Was life meant to be easy? No matter what the answer, to achieve the outcomes visualised in each person’s life, as they themselves see them, is constantly a work in progress.
When the person’s objectives are sorted out, the route is ‘mapped’, the journey has already begun. Most noteworthy and often ignored is that there will always be room for improvement. Improvement not being ‘to perfect’. To be perfect in one area leaves major gaps in most all other areas. Cervonts may be perfect at doing just that one thing- as portrayed in the film the “Rainbow man”.
Having an idea of the recognition of what needs to be worked on, improved that makes this journey a challenge. How each person sets out on their path, their attitude to change, resilience factors and learned behaviours that make behaviour modification and essential accepted necessity?
Finding and following a well worn path/s that allow for each persons individuality is the second challenge. The first being not only the recognition that something needs to be done and deciding to do ‘it’, but actually setting out on the journey.
Organisations offer peer groups, support, the knowledge that someone has been their before you. Recognition of achievements, memorabilia as well as the know how are valuable to organisations. People often feel useful when knowledge and assistance are shared.
People are also ‘pack animals’. Often migrating to what appears the stronger group. Loyalty - being a fragile link in a progressive advancement.
To be socially isolated deprives people of a right to belong. Fear of being socially isolated conditions different people to behave in different ways. Traditional societies looked towards training methods using the isolation from others to be different than most. Warriors trained with warriors. Priest within the priesthood. Healers with other healers. Terminology and identity was learned, earned and recognised through mentoring, benchmarks, rewards and knowing that one ‘belonged.’
Joining an organisation to be with your peers, becoming involved as a member, desiring to feel included, and to progress is an unstated common achievement. Each person gaining an insight about what they themselves wants to achieve while they are within that organisation is another step.
Organisations have methods for advancement. Most advancement paths have pre-requites and syllabus or correlated syllabuses. When someone sets up their pathway plan, the objectives are recognised. The mission of how and which stepping stones are travelled to obtain their objective, or part of it, is within their reach is a common occurrence.
While the new participant is working along their journey behaviour modification is occurring. This behaviour modification may or may not be recognised by the participant. Their peers may seem not different from the other persons involved as they too are evolving. To an outsider there may be substantially recognisable changes.
When someone else has already ‘travelled the path’ which the new participant wishes to incorporate into their journey an antecedent has occurred. Along the way benchmarks have been set up. Even if the new participant is not familiar with incidents that occurred before or after that previous persons journey, knowing only that the other person finished, or tried to finish is sometimes enough to strike the curiosity spark. Enough to act either emulate, or as the driving desire to do better.
Consequences of behaviour are a large factor of behaviour modification. When training an animal one rewards the behaviour wanted and ignores the behaviour not wanted. The animal wants the attention and accolades. The pats and well wishes. They want to feel one with their master.
Initially if a participants peer group does not ‘fit in’ negative behaviour occurs until the new comers either change or leave. Most often when one leaves all leave so that none of the new comers are left out when their peers pull out. However, should a newcomer want to stay with the others that want to be new member of one, old member of the other, will be treated as foreign by one and treated as an ‘ex-member’ of the other. Fitting in no-where. Once they pass the test of belonging and then moving into being accepted as a member of the new group emotions such as fear of not being good enough, not belonging motivate the participant towards acceptance behaviour within a given situation. Again a behaviour modification has occurred.
Crimes to the ‘community’ were, and still are punished through isolative methods. Not being included is a powerful motivator to acting within a pack mentality, rather than seemingly standing alone.
To appear to stand by ones self requires a complete knowledge of having ‘heavies’ backing the ‘lone’ individual. Becoming an accepted as a member to an organisation is as effective as having heavies backing you. Effectively choosing to swop from one pack to another requires a change of focus, friends and loyalties. Not only now belonging but becoming absorbed within the group.Should the group move forward so to does the newer members!
Organisations are part of every day life. Street people, hippies, police, healthcarers, educational workers, social workers, the different sports,classes or sexs are all a culture within themselves. Within every organisation there are many recognised progressive stepping stones. Recognition of prior learning and current competencies may be a way to get within. Or, once within the organisation advancement using the organisations available recognised systematic stepping stones is understandable. Hence initiation, rites of passage, passes exams, gaining licences and so on.
Once again, choosing where the objectives in your life will take you, navigating the cross-cultural influences of peers, time and availability is a repetitious pattern of behaviour. Each preparation training step is meant to smooth the ride, while the next is being prepared for. In practice training only covers a small section of preparation. Choosing the best contingency plan with confidence and commanding respect for the outcomes is another matter. The success of which is directly related to the persons character, development stages, and personality.
Life wasn’t made to be easy, however training, forward thinking and maturity in decision making and conceptual thinking turns frustrations and ‘would be’ disasters in the making into challenging tasks there to further enhance one’s development and standing within that community.
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