There's a difference between re-framing and rationalization. You can rationalize almost anything, but when you reframe something that will feel a whole lot different. It will feel authentic and right.

This is a very real medical condition, but it is also a metaphor for how we can reprogram our minds. Some people might believe that it is very hard to install new thought patterns, this tool reframes that belief to show you how easy it can actually be.

There was an experiment done by NASA on astronauts that gave us a lot of insight on how habits are formed and why people struggle to create new ones. This metaphor explains how long it generally takes to form a new habit, and what you can do to avoid making the process harder.

This one works as a sort of mental loop, and it can trip you up regardless of your present success and capability—for no apparent reason at all. Scientists call this phenomenon a “neural trap.”

Because your brain is so smart, it can process familiar “notes” to a “song” or life experience in less than three nanoseconds, and the more you do something, the faster it recognizes patterns from the past. In fact, your brain will actually hardwire experiences in your brain and link them to emotional conclusions.

But, here’s where it gets tricky—those conclusions may not always relate to your present situation. Your brain will trigger a response so quickly you probably will not even realize what happened. All of sudden, you’ll feel bad for no apparent reason and not know what to make of it. It’s just like the emotions triggered by an old song on the radio.

Now all you have to do is put a new song in your mind. You’re going to shift your old patterns and step back into control. Life is not in control of you.

This is a common psychiatric tool created by Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham. It was designed to help people understand how they relate to the world around them. However, the concept can also be applied to how we learn and process skills and information.

Basically, there are two crucial axes to learning—conscious versus unconscious and competence versus incompetence. Here’s how it works. When you learn a complex task, you work very hard to learn the steps. You practice each component deliberately until you perfect it, and at that point, you’ve “learned” it.

The CANI process/tool reveals far more than we think when we don't consciously write and journal! In this step you will review the past year and and look at what was awesome and what could've been better.

Answer these questions about the past year:

What did you love?

What did you hate?

What challenged you?

What gifts/ lessons did you find?

You HAVE done great things in your past. However, most of us remember our failures and apply THOSE strategies to our present success, and counter-intuitively, exactly during the most challenging times.

What was once a dream? What was impossible? What did you do? How? What were the steps? What were the emotions?

Time to consciously activate your EIM! Get crazy over everything that you want!

(Hint: remember the one year- five year quote! "Most people overestimate what they can do in one year, and underestimate what they can do in five")

Then write 1, 2-3, 5, 10, 20 next to the items for the amount of years it will take to get there.

Now circle the top 5 that you want to do in the next year!

What would juice you to jump out of bed every day, go to bed at night exhausted yet victorious, what is your "lighter fluid?"

Successful people never care about how they will do something first. Instead, they focus solely on the why they must do it. They know if they really want and have a compelling enough reason to get their outcome, it will happen. End of story. When you know the why and the why is big enough, your mind will create, find, associate, discover, and construct your desired result.

This is VITAL! Why must you do this? Pick one of your goals and write a really compelling why.

Go find someone and them your why… what is their feedback? Did it give THEM goose pimples? If it didn't, rewrite it until it is powerful enough to do so!

Pick three things from your list to complete over the next 24 hours.

• At least one must be ginormous!
• At least one must be done before you go to sleep
• The other two in the next 24 hours

Discover how the most successful people in the world set goals and learn a framework that guarantees success. SMART is an acronym for:

1. Specific

2. Measurable

3. Actionable

4. Realistic

5. Time-based.

Apply the SMART aspects to all the items in your list.

Apply the Plan/Execute Tool to evaluate your planning and execution strategies on each goal. A poor plan with poor execution will get you nowhere. A great plan with poor execution doesn't get you much. A poor plan with great execution with get you some results. And you want to evaluate where you are lacking so you can have a great plan with great execution, and then you will get everything!

There is a huge difference between goal planning and goal keeping. Now that you have the 9 step process, you are committing to your resolutions and goals and integrating them into your life with new psychology and strategies.

This tool will help you create a powerful vision and motivation to stick to your goals. I will ignite your emotions and put lighter fluid to the new thoughts you are creating.