Abraham Maslow’s 8 Ways to Self-Actualize

Experience things fully, vividly, selflessly. Throw yourself into the experiencing of something: concentrate on it fully, let it totally absorb you.

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): Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

Let the self emerge. Try to shut out the external clues as to what you should think, feel, say, and so on, and 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 will 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.

Make peak experiencing more likely: get rid of illusions and false notions. Learn what you are good at and what your potentialities are not.

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. Opening yourself up to yourself in this way means identifying defenses – and then finding the courage to give them up.

I don’t about you but his timeless words were definitely meant for me!

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Opportunity International addresses global poverty at the grassroots level, self-help:

Again, from our desktops we can change a lot. Forward this to someone else and remember:

Shouldn’t ALL opportunities be international?

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About OptINnow

Our Mission

Our mission is simple. We’re working to end global poverty. Faster. How? By providing those who live in chronic poverty with one vital thing they need to transform their lives: Opportunity.

But that’s not all. Along the way we hope to transform additional lives, like yours. That’s why we’ve made it so simple for good people everywhere to come together, to fund small loans, to witness big and lasting impact, and to truly change the world. That’s what we’re really about. We’re about every land becoming a land of opportunity. And with your help we’ll get there.

We are not for profit. We are part of Opportunity International; one of the largest and most well respected microfinance organizations. For 37 years we have been providing loans, business training and other financial services to entrepreneurs in some of the poorest parts of the world.

We are heeding Jesus Christ’s call to serve the poor. And we’re doing it in a whole new way. We’re doing it with giving that keeps going. We hope you’ll join us.

How it works

You will frequently hear us say that we can help “End global poverty. Faster.” A bold statement, but what does it mean, really? If you’re serious about it, it means you have to approach the problem in a whole new way.

You have to believe in new things. You have to make each step work smarter, not harder. And you have to ignite the passion we believe is inherent in every human being on earth.

We call this approach the “Multiplier Effect.” Everything it touches is compounded and transformed for good. Every act creates a new chain of good that reaches well beyond any physical constraint.

When you give your money to OptInNow, we call that “funding a loan” for good reason. We don’t just hand that
money off to a person in need. We use it to empower entrepreneurs. With greater support in hand businesses grow. Entrepreneurs hire others in the community, allowing them to provide for their individual families, affecting change where it is needed most. We look for people with the passion to make a difference and a vision for success. We train them on business principles that help them work their way out of poverty.

But even this alone doesn’t end global poverty faster. It’s a matter of starting something bigger than you are. Starting something that never ends. Everything you do compounds. Every person you touch expands. The multiplication is exponential, reaching more families and transforming more lives.

The Multiplier Effect isn’t about money. It’s about people. It’s about taking a simple tool like a donation and empowering an entrepreneur. That person makes animpact on the community: church, school, bank, store… you name it. Those outcomes seed larger outcomes. Our repaid loans in turn help more entrepreneurs. And you have the power to start it all.

And the next thing you know, we do “End global poverty. Faster.”