The Self Mastery Challenge – week #1

8th July 2024

“I shut my eyes

In order to see”

Paul Gauguin

So grasshopper now you have done visioning but can’t do it, you have worked out your aspirational values but fail to put them into action, you have a well being plan but can’t follow it, you’re great at giving others advice but can’t help yourself…

Ho hum… welcome to the challenge of the spiritual warrior – the battle of the self versus the self

“The sage battles his own ego;

The fool battles everyone else’s”

Pir Vilayet, Sufi Master

How can we achieve self mastery is the real challenge, and over the next 8 weeks I will post each week on how to put together a self mastery plan. This process arose out of working with really successful people who were struggling in the crazy post covid context. It draws on theory and research from inter-disciplinary fields including existential philosophy, complexity theory, neuro-cognitive science, collaboration theory, positive psychology and happiness research.

Your self mastery system is like your operation syste…