Until the last few years, comparatively little research has been done in psychology focused on thriving and positive strategies for personal and professional performance. Critical areas such as fulfillment, cross-contextual happiness, compelling future, gratitude, and sustainability remained largely unexplored.
In the late 1990’s, a movement began for mental health experts to explore the differences in what constitutes a life of fulfillment and one that is felt to be unfulfilled. Since then, we’ve seen a rapid expansion in research into strategies of how to experience “more” of life as well as how to adapt and thrive during life’s challenges. Research has shown this thriving-despite-the-odds approach to be predictive of life and organizational success.
The culmination of various technologies has been continuously evolving into what are now called Neuro Strategies. Many of the leaders in the field have conducted empirical examinations of individuals who are flourishing and organizations that are thriving – despite environmental conditions that would seem to hinder such progress.
The core of these technologies is from the worlds of various Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) technologies, Six Human Needs psychology, and 7 Master Steps from Tony Robbins, Spiral Dynamics, and Neuroscience.
Tilting the scale in a positive way
Many traditional methods of studying human behavior have focused on identifying and eliminating what’s negative in life. While identifying and eliminating negative patterns is essential, it is equally important to understand the components of how to experience greater well-being, happiness, and sustainable fulfillment. The core focus of neuro strategies is to identify the underlying unconscious patterns that have resulted in limiting one’s capability and how to leverage the existing unconscious thinking systems to strengthen positive strategies.
Why are Neuro Strategies a game changer for businesses?
The best decision makers are the people who are the most objective/humble and stress test their thinking with people who have a track record of success in the subject area about which they are contemplating. Unfortunately, as we grow up, we accumulate certain biases and preferences that can distort our perception of reality. Most people have key filters that influence their thoughts and their decisions, either negatively or positively. Because our brain is an energy miser, it never questions our key filters. The challenge for most of us is that not all our key decision-making filters are accurate or unbiased.
Working with Gary, he can help you identify what key filters you have that are preventing you from making optimal decisions and upgrade your decision makings filters as well as resolve unconscious conflicts. The question you must ask is if you could consult with Jeff Bezos for a day on the key decisions for your business, would you do it? For most business owners they would say yes because Jeff has a proven track record in business at the highest level. And to get where he has gotten has required him to be objective in his decision making which optimizes his chances of discerning what is true and accurate.
The other area which has benefited Gary’s business owner clients is improving how their brain creates meaning. Most people live at the effect of life and let external events control how they feel. To succeed at the highest level in business, one needs to stay resourceful and resilient no matter what the external circumstances. If you have been in business long, you know there can be a variety of external events that can happen to derail you.
The gift of neuro strategies is you can learn various strategies such as how to reframe meanings to keep you resourceful no matter what shows up in the external environment. Learning this skill will increase your fulfillment, happiness, make you a better leader and strengthen your relationships.
What Neuro Strategies is not:
- Therapy
- Rambling conversations that make no progress
- A deep archeological dig into your past that can take years
- Give you some label that inherently means you are deficient or need to be fixed
- A rah-rah session to make you feel better
- An instant cure all
- Something that requires no effort on your part to make progress
- Something that only addresses what is comfortable for you
What Neuro Strategies will offer and recognize:
- The human predicament that we all collect unconscious patterns over time that do not serve us well no matter how successful we are
- Most people are not aware of key unconscious patterns that limit their greatness or capability
- Any pattern can be broken no matter how long you have had it (and often fairly quickly) unless you get some compensation for holding on to your disempowering pattern
- That we are all meaning-makers and the most resourceful/successful people are masters of meaning
- A targeted and directed approach that follows a set of core principles when working with someone
- Ability to be more influential
- Real world solutions