Your Brain is Flexible

Did you know that your brain is flexible like plastic? We can change in an instant. Also, that
we see the world not as it is, but as we are, through our internal filters.
There are 2 million bits of information coming at us every second through our five senses. If
we were to take in all of this information it would be overwhelming. To manage this our
brains breaks it down into 7 filters (Beliefs, Values, Decisions, Memories, Language, Physiology
and Focus).
If we change any of these 7 unconscious filters we will change the way in which we experience
our world.
For example, lets consider one of the 7 filters - Values. If we value Connection over Results
in our business we may partake in lots of coffee chats and meetings with people but perhaps
we are not getting the results that we hope. We value the Connection more than the Results
and therefore we are having chats that do not lead to sales or business.
Our Values are like our internal compass and so if we change our Values we change what we
focus on, the decisions that we make and the actions that we take. This ultimately then
changes our results.
Another example of a filter is our Language. We experience our world based on how we
language or talk about it. If we talk about scarcity and not having enough we will feel scarce,
we will tell ourselves that things are scarce and we will experience scarcity, or not enough.
Not enough money, love, time etc. If we Language abundance, and feeling lucky and having
so much we will experience more abundance.
Our beliefs about wealth and money have a direct impact on how much we have. If we believe
that money is hard to come by and that it takes a lot of hard work this is what we have in our
lives. Change our unconscious beliefs and we change our experience of our reality and our
world. This is why one person with the same tools will have different results to someone
else. Same education, same tools, different result. Because it is the mindset that matters, not
the tool. See below for a more detailed illustration:

JADE VARLEY Mindset & Leadership Strategist | Extended DISC (EDISC) Profiler
Leading Leadership - Bringing out the Leader Within You
Associate Member of the International Coach Guild (ICG)
M 0468 474 995 E jade@leading-leadership.com.au W www.leading-leadership.com.au

The map is not the territory

territory / reality
Filter 2

Filter 1
100%

30%

Senses

Values
Beliefs
Decisions
Memories
Language
Physiology
Focus

map / model of the world

Imprint Period
(0-7 years)
Modelling Period
(8 <3%
13 years)
Socialising Period
(14 - 21)

Perception,
meaning and
emotional
reaction