Here's the truth: all you need for a successful life full of purpose and
joy is already within you. You were born with every asset required for
great relationships, an effective and productive work life, and
spiritual completion.
And, yet, you may have troubled or broken
relationships, be bored and unproductive, and feel empty and unconnected
to the miracle of life. Maybe those essential assets haven't yet
received the nurture they require to illuminate the path to the life you
want. You were born perfect, but your perfection may be lost beneath a
scrap heap of life experiences.
Virtually all the dissatisfactions that plague our adult relationships
result from patterns that grew in early childhood. And they can be
remade by unearthing wisdom from your childhood: 7 Childhood Treasures®
that lie within you, buried and undeveloped. I help you to find
the rough ores within, locate and reveal their subtle facets, and
polish them to brilliant, blazing gemstones. Your birthright—a treasure
chest of assets—waits for you, along with a successful life full of
purpose and joy.
The raw materials you needed were present at birth. Each raw ore
became available in its own time as you matured. But unless your
interactions with others provided the right tools, you could not polish
these raw materials into precious gems.
If daily life brought you the right individuals and they gave you the
right tools, then you cut and polished these rough rocks into sparkling
jewels for the treasure chest that is your Self. In that hoard of
developmental wealth should shine your capacity to trust, your sense of
wonder, your ability to negotiate for what you want, your belief in your
dreams....
As you assembled the treasure of your identity, you should have been able to gather these gems, the capacities for:
• Trust
• Independence
• Faith
• Negotiation
• Vision
• Compromise
• Acceptance
These
are the 7 Childhood Treasures®. Your first seven years of life could
and should have supported you in gathering these capacities, which make effective adult living possible. As the
miner, cutter and polisher of these gems, you also supplied the raw
materials. But you needed others to hand you sturdy tools; you needed a
team of helpers. With the right support, you could have amassed for your
identity these 7 Childhood Treasures®.
Maybe your stockpiling of Self went well. Probably not. That
statement is not a judgment of you, your parents or the people who
taught you in school. It's just a fact of life for most of us. Here's
the shocking news: most of us did not receive all the tools we needed to
amass the treasures of a healthy identity. Even though reared and
educated by good parents and teachers, you may still face big or small
challenges in your life, have upsets in your relationships, or feel less
than excited about your purpose in the world.
And here is some good news: if you didn't get the tools you needed to
mine and polish these gems in childhood, it is never too late. You can start today.
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