Experience things fully, vividly, selflessly. Throw yourself into the experience of something and concentrate on it fully. Let it totally absorb you.
Make the growth choice a dozen times a day. Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth).
Let the self emerge. Try to shut out what others might think you should think, feel, say, do and so on. Let your experience enable you to say what you truly feel.
When in doubt, be honest. If you look into yourself and are honest, you’ll also take responsibility. Taking responsibility is self-actualizing.
Listen to your own tastes. Be prepared to be unpopular.
Use your intelligence. Work to do well the things you want to do, no matter how insignificant they seem to be.
Learn what you are good at and at what you are not. Make peak experiencing more likely – get rid of illusions and false notions.
Open yourself up for examination and you’ll identify defenses. Then, find the courage to give them up. Find out who you are, what you are, what you like and don’t like, what is good and what is bad for you, where you are going, what your mission is.
Note: There are suggestions developed by Abraham Maslow, as summarized at http://psikoloji.fisek.com.tr/0maslow.htm.
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