Your Personal Global Positioning System

Although everyone has one, how would you describe your personal worldview, that framework which defines your experiential reality and allows you to make sense of your life and the universe which you inhabit? Whether you think of it as your own GPS, a personal philosophy, religion, construct, narrative, schema, etc. it can be defined as the accumulated knowledge, thoughts and concepts that inform your beliefs and actions.

• What are the thoughts, ideologies, and the lenses which filter and comprise your worldview?

• Have there been noticeable fluctuations in your core values, ideas, ideals, and understandings throughout your lifetime?

• How does your personal framework define the way you interact and resolve conflicts with others?

• How have societal expectations, mores, forces, etc. impacted your lifeview?

• Has your worldview been altered when encountering those with very different mental constructs about a host of concepts, judgments and actions?

• If you’ve lived or travelled in different regions, countries, etc. have you been impacted by any fundamental differences about how the world is viewed and experienced in those cultures?

• Try writing a paragraph (or more), describing your personal ideology. What, if anything, did you discover by committing this biographical data to paper?

And remember, taking action is the catalyst for change!