The Pursuit of Time and Money: Step into Radical Abundance and Discover the Secret to a Meaningful Prosperous Life by Sharon L. Spano

Author:Sharon L. Spano [Spano, Sharon L.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
Published: 2017-06-09T04:00:00+00:00

How the Stages Can Impact Your Experience of Time and Money

Current research points to twelve specific stages, four in each tier represented as the Concrete, the Subtle, and the Meta-Aware tiers. Approximately 94% of the US adult population42 falls within five of the stages, namely, The Conformist, Expert, Achiever, Pluralist, and Strategist stages. This percentage is also somewhat indicative of our westernized business culture, and as such, offers valuable insight into our own unique experience of time and money.

I will, therefore, offer a brief commentary on these five specific stages. Before I do, however, let me caution that it would not be useful for you to box yourself or anyone else into one of these categorical frameworks. While existing scoring protocols indicate that people fall into one of the stages, we never think, act, and behave from one stage all the time. Remember, the stages increase in complexity, and as we move into later stages of development, the dimensions of the earlier stages transcend and include the stages before. We may also have lines of development, e.g., our cognitive line, that cause us to map out into later stages of development. In my research on leaders, for example, I had some who measured at the Achiever stage of development43, but many of their responses indicated thoughts and beliefs that mapped into the later stages of Construct-Aware. By the same token, I might score at one stage, and if some life circumstance hits me crossways, I can easily resort to thoughts and acts from an earlier stage.

Even so, within this fluctuation, we tend to operate primarily from one stage or another or from what most in the field refer to as our “Center of Gravity.”

As I describe some of the dimensions of the stages in relation to time and money, also note that each stage is fully capable of having a meaningful and robust experience of time and money and life in general. I offer these subtleties only as a point of interest in the hopes that if you do catch a glimpse of yourself in either of these stages, particularly in relation to our earlier discussion on the scarcity perspectives, you will have some additional knowledge and guidelines for further exploration. My hope is that this information will encourage you to embrace transformational change so that you can make the dramatic shift toward more abundant perspectives.

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