Analyzing Your Behaviors

Thoughts travel at the speed of light or perhaps faster. After chemicals interact in your brain and generate electrical signals, they travel through your neural network at such rapid speeds that it’s no wonder they can cause confusion. Our brains can present multiple thoughts simultaneously. We can calmly observe and allow them, react to them emotionally, or pro-act by observing their origins and collating them into workable plans that edify our lives. Appropriate thoughts are those that contribute to growth and expansion. Selfish thoughts are ego driven and don’t take others into account. Inappropriate thoughts are those that can hurt others. Examine your thoughts by logging all of those thoughts no matter how trivial they appear. This includes any thoughts and feelings from daily interactions and from your dreams. Your dreams can reveal consciously unaddressed thoughts and feelings that need to be resolved. Observe and record your thoughts to determine whether they are appropriate, selfish or inappropriate in regard to your thoughts about your behaviors.

Now comes the hard part. Measuring you behaviors against your values can only happen when you examine and understand your values. What are values? In ethics values are defined as any object or quality desirable as a means or as an end in itself. Values can be both positive and negative. Positive examples are growth, expansion, cleanliness, freedom or education. Negative examples are stagnation, mediocrity, cruelty, crime or blasphemy. Values are previously established conclusions about experienced behaviors that support your perception about who and what you are. If you are sincerely trying to understand your behaviors and become a better person, you must compare your current behaviors against your established values. Are they aligned or are they in conflict? Observe and record your current behaviors in relation to your established past behaviors and values to determine whether they are in alignment. If they are, then pursue a positive course of action. If they aren’t, then design methods, ways and courses of actions to synchronize their expressions. This is the next step.

Now is the time to collate all of the information you have gathered into a format that you understand. Use relatable terms and organize your data to reveal the facts by being honest. Don’t allow your ego to fudge the data. The more truth you seek the more truth will be revealed. Examine your data and record your strengths and weaknesses. Design a plan that utilizes your strengths to move you forward towards your goals while simultaneously converting your weaknesses into strengths. Read this plan aloud to yourself before you start your day each and every day. The repetition will cement your findings into your consciousness so firmly that it will generate thoughts that support your conclusions about the observations of your behaviors. Repeating these thoughts daily will lead to them becoming beliefs. These new found beliefs will guide and determine your behaviors and bring you to the realization of your goals and innermost desires.