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“When you shift your perspective, stories, meanings, feelings and even behaviors change.”
Meaning as a Derivative of Perspective
Your perspective often shapes your emotions and behaviors.
Consider a bad breakup: Initially, it feels devastating, but years later, it may become a source of amusement.
This shift in perspective changes not only the meaning of the event - the story tied to it - it also influences your feelings, behaviors and even your outcomes.
Welcome to The Behavior Echo-System (below)
The Behavior Echo-System is a modern behavior model designed to illustrate how your behaviors/habits/skills (middle concentric circle) are bookended by your thinking/stories (innermost circle) and your environment (outermost circle).
Each component is connected via one’s emotions and feelings, and each continually echoes to influence the others.
If something happens in the environment, it’s likely to change your feelings/emotions and how you think or act. These three components continuously affect one another—reverberating—creating a perpetual echo-system.
Everyone lives within their own “Behavior Echo-System”.
Inner Circle - Thinking/Story: Includes one’s thoughts and beliefs. These are the internal narratives we rely on to plan, predict, and explain events.
Middle Circle - Behaviors/Habits/Skills: The actions we take and the habits and skills we develop.
Outer Circle - Environment: Our surroundings, including people and places. While we can influence our environment, it also impacts us and our behaviors.
Enter: Response-Ability
We can’t always control what happens to us, but we can almost always choose how we respond. This is known as "response-ability."
Humans are unique in that they are the only creatures that can step outside of their Behavior Echo-System and observe their stories/thinking, behaviors/habits/skills, and emotions and feelings.
Thus, emotionally mature individuals have the ability to respond rather than just react.
By shifting our perspective, we can alter the internal narrative and even transform the meaning of traumatic events.
By understanding and utilizing the Behavior Echo-System model, it becomes clear that at the heart of every response is our internal story—a narrative about the situation and its meaning.
When facing difficult, even traumatic events, your ability to shift perspective and alter your response is key to successfully navigating these challenges.
Enjoy the show!
~mg
P.S.: This is precisely what the “Behavior Echo-System”/Grunburg Behavior model teaches. 👇
BTW: Worth reiterating…
GOOD HABITS HAPPEN WHEN PLANNED;
BAD HABITS HAPPEN ON THEIR OWN.
Learn more about the world’s most advanced and modern behavior model 👇
The “Behavior Echo-System”/Grunburg Behavior Model is recognized as a genuine representation of human behavior, framed by two major components: the environment and one's thoughts/stories. This groundbreaking framework demonstrates how energy and information transfer, flow, vibrate, and reverberate to alter behaviors, habits and skills.
This reverberation creates a perpetual, personal “behavior echo-system.” Never before has a behavior model demonstrated how energy and information reverberate perpetually to influence human behavior. Everyone "lives" in their own behavior echo-system.
While you can share an environment with someone, you cannot share your behavior echo-system with anyone. Your experiences, stored stories, and perceptions are unique.
It is not an ecosystem; it’s an ECHO SYSTEM, as in reverberation.
This system consists of interconnected components that influence one's behaviors, habits, and skills.
It is not a "behavior echo chamber" either. It is a "Behavior Echo-System."
While emotions and feelings are crucially important, they have less influence over time for emotionally mature adults.
Emotional maturity allows individuals to manage their emotions and, consequently, the related behavioral influences.
This model helps anyone understand, guide, and troubleshoot their attempts at behavior change, personal transformation, and goal achievement.
(If you’d like to learn more about the model and how it may help you or your organization, feel free to connect).
BONUS: How to Intentionally develop habits and skills ON DEMAND. 👇
MORE:
Follow P.A.R.R., PLAN, ACT, RECORD & REASSESS - the habit development framework first published in The Habit Factor® (2010).
PARR provides a repeatable, predictable and practical roadmap for transforming fleeting good intentions into ingrained habits and skills.
**Plan, Act, Record, Reassess**
The PLAN begins with identifying “Target Days” and “Minimum Success Criteria.” (learn more here)
**ACT** upon your plan bridges the gap between intention and action/behavior!
**RECORD** your experiences (Habit Tracking) allows for self-efficacy, introspection and reinforces your intention.
Finally, **REASSESS** your actions/behaviors against your plan allows you to assess your progress and even “raise the bar” for your next 28-day habit tracking period. Following PARR is a proven way to increase Habitstrength™.
By repeating the P.A.R.R. habit tracking process for successive 28-Day tracking periods, the automaticity and habitstrength™ of any habit or skill increases.
Through this iterative, intentional practice approach - any virtue, habit and/or skill can be developed by following P.A.R.R.
Aloha my friend! 🤙
Additional:
Download the free habits-to-goals tracking template to cultivate the habits that support your goals here: https://thehabitfactor.com/templates.
Books that may help "The Power of Positive Thinking" by Norman Vincent Peale and "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie.
MG’s Books: EVERYTHING is a F*cking Story, The Pressure Paradox™ & The Habit Factor®
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International Book Awards: EVERYTHING is a F*cking STORY.
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To learn more about P.A.R.R., just Google “P.A.R.R. and The Habit Factor.”
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