How healthy is your relationship with yourself?

“I had to look within to determine who I was and what I wanted. Was I not eager to get to know myself well, I would not have made the career change that allowed for so much possibility and happiness in my life.”- John Duffy

If you are searching for that person that will change your life, that person is you. Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.

I’m often asked about why and how I changed from my engineering career to a speaking and training career. I must admit, engineering taught me and instilled in me to always work from first principles and understand the innermost workings of things.

I believe this set me on a path to success.

My huge appreciation about the engineering field is that it didn’t just teach me ‘the what’, thus to memorize the so-called facts, but it taught me ‘the how’, thus to question and understand from first principles to think.

Now to quickly answer the ‘why’ I changed careers. It was based on self-discovery. I connected with what truly drove me. That discovery came as a result of my eagerness to know more about myself. It happened just because of my eagerness.

To directly use Dr Duffy’s words, “Were I not eager to get to know myself well, I would not have made the career change that allowed for so much possibility and happiness in my life.”

Today I transform ordinary teams to NeuroTeams, ordinary leaders to NeuroLeaders by using the NeuroTool called the ‘Veli Ndaba NeuroEngineering Leadership Effect” #VNNLE which uses the fundamental principles of neuroscience and engineering principles to leadership and leadership cultures.

I move leadership from a place of mental darkness to mental light. This wouldn’t have happened had I not connected with who I truly am!