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CREATING LASTING CHANGE ™

Using the Model of the World

As a leader, it is vital to understand your own Model of the World and how it may affect your
interaction with others. Once you understand your current Model of the World, you have the
power to expand it and increase the choices available to you in your life. When you know what
you want, how you tend to go about getting there and the emotions that propel you, you’re able
to make new choices to align your mind with your deepest intentions.
In addition, in the context of leadership, if you’re going to influence somebody else, you’ve got to
understand what influences them first. Once you begin to explore another person’s Model of the
World, and see life from their point of view, you can start to investigate the makeup and patterns
behind their actions and how you can influence them for positive change.

If you’re going to influence someone, you’ve got to know what already influences them.
The Formula for Happiness

Suffering happens when your Life Conditions don’t equal your Blueprint (i.e., your Model of the
World, or how you think your life should be) and you believe that you don’t have the control to
change it. Happiness, or fulfillment, is a result of when your Life Conditions equal your Blueprint.

LC = BP
Life Conditions = Blueprint (your perception of how life’s supposed to be)

As a leader, you can help yourself or others transform their lives by helping them create an
equilibrium where their Life Conditions equal their Blueprint. When an individual’s Life Conditions
don’t match their Blueprint of how life should be, then you can either help them:
1. Change their Life Conditions

2. Change their Blueprint

Example

Let’s say you have a friend who is depressed because she is a 37-year-old
single woman. Is the real reason she is depressed because of actually being
single, or is it that her Life Conditions don’t equal her Blueprint of believing
she should have been married by age 35? In order to increase her happiness,
she has two choices: either she can change her Life Conditions and find a
significant other or she can change her Blueprint and the meaning she is
attaching to being single. If you worked with her to shift her Blueprint – maybe
to one where she could embrace the positive aspects of being single and
allow herself to let go of her expectations of any time frames – then you could
shift her life tremendously.

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