Shad Helmstetter, Ph.D., best-selling author of 25+ books on mental health and personal growth, is founder of The Self-Talk Institute. The SelfTalkPlus app helps all age groups learn positive self-talk. Topics include stress & anxiety, weight loss, self-esteem, organization, relationships, finances and career goals.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Shad’s father
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I had decided to work in the field of human behaviour and I had decided that I wanted to tell the world about self-talk and in particular how to change your self-talk, how to change your programs. It was a difficult early path to follow because science hadn’t yet caught up with the hypothesis that we can actually rewire our brain by thinking about it – we couldn’t prove that yet scientifically. So I had to have a lot of faith in my own research and I had to have a lot of faith in my observation during the first years”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Man’s Search For Meaning Book by Viktor E FranklFavourite Quote:
“You are everything that is. Your thoughts, your life, your dreams come true. You are everything you choose to be. You are as unlimited as the endless universe” Shad Helmstetter
Recommended Online Resources:
Audiobooks – Explore the world’s largest selection of audiobook titles by bestselling authors
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Write your goals down, even the small ones. Start the goal with my goal is… And then finish the sentence… Spend some time doing that, invest the time, take time with yourself and talk about your goals. Talk about your goals with someone you believe in and someone you trust. So, talk about it and listen to what you say when you are talking about your goals. Listen to the things you hear yourself saying that feel good and feel yes, I like that. Also listen to the things that are no that’s not for me”…[Listen for More]
More About Shad Helmstetter:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got.” Janis Joplin
Other Quotes From the Chat with Shad Helmstetter:
- “Everything that I did was based on goals that I actually wrote down so I knew what they were. In each area that I was working on I knew the objective was and I got good at changing those goals when I had to. So, I would review them frequently”
- “Number one is certainly believing in yourself. When I have said that sometimes people have said sometimes people think you can’t just automatically believe in yourself. But the fact is we now know from research and neuroscience that the key to success is repetition, repetition, repetition. That is the key to success whether you want to play a musical instrument or develop a skill or learning a foreign language. It’s the key. The brain is wired based on repetition”
- “People are so much more than they imagine they are”
- “You are everything that is, you can do this”
- “If you want to reach something, if you want to do it set a goal, but write it down… It’s best to write it in your own hand… and then read it every morning – it doesn’t take but a moment or two. And then read it at night before you go to bed. When you do that is not just some clever motivational or self-motivational idea. When you are doing that, you are actually telling your brain this is the direction I want to go, this is the objective I want to reach, help me solve these problems and take the steps to get there and we will make it”
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