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Your Dark Side and Being Calm
By: Harrison Barnes
Career Mission's Chief Executive Officer, A. Harrison Barnes discussed the importance of accepting who you are.
Harrison believes that if there are parts of yourself that you are denying and trying to suppress, they are going to come out in some fashion, at some time. We all have dark sides and one of the most important things you will ever do is get in touch with your own dark side. The better you control and understand how your dark side limits and controls you, the better you w...
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We Create Problems So That We Can Grow and Be Happy
By: Harrison Barnes
Career Mission's Chief Executive Officer, A. Harrison Barnes discussed how your problems can propel you forward in life and in your career.
Most of us are never satisfied with what we have and are continually seeking more and more of what we do not have. Once we are satisfied with one thing we decide that we now want something more. Most of us move through life like this, constantly on the search.
The first way we learn to get our needs met is by experiencing pain....
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Being Who You Want to Be
By: Harrison Barnes
Career Mission's Chief Executive Officer, A. Harrison Barnes discussed the importance of embracing’s one’s individuality.
The strongest force in the human personality is the need to stay consistent with how we define and view ourselves. In order to survive and to be loved and appreciated, we believe that we need to stay the same at all times. However, according to Harrison trying to be one personality all the time will make you unhappy. You need to appreciate all the multipl...
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Certainty, Variety and Your Career
By: Harrison Barnes
Career Mission's Chief Executive Officer, A. Harrison Barnes discussed how we need to find the balance in our lives to be happy.
One of the more interesting things about our lives is that we are continually seeking two diametrically opposed things. On the one hand, we are seeking the security and certainty we find in keeping things the way they are. On the other hand, we are seeking growth and progress, which change the way things are. The outcome of change is almost always un...
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Consciousness, Mindlessness and Your Career
By: Harrison Barnes
Career Mission's Chief Executive Officer, A. Harrison Barnes talked about the need to bring consciousness and focus to your lives and careers.
Most of us move through life in a state of autopilot. Harrison describes this stage as one where we fail to notice things in our immediate environment, especially things we are not expecting to see. We remain unconscious of the people, places and things around us.
Researchers attribute this to the limited abilities of our br...
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Experience a Breakthrough by Confronting Your Pain
By: Harrison Barnes
Career Mission's Chief Executive Officer, A. Harrison Barnes discussed the need to face problems head on rather than avoiding them.
A lot many of us carry problems around in life. We all have an incredible number of issues that are tucked away at the back of our minds, making us uncomfortable and holding us back. The longer we ignore these problems, the more they build up, controlling and governing a large part of what happens to us in our lives.
Most of us hid...
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Your Strength is Your Ability to Control Your Internal World
By: Harrison Barnes
Career Mission's Chief Executive Officer, A. Harrison Barnes as he discussed the need to control our internal world.
Harrison believes that our destinies are shaped by our responses to the situations that we face day to day. Every single one of us is continually facing challenges in our lives. Some of these challenges are incredibly serious while others are quite trivial. The results that we achieve in our lives are directly affected by our responses in to these challenges- se...
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The Importance of Unlearning
By: Harrison Barnes
Career Mission's Chief Executive Officer, A. Harrison Barnes as he discussed the importance of unlearning to help us move ahead and grow in our careers and lives.
Most of us believe that the more we learn the more we grow. Harrison however believes that one of the most important forms of growth we can undertake is unlearning. All learning we do, in a sense involves unlearning. The more we can unlearn, the more likely we are to experience the sense of growth and progress we so ...
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Do Not Blame the System or Others: Accept Responsibility
By: Harrison Barnes
Career Mission's Chief Executive Officer, A. Harrison Barnes as he discussed how we need to accept responsibility rather than blame others for our situation.
Regardless of what is wrong in our lives, most of us spend a good portion of our time blaming others for whatever situation we are in. Every single one of us is seeking to blame others for the things that we do not like about ourselves or our lives, instead of facing the responsibility for our issues.
Harr...
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Physical, Psychological and Spiritual Suffering and Your Career
By: Harrison Barnes
Career Mission's Chief Executive Officer, A. Harrison Barnes as he talked about the need to balance the various sufferings we experience in the world, in order to lead lives of fulfillment.
Suffering is a fact of life and cannot be ignored. There are three types of suffering: physical, psychological and spiritual. Harrison advises a balance among these three forms of suffering so that we do not experience any one of them in too great a proportion to the others. It is by balancin...
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