HOW TO BREAKTHROUGH TO YOUR BRILLIANCE AND PRODUCE RESULTS Adam H. White III CEO Adam White Speaks Adam H. White III CEO Adam White Speaks Author of 7 Tests of Great Leadership and 7 Keys to Overcoming Fear, Adam White is a renowned speaker and authority on the psychology of leadership, organizational development, transformation and high performance. What started as a desire to help people transform the quality of their lives has grown into a lifelong passion as he is called upon by leaders of organizations, entrepreneurs, teachers, parents, and individuals. Adam has spent years studying the DNA of Leadership and the psychology of what makes people and organizations succeed or fail. Adam has demonstrated leadership through entrepreneurship, owning a Subway Franchise, multiple investment properties and several business start-ups. Adam shares his message, tools, and strategies that are designed to improve leadership development and employee engagement that ultimately increases bottom-line profitability. When Adam comes to speak to your organization get ready for change and transformation. 1
ADAM WHITE Leadership Expert, Speaker, Success & Life Coach adamwhitespeaks.com 734-756-9114 adam@adamwhitespeaks.com BREAKTHROUGH PRODUCE Produce : to make or create something : to cause something to exist or happen : to give birth or rise to : to cause to have existence : to compose, create, or bring out From the beginning of time we were created to produce results 2
BREAKTHROUGH HUMAN BEHAVIOR The first step to Breaking Through is Understanding Human Behavior Human Behavior is based on the principle that people will only change to get further away from pain or closer to pleasure. As humans when we subconsciously perceive an activity or change as uncomfortable, we will instinctively avoid it and rationalize our behavior in order to justify staying the same. There is a very common unconscious process that causes individuals to think that they are too busy, or that they are already doing their best. The more we can understand what s naturally going on with people and within ourselves, the more compassion, connection, and positive influence towards CHANGE we can have as a parent, a leader, a professional, a loving partner or a friend. BREAKTHROUGH RESISTENCE 3 things that cause resistance to Change 1) People resist change when they don t feel like doing. 2) People resist change that they perceive as being uncomfortable. 3) People resist change because of fear (fear of the unknown What will happen if I make this change? Will it take me out of my comfort zone?) 3
BREAKTHROUGH FEAR THE PRIMARY THING THAT STOPS US FROM BREAKING THROUGH? FEAR OF REJECTION FEAR OF SUCCESS FEAR FEAR OF FAILURE FEAR OF BEING ALONE FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN Fear is Hard-Wired into every Human Being. BREAKTHROUGH 2 PRIMARY FEARS 2 PRIMARY FEARS IN ALL HUMAN BEINGS THE FEAR OF NOT BEING ENOUGH. (good enough) 2) FEAR WE WON T BE LOVED. (acceptance) All fears are rooted in these (2) Primary Fears. 4
BREAKTHROUGH MASTER FEAR FEAR is a Mental Construct.. But I am REAL Fear is only an impulse to protect you from danger Fear is simply a what if statement that keeps generating negative thoughts. Practice facing your Fears and you will gain the confidence to OVERCOME them. See Fear as a Blessing and Anxiety as good impulses that protect not as an emotion that stops us from producing results. FEAR IS A MENTAL CONSTRUCT BUT I AM REAL FEAR IS A MENTAL CONSTRUCT BUT I AM REAL FEAR IS A MENTAL CONSTRUCT BUT I AM REAL 5
BREAKTHROUGH STARTS WITH YOU IN ORDER TO BREAKTHROUGH TO YOUR BRILLIANCE YOU HAVE TO START WITH CHANGING YOU! CHANGE WILL CONTINUE TO HAPPEN AROUND YOU AND TO YOU. YOUR JOB IS NOT TO TRY AND CHANGE THE CHANGE, BUT RATHER EMBRACE THE CHANGE BY CHANGING YOU! BREAKTHROUGH THOUGHT Everything you see around you in a man-made world began as a thought or an idea in the mind of a single person before it was translated into reality. Everything in your life started as a thought, a wish, a hope, or a dream either in your mind or in the mind of someone else. Your thoughts are CREATIVE. Your thoughts form and shape your world and everything that happens to you. The great summary statement of all religions, philosophies, metaphysics, psychology, and success is this: You become what you think about most of the time. Your outer world ultimately becomes a reflection of your inner world. Whatever you think about continuously emerges in your reality. 6
BREAKTHROUGH THE MIND Auto Pilot: The Mind s 3 Favorite Options Generalization Generalization is noticing how an experiences is similar to other experiences. Generalizations can also contribute to limiting beliefs. Generalizations become beliefs, and those beliefs then start to run your life. Beliefs are so strong that when you have a belief, it starts to alter what you perceive. Now all these external stimuli coming in have to get through these belief filters. Your mind doesn t really get the raw information. It doesn t get to choose anymore. Deletion Deletion is dropping away aspects of an experience. Deletion is natural. When we can t remember something or when we leave out the background and other people in our memory that s Deletion. Distortion Distortion is changing an experience from what is actually is to some modified form of what it is. BREAKTHROUGH THOUGHT PROCESS STIMULUS MEANING MEANING EMOTION EMOTION ACTION 7
BREAKTHROUGH GUARD YOUR MIND Guard your Mind The mind is like a factory. Whatever you think about all day long pours ingredients into this mental factory and that is what builds the economic, social, financial fabric of our lives. Stand Guard at the door of your Mind, and watch what ingredients you let people deposit into your mental Factory. You will have to live with the results. Protect your thoughts. BREAKTHROUGH COMMUNICATION COMMUNICATION The Quality of My Life is determined by the Quality of my Communication. In order to have influence with people, it s more important HOW you communication WITH them rather than WHAT you communicate TO them. 8
