When you learn about self-leadership development you are forced to ask better questions of yourself, which will increase your self awareness. With every new learning you create a new Synapse and when you implement / practice what you have learned that Synapse will CONNECT to other Synapse and create a NEW Synaptic Cluster, or a habit of thought / behaviour / emotional connection. The more you fire and wire the same thought / behaviour, the cluster will grow into an empowering BELEIF, an auto program to which you refer to determine improved emotional response. The former disempowering belief, the original go-to program, is no longer fired therefore Synaptic Clipping , designed to reclaim brain real estate, will diminish the size of the cluster so you refer to it less and less.

In over ten years of delivering Business and Leadership programmes we have heard many leaders use the excuse, “I’m too old to change... Others need to figure out how to adapt to my style.” Neuroscience has demonstrated the old excuses don’t hold up. As a modern business owner / leader you need to be aware of the effect your actions have on others, and even more importantly that through your prefrontal cortex, you can upgrade your mindset and adapt to a modern workforce. To do so it is important to firstly gain a basic understanding of how your mind works, which we cover far more in-depth in our Full Membership - Business Academy Programme.

For now, understand that your past actions create your current identity… If a new action conflicts with your current identity a fear of unfamiliarity ensues, which can immobilise… Your mind is designed to keep us in familiarity and out of conflict. The CONSISTENCY EFFECT overcomes this. It is one of the keys to our successful programmes, in that, they are systemised to help you maintain it.

If you want to self-test your consistency effect; How many new year resolutions, business or personal goals slip by the wayside year on year?

The bottom line is that YOU need to adapt and to do so, Upgrade Yourself.

You have conscious and subconscious motivations, just as you have conscious and subconscious beliefs, which for many will be opposing. For example, you have fleeting conscious desires for bigger, better or thinner, yet most of the time you subconsciously live in lack of those desires, expressed in your self-talk as, it’s not fair, or why can’t I, or one day I’ll, etc.

‘You Are In Fact Your Own Self Concept’

Your Ideal Self: The person you would like to be or become if you only believed you could be that person
Your Self Image: How you see yourself in different situation
Your Self Esteem: How much you like / love/ value yourself and therefore how you ‘feel’ about yourself in different situations

95% of your waking day you are operating from subconscious programs created in your past designed to keep you comfortably familiar... Patterns of thought and habits of behaviour you have repeated so often that your mind has created auto-programs to diminish the need in time or mental effort to reference how to repeat or perform them consciously; this is Autopilot.

YOU CAN reprogram new patterns that serve you better!

Most people don’t fly because they can’t see their own wings. The only difference between who you are now and who you want to be is how you see yourself and how much you like yourself. You have been criticising yourself continually... How is that working out for you? Try approving of yourself and see what happens. You are perfectly imperfect in every way .... Learn self-love, practice self-forgiveness, and learn self-acceptance… and stop trying to live up to others.

Just jump and I promise you’ll grow and spread your wings on the way down, with a little help from Business Academy and our Community!