Great Circle

I like totally dug this post I read this morning. (Sorry I’m blogging in a West Coast surfer accent this morning - too much Michaelangelo on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & not enough sleep).
I’m like not into the transcendental mediation thing but I am into peace and getting centred. That’s what this is about & [...]

 
 
When there are people working on you to meet their needs without consideration for yours, it’s not always easy to say no especially when you are a compassionate person. But if you don’t learn how, you’ll soon burn out of energy for their needs AND yours.
I loved this one page article: Saying No With Style - it’s [...]

 
I was chatting this morning with a good friend of mine in Sydney. She was commenting on how totally unenjoyable her job was - largely because it had nothing to do with her vision and ambitions.  The pay’s ok, the people are ok, it’s just not what she wants to do with the good stuff inside her!
It got [...]

So dependency theory has underlined some of the ways we become hooked either ON something/someone or BY something/someone. He/she/it has power and control over some portion of our being or resources.
 
What do you do when you want it to stop?
SOLUTION #1: Cost Reduction
This is where the party on whom the power is being used adjusts [...]

Back onto the ideas stemming from Dependency theory. (Please don’t yawn so LOUD!)
So from where does Person A gain this power to control and manipulate Person B? Simply from Person B’s dependence on Person A, who might be providing one of the following:

Physical strength or protection from physical strength (sometimes their own - ie., “be [...]

So picking up from where we left off, I have an intense hatred of people using positions of authority to wield power over others.
“Aren’t authority and power the same thing?”
So glad you asked that question. For our purposes, authority means “A position of leadership that comes from either natural or organisational relationship” (e.g. parent, [...]

According to the mighty Wikipedia, “Dependency theory is the body of social science theories by various intellectuals, both from the Third World and the First World, that create a worldview which suggests that the wealthy nations of the world need a peripheral group of poorer states in order to remain wealthy.”
Fascinating? Mmm. Probably not…
But … [...]

“What happened to this month? I’ve been busy but I don’t seem to have accomplished anything!”
Ever felt like that? It can be the same feeling about a year, a week, a day or even a morning. Sometimes when you look back at that period of time, does it feel like someone stole the time away? [...]