21-Day Challenge: Changing Habits and Behaviors
Join us for a 21-Day Challenge for daily practices that retrain our neural networks and so transform our habits and behaviors.
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- Event lasts 1 hour
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Train the Brain to Break Old Patterns and Build New Ones
Most of our daily behavior runs on autopilot—shaped by repetition, emotional conditioning, and environmental cues. From how we respond to email to how we manage stress or delay action, these patterns often feel automatic. But they’re not permanent. Habits are learned—and they can be unlearned and replaced.
This 21-day challenge offers a practical framework for reshaping behavior through intentional neuroplasticity. You’ll learn how habits form in the brain, how to weaken old loops, and how to replace them with conscious routines aligned with your values and goals.
Our objectives are to retrain the neural reinforcement patterns that drive your daily decisions.
Why It’s Critical to Train Habit Change
Because behavior shapes outcomes:
- Habits determine how we use time, attention, and energy.
- Unconscious routines can block growth, damage relationships, and limit effectiveness.
- Even motivated people get stuck in outdated behaviors that no longer serve them.
The brain follows what’s familiar. Unless we bring awareness to the loop—cue, behavior, reward—it will keep running the same programs. But with the right tools, you can rewire those patterns and build new ones.
Why This Matters Now
Poor habits compound quickly. Constant distraction, over-commitment, reactive leadership, and avoidance behaviors cost us (and our organizations) time, engagement, and productivity.
At the same time, high performers are being asked to self-regulate, prioritize better, and do more with less support. That makes self-directed behavior change an essential leadership capability.
This challenge offers a science-based method to help individuals:
- Identify unhelpful patterns
- Reduce reinforcement of old behaviors
- Build structural support for new habits
- Align daily actions with deeper purpose
It’s not just what you do—it’s how and why you do it.
Built for Leaders, Coaches, and People-Developers
Whether you’re looking to change your own patterns or help others change theirs, this challenge provides a clear path forward. Each day, you’ll receive a brief guided practice, a structured reflection, and actionable insights from behavioral science and neuroscience.
Over the 21 days, you’ll develop core habit-change skills:
- Recognizing and interrupting the habit loop
- Reducing the emotional payoff of old behaviors
- Creating space between impulse and response
- Replacing patterns with meaningful alternatives
- Embedding new habits through repetition and identity alignment
This is real neural training—to achieve change through intentional neuroplasticity. You'll learn the concepts and practices to retrain the patterns that shape your life, relationships and work.