As I’m sure most of you have discovered, transformation is not a linear, predictable process. People have insights and breakthroughs in fits and starts, and growth is full of individual, inner personal transformational phenomena. This process can be seriously compromised by traditional attempts to measure them, which are based in pedagogy theory. But did you know that predicting your behavior is as simple as A-B-C?

“A” is an activating event that you experience.
“B” is the belief(s) that you have about that event, filtering it through your unique personal belief system, which results in:
“C” your (observable) consequential behavior(s).

The activating event is a trigger for one’s belief system—ingrained, unconscious rules that result from one’s unique processing of the first 20 years of life experiences. The event is filtered through this system, resulting in an automatic, conditioned, immediate behavior. This behavior could be described objectively and nonthreateningly—as could the consequences it ultimately created in the given situation.

The flow of things, like the alphabet, is: A filters through B, which leads to C.

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