The Power of Honoring Your Decisions

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">According to the principles of NLP, you’re living two realities — your internal reality and the external reality. And your external reality is going to align with your internal reality. This is why you’ve heard me say if you want to know how you’re doing on the inside, look at what’s happening in your environment. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">My clients are “getting” this, and they know to look inward when they don’t like what’s happening in their environment.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Case in point — one of my clients is in an industry that requires her to make telephone sales calls. She had been given multiple verbal yeses from potential clients, but these prospects hadn’t signed on the bottom line. So she had verbal agreements but nothing concrete.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Upon reflection, she had a lightbulb moment. Her prospects were not following through with their verbal commitments in the same way that she was not following through with making her sales calls.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Boom!</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is how it happens. What’s happening internally will be reflected in your environment.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Remember that the unconscious mind is highly moral. It will be faithful to the morality it’s been taught. And I would bet that most of us came from upbringings where we were expected to honor our commitments. And if we didn’t, there may have been some sort of punishment. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If that’s the case for you, your unconscious mind can “discipline” you when you fail to meet your commitments or honor your decisions. “Discipline” can show up in a myriad of ways. And if you’re paying attention, you can find the connections and make corrections. Remember that your unconscious mind’s job is to get you back on track as defined by what i