Materials

Overview
Most people have things they desire or qualities they want to possess – unfulfilled dreams, personal and professional goals. The challenge for most of us is how to grow, how to get what we want, how to achieve on a consistent basis. One question we want to ask is, “What is holding me back?” What are those barriers that are keeping us from success? It turns out that a lot of our success, our growth as a human being, has to do with the way we think - our mindset.

Objectives
By the end of this unit, I will be able to:

• define the different facets of my life, that make up Me.
• outline areas of my life where I want to focus more of my attention.
• write down one goal for each area, where I want to focus my attention.

By changing the way we think, we change the way we run our lives and make better use of our talents, abilities and potential to be more and achieve more.

Key Points

• In order to more fully realize all that we have the potential to become, we want to look at those things that have been holding us back. It turns out that a lot of our growth as a human being has to do with the way that we think – our mindset.
• It appears that human beings have a nearly unlimited amount of potential. The tools presented in this course will help us to minimize the barriers to accessing that potential and make the most of our talents and abilities. It all comes down to our belief in our ability to make it all happen.
• The BEHAVE model provides a way to look at those barriers to future performance and success, and understand how they affect us today:
• Beliefs – all that we currently know about who we are and what we can do.
• Expectations – what we currently see as being possible for the future.
• Habits – repeated patterns of behavior that may not serve us as we move forward.
• Attitudes – the emotions, positive or negative, we attach to situations and memories.
• Values – the principles that form a significant part of our self-image.
• Environment – the world around us at home, work, in society, and so on.
• When we change the way we think – our mindset – we change the way we run our lives.

Key Concepts

Behave

• Belief – an emotional acceptance of a proposition, statement or doctrine. Our beliefs become the foundation for our actions and behaviors, and form the core of who we believe we are and what we can do in the world.
• Expectations – the prospect of a future realization of a currently abstract idea; an anticipation for the future.
• Habit(s) – a learned act or behavior that has become, through repetition, automatic, fixed and easily carried out.
• Attitude(s) – a consciously held belief or opinion that causes to either lean toward a thing or situation (positive attitude), or away from it (negative attitude). Attitudes can be thought of as automatic responses, stored in the Subconscious.
• Values – the quality of worth or merit, excellence and importance; custom or ideal that people desire as an end, often shared within a group.
• Environment – the combination of external physical surroundings that influence the growth of organisms; social and cultural conditions that affect the nature of a community; may be positive or negative in its effect.
• Mindset – a pattern of thought or thinking; may be fixed and possibly unwilling to change, or flexible and open to change and growth.
• Potential – having the strong possibility of becoming real and actual; currently latent and not expressed, but accessible through goal-setting.

Balance Wheel Exercise
Download the interactive PDF and save to your hard drive. Your facilitator will take you through the process of setting up your personal Balance Wheel. We will come back to the Balance Wheel later in the program.