Hey, this is Anne with your Coaching on the Go.

Today we’re at number six.

This one is so pertinent today, to our time in history.

You can see why when I talk about it.

We all have different biases.

We have cognitive biases.

If we don’t challenge those, we just go down a path, a momentum, thinking a certain way, and not being open to other possibilities.

When you are aware of those biases that may reinforce your antiquated belief, it helps you to release them.

Common biases are like confirmation bias, favoring information that confirms your existing beliefs.

If you’re not being curious, if you’re not being neutral, you can keep gravitating towards things that prove whatever you’ve been doing to be true and right.

I talked about this in our very first segment on this.

You’ve got certain ways of thinking and believing and if you’re expanding and you’re in transformation, it’s important that you throw the deck of cards up in the air and look, perceive, and experience anew when you are dealing with shifting things, otherwise, you’re going to lock right back into the same vibration, patterns, and momentum you’ve been in.

Another bias is called availability bias, just relying on whatever information you usually have available or are usually around.

Because you see that in the news right now, because you have all these tools in the computer, in social media, in the news that people can gather data on you, you can be getting things that are related to everything that you click everywhere you look.

Your reticular activation system does that naturally.

If you believe something, you gravitate towards more of it; you hear more of it.

You tune out the things that don’t align with it.

But now we’ve got technology that has algorithms in it and people can gather information on a computer or AI.

They can continue gathering information about your habits.

You get listened to through your phone.

When you’re talking about something, then see an ad for it later in the phone because you had your phone close to you.

There are so many ways you can be guided to stay on the same pathway you have been on.

You get to be resourceful and challenge these cognitive biases.

You have to do that if you want to shift yourself into new territory.

Today is number six!

Challenge your confirmation, availability, and cognitive biases, the things that are comfortable for you that you’ve been doing all this time.

Do that by stepping into a place of neutrality and curiosity.

Have a beautiful day.

I love you.