THE FIVE LAYERS OF PERSONALITY ACTIONS ATTITUDE EXPECTATIONS BELIEFS VALUES CYCLE OF RESULTS 9
BREAKTHROUGH THINK & WRITE SELF PERCEPTION Write (3) Words that Describe Your Ideal SELF? EXTERNAL PERCEPTION Write (3) Words that Describe How you Want Others to See or Interact with You? **Begin to close the gap between what your current self is to what you desire it to be.*** BREAKTHROUGH 3 LEVELS OF LIFE 3 Levels Of Life that affect how we Breakthrough to Brilliance 10
THE CAGED LIFE The feelings of being trapped in a cage life. Trapped in a relationship, trapped in a job, trapped in an addiction. Feelings of resentment, bitterness. Bitterness becomes acceptance. Stop asking for help from others. Feels no one understand me. No one is going through what I m going through. Could feel suicidal, isolated, unloved, unworthy and have all but given up on life. 11
THE COMFORTABLE LIFE Comfort brings too many choices. Wasted time trying to decide. No action, no momentum, no decision. Not trapped, but not focused. Lots of activity but no movement. Distractions prevent decisions and prevent focus. No action due to distractions THE CHARGED LIFE More energy, eating well, exercising. Engaged and motivated. Inspired and looking forward to the future. Intentional plan of growth. Actively engaging in self-management. Enthusiastic about the future. Great work relationships, and family relationships. Fully expressive and confident. 12
THE COST OF DISTRACTIONS 4 Hours a day of distractions is an average of 13 years lost in your lifetime. (the average person watches 4 hours of TV every day). 13 years of Average Income lost equals $800,000. If that lost income of $800,000 was invested with an average rate of return over 13 years it would be an extra 8 Million Dollars in our lifetime. DON T LET DISTRACTIONS STOP YOUR SUCCESS!!! 4 Hours of Distractions per day 13 Years of Life Lost Average Income of $800,000 Invested over 13 years = 8 MILLION BREAKTHROUGH EXTERNAL INFLUENCERS External Influencers Can t Stop Breakthrough Results When we are controlled by others, life loses it s flair and we are cast into melancholy and mediocrity. We relinquish our free will to a society of strangers that speak only of conformity and caution. Our true self is subjugated and a pseudo self emerges, a mere reflection of a society that has lost its way. They start running our lives and soon we are not us anymore. We become walking zombies filled with the commands of others preferences and expectations. 13
BREAKTHROUGH SELF-OPRESSION Self-Oppression Can Block Us from Producing Results Unfortunately, most oppression comes not from others but for a source we least suspect: ourselves. Self-oppression is the condition of letting our own negative thoughts and actions restrict us. It is an inside job, a burdening of our spirit by incessant doubt, worry, fear, and distraction. None of us wants to be the cause of our own failure in life, yet most often we are. Our own bad habits rip the vibrancy from life. We are the ultimate oppressors of our own happiness. That Self-Oppression keeps us trapped where we are: afraid to try to change, afraid to take action and embrace change. HOW TO BREAKTHROUGH GETTING THE RESULTS 14
BREAKTHROUGH DECIDE What You Become is not based on Conditions, but DECISIONS. Change Happens when you DECIDE. What am I going to PRODUCE? - Begin with the end in mind. Always finish it first in your mind before you build it. You cannot Create or Embrace Change without first knowing what type of life,career, relationships you want to build. LIFE DOESN T HAPPEN BY CHANCE BUT BY CHANGE! BREAKTHROUGH CHANGE PERSPECTIVE 2 Things that will shift Your Perspective About Change: 1 Something new comes IN 2- Something new comes from WITHIN Success or Failure are not Giant Events in our life, but rather what we do or fail to do daily. It s the little things that we miss each day that culminates into ultimate failure or ultimate success. Results are therefore produced over a sustained and consistent period of time. Daily practices, daily disciplines, and daily habits contain the hidden secret to our long term success. 15
BREAKTHROUGH INCREASE YOUR VALUE How can 2 people have the same set of circumstances but one does twice or three times as well economically? The difference is not time. You can t get any more time. When midnight strikes that s it, no one gets any more time out of the day. The answer is: VALUE. You are paid for VALUE, not time. If you want an above average life: Learn to Work Harder on YOURSELF than on your Job. BREAKTHROUGH DON T LIVE IN THE PAST Living in the Past (The Way things have been) A person who can t see a future is left with retrospective thoughts. They develop the ability to look into the past to make their current situation, problems, less real. But in robbing the present of its reality, it becomes easy to overlook the possibilities of making the present something better or making changes in the present. If You Always Do What you have Always done. 16
BREAKTHROUGH PURPOSE & MEANING On Finding Purpose and Meaning A poll was taken and it found that 89% of people polled said man needs something for the sake of which to live. 61% said there was someone in their own lives for which they were even willing to die for. The key to producing better results is to find that deeper purpose and meaning for your life. Is there someone in your life that you are willing to die for? Results become easier when you have a why, a purpose, and a meaning.the results are then worth it. BREAKTHROUGH ULTIMATE RESULTS In order to make changes in our life or embrace changes that are happening around us, we must make the changes within us. Start will getting clarity on things you want to keep and things you want to change in your life, career, family, etc. WRITE DOWN THE THINGS IN YOUR LIFE YOU ARE HAPPY ABOUT? WRITE DOWN THE THINGS IN YOUR LIFE YOU ARE UNHAPPY ABOUT? 17
THE 3 MOST IMPORTANT QUESTIONS 18