The map is not the territory.......

 The phrase "the map is not the territory" has been coined by Polish American philosopher and engineer called Alfred Korzybski  He often used this phrase to convey the fact that people often confuse reality with the models of reality that they carry around within their minds.

"Models stand to represent things but they are not identical to those things"

Korzybski said the following "models stand to represent things, but they are not identical to those things.

The implications of what he said are that you do not see reality as it happens but you know the world around you and reality according to the "maps" of the world and reality that you carry within you.

These maps were brought to you by the culture you live in, the religion you ascribe to, the community you were brought up in, and the family and home you were raised in. The school that you went to as a child, the subjects that you studied at University, and the interests that you have also made a huge impact on the map of reality that you carry around.

Your map of reality will determine how you react to the events that are happening around you.

You never react to the things that are happening to you directly, when an event occurs you there interpret, what is happening according to the map that you carry around in your mind and you react according to your interpretation of that event.

No Failure, only feedback

There is also a presupposition that we use in NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) "there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. The life that you live today is the feedback you get from your life about the decisions that you made, the patterns that developed, and the actions that you took over the scope of your life.

The good news is that you have never failed a single day in your life, if your life is not what you have planned it to be, and you feel unsuccessful and "a failure" you have made some pretty bad decisions and developed the wrong patterns and acted and also failed to act on some things in the way that you were not supposed to. You will either get positive or negative feedback from your life, and the most important question that you need to ask then is, "Is this what I planned or wanted to happen?

You can change your feedback!!!!

It does not matter whatever the feedback is what you get from your life, it is not cast in stone, it can change, if you start to do things differently!!!

In order to start to do things differently, you need to get a different map of reality, you need to change your map by unlearning some things that do not empower you or serve you in your interpretation of reality or the world around you.

You need to ask yourself today, "is the mind maps that I carry around me in order to navigate my world, empowering me or disempowering me. Are they serving me in order to live a rich and rewarding life or are they hindering my progress in life?

One of the most important componants of your map of reality is your belief systems.......

Your belief systems.

Your belief system is a set of beliefs that you have about what is right and what is wrong, true or false that helps you to navigate the world around you.

Saji Ljieymi said the following: "Whatever you believe is true, even if it is not true"

 Whatever you believe today about who you are, your circumstances, your potential, your health, your finances, your relationships your career is true, even if it is not true...........

Questions to ponder.

• What is the map, the belief system about yourself that you carry around within you telling you about your circumstances, yourself, your world, your finances, your health, your relationships?
• Does the feedback that you get, give you a positive or negative message?
• How does it make you feel right now?

The good news........

You can change your circumstances by simply changing the maps that you carry around in your mind.

If what you believe about yourself, your life, your finances, your relationships, and your health is not empowering you then it is disempowering you

To learn more on how to empower yourself by changing disempowering beliefs into empowering beliefs, contact me immediately!!!

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