This article explores how to better understand the meta-programs that impact the choices and decisions we make each day. Meta-programs are unconscious habitual directives coming from your brain that influence patterns of behavior and determine your daily decisions and actions. They effectively delete and distort your experience of reality, thereby influencing your psychology at a core level. The article explores the impact that meta-programs have on our lives. There are 51 meta-programs in total. This mind map covers 5 key meta-programs that have the biggest influence on our lives. The five meta-programs explored within this map include frame of reference sort, self or other sort, match or mismatch sort, action sort, and necessity or possibility sort. As you work through this article and become more familiar with these meta-programs, you will progressively begin taking greater control over the underlying thoughts that impact your decisions and actions. This will subsequently help you achieve your goals with far less struggle and greater clarity of mind.