Guiding Principles
At Choice Awareness Management, we have designed three guiding principles to help you consider new and old ideas.
We offer our ideas in the spirit of sharing working and practical principles (beliefs) we know can produce real results for you - if you let them.
We invite you to explore our definitions because they offer real clarity to concepts with which you are already familiar - you will find them helpful.
Keep in mind the following three principles as you proceed:
New paradigm ahead is our invitation for you to consider what is possible and available right now…
Be Open
Be Willing
Expect Positive Things to Show-Up
Each of these principles may be self-explanatory for some of you. However, they may not be for others, so please read our perspective and meanings to gain more understanding as we intend it for you.
1. Be Open
We mean for you to be and continue to be approachable for something new or old. You may not have heard it for a while, or it is unique. Set your skepticism aside for the moments you are with us. Listen carefully to what you will be reading, hearing, and experiencing.
Consider this powerful quote before you begin:
“There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance – that principle is contempt prior to investigation”
2. Be Willing
We mean for you to be consenting and disposed to be ready for something. Volunteer yourself to this. In our case(s) and experience(s), much can occur and show up when people strive to maintain this state. Without it, very little can or will arrive. In seeking possibility, this could and will become a belief for you.
3. Expect Positive Things to Show Up
You have likely conditioned yourself with expectations about training and education, such that you already have preconceived notions about any coaching. We ask you to drop all those, whether favorable or unfavorable.
In our experience, coupling this concept with being open and willing tends to free yourself and make you available. Strive to keep yourself present, rid yourself of any past or future distractions, and remain focused upon what is in front of you.
As a bonus, we also suggest reading the next paragraph.
Hold Judgment - A Bonus Principle
This essential idea will allow gaining wisdom over time.
Do not be judgmental about anything you perceive here. Because this action compares what you are reading, hearing, or seeing to your existing beliefs: some of which may be false, inhibiting, limiting, or useless. As a simple analogy, in general aviation, this means be present in the cockpit and fly the aircraft.
(Wisdom Sidebar) Take note to evaluate what you perceive in detail later and mark their usefulness within the context of designing and redesigning your purpose or beliefs with what works and what doesn’t for you. You can only know and realize this as you design, develop, implement, and measure your effectiveness. Failure is only feedback when something isn’t yet working (e.g., you would have measured and scored below 8.0 on the CAM Awareness Scale). Feedback is the information used only to improve, reject, redesign or modify until you gain the results you want.
