Utilizing Beliefs, Values and Habits as Tools for Determining Personal Outcomes

Abstract

This paper identifies beliefs, values, and habits as the critical forces that dictate the outcome of an individual’s endeavours and their capacity to realize set goals. The paper presents and illustrates the view that the fundamental causes of success and failure lie in the beliefs, values and habits of the individual. It introduces new concepts and analytical tools invented not only to clarify the expository thrusts of the paper but to empower the individual to evaluate the direction of their beliefs, values and habits. Some of these new tools include the belief-values-habit (BVH) formulations and tables devised to enhance the individual’s ability to analyze and understand their own and other people’s behaviour and motives. The paper’s theoretical and practical insights are framed within the author’s BVH model and are presented as processes by which an individual can utilize beliefs, values and habits to determine the outcome of their undertaking.