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The relationship between you and the chatterbox in your head.



Why Create a Blueprint of ME with Yourself?

You have many relationships in your life, some more important to you than others. You put effort and energy into building and maintaining them, yet the relationship you may tend to least is the one with yourself.
The Blueprint of ME is a written trust between two or more entities. In the case of creating a Document with yourself, it encompasses the relationship between you and that voice in your head that we call “the Chatterbox.” It is the one that can pull you off center running stressful stories on autopilot, or can inspire you to be your best self.

Creating a Blueprint of ME with yourself deepens your understanding of who you are and how you operate as an individual. It gives you the strength and the tools for self management and growth. It ensures that you tend to yourself, so that you thrive in the world and are able to sustain yourself and others around you.

One of the keys to establishing effortless relationships with others, is to foster a healthy relationship with yourself. There will always be days when the chatterbox in your head spirals you down, but what if you could reduce the days in the downward spiral to minutes?


You’re creating a blueprint for the life and work you are consciously choosing:

  • A vision of your most connected self and what you can do to sustain that
  • A description of how you want to interact with yourself and others
  • The indicators of when you may be heading for a bad day, and the tools to return to a peaceful, productive, energized self
  • A reminder of what you need to get you out of the spiral on your worst days, or just when things are starting to slip
  • A statement of your goals and values that you believe are worth pursuing
  • A list of questions and things to remember to get you out of those bad day slumps

You will find, as you begin to pay attention to what you need, that your bad days become infrequent, and eventually they just become bad moments, little blips on the screen rather than all out stress and tension. You become more engaged in life, and more present in your life, than you've ever experienced before.

There is a process of growth which occurs in collaborative environments when each individual commits to the practice of creating and updating their Blueprint of ME. By creating a conversation between your “higher” emotionally intelligent self — which knows what you need to be productive and happy — and your internal voice of fear — which is trying to satisfy your perceived needs — you no longer find yourself a victim of life. You start consciously choosing the life you want to lead and the path to effortless, joyful experiences becomes well worn. As you build patterns and practices of connecting to your higher self when the voice of fear arises, real growth occurs. The more personal the document, the deeper your relationship with yourself, the greater opportunity for growth. You are truly creating new neural pathways that lead you down a more peaceful path.

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The 5 Components of the Blueprint of ME

1. The Story of ME
A snapshot of your best qualities, skills and attributes. It’s you on a good day; the person you’d like to be every day. It can also be an account of how you arrived at your current place in life.
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2. Interaction Styles and Warning Signs
A picture of how you show up in the world. What you look like as you move through your day. Where are the highs and lows? What inspires you to show up as your best self? What can get in the way of that best self showing up? How you work best, and what you might need that you couldn’t ask for in the moment.
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3. Expectations
Core values and non-negotiables, the structure you need to create and sustain a healthy relationship with your mind.
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4. Questions to Return to Peace
A tool to return to peace if the need arises, makes the difficult times shorter and easier.
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5. Short and Long-Term Agreements
How long you’re willing to go before you make peace. An agreement of no outright harm, a willingness to keep an open window if the unimaginable happens.



Necessary for Leadership

At Work: Create Your Blueprint of ME

The Blueprint of ME focuses on developing a level of self-knowledge that enables the leader to identify his or her personal transcendent sense of meaning or passion. Awareness is the first step to creating and maintaining healthy behaviors, and creating a Blueprint of ME is a dynamic way to work on who you are with yourself, and how you show up with others. Bring the best facets of yourself to your work.

 

 



 


The Benefits of Using a Blueprint of ME

  • Foundation of Connection and Trust within yourself, which ripples out to others
  • Gives you an awareness of your patterns, enabling you to gain insight and move to action aligned with who you want to be
  • Invitation and Support for our “best” selves to flourish
  • Creates a written plan regarding actions, values and intentions in order to be highly aware of your choices and to stay on track
  • Gives you access to your most intelligent, calm self in times of stress
  • Collective Memory of who you want to be, how you want to interact, and who you want to become

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Create a daily existence of creativity and resilience by maintaining a healthy relationship with your mind

The First Step is Awareness

There is a side of you that comes out on good days, and a side that comes out on the bad. Awareness is the first step to shifting your behavior to more good days than bad.

The more often you can tease out that exceptional you, and move beyond the stress and chatterbox in your head, the more every aspect of your life operates smoothly. Your other relationships can't help but benefit from a healthy internal life.

Writing down the details of what you look like on both good and bad days, and what needs to be put in place to pull you from the edge, gives you the necessary awareness to be more present in your work and in life.

You no longer have to be a victim of others, because you have access to your emotional intelligence, where compassion and creativity reside.



How It's Being Used:

• Personal Development Plan - A way to put into practice the personal and leadership tools you have acquired over the years

• An opportunity to address personal issues that have held you back in the past

• A practice and process to bring your best self to a new or current endeavor

• Moving to a new city

• Starting a new job

• Bringing a healthier, more resilient self to your relationships

• A way to keep you on track when you are in a good place


The Brain Science Behind How & Why the Blueprint of ME Works
click here to learn about this fascinating connection

 

 


Learn More

• Article
Ask for Everything, Say Your Truth by Maureen K. McCarthy

• Book
Change Your Brain, Change Your Life by Daniel Amen, M.D.




• Book
Loving What Is
Audiobook by Byron Katie

 



• Book
Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life by Gregg Levoy


 

 

• Video: Dr. Daniel Siegel on the concept of Mindsight which is a focused attention that allows us to see the internal workings of our own minds. It helps us get ourselves off of the autopilot of ingrained behaviors and habitual responses.



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