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Thought Bridging: ChangeYour Thinking, Change Your Life

Intellect & Emotion: How are We Wired?

Intellect Can Clarify Intent

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Emotion Moves Us to Act

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ThoughtsALWAYSPrecedeEmotions

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

90 Seconds

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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.

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

I told you I was right!

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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Catastrophizing

Were all going to die!!!!

Now Its Your Turn: Individual ExerciseDescribe a recent vivid event that elicited a strong emotional responseThoughtFeltActed LikeResult

Alternative thought just as believable as the original

Find a Friend: Pair ExerciseDescribe your situation

Brainstorm some alternative thoughts push your partners thinking

Switch now its your partners turn

Turning Your Brain Back On

Contact Info

Dan Griffiths, CPA, CGMA is the Director of Strategic Planning at Tanner, LLC, a Salt Lake City-based professional services firm with about 80 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. 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 Utahs elected member of the AICPA Governing Council. Dan is an avid flyfisher, backpacker, and gardener. He and his wife Bibiana just welcomed their fourth child to the family.

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