New Book, New Video Series, New You: inner architect’s 3 Value Propositions

Author and Founder of inner architect, Susan Hanshaw, is producing a how-to video series: “Becoming an inner architect.” The series will support her new book “inner architect: How to Build The Life You Were Designed to Live.” In addition, inner architect is providing the following value propositions:

1. Weekly Video Series: Susan will provide steps, tools, tips, and strategies to help you learn how to acknowledge your career dissatisfaction through awareness, identify your passions, and change your life with purposeful intended results.

2. Free Copy of Chapter 1 : “Cultivating your Mind to Consider Change” of her upcoming book “inner architect: How to Build The Life You Were Designed to Live.”

3. Be An inner architect “Apprentice Contest”: Now you have the chance to voice your opinion, share your stories of change, and inspire others. Participate by ordering your free copy of Chapter 1 and write to us describing your experience(s).

The three best critiques or stories of change that “Cultivating Your Mind to Consider Change” inspires will receive a free copy of “inner architect: How to Build The Life You Were Designed to Live” and a $50 Nordstrom gift certificate!

Take advantage and participate in the fun by emailing your free request for Chapter 1 “Cultivating Your Mind to Consider Change” to dean@innerarchitect.com

Awareness and Trust: Keys To Leading a Happy-Purpose Driven Life

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What do citizens under the control of the current North Korean regime, people living in the former Fidel Castro cold war communist Cuba, and political prisoners persecuted in China for expressing ideas or free thought have in common? These people are physically and mentally controlled with no freedoms to create or do what they wish to express.

With this in mind, why are so many people in democratic-free America, and other countries, so blind to the freedom they have to change their circumstances, express their thoughts, or create the life they wish to live?

The answer is awareness. People fail to see, believe, or trust that they have the ability to change their reality. They remain painfully unaware of their own choices in life in a world where many people ACTUALLY never have the ability to choose or create their life.

According to Forbes and other leading media sources, over 50% of Americans dislike their work, feel trapped in dead end careers, and remain fearfully unable to leave their source of discomfort.

Once people develop the awareness of the possibilities of a new life, they must build trust in their ability to create the life they wish to lead.

What is Trust? According to author Susan Hanshaw “Trust is a belief that you accept without evidence.” Simply put you know something to be true without having the physical evidence a scientist would demand as proof.

Trust is the secret to living your purpose

Key for Success #1: Trust in your ability to successfully start a new life. Utilize your Substance Factor including past experiences, skills acquired, titles attained, wisdom learned, respect achieved as powerful tools to move forward.

Key for Success #2: Build your trust so that it is stronger than your fear. Believe in your ability to change, stop allowing fear to dictate your choices, and plan to trust in your abilities to move into your new life.

Creativity & Problem-Solving Style Inventory: Bringing Clarity To Your Purpose

The Creativity & Problem-Solving Style Inventory survey is a tool that individuals can utilize to identify what characteristics they possess, how those characteristics positively or negatively effect their lives, and it provides a starting point for individuals who wish to change their results through intention.

The Inventory is based on 32 statements, the first being a control statement that should be discarded and not counted, which are meant to characterize the individual. Each individual chooses the degree of their “characterization” on a point scale with 5pts equating to “Very Hard” and the polar opposite 1pt equating to “Very Easy.”

The median score is 96 points with anything above 96 considered to be an Innovative Type and scores under 96 indicating a person who is more of an Adaptive type. The lowest score on the scale is a 32 and the highest 160 points.

A very important factor is the Standard Deviation which in this case is 10 points. According to Dr. Eggers a deviation of 10 points in a score represents a noticeable change in people. For groups the CPS standard deviation is 5 points.

Dr. Eggers characterizes the following scores to the occupations or characteristics of the individual:

*80-90pts Adaptive–Bank Managers
*95-96pts Balanced–Teachers
*101-109pts Innovative–Professionals
*104-110pts Innovative–Marketing, Finance, Planning Managers
*124-128pts Innovative–CEO’s, Entrepreneurs, Inventors

Instructions:

Take the Creativity & Problem-Solving Style Inventory survey and record your score. Then go back to the previous article “Are You a Innovative or Adaptive Type: Dr. John Egger’s Organizational Tool Applied To Your Ability To Find Your Purpose” and look at the characteristics each type possess. The list of characteristics should provide each individual with a starting point, identify characteristics they may wish to improve, and give individuals a plan of action to follow.

