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Thought Bridging:  ChangeYour Thinking, Change Your Results

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Self Awareness “in the moment”

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. . . it’s about the experience that others are having.

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It may be cliché, but it’s really NOT about you . . .

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

- Maya Angelou

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Intellect & Emotion: How are We Wired?

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Intellect Can Clarify Intent

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Emotion Moves Us to Act

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Thoughts ALWAYS Precede Emotions

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Change the Thought, Change the Emotion

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Change the Emotion, Change the Action

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Change the Action, Change the Result

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90 Seconds

How Long Does it Take for a Strong Emotion to Pass through our System?

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How Can We Intervene to Change the Result?

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In those choices lie our growth and our happiness.” 

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The Results ALWAYS Seek to Justify the Precipitating Thought . . .

I told you I was right!

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Reptile Brain (Amygdala Highjack) –Failed Intervention

You see! They really are out to get me!

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Our Brain is like Teflon for Positivity and Velcro for Negativity (hat tip to Gretchen Pisano)

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Flashlight Analogy

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CatastrophizingWe’re all going We’re all going to die!!!!

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Now It’s Your Turn: Individual Exercise• Describe a recent vivid event that elicited a strong emotional responseoThoughtoFeltoActed LikeoResult

• Alternative thought – just as believable as the original

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Find a Friend: Pair Exercise

• Describe your situation

• Brainstorm some alternative thoughts – push your partner’s thinking

• Switch – now it’s your partner’s turn

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Turning Your Brain Back On

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Contact InfoDan Griffiths, CPA, CGMA is the Director of Strategic Planning at Tanner, LLC, a Salt Lake City‐based CPA firm with about 90 team members.  Prior to merging his practice with Tanner, he co‐founded Proficio Services Group to provide strategic & business planning, leadership development, and business coaching services. Dan is a graduate of the 2010 AICPA Leadership Academy and in 2011‐2012 served as the chair of the Young CPA Network Committee for the AICPA.  In 2015, Dan received the AICPA Outstanding Young CPA Award given to one CPA each year under the age of 40.  Dan has also been very active with the UACPA and in 2011 was recognized as the Outstanding CPA in Business and Management.  He was recently selected to serve as Utah’s elected member of the AICPA Governing Council.  Dan is an avid flyfisher, backpacker, and gardener.  He and his wife Bibiana are the proud parents of four children.

Contact Dan at: dgriffiths@tannerco.comOr connect with him on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/dangriffithscpa