Energize Yourself

The requirement that defines each of the final three Grouping will now be considered as if it is a Level and the impact of the dynamic duality analysed. The Centre(s) that result will be appropriately named and where the level is bipolar, one Centre will be assigned due dominance. In this set, we will work from above downwards because aspirations (G7) are closest to the source of all human energy.

G7: Release Aspirations

Aspirations are the source of all energy for public achievements, which is why employers like ambitious staff. Aspirations that direct ambitions are potentially present in everyone. While ambitions may be frustrated, you must be ready to release aspirations and make a move if and when the time is right.

Dynamic Duality:   The release of aspirations is a personal matter, but aspirations cannot exist without a social crucible for their realization as practical ambitions. There can be no purely socially controlled version here.

In the Tree, this level becomes a single balanced Centre: GL7B.

We label GL7BRelease Aspirations

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G6: Maintain Affluence

Centres in the lower 4 levels that deal with practical aspects of participation in a school.

Maintaining your standard or living is a serious concern. That requires a continuous attention to your general circumstances, including potential threats and opportunities. Misfortune can always strike and that will call for taking steps to remedy the situation and accepting otherwise avoided conditions.

Dynamic Duality:  On the one hand, you can generate a creative response whatever the situation that confronts you. This is a personal matter. On the other hand, there are always social supports that you cannot control, but which you can mobilize.

This means that this level in the Tree will generate two polarized but connected Centres: GL6S and GL6P.

We label GL6SMobilize Socio-economic Support
and label GL6PGenerate Creative Responses

It is typically easiest and more effective to draw in support from friends, relatives, groups, or government agencies. While your creative responses might deal with the situation, they are intrinsically uncertain.

So the social Centre is dominant and placed on the right side of the Tree.

ClosedGL6: Linking Channel

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G5: Exert Influence

Where and how you exert influence is a major contributor to your public persona, and the 3 channels of control focus whatever influence you have developed.

Dynamic Duality:  On the one hand, you can often exert influence on a group or particular individuals involved in making choices affecting you. Such activity is solely a matter for you. The situations that you want to control are typically generated by social forces and factors over which no single person has influence. However, you can examine any situation and identify issues and options as a way to shape discussions about choices to be made.

This means that this level in the Tree will generate two polarized but connected Centres: GL5S and GL5P.

We label GL5SIdentify Issues & Options
and label GL5PInfluence Choices by Others

Identification of issues and options will play the dominant role because that is what discussion and choosing will focus on. It is well known that control of the agenda at meetings is used to control outcomes.

So the social Centre is dominant and placed on the right side of the Tree.

ClosedGL5: Linking Channel

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Conclusion

If you can release aspirations, maintain your affluence and exert influence on critical matters, then you will have the energy that can sustain a public persona that ensures your social standing.


Originally posted: 10-Oct-2025.