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What Is Pride?

The Greek philosopher Aristotle described pride as the “crown of the virtues“. It’s of course a feeling we get when we have achieved something great but also when we are in support of a loved one, team or nation.

The opposite of pride is shame. A feeling no one wants to feel but can be less aggrieved on an individual basis when we make better decisions in our life

Very much like the DC Comics character Two-Face.There is a double-sided coin to pride. On one side too much pride can hinder progress, relationship and enjoyment of life. The other side of the coin can allow feelings of accomplishment. Of course, we are going to focus on the positive side of pride and how it can help transform your identity for the better.

Within the religious text, pride gets a bad reputation as being one of the deadly sins. I can agree to this if you use it in a negative way but there is also a way to use it for benefit of you and others.

I will try my best to explain why…

Why Is Pride Important

Taking pride in your life can boost your self-esteem. People who take pride in their life may be confident in their own abilities to provide value to others.

Through pride, an increase in productivity, purpose, self-respect and mood will help provide a more meaningful life.

That’s why pride has to match your values as a person. When you know your values you can create the life you want and pride in what you do will soon follow.

Create An Identity Of Pride

Life is too short to focus on things we don’t enjoy. The feeling of pride in our work or relationships will never come alive if we are doing things we hate. That’s why it’s important to follow a path of finding an identity that we can be proud of.

In an ideal world this of course sounds like an easy choice to make. But over time we can create a life that offers up opportunities to feel pride in what we do. It could be creating an identity of cleaning up after yourself, an identity of dressing to impress or an identity of being charitable.

The little things in life can make a big difference. Feeling pride in the right areas of life makes you achieve what you’re trying to accomplish to a higher standard.

The Pschgology Of Pride

The limited research that has been done on pride. This has resulted in two definitions of what pride is. Either hubristic pride and authentic pride.

They’ve tried to pit pride as either or good or bad which other studies have expressed this being too simplistic.

In my opinion like anything, there is a fine line. I have been prideful where it has led to arrogance in my own ability but life has a way of teaching you life lessons and brings you down to earth sooner or later.

Like we have mentioned earlier for pride to be used and word in your favour it has to match positive life choices and the values of a person have e of good intentions.

For example, being emphatic where you don’t look down on people and of wanting help people are great values that offset or the bad intention that pride can unlock. Because when you use pride for good the attention to detail and progress that can be unlocked can change your life and the life of others.

Being a parent can be the most prideful experience you can have. When you teach a child to take pride in their appearance their work and themselves. The parent is teaching them how to use pride for good and inturn on life events of the child will repay the parent back in part thanks to the parent’s sacrifice, hard work and love for the child.

How Taking Pride In What You Do Vastly Changes Your Mindset

How To Best Utlise Pride

Hopefully, now you have a better understanding of the benefits pride can have on your life. To be able to best utilise its benefits I would first start with writing down and developing what your values are as a person. Reviewing them and making sure they’re of good intentions. We are all conditioned by our environment so make sure to double-check judging people based on their class, race or performance isn’t one of them.

Once the foundation of values is set. With your life now focus on what little things could you become prideful in. Could it make sure your home is always clean and tidy or take pride in how you communicate with your loved ones in a positive way? These small steps will make a huge difference in your well-being of the mind and life itself. Even something you hate as the job you have can be made more bearable by finding things to take pride in.

Now the big one, start to create the life that you can be proud of. It could find a new career path, new relationships, starting a new hobby that helps people. Whatever it is do what you enjoy.

To wrap it up;

Create values of a good person
Reveiw your life and find small areas where you can add pride
Create a life that you enjoy

I hope this helped you to understand pride but also how to use It to your advantage.

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Storys Of The Shackled Mind

Mohini The White Tiger

In Washington D.C there was a rare white tiger by the name of Mohini. A gifted present to President Eisenhower, Mohini was put into tiny confinement to live out her days. Once a majestic wild animal roaming vast amounts of territory in India. To now confined in a prison-like setting of no escape. The years passed by and Mohini was conditioned to walk around its small confined area. Out of nowhere, a sponsorship fund came where Mohini could be moved to a larger area where she could roam more like her old self. To everyone’s surprise, Mohini did not use the larger area. Instead, she stayed in her small corner where she lived out the rest of her days. She was shackled in her mind and conditioned to stay in her imaginary cage.

The Story Of The Flee In The Jar

Zig Ziglar once told a story about the flee in the jar. Flees are notoriously jumpy and especially love dogs. To be able to train a flea you would think it would be extremely difficult. So when they put the fleas into a glass jar they were really good at escaping by jumping out of the jar. So to keep the fleas inside they put the lid on.

