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CREATING LASTING CHANGE ™

What differs among us is how each of us values these needs. Typically, a person has two needs
that they value the most. For example, let’s say someone longs for a new career that’s more
fulfilling. If the need he values most is certainty, it’s going to be more difficult for him to take the
risk to look for something more enjoyable because of the uncertainty it would create. On the
other hand, if his top need is uncertainty or variety, making the decision to change jobs and going
through the search and interview process would not create stress and therefore he’d be more
likely to make the decision to pursue a new career.
Your top needs – the needs you value most – affect what you’re willing to do, or not do, for a
career, in a relationship, in your finances and in any other area of your life.

The way you can determine your top two driving needs is by evaluating which needs tend to show
up when you are under stress, fear, angst or difficulty. Regardless of what you think you want or
what you’d like to value, operationally, when in the midst of challenges, what tends to show up?
What are your top needs and how are you meeting them?

FORCE 2: The Guiding Force – Your Belief Systems
(The Rulebook of Life)

Your Guiding Force is what determines how you know if you are meeting your needs. Your
Rulebook of Life contains the belief systems and rules that you believe are necessary to meet
your highest needs.
There are hundreds of questions you can ask yourself (or someone else you are helping to make
a change) to determine whether or not your Guiding Force is taking you in the right direction. Just
as you can’t drive east looking for a sunset, no one can achieve their goals or outcomes with a
map – or Rulebook – that is outdated or inconsistent with their desired destination.
What are your rules for what has to happen for you to feel your needs are fulfilled?

FORCE 3: The Fuel of Choice – Emotions (Where You Live)

Emotions are faster than thought. That’s why there is no power greater to affect how you feel and
act in the moment. Whatever patterns of emotion you’ve burned into your body on a regular basis
project into your Blueprint and filter the rest of your life experience. This is the fuel that drives
both your beliefs and needs.
Have you ever known an angry person who will always find a way to be angry? A happy
person who will find a way to be happy in almost any situation? An overwhelmed person who
is constantly stressed out? During challenging, pressure-filled or tense situations especially,
people’s emotional reactions are a reflection of their emotional habits.

Most of us have at least a few habitual emotions that don’t serve us. By training ourselves to
feel the emotions we want to feel until they become automatic, we can transform our emotional
repertoire into one that empowers us.

What’s your primary emotion that fuels you?
What emotions do you experience on a regular basis?

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