Belief-Results Cycle

The Belief-Results Cycle shows you how one belief turns into a result in five steps, and then how that result feeds the belief again. Pick a limiting belief and follow it round. The belief produces a thought. The thought produces behaviour. The behaviour produces action, or the absence of one, and the action produces results, and the results confirm the belief. Take 'I'm bad at networking'. The thought is that nobody will want to talk to you. The behaviour is that you'll stand near the exit with your phone out. The action could be leaving early. The result is that you will meet nobody, which proves that you are bad at networking. Nothing in the loop touched your ability to actually speak to people. The model sits in the cognitive therapy tradition Aaron Beck built from the 1960s onwards, where thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are a system that keeps itself going rather than a chain of separate events. Seeing the whole loop drawn out does something arguing with the belief does not. It shows you five places to break in, and the belief itself is usually the hardest one. Changing the behaviour is often easier and gets you the same outcome. Run one belief around the loop, then pick the easiest link to break.