Again and again, week after week, I still encounter more of those whose beingness favors the suboptimal more than the optimal. Even so, I have, of late, encountered sparkling diamonds whose beingness is refreshingly wonderful. All of these people I encounter as they are performing work duties. The more suboptimal ones are resistant to assist beyond the rigidness of policy and procedure. The more optimal ones are flexible in trying to find a way to provide the assistance needed. All of us are having the same types of experiences dealing with the thinking and behavior of each other.
What we are experiencing is coming through people, but it is the processes we interact with, that are responsible for the good behavior performance and the bad behavior performance. Briefly described below are the four basic scenarios we encounter through people who are reflecting the processes they are interacting with.
1. Optimal Processes Of Beingness Meets Optimal Processes of Being At Work
The results of these two overall processes are people who select the right job for the expression of their genetic potential and also for which the workplace places the person in the right job and provides them with the resources to function properly, whereby neither the person's beingness outside of work and being at work is compromised.Healthy employees who interact with this person are delighted. Unhealthy employees are frighted. Why? Because they think the optimal performance of another makes them look bad plus it reminds them of their sadness.
Customers are initially taken aback and almost thrown offtrack because their fabulous interaction with an optimal/optimal person is so out of the norm of what they have come to expect subconsciously in other workplaces.
2. Optimal Processes Of Beingness Meets Suboptimal Processes of Being At Work
The results of these two overall processes are people who select the right job for the expression of their genetic potential but the workplace is suboptimal in some way that does not allow the person to function properly being at work without compromising beingness.Healthy employees who interact with this person encourage the person to get out while the getting is good, because they themselves are doing the same. Unhealthy employees encourage the person to make a career of it right here. Why? Because healthy and unhealthy speaks to our level of awareness of more than the importance of a paycheck.
Customers receive average service, but not nearly as good as possible due to the limitations the workplace places on the person's beingness, thus genetic potential to perform optimally by going above and beyond the suboptimal status quo culture of the workplace.
The optimal/suboptimal person will suffer slow death the longer they remain improperly yoked unless they are able to transform the suboptimal into the optimal. Optimal people are punished for being “too good” at their job. I complemented a person for going above and beyond and the employee got in trouble for going outside their lane because unbeknownst to the employee, the company is manipulating customers to sign contracts and because the employee's assistance reduced my exposure to their manipulation. This craziness goes on all day in suboptimal workplaces.
3. Suboptimal Processes Of Beingness Meets Optimal Processes of Being At Work
The results of these two overall processes are people who themselves select the wrong job for the expression of their genetic potential, but the workplace places the person in the right job and does provide them with the resources to function properly; however, the person's beingness outside of work compromises being at work.Healthy employees who interact with this person will encourage this person in the right direction, and after awhile, if the person does not improve, the direction encouraged is out the door. Unhealthy employees are happy to have a friend and sad to lose a friend.
Customers are treated combatively as if in a tug-of-war for assistance. Customers wonder how in the hell this person remains an employee. The longer the employee remains, the more customers leave and the less new customers come and the more the performance of other employees and the company suffers.
4. Suboptimal Processes Of Beingness Meets Suboptimal Processes of Being At Work
The results of these two overall processes results in people who themselves select the wrong job for the expression of their genetic potential, and the workplace places the person in the wrong job and does not provide them with the resources to function properly. Since the person's beingness outside of work matches being at work, it is a match made in sick heaven. This is a classic miserable person loves miserable company loves miserable person. For their part, both the person and the workplace believe themselves to be the epitome of what is desirable in the world. Why? The paycheck rules logic.There are extremely few healthy employees in this scenario. You know you are in a suboptimal/suboptimal situation when all conversations in the workplace and at home boil down to it's a job, a paycheck, you need the money to survive, blah, blah, blah. Nowhere does the pursuit of beingness enter into the plan to get up and out and onto a more optimal path. Collect that check.
Despite behavior performance that is disgusting, suboptimal people are rewarded because they will do whatever it takes to keep a job. This is not just theory. When a person prostitutes and sells their spirit-soul, they will do anything to anyone for the job and money. Anything to anyone. Customers are treated disrespectfully as if of a lower class of human who should just be grateful the company exists. Customers are few and dwindling. Companies like this only exist because they are the government or have locked down the market, momentarily or regulatorily. In the suboptimal/suboptimal, both employees and workplaces use the context of money as the text or subtext to justify their worth, power, influence, prestige, etc. Money is the coverall for self-defects in their processes. As long as money comes out the other end, who cares if it smells like spiritual stank. The weight of gold broke the wagon down and is why the ship sank.
In Closing
Who among us does not know most workplaces are #4 followed by #2?Suboptimal processes of beingness combined with suboptimal processes of being at work, is the leading cause of death in the world. These causes and effects are mutation cancers.The main reason this is so widespread is cultural.
Optimal cultures focus on processes that promote optimal beingness first, then pairs that with being at work. I have a master's degree (whoopee!) and never heard of beingness until led to it outside of the processes of the culture. Self-esteem discussions are inadequate outside of Optimal Theory/African Utamawazo. The most important processes are those of beingness. These are those outside of the workplace, yet we spend much of our lives studying for, training for, preparing for getting a job (being at work). 1. We must optimize our processes outside of work. Why? Because non-human nature is optimizing. And we keep following the blind...
2. We must save resources in preparation for the final changeover from suboptimal to optimal. Do not expect a smooth transition. Current processes will continue to breakdown and finally stop “working.”
3. We must plan to get out of suboptimal situations that limit beingness. Whatever is suboptimal drains energy. Energy is life. And that is why the suboptimal kills, literally, all aspects of self. Optimal uses energy but transforms it into optimal energy. As a reminder from the beginning of this message, the optimal process/optimal process is emerging and returning, slowly. Just not fast enough to keep us from having to endure longer. Though this is true, what is also true is that some people and workplaces and processes are dedicated to staying suboptimal for life. We know this because of the principle of resistance in the Universe. These energy forces, in human form, are restless and relentless in keeping as many processes as possible suboptimal because that is when they are at their “best” in the illusion version of progress.
