Opening Insights
According to Pocket Wisdom Insights methodology and human understanding there are 5 Gears that run our lives. We either learn to turn the Gears or the Gears turn us.
These PWI 5 Gears of Life™ are the path to understand how through process-based Emotional Intelligent experiences we can learn how to Re-discover Our Values, separate from Our Old Beliefs, find Emotional Resolution, and strengthen our Emotional Self/Shared-Authority, Emotional Self/Shared-Responsibility and Emotional Self/Shared-Accountability to become the “Captain of Our Own Ship.”
Informational Insights
The 5 Gears of Life™ begins with Our Values, moves to Our Beliefs, Priorities, Actions, and finally Results. Using the process of principles (absolute truths) to models (which shows inter-connectivity) to implementation (the practical application of them in our daily lives) we can learn NOT “What to Think” but instead “How to Think.”
Gear 1: VALUES
Everything starts with Values. Values allow us to discover who we are. By learning to express Value:
- We are able to share an experience with another person.
- Learn to discover life in relation to others and in contribution with others.
- Learn to discover life in contribution with others.
Values allow us to set boundaries (our likes and dislikes), express them to others, and recognize and respect the boundaries of others.
When we develop the skill to recognize Value in all things we are able to see new opportunities and new choices we previously never saw before.
Gear 2: BELIEFS
Beliefs are formed from our past experiences. They are at the core of who we are. For many of us, our Beliefs dictate our:
- Perceptions,
- Attitudes,
- Thinking,
- Feelings, and
- Behaviors (actions) in present situations.
Food for Thought: By the age of 7 our beliefs are formed. What we believe about the world is based on the experiences and beliefs of other people. Thus, because these beliefs were never ours to begin with, many of us have a hard time understanding or resolving them… and we were never taught that we can simply separate from them and choose another way.
The BELIEF Gear is where we learn take learned “False” Beliefs and replace them with new, truer ones that support our Values. It is where we learn to change our Perceptions, Attitudes, Thinking, Feelings and Behaviors and thus either re-create or grow our personalities and intelligence’s.
The 5 Gears of Life™ shows us that we can learn HOW TO CHANGE OUR PAST BELIEFS and overcome our Reactionary Behaviors, by discovering and experiencing our Values through a process-based educational learning experience learning, like we are about to embark on.
- We may pass through Denial and Bargaining but when we hit Anger we get STUCK.
- We remain STUCK because we have never learned to move from “Anger at” to “Anger about.”
- The inability to LET GO results in a perpetual state of fear and anger as we keep experiencing the same “problems” and finding no Emotional Resolution.
- Assessment
- Writing
- Reading
- Hearing
- Confirming
- Acknowledging
- Accepting
The last Three Gears are the steps we need to take in order to get the gears turning. They define Our Emotional Intelligence and ability to create new experiences to affirm Our Values, create and support New Beliefs, and separate from Our old Beliefs.
- “Priorities” are a reflection of our Emotional Self-Authority, our ability to make decisions.
- Taking “Action” on those decisions requires a sense of Personal Power and Emotional Self-Responsibility. It’s not just about taking the action, but using discretion regarding how we go about executing our decisions and the timing of them.
- “Results” – We reflect on the results and determine what we learned, discovered, experienced and have come to Value (Our New Beliefs). This is Emotional Self-Accountability.
- Many people look at results as right and wrong, reward and punishment. But the real assessment of RESULTS is: Did we learn something? And what do we do with what we learned?
- By acknowledging what we learned, we are able to let that experience become part of our identity and therefore it becomes added to our belief structure. It becomes a Belief, formed from our own experience, not someone else’s Belief / Thinking, and was accomplished through mature, Adult Thinking.
Possibilities for Consideration
Learn more about getting yours and others 5 Gears turning in the PWI Co-Lab Discovery-Recovery Institute…
Take a moment and examine…
- As you reviewed the material above, what stood out to you?
- What is the potential impact, economically and/or socially?
- What action is needed to stop or support this idea?
- You may want to consider whether you:
- want to be aware of,
- should become supportive of,
- would want to be active in this topic?
Add Your Insight
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Being willing is not enough; we must do.
LEONARDO DA VINCI