Principle #9 Conformity - Words of Caution

Written by Eddie Holford on Apr 19, 2008 6:36 pm

Principle #09 - Conformity - Words of Caution

Genetically speaking, humans have an innate need to conform to groups. This need originated thousands of years when one's survival in the wild depended on sticking with a clan.

We see this same need play out today through the formation of social groups, families, and workplaces. Conformity could certainly be a good thing if it led to success and personal fulfilment, but all too often it simply doesn't.

Our collective consciousness is pretty glum and discouraging - everyday in the news we learn about all the new murders, wars, and economic turmoil that are among us.

We can turn on television to watch our favourite sitcom and be perpetually and intentionally imparted with commercials that subliminally teach us to have irresponsible spending habits and to conform to the mindset that we need a certain physical body type to be liked and loved. In other words, to not be able to have the latest designer clothing or not look like Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie would be to fail in society's eyes.

It gets worse - if you turn to your closest friends, family, and co-workers, they aren't any better off. You can love them to death but the reality is at least 9 out of 10 people that you personally know hold at least one of these three circumstances - they're currently financially unsuccessful, personally unsuccessful, or emotionally unsuccessful. Do you know anyone that's broke? Do you know anyone that's rich but divorced? Do you know anyone with low self-esteem?

If all that you ever did was hang out with unsuccessful people and get bombarded daily with negative and irresponsible messages from the media, does it not make sense that you would inevitably develop attitudes, behaviours, and beliefs that correlate to that negative world? Said another way, without consciousness and awareness, we are all products of our environment.

The good news is once you come to terms with your environment being the way it is and accepting it, you can now consciously choose NOT to conform to it. You can still love your family and friends, but you can actually choose not to live a life sadness, unfulfillment and apathy.

You have the power to choose to live in a world of your own design. You can choose to surround yourself with the people you know who are out to play big games - who are out to transcend our human consciousness. You can choose to make personal development not a one time course but a lifestyle of perpetual growth and power.

The bottom line is, be consciously aware of what groups, attitudes, and behaviours you're adopting, you can choose to live a life of financial, personal, and emotional success!

Not having a community that provided me the space to develop a life of love and success was a struggle I once faced and was one of the inspirations that lead me to develop Penta Performance Int'l, an online wealth and success coaching company that is out to reveal the ineffable potential that exists in every human being we work. Through our community's growth and success, it's our belief that we will ultimately transcend our human collective consciousness.

Whether you're looking for a platform to attain financial, personal or emotional success and fulfillment, I encourage you to take a serious look at what Penta Performance Int'l can do for your life:

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I personally look forward to building something great with you.

To what's possible in your life,

Eddie Holford

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