Defining What is in My Control and What is Not. Part 7
September 9th, 2005 by Terry Keith
Scan Your Environment For Chances To Learn and Behave Differently
Remember how you used to scan for drugs or alcohol, opportunities to score or use.
Take those same scanning skills and use them for a different purpose, to help you meet your life vision and goals.
There is an opportunity for you to learn or to teach every time you look for it.
To Control Yourself and Influence Others
Appeal to the cognitive or thinking part of the mind.
Use reason: reason can involve sheer logic, the use of analogies or stories, creation of visual information, a chart, a picture.
Use research: identify relevant information and use your judgment about whether it warrants you or someone else to change their mind.
Appeal to the affective or feeling part of the mind.
Use resonance: find and use a view, idea, or perspective that resonates or feels right to you, seems to fit the current situation, and convinces the person or yourself that further considerations are not necessary. . . You’re convinced!
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