You Are the Star
Have you learned your lines yet? We come into this life time with a script for
the play which we have chosen. Numerology gives us a lot of the lines, but the
play is acted out with the other players. The people in our lives interact with
us in certain set ways. From early in life others set expectations for how we
should act our roles. Parents and siblings are on stage first, then come our
school mates and business associates. Starting with the first meeting with
someone new, we begin the pattern of interaction.
When you act your role, others gain specific expectations of your lines. Just as
in a stage play or movie, they respond from the scripted lines. If you don't
play your role as expected, they may be in the wrong position to interact
smoothly. When you flub your lines, they can jump in and cover for you.
One advantage of a long term relationship is the comfort of knowing what to
expect from each other. For this reason, if you start off a relationship with a
lie or a facade, it becomes increasingly difficult to maintain the proper
functioning within the relationship. Making changes can require a long term
commitment to gradually adjust the script. When you don't act as you have taught
others to expect, you challenge the production. It is difficult to continue the
play with an actor, particularly a main character, who refuses to conform to the
script. Everyone else becomes uncertain.
If you realize that the assumed role no longer fits you, you have the choice of
quitting the play with its cast of characters and finding a new venue or of
persuading the cast to revise the script. The choice may often depend upon your
patience, the value of the others in your life and how much revision is
necessary. An alcoholic, for example, who determines to go sober, may not be
able to stay in the drinking play. It is unlikely that the cast members in this
play are going to change the script to accommodate a non-drinking player. This
drastic a change cries out for a different theater. On the other hand, if an
employee receives a promotion to a managerial position with former peers now
under his or her authority, the script must be rewritten. There are some
established rules for this revision that are generally accepted. This situation
does not necessitate a change of theaters.
When we start a new business, we are, in essence, bringing in a sub-plot. The
business is a part, and probably a main part, of our total life, but the
business script may differ from the personal script. Much upheaval can come from
intermingling the scripts. Bringing your friendship script into the business
play can result in inappropriate favoritism or laxity in appropriate business
demands. Focus upon the appropriate script. If one player is doing Shakespeare
in a modern police drama, the effect will be discordant.
And as the bard has written in As You Like It, "All the world's a stage and
all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and entrances; and
one man in his time plays many parts..."
© 2006 Daniel R. Hardt
Life Path Numerology Center
Life Path Business Services
Web site http://www.lifepathnum.com
mailto:dhardt@lifepathnum.com
"Bringing Numerology to Business"
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