Let me remind you, the first article was published here. In this article, I invite you to look at your goal from a different perspective. With the help of a time-tested tool that will help diagnose your readiness to go for changes. Because achieving a new goal is not easy. It's a change. And any change requires effort from us, since the ancient parts of the brain always resist the new, the vision of which is created in the younger part of the brain – the neocortex. You activated specific parts of the neocortex when you formulated the goal according to the algorithm in the first article. The ancient structures of the brain – the reptilian brain and the limbic system – do not resist for nothing. Their task is to ensure your survival. If you are alive and everything is more or less fine, why change anything? It's hard to argue with that))) I hope this brief and very simplified explanation helps you understand what drama is going on in your head if you decide to go into something new. Resistance to change is an absolutely natural and natural process. And the bigger, more ambitious, and unprecedented the goal, the more resistance there may be. The situation is aggravated by the fact that we do not realize resistance in the vast majority of cases. We just don't go to the goal for some reason. Although we seem to want to, and even tried to formulate the goal according to all the rules.
I suggest checking your real readiness for change using the formula of change. How much is your readiness stronger than your own natural resistance?
Take a pen and paper. Ready?
Let's write down the formula. In the original, it is called D. Gleicher's formula of change and looks like this:
Also the formula is known in conjunction with the name R. Beckhard, since the latter popularized the formula. Initially, it was a formula for calculating organizational changes, but over time, the formula has proven itself well for personal diagnostics of readiness for change.
In translation, the formula is:
Where
The meaning of the formula: changes will occur then, and only then, when the product of the factors "dissatisfaction with the situation" X "concrete vision of the goal" X "formulation of at least one of the concrete first steps towards the result" will be greater than resistance.
Question for attentiveness: do these factors remind you of anything?
Remember the goal-setting algorithm from the previous article:
Very similar! "What" is factor B, "Why" is motivation on the contrary, that is, how much you CANNOT and DO NOT want to live like this anymore, "How" are the steps towards the goal. This suggests that this formula is not esoteric, it has neurophysiological meaning.
Now, if this is a formula, let's substitute specific numbers into it.
Take a measurement system that is clear to you – in percent from 0 to 100, in points from 0 to 5 or from 0 to 10, etc.
Listen to yourself. And start putting values in the system you have chosen. My questions will help you:
1. How many points/percent are you dissatisfied with the situation? If you can live like this and changes will bring more inconvenience than benefits, put 0. If not 0, put your number.
2. How many points/percent can you clearly formulate what you want? How many points/percent do you see the end result? If nothing or almost nothing is visible, put 0.
3. How many points/percent can you formulate right now what exactly needs to be done to move towards the result (factor "FS")? If nothing intelligible appears, put 0.
4. How many points/percent will you assign to your resistance?
So, all values are substituted into the formula.
You understand that if at least one factor is zero, then the whole product will be equal to 0, unfortunately.
I have not yet encountered cases where resistance is equal to 0))) You already know why this is so. But if you suddenly have this, then the goal is not new. And not scary – take it and do it.
What to do if it turned out to be zero, but you still want to achieve the result?
Work on that very zero! It is in a very specific place in your formula.
Either create a clear vision of the result (the tools from the previous article will help you with this), or work with motivation (we will talk about this in the next article), but if you are all right with the vision of the result and motivation, you should be able to formulate not even one, but a whole series of steps towards the result. We also talked about this in the previous article.
Olga Yudina,
founder of the Academy "Innovation Theory",
Candidate of Philological Sciences, author of international accredited
mentoring programs in business and professional coaches