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I appreciate your visit to my profile. As I think of the most important reflections to share with you from what I've learned in my life, it would begin with having several businesses throughout my career, including one devastating failure that led me to declare bankruptcy. The reflections on that bankruptcy would be the basis of the next stage of success-- in every way-- emotionally, financially-- it was the learning tool that outperformed any other available path of learning. What I found was the key to success was to identify my subconscious habits of thinking, which are stored in my neural pathways. I learned that, on our own, habits of thinking are quite often hard to identify and investigate. It is difficult to determine if they were working for me or not. I learned by studying neuroscience how to change them. This is harder than it seems, (which is why I now coach people around this material, which I am deeply, deeply, passionate about). The difficulty in changing habits of thinking is also related to this fundamental insight. We can't do what we are often taught to do-- fight our brains, to change our outcomes. We have to work with our brains to change our outcomes. That means we have to understand how our brains work. Our brain is a predictive tool, and when a habit of thinking, stored in a neural pathway is triggered, it quickly gives us a subconscious "tsunami-like "response of memorized emotions that pummel us and drive our personality, impact our behaviors, actions, and ultimately impacts our results. That is why so many of us stand on our beaches of resolve at 7 am (no binge eating, impatience, self-sacrificing, no net surfing, etc.), and by 9 pm, we can find ourselves mentally drained and frustrated, beating ourselves up, hanging on a "coconut tree" with chips in our hands, and saying yes to three more things in an already crazy life. True self-development and sustained change only happen when we can identify our habits of thinking when triggered, and then implement the principles and processes that result in the brain creating a new neural pathway and clipping off the old one. This is one of the deepest passions of my life. For my clients, it means, in a single word: hope. We often think we are destined for the lives we currently live in--we aren't. We are destined for the lives we create behaviors for. And behavior is in our control. I'd love to meet you. If a conversation about this subject would serve you, please book a call at the link below. https://link.dougstoddard.com/widget/bookings/dougstoddard-meetandtalk