Today's topic is modeling.
Hi I'm Doug Holt, Author Of Your Own Story and this is your Daily Growth Hacks, where
each day we give you a tip, trick or insight to help you up level your, what we call, your
5 to thrive.
That's mind, body, soul, relationships and business.
So when I'm talking about modeling, what I want you to think about are those times in
your life when you've found yourself modeling somebody else.
You see, often times we have these subconscious actions, or things that we do, in our daily
lives that are a result of modeling of something we took over from a parent, a sibling, a coworker
or usually somebody early on, even a teacher.
Now to give you an idea of what this is like, there has to be a time in your life, if you're
like me, where you're like, "Oh crap, I'm growing up just to be like my dad."
Or, "Ah shoot, my mom used to do that."
These are subconscious modeling behaviors or things that you've learned along your way
by dealing with your parents.
Now we all have hundreds, if not thousands of these types of patterns.
So what I wanted you to do today is write down these patterns that you're noticing.
Are you making sarcastic jokes like your father does?
Are you noticing that you clear your throat like your mom?
Where are these subconscious patterns?
A lot of these patterns are running the show and only show up when they're really in exaggerated
amounts.
Now that you've written these patterns out, that you have going on subconsciously, the
really cool thing is you could actually have patterns and make them conscious.
So what I mean by that is you can pick role models, or ways of being that you want, and
then pattern a model after those people.
So for example, you could find somebody who really embodies your health and wellness,
the health and wellness of the body you want, and pattern them, see what they're doing and
model what they're doing and make it your own.
You can also find relationships, maybe you're married and your relationship isn't working
out well, find couples who's relationships are working well and model their behaviors.
Model what they're doing so, for me as a husband, I would find another husband who's doing a
great job, who's got a great marriage, maybe he's a great father, find out what he's doing
right.
WHat are his thought patterns, what are his belief systems?
Model myself after those and make sure they fit for me and then see how I can make those
work out.
So what I'm doing to encourage you to do today is two things, one, go ahead and write down
in your journal all these subconscious patterns that you know are occurring.
So again, these are time where you're like, "Crap, I'm growing up just to be like my brother."
Or, "Ah shoot, my sister says this just the same way."
Go ahead and write those down.
Once you look at those, see which of those patterns you want to keep but also note which
ones you want to change about yourself.
Now go to the other side and look at your 5 to thrive, so it's mind, body, soul, relationships
and business and look at patterns that you want to have and people that embody that ideal
pattern.
Who are those people that you can model yourself from and actually have a great way.
Now in our Author Of Your Own Story group, there's a guy named David Radford who had
a great saying and what he said is, "You know what, what I do is I model my patterns of
the ideal me, so when I catch myself working at my optimum in my 5 to thrive, I model myself
after my optimal self."
Also a great tactic.
Find out what works for you, I encourage you to go over to The Author Of Your Own Story
Facebook group, share your results, we're happy to work with you there.
Also, we're excited to announce at Author Of Your Own Story, where we're going to be
launching a private guided master mind group.
Go over to Author Of Your Own Story so you can get more information on that, it's called
our inner circle and we'd love to have you as a member.
That's it from me today, have a great day.
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