Stage Climbing : The Shortest Path to Your Highest Potential

by Broder, Michael S., Ph.D.

• ISBN13: 9781889577395
• ISBN10: 1889577391
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-05-15
• Publisher: Media Psychology Assoc

Summary

Stage Climbing is a process that guides readers to reach their highest potential in any area of their life. Readers learn how to assess exactly where they are now, where they may be stuck, and where they need to go. The book then delivers powerful and proven strategies to clear any obstacles that are blocking the natural and organic path to what readers identify as their own unique and passion-driven mission (aka optimal life). Dr. Broder has successfully used and perfected the techniques in Stage Climbing throughout his thirty-seven-year career as a clinical, media and consulting psychologist, coach and seminar leader. The Stage Climbing concept is now also gaining traction with mental health professionals. Deepak Chopra, Stephen Covey, Mark Victor Hanson, and scores of other professionals and lay people have endorsed the book. He considers Stage Climbing to be the most important evolution of his work and believes that it can change the life of anyone who reads it.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. xi
To the Reader	p. 1
How to Use This Book: A Quick-Start Guide	p. 11
Life At the Target Stages: How Good Can It Be?	p. 19
The Seven Stages: What They Are and How to Climb Them
Introduction to the Seven Stages	p. 25
To Get the Most Out of the Stage Climbing Process	p. 28
Your Default Stage	p. 29
Your Hooks	p. 30
Stage One
Your Dependent Self	p. 35
Climbing Out of Stage One: What You Need to Know	p. 46
Why Do We Retain Our Stage One Hooks?	p. 48
Taking the Initiative: Climbing Out of Stage One	p. 49
Stage Two
Your Primitive Self	p. 53
Climbing Out of Stage Two: What You Need to Know	p. 64
Why Do We Retain Our Stage Two Hooks?	p. 66
Learning Your Limits: Climbing Out of Stage Two	p. 68
Stage Three
Rule Abider	p. 71
Climbing Out of Stage Three: What You Need to Know	p. 81
Why We Retain Stage Three Hooks and When They Might Come In Handy	p. 83
Awakening to New Ideas: Climbing Out of Stage Three	p. 84
Stage Four
Approval Seeker	p. 87
Climbing Out of Stage Four: What You Need to Know	p. 98
Why We Retain Stage Four Hooks and When They Might Come In Handy	p. 102
Accepting Yourself: Climbing Out of Stage Four	p. 103
Stage Five
Role Juggler	p. 107
Climbing Out of Stage Five: What You Need to Know	p. 118
Why We Retain Stage Five Hooks and When They Might Come In Handy	p. 121
Rising above Your Roles: Climbing Out of Stage Five	p. 122
Understanding and Maximizing Our Target Stages: Six and Seven	p. 125
Stage Six
Passion Is Your Path	p. 127
Living Your Passions: Strengthening Everything Stage Six	p. 148
Stage Seven
Benevolence is Your Calling	p. 155
A Perspective on the Target Stages	p. 173
Going Beyond Yourself: Expanding Everything Stage Seven	p. 174
Calibrating Your Stage Climb: The Shortest Path from Where You Are Now to Where You Want to Be
Calibrating Your Stage Climb	p. 179
Your Master Settings
Fine Tuning the Basic Calibrations of Your Life by the Stages	p. 183
Your Ultimate Master Goals	p. 184
Your Default Stage	p. 186
Stage at Which You Are Operating in a Specific Life Area	p. 188
Attitudes or Beliefs behind Hooks That Disrupt Your Stage Climb	p. 190
Your Ideal Attitudes for Removing a Lower-Stage Hook and Climbing to a Higher Stage	p. 192
How Conflict Is Typically Handled	p. 194
How You Would Define Happiness and Success	p. 196
What Motivates You	p. 198
What You Are Typically Needing and Seeking	p. 200
To Problem Solve (Where You Would Typically Turn for Help)	p. 202
How to Respond Optimally to Adults Who Are Operating at Each Stage	p. 204
Your Emotions
What Triggers Anger, Anxiety, Depression and Grief at Each Stage?	p. 207
What Typically Triggers Anger in You at Various Stages	p. 208
What Typically Triggers Anxiety in You at Various Stages	p. 210
What Typically Triggers Depression in You at Various Stages	p. 212
How Grief (over Loss) Is Typically Handled By the Stages	p. 214
Your Values
Personal Issues and Attitudes along with Other Common States of Mind by the Stages	p. 217
Typical Best Attitudes about Your Career and the Work You Do	p. 218
Typical Reasons for Making Job or Career Changes	p. 220
Your View of Charity	p. 222
Your Attitude Regarding the Environment	p. 224
Your View of Self	p. 225
Your View of Spirituality	p. 226
Your View of the Purpose of Wealth	p. 228
Your Relationships
Understand Family, Friendships, Love Relationships, Marriage, Parenting, and Sex, by the Stages	p. 231
Families	p. 232
Friendships	p. 234
Love Relationships/Marriages	p. 236
Good Parenting (that is age/stage appropriate)	p. 238
Parenting (By the Stages of the Parents)	p. 240
How Adult Children View Taking Care of Their Aging Parents	p. 242
Your Attitudes about Sex	p. 244
Your Career
Selected Occupations and Professions through the Lens of Each Stage	p. 247
Actors, Athletes, Musicians, and Other Performers	p. 248
Attorneys	p. 250
Business Owners	p. 252
Construction and Tradespersons	p. 254
Executives/ Managers	p. 256
Military/ Law Enforcement Personnel	p. 258
Physicians, Nurses, and Other Health Professionals	p. 260
Politicians	p. 262
Psychotherapists	p. 264
Teachers/ College Professors	p. 266
Writers and Speakers	p. 268
Organizations and Institutions
They Operate by the Stages Too	p. 271
Business Organizations	p. 272
Government by the Stages	p. 274
Miscellaneous Organizations	p. 275
Schools at the Various Stages	p. 276
A Tongue-in-Cheek Calibration for Travel Agencies	p. 278
Stage Climbing in Action
Reach Your Target Stage in Any Chosen Area of Your Life and Much More with These Breakthrough Strategies	p. 281
Make Your Default Stage Match Your Target Stage	p. 282
Manage or Remove a Hook	p. 289
Resolve a Specific Issue, Problem, or Dilemma	p. 297
Make a Decision	p. 302
Define "Yourself" by the Stages	p. 304
Epilog: Embracing Your Seven Stages	p. 309
References	p. 311
Selected Books and Audio Programs by Dr. Michael Broder	p. 313
About the Author	p. 315
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