Changing Our Mindset

So how are you feeling about the down turned economy right now? Are you looking for ways to cut costs or reduce your workforce to save money? Do you recognize that this mindset is one based in fear or lack? Is that really what you want?

According to many of the great personal growth leaders, many of the Law of Attraction practitioners, we produce what we focus on strongly – good or bad. I’ve always been on the cutting-edge of belief system changes in producing congruent thoughts and actions.

So how do you produce a congruent ‘thoughtform’ to compensate or overcome the current mindset of the majority? After all, you do believe you are NOT part of the majority of naysayers.. right?

So let’s look at what you can do to ‘switch hook’ from the current call and strike up a new conversation that aligns with your desires and what you really know to be possible. You aren’t alone if you don’t know just how, yet.

Applied sciences of change management make a lot of sense, but they are still a challenge to implement. I suggest you start by just taking a few deep breaths right now. Go on. Do it. It only takes a few moments and I guarantee you will feel better. Okay, so where do we go from here?

First Steps
In order to change a habit or pattern we must first acknowledge the need for change. It is important not to get confused with the ‘desire’ for change. Desire generally causes suffering because your emotions are attached – judging where you are in light of where you want to be.

Where you are is a more powerful emotional attachment because it is reality, not visionary. You cannot lie to yourself, but you can suspend your judgment. Just observe this place, like a visitor on vacation. I know it is a challenge to do this, but if you understand the dynamics of change, you know you have to free your mind of its attachments.

Next, begin to consider what a change would look like once the new pattern is in effect. It could be better office relations, communication with your clients that produce more sales, removal of bottlenecks in your production cycle or even teen agers picking up after themselves without having to be told. These techniques work at home, too.

Detached Not Attached
In the science of psychology there are pioneers that promote the understanding of detachment being a stepping stone to observation of ‘what is’ and ultimately creation of new paradigms more congruent with ‘natural’ flow of the intention-to-manifestation cycle. We know from productivity gurus that we must begin with the end in mind, see the goal before we can reach it.

Once the goal is visualized, then the subsequent questions about the path to it arise. When ‘the goal’ is perceived as a process, then the steps to its accomplishment unfold. It is like a logic train in most cases, lining up the cars in near perfect order as you ‘consider’ the necessary actions that leads you toward the goal. Being able to ‘observe’ this is much different that trying to ‘create’ it through sheer force of will.

Congruence Over Confinement
Imagine you are completely free of constraints to accomplish your desired change or goal. How would you proceed? Unsure? This process is generally outside the normal mindset of the general public and most business people, yet it is the foundation of an empowered executive.

Successful change management produces results through allowing change to ‘sink in’ instead of pushing people, places and things around. Resistance is futile and does not produce change. Leading yourself or your company toward better times starts with allowing them.

What we are talking about are inner resources we often dismiss or completely ignore in our lives. Internally, you already have a sense of the truth about yourself and your ability to rise above your current situation. These feelings or ‘knowing’ is congruent with your connection to a greater reality, one that you may have had brief encounters with but forgot about until now. If you were able to ‘see’ things differently, would the world change?

In ‘The Tao of Leadership’ by John Heider there is a section on Inner Resources that examples the brief discussion here. It states, “If I am content with what I have, I can live simply and enjoy both prosperity and free time. If my goals are clear, I can achieve them without fuss. If I am at peace with myself, I will not spend my life force in conflicts. If I have learned to let go, I do not need to fear dying.”