Why are so many of us not living self-actualized? The biggest enemy of self actualization is a lack of knowledge, insight and blind personal beliefs.

What is wealth? Wealth buys you choice and convenience, make choices right now convenience you can buy right now!

Be - Make choices to know talents and apply your talents

Do - Take action in a chosen growth industry with chosen experts

Have - Earn the wealth of your choices in finance, family and community

The self actualized person has:

• Meaning

• Belonging

• Significance

Choose your work, choose your life and you will live self-actualized!

What stops you making choices and "switching on" your self actualization?

The article shows that the difference between living and practicing self-actualization and just living the grind of everyday life is knowing and not knowing. The exercises and processes will assist you to gain awareness and base your choices on self actualization actions. The right awareness and selected actions enable you to become self-actualized in your career, your business and your personal life right now!

We found that the self-actualized individual is very much the same as a productive “Enterprise Living individual" a term the Alephsynergy team use to identify a self actualized individual. Such an individual has the ability to exercise choice all the time, even in the most difficult situations, as Victor Frankl taught us.

An Enterprise Living individual is aware; make choices implementing the actions that lead to our new open Maslow pyramid of needs in their careers, businesses and personal lives. Self actualization is about being aware, having knowledge, recognizing choice, growing and applying your experiences and using your talents, your energy and all the resources at your disposal in the most productive way toward achieving your goals today.

Many people are coming to the realization that they can and should grow toward self actualization; ridding themselves of the pathologies that stops us. Pathologies like:

• When I make money I will be able to… (When someday pathology)

• If only this happened, then I can do that… (If only pathology)

• Words like, always, again, they, etc. are also pathology words. If you catch yourself using them often, start to consciously replace them with action words like, “what else”, “what exactly”, “how can we do this different?”

At Alephsynergy we have identified five areas and six steps to use and practice self actualization. Self actualization is a daily exercise in making positive choices and reacting in a manner that will grow your insight and knowledge.

Alephsynergy implement five areas in six steps with any individual.

1. The arena of production means you add value to others. You can see that you can earn money quickly in the project streams. The Work of your choice is accessed and owned by you.

2. You access the people with opportunities in selected business streams and activities, attracting more projects and people. The projects accelerate the selecting and attraction of people in families or households to seed the processes in your local communities.

3. People in infrastructures and with resources are comfortable, safe and gain returns that they can enforce.

4. People drive organization, mobilization and communication makes it all come together and cause flows of value and money.

5. Clear structures and agreements make it all enforceable, accountable and responsible.

We show the processes in a convenient triangle to grow the workspace for all. You can view the ebio Work Triangle on Alephsynergy.com.

Six steps to let anyone become productive:

1. The intervention processes leads to the awareness of what you enjoy doing, resources, opportunities and a plan to get there. Awareness and access cause a compelling drive to acquire the mapped competencies with hard work and free knowledge transferred in processes. Calibrate where one is in competencies and join the business stream suitable to where you are going in your career and business.

2. Discover what you enjoy doing, align with a growth industry and engage people in the industry. Use the footprints from others on how and what they did and copy or imitate them. You did it when you learned to Walk and Talk. The nurturing environment of groups or just an individual you trust creates safety and you acquire competencies in a similar way to when you were a baby learning to Walk and Talk. You will access and buy expertise to accelerate your production, in organized and mobilized groups. These groups communicating with selected people with expertise.

3. Participate by mobilizing organizing and communicating with people in the chosen arena of production to implement your startup streams and projects. Resources and funding is accessible and available once you are in a project or business stream in groups with leaders informed and aware of what you are doing. Use the Igoebio search engine for examples and case studies from other people.

4. Experience adding value to others during your engagement with chosen people in a chosen industry. You now acquire and earn competencies and awareness. Later on you earn money. The S-curves are real. Have a look at the Alephsynergy Staircase graphic, it explains in graphic format, the investment and growth curve for an individual on their life path. You first invest with risk to earn later. You repeat the cycle all your life. The more you repeat the investment cycles (S-curve) with associated risks, the more you explore, discover and earn competencies and money.

5. Accumulate results in competencies and projects and get closer to earning more money while you add value to others. You then belong and experience significance.

6. You repeat the processes and exercises you experienced above with others. To make the exercises a habit you need to share with your family, friends and work groups. Start with practicing with a trusted individual. That is why the processes and exercises are free.

The outcomes for those that apply the above is access to different projects and naturally ones competencies develop as exposure to more and more of what you want to do matures. Your intrinsic motivation is, increasing self-esteem and a growing feeling of self-worth drives you.

The normal personality is characterized by unity, integration, consistency, and coherence. Organization is the natural state, and disorganization is pathological.

Living self-actualized mean that you have choices, bring more, do more, earn more and have bundles of fun. That is life! The results of self actualization is contentment, positive regard from others and for others; you will align yourself to use talents and recognize inner passions, be able to make the right choices, contribute more to those around you and be more focused on what you want to achieve.

Think through all the things you would like to achieve in the next week, month, year, there will not be a single thing you cannot start working toward achieving, right now. Know where you are, start moving in your chosen direction for a specific goal or outcome and keep changing and aligning to the changing goal all the time as you go. Changing and aligning all the time is almost like flying a plane or sailing a ship. One needs to check ones bearings all the time using a compass and a map. Communicate, organize and mobilize the resources you have access to and align these resources with the opportunities you have.

