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CREATING LASTING CHANGE ™

Step 5: Create Empowering Alternatives

Access empowering resources and make the change.

Why can’t people just stop behaviors, beliefs or other patterns they know aren’t good for
them? All behavior / action is an attempt by the individual to meet one or more needs.
We cannot simply eliminate behavior or beliefs without replacing them with something
else that meets or exceeds the same needs of the previous negative behavior.

Creating new alternatives empowers a person to uncover all the options available to them,
including new and healthy ways to meet their needs. These new alternatives can change
a person’s Model of the World, which is what shapes their patterns and emotions – and
therefore behavior – over the long term.
• What are some new empowering habits, actions, thoughts or beliefs that a person
can embody? How are these better, more fun, more enjoyable? How do they meet
their needs as well or better than what they were doing before?

• What were some past moments of empowerment? Brainstorm ways to achieve that
empowered feeling again.

• Find role models that empower.

• This isn’t about adding new resources; rather it’s about accessing resources that
are already inside them.

• The new resources your client needs always tie back to creating a new, empowering
Triad: a new physiology, a new focus, and new language / meaning that create and
reinforce the change they want to make.

“All pain is based on the illusion of loss.”

– Tony Robbins

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