Cause The Effect Tool
Start by describing the circumstance. See below for
instructions for describing how it goes now.
At the Effect of Cause
Circumstances
are perceived through the lens of our
Beliefs
which attract only validating and supportive
Thoughts
which trigger
Feelings
that we react to and which motivate our
Actions
which produce our
Results
Which “prove” that our thoughts are “true”
Complete the “At the Effect of Cause” section in this order
Circumstances
You may experience the circumstance as the cause of the results
that you get. Go through each of these steps to describe how you
experience the circumstance. Start by describing the circumstance
factually; without interpretation.
“I had an awful day” is an interpretation of the facts. “I lost two
clients today” is a lot closer to a factual description of the
circumstances.
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Thoughts
Beliefs
Feelings
Actions
Results
Thoughts are attracted by beliefs. Beliefs live in the subconscious
and are not easily detected. One way to find beliefs is to look at
the thoughts that are attracted by your beliefs. Thoughts are more
easily accessed than beliefs. List your thoughts. Not the
“positive” thoughts that you use to counter your “negative”
thoughts. List the thoughts that create your discomfort; the
thoughts you think before you compensate for them. If you have
any trouble identifying those thoughts, answer these questions:
 What should or shouldn’t be?
 What are you afraid will happen?
 Who or what do you blame for how things are now?
 What do you make it mean that it is going this way?
 What is your story about the circumstance?
Now that you have identified your thoughts, ask yourself, “What
must I believe to be true that I have these thoughts?” Consider
that we only think thoughts that support our beliefs (what we
have decided is true). What belief, what view, what perspective is
supported by these thoughts?
For example, if the thought is, “I can’t handle this” the belief might
be “I am weak” or “I am not capable” or “I’m not enough”.
Look at the Emotometer©. Assign a number that represents
where you are on the Emotometer© when you think these
thoughts and believe these beliefs. Then describe how you feel in
feeling words. The worse you feel, the more disempowered you
are. The better you feel, the more empowered you are.
When you feel these feelings, what actions do you take and what
do you avoid doing?
When you take or avoid taking these actions, what results do you
produce?
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To Cause the Effect
Start with the results that you want and work your way down to
the thoughts that you would need to think to create those results.
See below for instructions
Results
What Results do you want to create?
Actions
What Actions would you have to take to
produce these results?
Feelings
What would you have to feel to take
these actions?
Thoughts
What would you have to think to feel
these feelings?
Practice
What practice would make this new
thought a habit and form a new belief?
Be sure to build in support, structure
and accountability.
Instructions for completing “To Cause the Effect”
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Results: Start here. Use a pencil with an eraser or use the fillable Word document to complete this
worksheet.
For now, let go of what it would take to get this result. How would you like it to go? What result
would you really like to experience for yourself, your life, your business, or your career? You can’t
really experience results for someone else. Be sure to describe results that YOU want to experience.
Actions: Mentally, take a few steps back from creating this result. Let it be non-personal. In other
words, generally speaking if a person (not just you, any person) wanted to produce this result, what
would they have to do or stop doing?
Keep this really simple. If the result you want to produce is that you want a good night’s sleep, the
action might be to stay asleep long enough to feel rested. And it might be to not wake up until you
have slept x number of hours. It might be to meditate, or to run, or to do yoga, or to read a
comforting and positive book before going to bed. It might be to move the TV out of the bedroom.
After identifying all of the actions you would need to take, check it out. If you were to take these
actions (even though you may not feel willing or able to do so now) would you get the results that
you want to produce?
Feelings: Use the Emotometer© again. Where would you have to be on the Emotometer© to take
those actions. Trying to take actions that oppose how you feel in your body won’t work. You may be
able to take the actions for brief times using force and will. But using force and will is not
sustainable simply because we have a limited amount of energy to expend.
Now that you have identified the feelings you would have to feel to take the actions (or to not act in
opposition to the results you want to produce), check it out. If you feel this way will you act that
way? If not, identify how you will have to feel to act in a way that will produce those results. Don’t
move to the next step until you are confident that you have engineered all of the moving parts to the
machine you are programming.
Thoughts: A thought is an interpretation of a circumstance. We interpret according to what we
believe. Our bodies interpret our thoughts as feelings. What thoughts would you have to think to
feel the way you would need to feel to take the actions that would produce the results that you
want?
Look at each feeling that you described. What thought would be interpreted by your body to create
the experience of that feeling? Look at each feeling you identified. Be sure to identify every
thought it would take to feel that way. And make sure that you find the thought at least somewhat
believable. Otherwise, your subconscious will refuse to accept it.
Then check it out. If you thought these thoughts would you feel the way you have determined that
you would need to feel to take the actions needed to provide the results that you want? If not,
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and act to get the results that you are getting. Your thoughts, feelings and actions are automatic –
they are habits. You have seen that your feelings and actions follow your thoughts. So, if you want
to create different results, you will need to form new thought habits.
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A habit is the result of the brain recognizing a pattern and efficiently making the pattern a function
of the subconscious. Once you have formed a new thought habit, the new thoughts will be
automatic. If you have designed thoughts that will produce feelings that will inspire the right
actions, you will produce the desired results – automatically.
To form these new thought habits; to make them automatic, you will need to practice thinking these
thoughts over and over until your brain recognizes the pattern and makes it a habit.
When you try to form a new habit, the source of the old habit (thinking) will resist. You will feel
uncomfortable. Your brain will interpret the discomfort as a problem and will resist the change.
That is why you must design your practice with enough structure, support and accountability to
overcome your resistance.
So, design a structure for practicing these thoughts. A structure might be setting an alarm to remind
you to reinforce these new thoughts by reciting them, one at a time and looking for ways that they
are true. You could post them on your bathroom mirror and on the dash of your car. You could
record your own voice as you speak the new thoughts slowly, allowing yourself to find present time
examples of how they are true.
Enlist support and accountability so that someone in your life knows what you are up to, supports
your success, and is willing to ask you from time to time if you are keeping your commitment to form
the new habit.
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