth is we can’t motivate anybody. People motivate themselves! This is not merely a matter of semantics. For a trainer or teacher it is a critical hinge point that determines the approach we should use in teaching. The way one believes on this will govern without question the result of their training!”www.cyreousquotes.com/motivation.htm That was pretty bold stuff even for me to say but I am not alone in this quest to have people understand this point. The gathering voices of others fueled me and gave me hope time and again that this journey to teach this correctly was a journey worth pursuing.
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