I am living true.

Exercise to Alter Mood

We can interpret moods in terms of assessments people have about the future. A mood is an “automatic assessment.”

Individuals can shift their mood by identifying the assessment, grounding the assessment, speculate about new assessments and actions, resolve to shift out of the mood and take action.

By taking moods out of the purely personal, subjective realm and into the realm of assessment, companies can begin to take action to produce and shift moods in their organizations, teams and customer relationships.

If people do not recognize that moods and assessments can be examined and shifted in this way, negative moods threaten to become permanent lifestyles, as if the future is already settled.

Begin mood alteration

Areas to Pay Attention To

If you were going to embody, to fully integrate, your calling in your business/profession/career what would make a difference for you to be paying attention to?

Possible areas:

• What’s your mood? What is the default assessment(s) of the future it is indicative of?
• What assessments and characterizations am I making? Are they grounded or ungrounded? In which domain(s) are they grounded or ungrounded?
• What conditions of trust am I operating from?
• What is required in my environment that would allow me to build a life, career, business, that is true to my calling?
• What architecture is necessary to manifest my intention?
• What identity am I putting in the marketplace?
• What promises am I putting in the marketplace?
• What offer(s) and I putting in the marketplace?
• Why am I doing this? Why are we doing this?

Thoughts

To predict the future creates anxiety.
To create the future gives you power.
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Every mood and emotion is an assessment of the future.
Am I aware that I am making an assessment? Is that assessment grounded or ungrounded?
Does it create an opening for action?

Grounded Assessments create openings for action

Ungrounded Assessment lead to sense of burden, apathy, anxiety, shutdown.
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Your calling is both your anchor and your sail.
It grounds you and directs you.
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You are invited to refrain from the habit of falling into the temptation of certainty.
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FIGHT FOR YOUR CALLING
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Craft a vision – create a world.
Translate your calling to a reality.

The Deficit:

Avoiding or resisting cognitive dissonance (the state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, especially as relating to behavioral decisions and attitude change)

Avoiding the discomfort that goes with the difficulty of learning something new with sufficient depth such that it actually alters your world view

Looking or waiting for someone to give you answers

Not generating sufficient self-trust such that you are avoiding holding yourself accountable

Typical Assessments for Some Negative Moods

Negative Moods
Resignation	"Nothing is going to improve this situation. It has always been this way and it always will be; there is nothing I can do to change it."
Despair	"There is a disaster approaching quickly; I don't see how anyone can prevent it. I don't know what to do next."
Distrust	"I don't believe that you really intend to fulfill the promise you made to me," or "I don't believe that you are able to fulfill the promise you made to me."
Resentment	"You have limited my future opportunities, and it's useless to complain to you." Also often, "Those jerks have screwed us up again and the people in authority (they) refuse to listen to our complaints."
Confusion	"I don't see what is going on here. I don't know what to do next. I don't see anything good coming out of this situation and I don't like it."
Panic	"I assess that I'll never be able to keep up with all of my responsibilities if I do not work harder and faster right now."
Arrogance	"I already know what's going on here. Your comments may be interesting in a way, but if you want the real truth about this situation, then listen to me."

Typical Assessments for Some Positive Moods

Positive Moods
Ambition	"There are future opportunities for me in this situation, and I am committed to take action to make them happen."
Serenity	"I accept that the future is uncertain, that both good and bad will come unexpectedly, and I am grateful to life."
Trust	"I believe that you are sincere and that you are able to fulfill your promises to me."
Acceptance	"I understand that there are certain things that I cannot do and cannot change, but I am still grateful to life."
Wonder	"I don't know what is going on here, but the world seems full of new opportunities, and I like it!"
Resolution	"I see opportunities here and I am going to take action right now."
Confidence	"I have successful experience in this area, and I am competent to act in this situation."

Maturana

“Blind to the transparency of our actions, we confuse the image we want to project with the being we want to bring forth.”

“Knowledge is effective action”

“Our actions with others continually brings forth a world”

“Every human act takes place in language. Every act in language brings forth a world created with others.” “The world everyone sees is not the world but it is a world we bring forth with others.”

“That whole kit bag of regularities proper to the coexistence of a social group is tradition. Tradition is not only a way to see and act, but also a way to conceal. Tradition consists of all those behaviors that in the history of a social system have become obvious, regular, and acceptable. Since they do not require reflection to be generated, they are invisible unless they fail.”

Condon / Willmore, J "The struggle produces the outcome."

"Nothing Works. And anything can work if you work it."

"Until you learn to engage your mind you will live a meaningless life."

'There are no easy answers."

"The whole point of distinguishing your calling is to connect to the divine, the source, to have a "source-ful" business and life."

Willmore, D. "Market leaders create distinctions others don’t see."

People already have: Possibilities but are blind to others; Breakdowns. But are blind to others; Human Concerns. But are blind to others; Promises. But are blind to others; Horizons of Time --- Produce a transformation in their life.