June 29, 2004
Copyright © 2004 by Bill Dueease
People all over the world strive to improve
themselves and their lives in countless ways. Have you stopped to look
at the various methods or processes available to you to improve yourself
and/or your life? Wouldn't it be helpful to understand the various human
improvement processes and what they will provide you, before you embark
on your own improvement journey? Each of the following ten processes
provides unique and different benefits. Frequently, several processes
are used together to help people improve their lives.
The consulting process
The education process
The mentoring process
The life coaching process
The psychiatric process
The self-help process
The spiritual process
The teaching process
The therapy process
The training process
Let’s look briefly at each of the
ten human improvement processes to give you a better understanding of
what you can accomplish and how they work.
Consultants are recognized experts in their fields, who either sell
their expert advice or perform their expert actions (or both) to complete
a task on your behalf. Consultants are hired to solve problems for you.
These problems are always external to who you are. Consultants will
rarely affect your personal improvement. Some examples of consultants
are attorneys, doctors, auto mechanics, and accountants.
Educators focus on you learning certain information or concepts. They
involve themselves in your learning process to be sure you grasp the
information or concept being conveyed. Generally, educators are experts
in their fields, but not always. Educators will focus on you improving
your knowledge, your understanding of concepts and your ability to learn.
Mentors focus on providing you sage advice and wisdom gathered through
experience and knowledge when you ask for their insight. Mentors can
be considered a library of human knowledge in the particular areas of
life they have gained expertise. Mentors normally focus on providing
knowledge, understanding and direction, but have been known to help
in your improvement as a person when you allow yourself to become the
subject.
Coaches focus 100% on you achieving your chosen future coaching goals.
Life coaches are equal partners, not experts. Coaches assist you to
improve and grow as a person as the means to achieving your goals. Life
coaches assist you to become the world's leading expert on you by providing
different, very objective perspectives about you and encouraging you
to take the actions necessary to achieve your goals. Life coaches concentrate
on you actually implementing (executing) what you know to achieve the
goals you want.
Psychiatrists focus on helping you to overcome mental and thinking imbalances.
They are medical doctor experts who provide drugs and behavior change
methods to adjust your mental activity back to as normal as possible.
Psychiatrists focus exclusively on you improving as a person to get
better control of your thinking and emotional activities.
People who use the self-help process usually follow the advice of self-help
books, television shows, tapes, seminars, radio shows, and/or Internet
sites. When using the self-help process, you must provide the guidance,
energy, support, wisdom, and direction to learn and do what you feel
is necessary to accomplish your goals. You may act as your own teacher
and train yourself, or act as your own consultant and become the expert
to solve your own problems.
The self-help process also requires you to conduct most if not all of
the improving processes alone. It will normally take much longer to
accomplish objectives using the self-help process than it will if you
use any of the other people supported improvement processes listed above.
Using the self-help process normally results in incompletion.
It's no wonder that so many people do not finish the self-help process
to achieve their original goals. It has been reported that the average
person reads only 16 pages of a self-help book. The what, the why and
the how are undoubtedly all provided for practically any subject, but
the actual execution without the help of other people is much more difficult
than it appears. It's apparent that people need other people to actually
grow and improve as individuals.
Spiritual people focus on helping you to relate to another force or
higher power outside yourself. They help you discover and follow a known
or even new belief system of values to guide you in your moral and or
spiritual actions. Usually, spiritual leaders are considered experts.
They focus exclusively on you improving as a person within the structure
of the spiritual beliefs followed. Priests, rabbis, pastors, or mullahs
are considered spiritual leaders.
Teachers focus on providing you information, data or concepts. Teachers
are experts in their field. You are responsible for absorbing the information
provided, so you will become more knowledgeable. Teachers also do not
necessarily focus on improving you as a person. Teachers will not do
the learning for you.
Therapists focus on helping you overcome past problems that impede your
ability to function in a normal day-to-day manner. Therapists direct
you to revisit past events to discover and resolve conflicting issues
that have burdened you. Therapists are experts in their field. Therapists
direct their sole attention on you to resolve internal conflicts that
will affect your personal improvement. A typical conflict therapists
will help clients resolve is overcoming past mistreatment by their parents.
Trainers focus on teaching you how to perform something. Trainers are
experts in their fields and teach you various processes, methods and/or
skills, to do something in a predetermined manner. Trainers do not necessarily
focus on you improving as a person. Trainers instruct you on what to
do and how to do it. You might use a trainer to learn how to operate
a particular computer program, operate an airplane, or hit a golf ball.
The key is to pick the human improvement process that best fits your
desired outcome and your situation. When you match the right improvement
process with the right objectives, you will be surprised at how quickly
and effectively you will achieve the improvement desired. People who
use other people to improve, under the right circumstances, will improve
themselves and their lives much easier and quicker than those who attempt
to do it on their own.
Life is a journey and when you want to improve yourself, you will want
to pick the right person who is performing the right improvement process
to meet your objectives.
Enjoy the trip!
We welcome your opinions and comments.
Bill Dueease
Editor
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