- Food for thought - Positive psychology is attractive. If you can think of it, the odds of you materializing into it become possible. When it comes to what people expect out of engaging with you, the tint in which you convey your identity shifts how the other person orients themselves to you. Put simply, who you say you are and who you appear to be may not always be the same. This typically isn't by design but by circumstance. In periods of change, which are constant, how you view yourself and how you tell the world who you are can shapeshift. Educators, as a lifelong learner, experience this in realtime. The moment somebody gets an idea we're training them on, a concept we're trying to bridge, that lightbulb moment. As a student, you experience this almost daily if you're in the right rooms. Curiosity expanded in the direction that makes you feel like progress. As a founder, I spend an unruly amount of time contemplating the theory of constraints and what brick do I need to lay next to continually build a formidable business? After formal education, imagination isn't always rewarded; it's often diminished. Imagination is seen as wishful, and practicality can cloud your nervous system. The pressures to create, to provide, and become something notable for those you aim to serve. Over the years, I've found workshops to be a gratifying playground for this sort of transformation. To transform, or rather transcend, means to end the trance. The beliefs you affirm and tell yourself over and over = A trance. A trance is composed of your psychology and your emotional state at any given moment. If you tell yourself you're not smart enough, the likelihood that you will be the person that makes smart decisions goes down day by day. On the other hand, if you believe you are the type of person to rise to the occasion and become capable, your emotional state tends to follow. Your psychology is shaped by your words, your language, and means of conveying that to the world.