Know more. You can learn freely and safely from others who achieved self actualization. Look around the circle of people you know or have access to, who do you believe you can learn from, which of these people do you believe achieved self actualization? Grow from where you are as they did. We know all humans have the capacity to learn as they learned to walk and talk. You engage, observe and practice to do similar movements. It is intrinsic to humans to learn this way. Apply the process in your productive or work life; you know how and what you enjoy doing with and for others. Choose where you do what and how you develop your unique skills, that special something only you can bring to humanity. Find people who are doing what you want to do in a growth industry. It is a simple process, become aligned with your growth industry of choice, get going and select people you want to learn from and keep going. Take what you have and add to that. As a company we publish information such as this Maslow and self-actualization article for free. The processes and exercises will assist you to gather more knowledge and have more insight to base your choices on. You will grow in self actualization, in your capacity to do more, produce more, communicate clearly and listen with a practiced ear to what others say.  Work becomes fun!

The processes and exercises keep you growing for life. We suggest the Maslow pyramid is open at the top. Self actualization is a natural state of the mind and reflects in your actions. Know more, experience more, be aligned with growth and choose to continuously grow in self actualization! The experiences of people going through the processes are published for many others to learn faster, using less resources and with less risk. Alephsynergy supports many individuals on their road toward practical self actualization, we would like to support you as well and be part of your growth and becoming an Enterprise Living individual.

If you are not signed up for the Alephsynergy Career Development “Maslow and Self-actualization” series, please do so now. We will be building on this article and help you to exercise your own self-actualization.

The original Maslow Pyramid

The open Maslow Pyramid

•  Follow the process of Interventions - Exploration – Discoveries – Engagements. Regularly find what you enjoy doing.  Align your actions with growth opportunities. Gain access to the resources you need. (Always strive to bring more value than you take.)

• Find resources by engaging with people already doing what you want to do. (Know more)

• Increase communication with individual experts you identified as having the knowledge you need. Do this by saying thank you to them and informing them on what you are doing – you do not need to ask permission to say thank you or to inform. Expand your arena for production. Johari window documented the processes very nicely. (Do more little things every day toward achieving your goals)

• Learn to ask strategic questions. Formulate questions after searching the web and discussions with experts about strategic content of selected industry or company you want to work with. It also works within your current company. You will gain access to decision makers.
• Using the Igoebio search engine, search for the following people and see how they are practicing to live self-actualized, living the open Maslow pyramid of needs:
  1. Dawie Roux
  2. Elana Kok
  3. Bongani Khumalo
  4. Nicholas Grobler
  5. Unre Visagie

• Viktor Frankl lived self-actualized; He designed lectures and used the focus in and on the future to behave for survival. Even when he was deprived of all aspects at the bottom of the pyramid, which is – Esteem needs, Becomingness and Love needs, Safety needs, Physiological needs and Physical needs. (Choose thoughts and gain more)

• Viktor Frankl was able to do this because he had the knowledge to plan. He could choose to be self-actualized. You can gain and have knowledge. Continuously mature your insight. (more)

• Simple exercises to practice and gain experiences in self actualization:

• Implement Getting Things Done. Scan your actions, choose and plan. Get your time back to focus on chosen aligned growth opportunities with resources.

• Ask yourself a few simple questions every time you are in a tight situation to handle your responses in your best growth interest. You are moving towards living self-actualized.

• Explore – What do you enjoy doing? Figure out what you can have? Choose and determine where you are in five years? Could you see who you will work with, which company and what you will be doing? Which personal competencies do I require?

• Discover – Follow the processes of discovery. Choose the knowledge you need to live more self-actualized? Apply the processes to the internet, books, other people…

• Engage – Use the exploration and discovery results to communicate and make the knowledge your own. Start informing and thanking. In groups, knowledge grows faster. Form a mutual interest group. You can get started by practicing the ebio processes and exercises with one person at a time.

• As you explore, discover, choose and become engaged you will mature in self actualization. Your access to chosen work, aligned with opportunities and access to resources grow al the time.

• Read about these and other exercises in more detail…

You are born self-actualized. Now practice living more and more self-actualized!

Maslow & Self-actualization table of content

Living as an Explorer and Discoverer!

1. The profit and fun of self actualization, also known as Enterprise Living

(At Alephsynergy we call this way of living, Enterprise Living)

• Introduction to living self actualized, Enterprise Living

• You are born self-actualized, self actualization is a way of thinking

• Introduction to the different Maslow and self actualizing concepts

• Short exercises to begin practicing being more and more self-actualized

2. Learning from Viktor Frankl and how he lived self-actualized

• Summary: Learning from Viktor Frankl and applying past knowledge

• Learning from Victor Frankl and how he chose to live self actualized

• Knowledge and insight is the key to self-actualization

• Continued exercises to personal self actualization

3. The actions and exercises of self actualization, Enterprise Living

• A summary of actions to exercise living self actualized

• Explore – Discover – Engage toward self actualization

• Applying the open Maslow pyramid, learning from Victor Frankl

• Process information to the benefit of yourself and others

• What makes us go and what stops us, be aware and change incrementally

• List of questions and resources to practice being self-actualized

4. Developing insights and resources to what Maslow did for continuous self-actualization (conclusion)