Create The Hierarchy That YOU Are The Top Of
How to deliberately see yourself in a positive light.
As I have written before, I believe that the way to emotional, psychological, and financial freedom is to define your life and success on your own terms outside of any professional organization or certification scheme.
I believe that you should “get certified" if you need it for local laws and regulations and to set up a practice or business of some kind, and yes, to get basic skills.
I am not against certifications.
We have to do what we have to do.
But to evolve and keep evolving, you must - must - speak and act freely in public as yourself. And that often requires that you act outside of any professional hierarchy.
I have already written on some of the ways that professional organizations limit awareness and limit freedom. I will not go over it again here. You can check out Feldenkrais Was Not A Ceritified Trainer and Freedom Or Professional Status: Pick One
Here, I want to be a bit more directly practical and share with you a process for how to see yourself as an authority and begin to realize the hierarchies that you are already the top of.
I get worried that some people have read my previous blog posts and essays and think I am saying to be a “contrarian” or against professional organizations and Guilds and such.
I am not!
You have to be careful.
People can easily get stuck in a kind of negative identity where they are constantly speaking out against something or acting in opposition to something and not moving forward into their own desired futures.
It is important to have a positive self-concept and work on it on a regular basis.
So I will start by giving you some ways to “invert the hierarchy” and make sure that you can create more of what you want by seeing yourself (literally and figuratively) as an authority in some domain. It is an exercise that I do on a regular basis and encourage you to do as well. I call it “Inverting The hierarchy.”
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