Randy W. Green - Decisions, Decisions: How To Get Off The Fence And Choose What’s Best—For You!

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Every once in a while something old and extremely valuable is rediscovered. When this occurs the Wheel of Knowledge undergoes another revolution and what emerges is both the same and radically renewed, and therefore different. Those who are unfamiliar with the origins of this ancient wisdom will perceive it as something new, and often that's enough to capture their interest. Those who are familiar with the ancient wisdom will recognize it for what it is and be attracted because they realize the value of what's on offer. What Dr. Randy Green shares in this book is an example of the turning of the Wheel of Knowledge, something profoundly important and supremely relevant to our times. In the early 1970s two explorers of human experience, Richard Bandler and John Grinder, formulated a technology of excellence they called NeuroLinguistic Programming. Their work has been praised as the most important work in advancing the understanding of applied psychology in the last decades of the twentieth century. The essence of what they uncovered follows:

1. Each individual experiences the events of his or her life uniquely.

2. These events are coded in specific patterns that are accessible and malleable.

3. By attending to the form of the way events are coded instead of what is customarily attended to, the content of those events, one's experience can be programmed or guided to produce intended, useful, and lasting results.

These ideas are truly amazing with regard to their impact on human performance and the ability to build experiences in relation to creating desired outcomes. From applications as diverse as therapy, education, business, and sports, as well as others, Neuro-Linguistic Programming or NLP has become a leading-edge technology of producing excellence with individuals and with groups of people.

Roye Fraser, a student of NLP, took a radical approach to working with the technology of NLP that was based in a purely positive direction. His underlying assumption is that each individual has an innate template of excellence for living his or her life, a Success Blueprint of sorts. Roye called this template the Generative Imprint, and pursuing the understanding of the impact of this imprint became his life's work. His legacy is clear in that the material he developed is truly revolutionary in its ability to create positive change in the lives of people who encounter it. You'll learn much more about Roye's model in these pages.

At its simplest, what Roye realized and codified was that people make a fundamental choice in their lives, either to live from a positive orientation that is focused on possibilities or a negative orientation that is mostly focused on limitations. When the choice to organize in relation to possibilities is made, an individual shifts his or her entire being-thoughts, feelings, behavior, and the expression of those events held within the body-in a specific way to generate a pervasive sense of well-being. This fundamental choice determines how we experience everything; either life is full of possibilities, or it is full of limitations.

I met Roye in 1987 and became a student and apprentice to the work he was offering. From that intensive learning experience I developed the Mythogenic Self Process model. I began teaching this work in 1994 and have delivered programs based on this model in more than thirty countries since then. In 2004 I was introduced to Dr. Randy Green by a student of mine, Devon White. Randy brought a tremendous thirst for learning and a significant clinical background to the work we've done together since that time.

As you read through this account, which is considered from the point of view of possibility, you'll find that Randy offers what may be a totally different and unique approach to decision-making than you've ever come across before. Most books on decisionmaking take the position that decision-making is a mental activity dependent upon analysis of the information presented. Usually this analysis involves carefully considering the data and balancing the risks and rewards-the benefits and the costs, the upsides and the downsides-yet all of this is really just a way of formalizing an act of speculation, i.e., fancy guesswork.

Instead of that kind of detailed analytical modeling, what we can consider a cognitive approach to decision making, what you'll find here is a radically different approach based on body awareness. Dr. Green will introduce you to a way of becoming sensitive to the most subtle signals in your body that indicate a response to the information present in terms of "yes" or "no." Using these signals as the basis of decision-making creates a remarkably trustworthy means of making significant decisions, especially when there is little data available from which to make the necessary decisions in a particular moment.

The steps we need to take to create the necessary sensitivity to these body-based signals, which are the basis of the form of decision-making that Dr. Green will be introducing you to in this book, come directly from the legacy of the work of Roye Fraser and the Generative Imprint model. What is most significant about this work is how it goes well beyond decision-making. To develop the necessary sensitivity to the body-based signals, it is first necessary to become sensitive to how you are at your best, how you are when you are organized in relation to possibility.

As you experience the material that Randy introduces here, you'll find yourself learning things about yourself that you've probably never imagined. The brilliance of the model that Randy shares with you is how it so naturally grafts together your access to an extraordinarily positive way of being in the world and the remarkable decisionmaking that flows from it. What's effective is the method Randy uses to present the material: providing numerous case studies and stories of actual clients he's worked with using this model. Instead of a dry and distant description of the decision-making model, Randy opens it up to you through the actual, lived experiences of people who have benefited from applying it in their own lives.

I've been working with this material for more than twenty years, and as the architect and designer of the Mythogenic Self Process model, I've had the opportunity to work with thousands of clients including senior executives of multinational corporations, retired professionals, educators, students, parents, and others. In every case what I've found is that if someone has the interest, he or she can and does learn how to apply this model, and often the result is not just that he or she learns a powerful decision-making tool, but that his or her life changes in ways that are significantly positive and beneficial.