Session 6: Reinvention Strategy #4

When your Triune Brain faces change, it naturally resists what’s happening in an attempt to keep the status quo.

Although change is normal and natural, the brain doesn’t see it that way—change means uncertainty, and the brain wants certainty, so change is bad.

But resistance to change is detrimental to our wellbeing because resistance increases anxiety and stress, not reduce it.

To stop resisting change and be more like running water—fresh, adaptable, always moving forward—a good practice is to focus on what you can control and change in your life.

And the easiest things to change are the things inside you, not outside, especially the things that aren’t working for you and limiting your effectiveness. Things like habits, emotions, thoughts, beliefs, skills, and knowledge.

For some, change is easier to adapt to than others. For many, though, it is a time of frustration, anger, anxiety, and stress.

However, if you want to be effective and more successful, change must be embraced. You need to let go of the old ways that aren’t working and embrace new ways that will. This includes new thoughts, new beliefs, and new behaviours.

You need to become response-able. If you don’t, you will remain where you are, unable to move forward.

But is it really possible to change old habits? Is it really possible to learn new skills? Can an old dog really learn new tricks?

There are many strategies to help change old habits and negative ways of thinking, but I want to show you the one called The Wheel of Change Belief Changing Tool.

There was a time when my professional speaking career had plateaued and wasn’t progressing as I had hoped it would.

I wanted to be a national and international motivational speaker, but at the time I was only giving speaking engagements in my home city.

I was struggling to find an audience nationally, let alone internationally.

I was aware of the saying, “Your business grows when you grow.”

I also knew that the stagnation of my motivational speaking business was a reflection of my own personal stagnation.

Something had to change, and that something was me. Or more to the point, a self-limiting belief.

That self-limiting belief was self-doubt. I doubted whether my talks, my books, my workshops were good enough to help people to break through their barriers and become the person they were capable of becoming.

So I knew I had to walk my talk and do The Wheel of Change and change my self-doubt into confidence.