Promoting Health & Wealth - Gathering Info

In the past few years, I have been working on creating a process to help me and others called ACTS(TM) - To Liberate Our Potential. There are many ways to gather information and/or assess our wants and needs. ACTS(TM) is an acronym for four simple steps that I use to serve as a guide to happiness, health and success.

The A represents Assess. This is information gathering stage. All too often, I have found that one will attempt to jump into solving a health, life or wealth problem with an obvious or superficial solution, only to find it is not the best solution. This step of ACTS causes us challenges because it takes time, effort, reflection, patience and trust. To effectively appreciate our current situation, we must be willing to patiently research and investigate the real cause of our distress or discomfort.

There are many approaches and tools and techniques one can use to gather the appropriate data. The value of using some type diagnostic or psycho-metric approach helps to give us a starting point.

An example is the DISC instrument. According to Wikipedia, DISC, is the four quadrant behavioral model based on the work of William Moulton Marston PhD (Harvard University) to examine the behavior of individuals in their environment or within a specific situation. It therefore focuses on the styles and preferences of such behavior. This tool gives one an understanding of their style of behavior - Decisive, Interactive, Stabilizing and Cautious. We all have an element of each but we each have a natural styles that dominate.

Again, this is only one example - assessing our IQ, personality, thinking style, motivators, emotional intelligence..., this list can get quite lengthy. Enjoy the journey and have fun the greatest unexplored terrain to date - the human behavior.

Throughout the course of the year, I will be sharing the rest of this simple ACTS(TM) process.

All the best in health and wealth,

Laura