Food for Thought_Thinking Patterns
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It’s time for some mind effort which can bring through exceptional results!
Let us try and dissect the procedure to see if we can make some shifts to create new results.
What is the problem?
Define the Problem.
Describe it in detail.
Start zoning in, chunking down and getting specific. Keep your emotions out of the equation, because it will help you move through it all faster. Treat it like a mathematical-logical problem.
Jot down all the steps you have taken to resolve it as well as the outcome/s. Again, be specific. You may have to go over this again and again, to get everything, no detail is too small or insignificant.
Now, examine each step separately and ask yourself why you took it. Jot down the answer. Add in all the information and thinking behind the why you took certain courses of actions and behaved in a certain manner.
I find this best done in a spiderweb or mind-map fashion rather than a linear list.
Start pulling out your assumptions, limiting beliefs and thinking patterns at this stage. You may need help from someone else, who will be able to pinpoint your blind spots, so getting a Coach could be extremely beneficial, even if you are one yourself. Having a human sounding board and a trained one at that, can be priceless. I have often benefitted from a different perspective, simply because they saw what was commonplace for me and brought my attention to it!
Explore new choices and options, some of which you may have discarded earlier and do the same brainstorming process.
Why did you discard some options? Here again, another person, best a Coach could help you explore with more effective brainstorming.
Now see if you can find effective solutions and put them into action. It is natural that some may work better than others, remember that it is a process.
After some time, review the entire process again.
The brain, once tickled and stimulated, continues to work and rework options as against allowing it to lazily seek the lines of least resistance, which are our habitual thought patterns.
Celebrate new outcomes.