How to Change Your Habits & Change Your Results by Noah St. John

04/19/23 • 36 min

Too many self-help gurus out there tell you what you already know, today’s Ask an Expert guest actually gives you the tools to reach your full individual and business potential. Noah St. John is known as “The Power Habit Mentor” and has helped businesses add an additional $2.7 billion in revenue.
Back in 1997, Noah had an epiphany when he discovered that the traditional affirmation models we all have tried to help change our lives fell short, and so he made a subtle but powerful shift and created the Afformations model. Noah shares how much more powerful this can be and then shares how we struggle to make progress because of the “head trash” we all have inside our heads.
Noah also talks about the differences between individual and corporate habits, and how we can get them to align for a more productive corporate environment. Finally, we talk about how you can mentally mitigate the challenges that we’re all facing in these tough times.

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