Major life changes literally shake up our world, and invite or pressure us to interact with life in new ways. To grow, we need to change our belief systems to allow for new levels of thinking and performance. For the major life changes lists below, pick ones you think you are experiencing.

• addictions
• bankruptcy
• career change
• change in religion
• changes in education
• children arrive
• children leave nest
• chronic pain
• confrontation with authority
• connecting with symbolic, universal realities
• crime - perpetrator or victim
• death of one or more people close to you
• depression of yourself or someone close
• different cultures and customs
• divorce
• emotional to cognitive processing
• environmental shifts
• fall in love
• fame
• financial windfall
• illness
• injury
• left to right brain processing
• loss of job or income
• major change in income
• major dietary changes
• marriage
• menopause
• mid life crisis
• natural and man-made disasters
• puberty
• negative to positive thinking
• overcoming victim hood and being 100% accountable for everything
• positive to higher spiritual thinking
• progressively sensing experiences, lessons, meaning and purpose of all events and encounters
• purpose - loss of
• relocation
• retirement
• suicide of someone close
• war, physical conflict

Business and Technology Changes

• become an entrepreneur
• become an employer
• being a leader instead of a follower
• move office out of or into home
• globalization
• major expansion or downsizing
• computer usage
• decentralization
• team work
• virtual workplace
• Internet commerce
• mergers and takeovers

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs (progressive)

• physiological needs
• security and safety needs
• love and affection needs
• self-esteem needs
• self-actualization needs
• self-transcendence needs

Consciousness Levels (progressive)

• follow the masses
• individuality
• independent, accountable
• intuitive, spiritual
• other-conscious
• contributor, server