What You Do is Not Who You Are: The Problem-Solving Formula
Each baby comes into the world as a blank slate -- pure love and 100% human potential. Their developing mind takes in their environment like a sponge, soaking in both the obvious -- the names of objects in their world, the ABC’s etc. -- and the not so obvious things, like the emotions, behaviors, limiting beliefs, and the values of those around them. This is why most people’s values and beliefs were acquired by default rather than intentionally chosen. They were simply absorbed from the environment in which they grew up.
BUT those acquired values, behaviors, and beliefs need not define who you are. They are not who you are. You are, even now, 100% human potential.
Don’t believe me? Look around. There are countless stories of people who have beat the odds, turned their lives around, traded beauty for ashes. Why not you?
If you don’t feel like you’re a bundle of human potential, if you’re not happy with the circumstances of your life, if you’re unhappy with your relationships or your career or your business, it’s time to realize that you have the ability to change -- to change your values, your beliefs, your actions, your circumstances, your life.
The steps to making meaningful change are simple -- not easy, mind you -- but simple, uncomplicated. And the prescription is the same, no matter what background baggage you bring.
You might be ready to tackle the changework when you realize that you’re not happy with the way things are, when you realize that you have the power to initiate change. Sure, someone (or many someones) might have wronged you, violated you, cheated you, fed you lies… But you’re the one who can process and integrate those past experiences, learn what’s to be learned, let it go, and move on. You have the ability to process past negative experiences in way that will release the emotional baggage of those events.
Imagine the energy you’ll be able to put into healthy relationships or growing your business or creating something unique once you stop defining yourself by negative emotions, limiting beliefs, and other people’s values.
You can do this. And you can start with my free Ten-Steps Problem-Solving Formula.
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Links from today’s episode:
- Episode 2 -- We learned about internal representations
- Episode 3 -- We learned about perception is projection
- Episode 7 -- We learned about the comfort zone
- Ten-Step Problem-Solving Formula
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