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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.

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ADAM WHITE Leadership Expert, Speaker, Success & Life Coach

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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…

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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?)

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BREAKTHROUGH | FEAR

THE PRIMARY THING THAT STOPS US FROM BREAKING

THROUGH? FEAR

FEAR OF

REJECTION

FEAR OF

FAILURE

FEAR OF

SUCCESS

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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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THE FIVE LAYERS OF PERSONALITY

ACTIONS

ATTITUDE

EXPECTATIONS

BELIEFS

VALUES

CYCLE OF RESULTS

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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…

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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.

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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….

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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?

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THE 3 MOST IMPORTANT QUESTIONS