Achieving Success Through Habits, Processes and Neuroscience

This workshop focused on achieving success through habits, processes, persistence, and neuroscience, featuring brain coach Dominika Staniewicz and hosted by Todd Jones and Jamie Faller of TepinTasks.

Key Concepts or Theories

Success is multifaceted and personally defined, not universally applicable. By age 7, many beliefs are formed but can be rewired through conscious effort and practice. The brain doesn’t distinguish between vivid imagination and reality, making visualization a powerful tool for achievement. Success requires alignment between personal values and actions rather than conforming to external expectations.

• Question: What if you have a hard time allowing yourself to think about what you want?
• Answer: This often indicates people-pleasing tendencies. The solution is to step back, detach, and consistently ask yourself what you truly want and enjoy.

Emotions and reactions can be reprogrammed through awareness, pattern recognition, and intentional interruption. Using logic as an antidote to emotional reactions, combined with techniques like the “stop technique” or pattern interrupts, can help manage responses more effectively.

• Question: Can you reprogram emotions like fear and stress to serve us better?
• Answer: Yes, through awareness of patterns, interrupting automatic responses, and questioning the validity of our reactions. Techniques like exposure therapy and logical questioning can help reprogram responses.

Effective leadership requires maintaining joy and curiosity, which are contagious qualities that inspire teams. Leaders should focus on creating sustainable practices, celebrating small wins, and understanding that not everyone needs to follow the same path to success.

• Question: How do we right-size our dreams and goals?
• Answer: Focus on creating smaller, achievable visions along the way to bigger dreams. Activity (small daily actions) is more important than action (one-time pushes).

• Define personal success metrics separate from societal expectations

• Implement daily celebration of small wins

• Practice pattern interruption techniques when facing emotional reactions

• Consider working with a coach for accountability and perspective

• Attend the upcoming in-person event in Orlando on April 18th