2A/3P which is the brand name for this SELF-ACTUALIZATION Model simply means “African Assertiveness / Provoking Positive Perceptions”. African Assertiveness implies believing that you have ‘answers’ to the problems besetting you, and assuming total responsibility for the sacrifice required in order to arrive to the solution. This is a purely individual enterprise which can only be achieved only if you Provoke Positive Perceptions.
Clearing the rubbish heap of all those valuations that makes you a weakling and despicable, and entering the treasure house where all great, unselfish and heroic motives of human beings abode, should be the supreme goal of any Assertive African.
A fundamental ‘existential’ fact is that in the back of your mind, in the album of your consciousness, there is a page which when keenly looked at may reveal various answers to most of your problems. Your only difficulty is identifying the page. So you are called upon to seize the moment and take an inventory and a catalogue of yourself by outlining and striving to fight those obstacles which stand on your road towards attaining your essential nature and prevent you from living up to your basic and real humanness.
As a human being, you have an inherent self-actualizing tendency, which assists you to meet your needs, develop a positive view about yourself and interact effectively with others.
Identifying and naming all the negative forces in your LIFE, is the springboard upon which you can liberate yourself from the bondage of their inhibitive, as well as downgrading influence. Listen to Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950): “If a person cannot look evil in the face without illusions, he or she will never know what it really is or how to combat it effectively”.
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“Let me assert my firm belief” so proclaimed president Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), the 32nd president of the United States (1933 - 1945), in his inaugural speech (1933) “that, the only thing we have to fear is fear itself – that nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyses needed EFFORTS to CONVERT RETREAT into ADVANCE.” (Emphasis mine.) BEYONDISM arouses you on how to amass the PERSONAL PREROGATIVE of boldly upgrading your i. EFFORTS to ii.CONVERT iii. RETREAT into iv.ADVANCE, thus v. TURNING vi.FAILURE to vii. SUCCESS.
“Let me assert my firm belief” so proclaimed president Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), the 32nd president of the United States (1933 - 1945), in his inaugural speech (1933) “that, the only thing we have to fear is fear itself – that nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyses needed EFFORTS to CONVERT RETREAT into ADVANCE.” (Emphasis mine.) BEYONDISM arouses you on how to amass the PERSONAL PREROGATIVE of boldly upgrading your i. EFFORTS to ii.CONVERT iii. RETREAT into iv.ADVANCE, thus v. TURNING vi.FAILURE to vii. SUCCESS.
- ESSENTIALLY you will only become better when you make yourself see what you are like.
- FEEL yourself becoming an apprentice in your Human Nature - to see into your own depths.
- FUNNEL your energy and work on bringing out your REAL self; to be a productive individual.
- ONLY through practice will you mould yourself into a more rational, and self-aware person.
- REALLY, we can say that we humans have two contrary selves within us — a lower and a higher.
- THE lower self tends to be stronger. Its impulses simply pull us down into emotional reactions.
- SINKING us into defensive postures, it makes us feel self-righteous as well as superior to others.
- COMMONLY, our lower self tends to make us grab for immediate pleasures and distractions.
- ONLY when it induces us to adopt what others are thinking, do we lose ourselves in a group.
- NURTURED well, we feel the impulses of the Higher Self when we are drawn out of ourselves.
- VERILY wanting to connect more deeply with others, and to absorb our minds in our work.
- EFFECTIVE thinking instead of reacting, leads to our path in LIFE; discovering our uniqueness.
- RESPONSIVE and true side of our Human Nature, is what makes us thoughtful and self-aware.
- THE lower is the more animal and reactive side of our nature; one that we easily slip into.
- REQUIRING effort and insight, to connect to it, is the higher impulse; because it is weaker.
- EXISTENTIALLY bringing out this ideal self within us is what we all really want, and MUST.
- THIS side of ourselves when developed is what makes us humans feel truly and fully fulfilled.
- REALISING your propensity for irrationality, is knowing how your emotions colour your thinking.
- EFFICIENCY in self-knowledge gives you the ability to subtract emotions and become rational.
- APPRECIATE how your attitude in LIFE affects how your mind tends to close up out of fear.
- THIS acceptance really helps you learn how to forge an attitude that is expansive and fearless.
- AFFECTIONATELY know that, you have an innate propensity to compare yourself with others.
- DILIGENTLY use this AWARENESS, as a spur to excel in society through your superior work.
- VERILY admire those who achieve great things; be inspired by their example to emulate them.
- ATTEMPTING to change people is almost impossible; rather, try to deeply understand them.
- NOW and then, listen to what they have to say. Later, use this knowledge to your advantage.
- CREATIVELY learn how to SPOT life-sucking, negative characters, and how to TACKLE them.
- ENDEAVOUR without denial, to become more aware of your own SELF-DESTRUCTING actions.
- TEMPER your Leadership Style, such that you provide far-reaching vision to your followers.
- USUALLY, only after they can see the global picture, would you later, give them practical tasks.
- REAL disunity, lack of clarity, and indecision, is what members dread if you are not their leader.
- NEEDING you so strongly, channel their creative energy, instead of having to drag them along.
- IT therefore becomes easier to reach your goals and realise your vision with this loyalty in place.
- NOW, in this augmented presence of authority, everything you say and do has an added weight.
- GET it right that, if the members lose RESPECT and TRUST in you, see this as your own fault.
- FOCUS on strengthening your relationship with the people around you and becoming better.
- ASPIRE to stay up-to-date. The only thing constant in LIFE is change. Nothing is ever static.
- IF you do not upgrade yourself, this eventually leads to lethal loopholes in your knowledge.
- LIFE inevitababcly becomes boring by constantly pursuing something sensually new and exciting.
- USUALLY the SOLUTION lies within you NOW. Do not WAIT for something better to happen.
- RELENTLESSNESS in your desire to be better is vital; train your body and mind to endure pain.
- ESCHEW slacking off, desiring things to be rather easy and taking the path of least resistance.
- SO far, we are at a point where we can overcome our resistance to the TRUTH about ourselves.
- UNDERSTANDING about your Nature through the sheer weight of knowledge is REDEMPTIVE.
- CONSIDER this as vital in altering how you perceive people, as well as your dealing with them.
- CONSTRUE this SELF-AWARENESS as radically important on changing how you perceive yourself.
- EVENTUALLY, BEYONDISM (as a sound mode of Valuation) is an indispensable REFERENCE.
- SEE it as key to unravel the riddle of your behaviour, to unwrap the mystery of your motives.
- SEEKING to peer through the paradox of your PSYCHE, is the road to SELF-ACTUALISATION.
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