Emotional Self Awareness: ABCDE
Changing Financial Behaviors pdf link
| Activating Event | Beliefs | Consequences | Debate/Dispute | Effects |
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Activating Event/Adversity: Identify an event that triggered an emotional reaction from you.
Beliefs: Identify your beliefs that led to your emotion.
Consequences: What were the results of your thought and actions to the event?
Dispute/Debate/Discarding your beliefs: Were you initial appraisals of the event accurate? If not, why?
Effects: How did debating, disputing and discarding shift your understanding and beliefs about the activating event, and consequently, your feelings?
Looking for Patterns to Change Financial Behaviors
| Activating Event | |
| Behavior related to money | |
| Consequences | |
| How were you feeling physically? tired? hungry? hyped? nervous? | |
| How were you feeling emotionally? angry? sad? lonely? scared? excited? anxious? happy? surprised? | |
| Who else was involved or where you thinking of? | |
| Where were you? | |
| When was it? | |
| What was the belief attached to the behavior? | |
| What are options to react differently next time? | |
| How can you predict when you may be in a similar situation and avoid it or be prepared to act differently? |
