There is nothing wrong with your eyesight ! DWIT (Do Whatever It Takes) is a common term in LGAT (Large Group Awareness Training).
Surely it has helped many to cut out excuses from their lives and aid them tremendously to achieve their goals. Sadly some have abused it and used it as an excuse to turn a blind eye to many other things that are happening in their lives.
Sara was a member of my group in a training program I attended way before I attended POE). She has declared to lose 10 kg in two months. Her daily routine includes waking up at 6am for a swim every alternate day before heading for work and working out at the gym every other day. Well, her weight yo-yoed as she was constantly falling ill due to lack of rest and being over-exhausted from her sudden change in lifestyle. When we said: “Please take care of your health.” She answered,: “ I MUST DO WHATEVER IT TAKES !” lol
There is one other thing called Being RESPONSIBLE to Your Health ! For the rest of us, it may be some other thing. Have we ever “in the name of” DWIT neglect our family, friends or health or use it to take advantage of others? The list goes on. I guess we only have the answers ourselves. It is only a matter of whether we want to face to truth of not. What are YOU pretending not to know?
P.S. As I am writing this post, I am reminding myself too.
P.P.S. Kindly refrain from quoting this post as an excuse to skive from your goals =p
P.P.S. One last thing. Has it become the biggest excuse for others to manipulate you in certain ways ?
November 6th, 2005 at 1:42 am
I agree totally. A lot of people seem to forget this very important term in NLP called ‘ecological change’, that is, for change to be consistent & beneficial, it must benefit the person on the whole, and not just in one area to the detriment of others.
November 6th, 2005 at 1:44 am
This is interesting concept of ECOLOGY.
DWIT with Ecology. As my quote…
“What we need in today world is Integrity in principle and Fexibility in resources” — Paiboon Busayarak.
With Love and Light
Paiboon
November 6th, 2005 at 1:07 pm
Another way to look at this is to chunk up and find the highest intention of having that goal by asking yourself what is your purpose of wanting to achieve with attaining that goal.
In the case of Sara, if the driving force behind her goal is Health, constantly falling ill does not justify her method.
If it’s to look good, then what’s the purpose of wanting to look good? To get approval. For what purpose? To build a better self-image. For what purpose? To be happy.
OK….then maybe we can ask the Alvin question: Are you happy with the quality of your life right now?
Does the mean really get you to the end that you want?
November 6th, 2005 at 5:07 pm
Haha Pete you gave away the topic of one of my next posts!
November 7th, 2005 at 1:18 am
Darn!! You knew all along that one of my better appreciated (and under-rated) talent is to take the things that you people come up with and apply them immediately, don’t you?
Brenda stole my thunder when she added that P.P.S. portion about manipulation too. I’m glad she did coz it would’ve been weird if she didn’t coz lots of people yet don’t know how to appreciate the more perceptive Brenda.
In fact, DWIT is one of the stuff I lined up too. LGAT now that’s a term I haven’t come across in a long while!!
November 7th, 2005 at 1:32 pm
Huh ? If anyone were to steal Pete’s thunder. Would the person still be posting online now ? With friends like Pete, who needs enemies =P
November 11th, 2005 at 4:04 am
Brenda, there’s gotta be enemies of your enemies so that the later will automatically be your friends. That’s going by your logic right?