Here is how the change for an achievement works.
- You start with an achievement you’ve already created (ex: stop:smoking and start:being a non-smoker)
- You get a special concatenated link for a change (ex: eliminate feelings of sacrifice for this)
- Once you click on this special link, you send data to the Always Greater changes tool that includes your achievement info PLUS all your other special concatenated data which helps guide you through the process of change
Using this example, you get a page that looks something like this…
I want to stop: “smoking” and start: “being a non-smoker”
However, I feel like I’m making a sacrifice, because instead of doing this for what I’ll personally gain, I’m doing this because:
Reason 1
[] My doctor told me to
Reason 2
[] My family gave me an ultimatum
Reason 3
[] It’s the right thing to do
These thoughts create feelings of sacrifice and make your life harder
Consider the negative effects of the three thoughts below, and how they make it harder for you to stop:”smoking” and start:”being a non-smoker”
My doctor told me to (so I have to stop: “smoking” and start: “being a non-smoker”, even though I don’t *really* want to do this, and even though I don’t gain anything from it)
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My family gave me an ultimatum (so I have to stop: “smoking” and start: “being a non-smoker”, even though I don’t *really* want to do this, and even though I don’t gain anything from it)
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It’s the right thing to do (so I have to stop: “smoking” and start: “being a non-smoker”, even though I don’t *really* want to do this, and even though I don’t gain anything from it)
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Overall effect
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Does it make any sense to think these thoughts that create feelings of sacrifice and make your life harder?
[] Show me tips (or hide these instructions if they’re too much)
It already doesn’t make sense to think in ways that make your life harder (even if they’re true or valid ways of thinking), when you can just as easily think in valid and true ways that make your life easier.
But go deeper, and pretend you’re a lawyer, and attack these thoughts with everything you have, looking for any possible weakness or flaw in them.
Tip: a huge, potential flaw with each of these thoughts is that you *do* gain something of value that benefits you if you stop:”smoking” and start:”being a non-smoker”.
My doctor told me to (so I have to stop: “smoking” and start: “being a non-smoker”, even though I don’t *really* want to do this, and even though I don’t gain anything from it)
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My family gave me an ultimatum (so I have to stop: “smoking” and start: “being a non-smoker”, even though I don’t *really* want to do this, and even though I don’t gain anything from it)
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It’s the right thing to do (so I have to stop: “smoking” and start: “being a non-smoker”, even though I don’t *really* want to do this, and even though I don’t gain anything from it)
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Overall conclusion
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Decision Time
I choose to think some other way