1. A person who conforms–Discard this question
2. A person who when struck will always think of something
3. A person who enjoys detailed work
4. A person who would sooner create something new than improve it
5. A person who is prudent when dealing with authority or general opinion
6. A person who never acts without proper authority
7. A person who never seeks to bend (much less break) the rules
8. A person who likes bosses and work patterns which are consistent
9. A person who holds back ideas until they are obviously needed
10.A person who has fresh perspectives on old problems
11.A person who likes to vary set routines at a moments notice
12.A person who prefers changes occur gradually
13.A person who is thorough
14.A person who is a steady plodder
15.A person who copes with several new ideas and problems at the same time
16.A person who is consistent
17.A person who is able to standout in disagreement against a group of equals
18.A person who is stimulating
19.A person who readily agrees with the team at work
20.A person who has original ideas
21.A person who masters all details painstakingly
22.A person who proliferates ideas
23.A person who prefers to work on one problem at a time
24.A person who is methodical and systematic
25.A person who often risks doing things differently
26.A person who works without deviation in a prescribed way
27.A person who likes to impose strict order on matters within own control
28.A person who likes the protection of precise instructions
29.A person who fits readily into the system
30.A person who needs the stimulation of frequent change
31.A person who prefers colleagues who never rock the boat
32.A person who is predictable

Are You a Innovative or Adaptive Type: Dr. John Egger’s Organizational Tool Applied To Your Ability To Find Your Purpose

Dr. John Eggers, CEO and President of Proclivity LLC, has created the Creativity & Problem-Solving Style Inventory (CPS) as a method to measure a person’s innovative or adaptive characteristics. Dr. Eggers defines Innovative types and Adaptive types of people as follows:

Innovative Types: Focus on doing things differently, prefer little structure, and are highly creative thinkers. These types are CEO’s, entrepreneurs, and trend setters. They are positive thinkers, flexible, driven, intuitive, fast trackers, with the ability to get noticed.

Innovative Disadvantages: This type is considered impatient, difficult to get along with, messy in their work, hate details, and often feel constricted by rules

Adaptive Types: Work well with a set of rules or definitions, highly focused on tasks, methodical, concrete, practical, analytical, efficient, stable, and task oriented

Adaptive Disadvantages: Narrow minded, rigid, unimaginative, resist change, needs all the facts, and wants things done his/her way

The advantages of understanding how a person ranks in the CPS survey, whether innovative or adaptive, in the hiring process is invaluable. The CPS survey allows organizations to hire the right blend of innovative people and adaptive people to keep a company progressive, on target, growing, while staying focused on their task.

But what of the individual who is interested in self evaluation, understanding their own characteristics, and how these characteristics play a big role in their life?

Our next article will focus on how the Creativity & Problem-Solving Style Inventory survey can help individuals gauge their characteristics, identify characteristics that are negatively effecting their behavior, and create a plan to address these problems as they surface.

The 45 Second Window: Understanding The Process of Change And How To Begin Moving Toward Your Purpose

Dr. John Eggers Ph.d, industrial psychologist, President/CEO of Proclivity LLC is one of the premier experts in human capital employee challenges, assessing organizational creativity, and problem solving styles in organizations.

According to Dr. Eggers, change in people is a slow process–very slow in many cases.

In one of the most striking presentations I have ever attended at the American Society of Training and Development Silicon Valley Chapter, Dr. Eggers made two of the most incredibly eye-opening statements regarding our self concept and ability to change:

1. 45 Second “Trap Door”: The measurable time frame in which human beings are able to “open the door” to allow change into their “box of beliefs” or belief systems is a maximum of 45 seconds each day.

2. 20 Days: It takes an average of 20 days for others to recognize the change another individual that they interact with has made.

Analysis: Dr. Eggers states that the process of change is slow because we rely upon our beliefs and “bat away” the multitude of incoming stimuli that doesn’t align with our “box of beliefs” everyday.

This means that you are likely to disregard any messages, input or opinions that don’t fit your ideas about your self or your world.

Consequently we perceive ourselves as acting and being something that may not be how other people perceive us to act or be. It is exactly this difference in reality that causes adversity—the minute time frame of 45 seconds to willingly process the idea of change, and the long 20 day duration in which other individuals will then observe the change.

Inner Architect: A New Theme-Reemphasized Focus

Inner Architect, started as the brainchild of author and inspirational speaker Susan Hanshaw, is a multifaceted company pioneering the new frontier of quantum physics’ convergence with metaphysics for human improvement and personal development.

