If you want to create sustained success in your life, business, or leadership… your mind must become your most trusted ally.

The truth is: most people are operating with an outdated mental model of how their mind works. They’re trying to create new outcomes with old tools. They’re chasing results without understanding the internal mechanics that create them.

In my coaching, this is one of the first and most essential teachings we unpack. Because without this awareness, you’ll always default to what’s familiar, even if what’s familiar is what’s keeping you stuck.

The Stick Person: A Model for Mastery

In 1934, Dr. Thurman Fleet introduced a simple yet profound visual to explain the structure of the mind. Today, we refer to it as the Stick Person diagram and while the drawing may be elementary, the implications are transformational.

This framework gives language and logic to how your thoughts become things. It shows how your behaviours are shaped and how real, sustainable change is made, not from force, but from alignment.

Here’s what you need to know:

• The Conscious Mind is your thinking mind. This is where your awareness lives. It’s the part of you that sets goals, imagines possibility, and chooses what to focus on. It uses your higher mental faculties; perception, will, reason, imagination, memory, and intuition, to interpret the world and make decisions.
• The Subconscious Mind is your emotional mind. This is where your paradigms; your deep, habitual beliefs live. It doesn’t respond to logic. It responds to repetition, emotion, and identity. If your conscious mind sets a goal but your subconscious mind is still programmed for something less, you’ll always revert back to the familiar pattern.
• The Body is the instrument of the mind. It executes the instructions of the subconscious without question. This is why change often feels hard: you’re trying to act differently without first reprogramming the belief system that drives those actions.

Understanding this structure is essential if you want to:

• Stop operating from old patterns
• Lead from intention, not emotion
• Build a self-image that aligns with the results you truly want
• Achieve extraordinary results without burning out or betraying yourself

The Path to New Results Starts in the Mind

In every one of my coaching programs, from Thinking Into Results to GPS for New Success, this is where we begin.

Because you cannot elevate your results without upgrading your self-image. And you cannot upgrade your self-image without understanding how your magnificent mind works.

When you start to live from this place, when you begin to truly understand how to use the mental faculties you were gifted, you stop reacting to life and start creating it.

You shift from confusion to clarity.
From friction to flow.
From effort to effortless expansion.

You Are the Programmer and the Program

Your paradigms are not permanent. Your results are not a life sentence. You’re not at the mercy of your current identity, income, or circumstances.

But nothing will change until you do.

This is your invitation to step into the most powerful work you’ll ever do, the work of becoming the thinker behind the thoughts, the architect behind the results, and the leader of your own evolution.