Ditch the Reasons

June 26, 2009 by · Comments Off 

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I’m observing that people focus on reasons when they resist change.

It can be a considerable obstacle to my helping people and businesses take a new direction. Reasons run the gamut and include, for example:

  • why they spent instead of saved
  • why they responded late instead of on time
  • why they resisted instead of accepted
  • why they spoke instead of listened
  • why they did nothing instead of acting

The time I spend listening to reasons is mostly wasted because it doesn’t help me help clients with change. This is particularly true post crisis because the reasons are mostly about responding to a world that now no longer exists anyway. Reasons repeated over and over bind people to that world. Reasons aren’t learning, aren’t beliefs and aren’t feelings. They’re obstacles to those and that’s why its important to be vigilant about what triggers reasons.

It makes perfect sense to me that clients made choices and decisions based on what they believed to be true for themselves at the time. What matters most to me is, does that truth serve them now, and if not, what are the beliefs to examine, change and replace?

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