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Changing Behavior

Author: Dave Vogelpohl

There are three questions that are especially helpful to influence behavior.

• What’s important?
• What do you want to have happen?
• What’s next?

Let’s briefly examine each of these questions.  By asking ourselves, or others, “what’s important?” we are helping to prioritize all of the other “stuff” that’s floating around a particular issue or situation.  It goes a long way in helping to attain clarity.
 
The next question starts the process of commitment.  By stepping back from the emotions around a situation and asking “what do you want to have happen?” a person begins to internalize and think more objectively about what is possible about changing a situation.  We become more realistic with our expectations and start to think about what we really want to occur. 

Finally, by asking “what’s next?”, we are really asking ourselves or others what are we committed to do to change the situation.

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