Hey, this is Anne with your Coaching On The Go.

I am back with you for another tool, tool number nine in our list of ten tools that we’re using to give ourselves a reboot.

We do this with our phones and our technology regularly.

We plug them in and set them up for the next version, 2.0,  3.0, the new iOS.

This is what you’re doing with your operating system.

Your beliefs, your rules, and your structures are the foundation of your operating system.

You are taking the time to go in, look, and see as if you’re going through a filing cabinet.

What files are antiquated?

What can you still use from that file or is it completely antiquated?

How could you restructure it just a little bit and keep using it or how could you create some new things in your file system that work even better than what you’ve had before?

If I go back to that example I used yesterday, the environmental issues have been at the forefront of my life forever.

My first birthday was spent in a state forest along Lake Michigan and my many birthdays after that were in that same park or in another state park.

I grew up around this beautiful environment and watching trees go down, or watching things cut, or watching shows that talked about the degradation of Mother Earth really bothered me.

Now that I am where I am.

I got to the point where I was so upset, even taking a walk down the street and seeing areas where trees could be planted that weren’t, or seeing somebody had pruned their trees wrong.

I was becoming a micromanager and my internal environment was becoming polluted with stress over it.

I knew something had to give.

Then I was put to the task of choosing a car, choosing something that was going to be given to me, or rejecting.

It was a really beautiful situation because it forced me to really take a look at which way I wanted to live and I didn’t want to live in anxiety and pain.

I started to replace (the 9th tool) all that negative, all that resistance with a positive alternative.

I looked at the structures around me and saw evidence that a lot of the things I was believing weren’t really true.

Once I decided, I chose which direction I wanted to go.

Now I focus on the positive.

I intentionally adopted new, more constructive beliefs that align with my updated perspective.

I focus on the positive, engage with it, see the evidence of it, talk about that, and note it within myself.

In the environment, we see a variety of things happening, like Lake Erie, as I mentioned yesterday.

I look at SpiritRiver.

I see in an old picture of the classroom that behind it, there were no trees, and there is a big forest there now.

The area where I paddle along the Wisconsin River in Wisconsin Dells at some point over a hundred years ago, it was full of giant white pines which were sought after for their lumber.

Lumberjacks came in, cut all these trees down, and floated them down the river.

It was a couple, a businessman who owned a hotel in Wisconsin Dells, who loved the river area, who started buying up tracts of land along the river and replanting them.

In 1955, his granddaughters donated the thousands and thousands of acres.

What I paddle through right now, early in the morning, is what they replanted and then donated to the state of Wisconsin for a state natural area.

It’s really exciting if you look at the positive, what you can see and discover, and how that can support you in reinforcing your new beliefs.

Have a beautiful day.