A Matter of Perspective

Our perspective drives all our actions or lack of action. The problem is that our perspective or habitual attitudes come into play without our even knowing it. Why?

Our conscious mind is responsible for only 5% of our mental processes however this is where we can exercise creative choice and imagine what might be. The remaining 95% of our mental capability is contained in our sub-conscious/unconscious mind. The data contained here has been acquired through conditioning – familial and social. When information is stored there is no quality control.

How does this work in reality? Take the example of driving a car. You may be consciously involved in a conversation with a passenger yet you still manage to drive the car and arrive at your destination. Yet you don’t remember consciously focusing on the journey. The reason this happens is that the sub-conscious mind takes over without you being aware of it.

This is obviously a very useful thing as it means that we don’t have to relearn how to drive a car every time we get into it and we don’t have to study a map to work out how to get to our destination if we have been there before. However, there is also a downside.

The downside is that the subconscious mind also contains all our beliefs/attitudes about life. These beliefs/attitudes have not been consciously chosen by us and may prevent us from achieving our goals through unconscious self-sabotage.

It is interesting to note that most of our beliefs/attitudes are in place by the time we are 6-7 years old and are unlikely to change unless we later become aware of them and consciously choose to adopt new more life enhancing ones.

In short 95% of the time you are not in control of your life!

The first step to controlling your life and feeling more in charge is to identify the habits that are currently running your behaviours which are keeping you in a static behavioural loop!In other words you are going in circles.

The second step it to implement some of the strategies I can share with you as a coach and mentor. If you would like to know more why not accept my offer of a free no obligation one hour coaching consultation?

You now know what you’ve got to loose if you don’t – your freedom!