At first, they jumped and jumped but of course no escape. Even for a flea hitting their head against the jar’s lid is not a great idea in the long run. So the fleas altered their jumping and jumped just underneath the lid. After a couple of hours, the lid gets taken off and the fleas jump out of the jar.

I’m only kidding here

You would think this would happen but with the amazement of everyone involved the fleas didn’t jump out of the jar they kept jumping the same height even though they could escape at any point. They would do this for the rest of their life and live with a shackled mind.

Limitations Of The Mind

Break Out Of The Shackled Mind And Reclaim Your Freedom

Both stories have the same outcome. A conditioned mind that believes in its own reality even when it’s not true. The limitation they put on themselves is all too familiar to humans. Now there is a limitation of travelling outside of our galaxy based on technological advancement and then there are self-imposed limitations on what you can achieve with your life on Earth. This is the limitation we should all be watchful of.

The question we should ask ourselves is. How have we been conditioned to think of what’s possible in life?

Some people are conditioned to never leave their village, some are conditioned to stay in the same job forever even though they hate it.

When you really think about it. It’s one of the saddest things you can think about. All that potential, all that possibility written off due to the mind being shackled by its own self-limitation.

Even as I write this I have self-imposed limitations that keep me shackled. But the trick to all this is self-awareness. Being self-aware enough to question your thinking, your life, your parents, your mentors. Questioning everything around you is the escape route to freedom followed by decisive action.

When you find that there is more within you internally and externally to explore your outlook on life inevitably changes.

Breaking The Mile Record

Roger Bannister is known forever as the man who broke the mile sub 4 minute time. A feet no one believed could be done. Then once he did it. Soon after one after another, the time kept coming down and down. He paved the way to dispel peoples shackled minds of believing it couldn’t be done.

You have to be a leader for yourself, your family, friends, colleagues and all around you to show that there is a better way. At least a way that you can achieve anything that has been done before and what’s possible for the future.

That’s the reason why humans are in the position we are today. It just takes one person to change everything. You can be that person on a small scale and even on a revolutionary scale. You just have to be self-aware enough to see that it’s possible.

What’s Keeping Your Mind Shackled?

The question we should all ask ourselves from time to time. What’s holding us back in life? Whether we like it or not we have been conditioned to think and act a certain way from birth. From the guidance of parents, teachers, peers and so on. When a child gets sent to a private school in England compared to a public school there is a distinct difference in what they believe they will become in their future and thus produces higher grades.

These children aren’t any different from any other child except they are put in an environment where it’s easier to succeed. The private school of Eton college has produced 22/55 UK Prime Ministers and 5 since 1945.

Of course, some hands are definitely delt better than others. But that doesn’t mean you can’t achieve anything less in life. It just means you have to work harder and smarter to get what you want. Since 1945 there have been 6 UK Prime Ministers who have attended Public school out of a possible 16 (1945-2021)

Now being a head of state is somewhat a poison challis but it goes to show that you should question your own life and what limitations are you putting on yourself. It’s all in the mind and when you can you can escape from the shackles of the mind you can be anything you want to be. It just might take more effort than it does someone else.

How To Reclaim Your Freedom

I grew up in a working-class environment where you are told constantly of your limitations and your place in the world. But through opportunities in education, experiencing a sports mindset, being friends with people from all different backgrounds and the almighty knowledge of the internet. The world around you changes, your thoughts change. The limitations of going on holiday only in your country changed to the world, the limitations of thinking I should only get a certain job turns to I can do anything.

To reclaim your freedom comes from your own mind. I have forged a life and a mindset very different to my parents and school friends. There are many countless stories from individuals who forged a life for themselves that is very different from the generations before them.

As long as you know it’s possible to change then you will change. But when you are creating a life you want. Do so in the name of being happy. Ask yourself what will make you happy and then create a life that you can look back on with the proudness of a great life lived?

How I Unshackled My Mind

For me travelling to every country in the world is a must where my family think that’s crazy. Running my own business and being in charge of my own destiny is something that suits my personality where others think it crazy. There will be a lot of naysayers along the way on your journey to unshackling your mind. But don’t be mad or angry at them they are just expressing their views from their own concept of reality and maybe in the future, you might meet with likened minds. Because everyone’s is on their own personal journey and that’s the beauty of it and as long as you just focus on yourself and what life you want. Then everything will work out fine.

So I will leave you with two questions for you to answer

What’s holding you back in life and keeping you shackled in the mind?

What are you going to do about it?

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A Final Word From The Future Mindset

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