The Beginning of Success

The Beginning of Success...

Over the past twenty years, Wellspring Counseling has attempted to offer a sacred and rich environment designed to facilitate growth and restoration in its clientele. The staff at WC is committed to developing and improving the process of self examination in a way that allows our clients to practice such self understanding and apply the insights to their lives personally and professionally. There are perhaps two types of people; Resolvers and Cyclers. Resolvers are those that challenge themselves through Mindful Exploration seeking insight to their thoughts, behaviors, and emotional states to experience constructive change. In contrast, Cyclers seem to move through life repeating the same behaviors and experiencing the same outcomes when change happens in their lives. Cyclers tend to avoid ownership of their experiences, thus externalizing the reasons the outcomes are not to their benefit. The opposite is true for the Resolvers. Ownership of the experience and all the related feelings, thoughts, and behaviors is paramount for the resolver.

The clients that benefit the most at WC (Wellspring Counseling) or at WA (Wellspring Advantage) have a few significant traits in common. First, the successful client has owned their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors without projecting them on to others. Second, the successful client has learned from their pain and from their achievements. Third, the successful client has grounded their humanity in something much bigger than themselves. For most that appears to be a Spiritual commitment of some form or another. For myself it is a grounding in the Christian faith community. The fourth characteristic of the successful client is that each has been motivated to move beyond their familiar emotional, cognitive, or behavioral reactions.

This blog is intended to bring the insights developed over the past twenty years through psychotherapy and business consulting to a forum for others to be inspired and challenged. As you read this blog and the postings to follow, the reader is encouraged to examine his/her self as you are challenged by the content of the subjects to be explored. Reactions are expected. Dialogue is encouraged. I am looking for the thoughtful reader. A thoughtful reader is one who is curious, observant, accepting, and loving. This is a mindful approach. An approach that welcomes any one who is willing to think, feel, and accept another. Accepting one another in no way suggests an agreement; however, it does suggest that every one has the freedom and permission to express their thoughts openly. If you are a reader that can offer this approach, then your thoughts and explorations are welcome. Some one once suggested that the "...unexamined life is a life not worth living."

Now on to successful living...

--Ken Zeigler