Within this framework resides the empowerment principles you can utilize in order to bring positive change and personal growth into your life. Our focus remains the power of purpose, how to identify your purpose, and the steps and processes to create the reality and life you wish to achieve.

In step with this focus, we are reemphasizing our core principles by utilizing a new theme for both the website and blog. Both the website and blog remain vital and rich sources that will lead you to new awareness, help you identify your purpose, and instruct you on methods to begin a plan of action to achieve the reality you wish to create.

Join us by providing your thoughts and suggestions, give us your opinions, let us know how we are progressing, and tell us what you would like to see from inner architect in the future.

Tips for Maintaining Positive Energy: The Power Of “8″

Developing positive energy can become a habit if you work on it. It just takes practice. There are many things you can do to practice:

1. Begin every day with a ritual that reminds you that whatever you manifest in your life begins as a thought in your mind.

2. Remind yourself what you want to create in your life several times a day. Make this a habit.

3. Be aware of your thoughts as much as possible, and the control that you have over them. If you catch yourself thinking negatively, stop the thought and replace it with a positive one.

4. Approach your world from a mind of gratitude. Focus as much as possible on all the things you have to be grateful about. It’s impossible to experience a negative thought while you are dwelling in gratitude.

5. Develop a strong trust in the good of the universe. Expect that all your needs will be met. Strive to believe that you have absolutely nothing to worry about.

6. Think of your mind as a sacred place and protect it. Don’t allow yourself to participate in negative energy. Claim your power to remove yourself from negative discussions, relationships and environments.

7. Look for beauty in everything you encounter.

8. Think of your experience of life like starring in a movie that takes place in your mind. If you want to experience joy, think happy thoughts. If you want to create or experience something, visualize it.

Taking Your First Step To Building A New Life: Trusting “There Is Something More”

In “Living Your Purpose: How Your Job Affects Your Satisfaction In Life” we examined the fact that more than 50% of people dislike their jobs, feel ignored in their quest for recognition, and feel their work is meaningless. The following is the first step to breaking away.

Whether you are wildly successful and making more money than you imagined or you are barely getting by and monetary success has eluded you, many people still ask the question “Is this all there is?” This question comes from a lack of fulfillment that stems from the fact that we really are in search of our ultimate purpose–the reason why we are here.

Trust:

“Trust is the claiming of something that you desire to experience from life, with a strong belief that it could come true” according to author Susan Hanshaw.

Analysis: In order to take the first step to finding your purpose, leaving your meaningless job-career, you must develop trust that you can reproduce a career and life that is more meaningful and monetarily successful.

Tips To Moving Forward:

1. Trust in “What you Want” to be real for you

2. “Build your Trust” so that it becomes stronger than your fear

In order to take your first step out of a unsuccessful job or a meaningless career, you must be willing to trust in your ability to create a new more meaningful life. Without this first cornerstone, you will remain stuck in your lifeless, stressful, meaningless, and problematic situation–with no relief in sight.

Living Your Purpose: How Your Job Affects Your Satisfaction In Life

In a recent www.conference-board.org survey “US Job Satisfaction Declines”, over 50% of Americans revealed that they are dissatisfied with their jobs. In one Gallop poll sited on the internet but unsubstantiated, this “ailing work force” is costing employers $350 billion dollars in lost productivity.

Over half of the American workforce experiences feelings of dissatisfaction, anger, fear, hopelessness, under appreciation, mistreatment, dishonesty, lack of communication, and a number of other unpleasant feelings of dread.

Michael McLaughlin of “Gorilla Marketing for Consultants” and Management Consulting News fame conducted a fantastic interview, part of the Masterminds Series, with author and Management consultant Patrick Lencioni.

Lencioni’s The 3 Signs of a Miserable Job:

1. Anonymity: “People need to be understood and appreciated by someone in a position of authority”.

Analysis: As Lencioni states, most people are taught to separate their work and home lives. This separation often makes it difficult for management and employees to become more personally acquainted and this results in fewer instances of honest communication, words of praise, or expressions of appreciation for an employee’s solid work.

2. Irreverence: “Everyone needs to know their job matters to someone”.

Analysis: People want their work to be recognized and valued. Ultimately they want to feel purposeful or on purpose.

3. Immeasurement: “Employees need to be able to gauge their progress and level of contribution for themselves”.

Analysis: “Is this my purpose and am I doing what I am on this planet to do–my life’s work?