{"id":55,"date":"2007-04-12T09:11:31","date_gmt":"2007-04-12T13:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/?p=55"},"modified":"2009-02-20T11:36:48","modified_gmt":"2009-02-20T16:36:48","slug":"what-is-self-mastery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/55\/what-is-self-mastery","title":{"rendered":"What Is Self-Mastery?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been asked multiple times about Self-Mastery: for the past 10 years, our firm has been studying the strongest factors associated with Self-Mastery and training individuals in how to attain more of it. Of course, in order to study a concept, it is important to define that concept first. Self-Mastery, to us, is the ability to exhibit strong influence over one&#8217;s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.<\/p>\n<p>Many people we&#8217;ve talked to use the term &#8220;control&#8221; of self when talking about Self-Mastery (instead of our preferred term: &#8220;strong influence&#8221; with one&#8217;s self). The way we see it, complete control over one&#8217;s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors would make one robot-like, while being able to strongly influence ourselves on a regular basis allows for both Self-Mastery and spontaneous, creative, &#8220;uncontrolled&#8221; thoughts, emotions and behaviors.\u00a0 Complete control over oneself, we think, would make for a boring, restricted\u00a0life!<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/53\/self-mastery-what-is-it-whos-got-it-and-how-do-we-increase-it\">Click here to view full Self-Mastery article<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been asked multiple times about Self-Mastery: for the past 10 years, our firm has been studying the strongest factors associated with Self-Mastery and training individuals in how to attain more of it. Of course, in order to study a concept, it is important to define that concept first. Self-Mastery, to us, is the ability [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teamgroup-excellence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}