VAK Anchoring: Increasing Our Behavior Options By Adding Better Choices

Why do you do the things you do? It all comes down to your beliefs about the world, others, situations, and yourself. When we add better choices using anchors, we give ourselves the option to improve our behaviors.

(click image for downloadable PDF)

Our behaviors don’t always feel good, but they do always feel familiar to our creature neurology (our reptilian + mammalian brain combo). That’s why we repeat them—they are the best feeling option we have available once a trigger event has occurred. The key to changing bad-feeling behavior is to understand the structure of human experience.