HELLO, my name is Joe Dumas. Early in my university years, I stumble upon some saying from a guy from Wall Street, Gordon Gecko who said something profound and resonated within me at the time: “Every battle is won before it is even fought: Think about it !”.

Since that time, I have always been fascinated by the mental duel that goes on daily in our brain. I have been engaging “ in thought processes” for a long while now. Being constantly aware of old negative thoughts habits, I have learned how to control my mind or rather clear my mind of all limitations.

Everything starts with the thoughts that we have in our conscious mind. Our thoughts are transmitted  to and picked up by our subconscious mind. Our subconscious mind creates our reality. Scientists tell us that the subconscious mind is at work all the time – it regulates our heartbeat, our breathing, etc. It takes over – based on our habits and our thought patterns. It carries over all our experience that we ever had. In fact, it creates our reality.

For example, if you believe that it is difficult to meet people and have a happy relationship, then your subconscious mind will create difficult  & tense relationships. Whatever beliefs that you have, whatever thoughts that you have that support that belief will become your reality because your subconscious mind will act on them.

Think of something negative, such as fearing to have a car accident whilst you are driving. A single thought attracts another thought, which compounds and attracts another negative thought, Before you know it, your subconscious mind is acting on those beliefs – and soon the reality supports that belief.

So in order to change our reality, we need to change our beliefs. In order to change our beliefs, we need to change our thoughts. Confident thoughts create a Confident person; Successful thoughts create a successful person.

During my Academic time, I was not surprised to find that students with low self esteem did not fare well in their exams. Some of them managed to get through their courses but they did not have a high opinion of themselves. At that time, I did not have the tools to help them.

Later on, I moved from the Academia and joined the Sales and Marketing world.  I did this because I wanted to experience the unique perspective of dealing with many professions. I wanted to experience persuasion techniques; manipulative deals; hypnotic closes, the art of negotiation. There, I would find how professional salespersons behave; how their mind framed deals and how strong or weak their mental psyche was.

Upon working successfully in the sales arena for a number of years, I soon graduated to sales management and started coaching others. The diversity of people one encounters in the selling world is huge: On one hand, salespeople are a breed on their own due to their varied background; on the other hand, the customers are also another breed. All this melting pot leads to an interesting and fascinating combination: the battle of the Mind.

I was further challenged in my sales management career because I was dealing with an extensive list of industries & occupation: Health; Retail; Finance; It; manufacturing; Advertising; Home sales, etc

One dominant factor was evident on both sides of the table: People who worked in junior or middle management roles had a low level of self esteem. They were not as confident as successful CEO.

I will expound on this later on in another blog….

Whilst engaged in counselling, coaching and mentoring sales people, it was no surprise to me to learn that my daughter was studying to become a Psychologist. She would often bring home her Uni friends (all psychologists) and we had interesting conversations over the years. She actually married a fellow psychologist.

They were dabbling in theories whilst I was presenting them with cold hard facts about thought patterns and belief systems. They were fascinated about how I could mould “rookie” salespersons into highly confident sales machines by using the power of the mind.

One day, it dawned upon me that if I could make all these resources available to the public, it would be of tremendous value to those who need it. At my disposal, I had  expert Psychologists specialising in Depression; Juvenile delinquencies; Stress management; clinical hypnotherapy; etc. For my part, my mentoring and sales management background qualified me to be a Motivator and confidence coach. Above all, my main focus was to work with people with low self esteem and subtly change their mental outlook to gain a positive meaning to their lives.

So in essence, www.selfesteembreakthroughs.com is the labour and fruit of our expertise at your disposal. We are honoured if the materials that we present are of assistance to you in your quest for self confidence and success in your life.