A small-town southern boy moves to New York City

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Dwight spent his childhood years living in South and North Carolina. After high school, he attended college, traveled in Europe for six months and spent six months in the Marine Corps Reserve. He then borrowed $200 from his parents in 1966 and moved to New York City, without knowing anyone there.

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Programming computers and learning about the mind

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Dwight discovered his love of computers in NYC where he worked for IBM for two years and then, at the age of 24, he started his own computer software consulting business. Over the course of his computer career, he programmed in APT, FORTRAN, PL1, COBOL, APL, BASIC, and FORTH. More recently, just for fun, he dabbles in PYTHON. From his early years as a programmer, he became a workshop “junkie,” actively studying psychology, gender differences, motivation, nutrition, sales and marketing, cultural anthropology, sexuality, spirituality, and philosophy.

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Bye bye, New York...Hello, Arizona...

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Fourteen years later in 1979, while attending a Neuro-Linguistic Programming seminar (a psychological discipline) in Scottsdale, Arizona, Dwight fell in love with the “Valley of the Sun.” He packed up his bags and moved to Tempe, Arizona where he re-established his software consulting business.

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A personal breakthrough leads to a new career in life coaching

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In Arizona, Dwight was generally satisfied with this life…and was frustrated with one area. He found that he wasn’t good at keeping promises and commitments to himself.

 

Thus, with his background in psychology and motivation, in 1987 Dwight created an approach that was almost foolproof…and later called it Consider It Done®. Consider It Done® guaranteed to people that they would keep any agreement they made with themselves.

 

Dwight quickly found himself achieving things with consistency that he had never imagined. As his friends and business associates learned about the results Dwight was getting personally, they began to ask for his help in keeping their agreements.  He later included life coaching in addition to the Consider It Done® service and his new business took off.

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From America to Japan to China...

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During his 18 years in Arizona Dwight was happily married and happily divorced twice. In November, 1999, after living one year in Hermosa Beach, California, Dwight made the biggest move of his life. He moved overseas to Japan, which he had started visiting four years earlier. He first landed in Tokyo and, after a year there, he decided China was a better place to live and he settled in Shanghai.

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Authoring a 700-page book on courage

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Dwight chose Shanghai because he loves the culture, people, and country and he planned to live there somewhere between “indefinitely” and “forever.” In his spare time, Dwight enjoyed hanging out with friends, writing, and exploring Shanghai. His book Courage: the Choice that Makes the Difference—Your Key to a Thousand Doors was published in 2004.

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Bye bye, Shanghai...Hello, Kunming...

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“Forever” turned out to be nine years. In January of 2010, Dwight moved his entire life to Kunming, the “Spring City” of China. 

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Detour before finding my dream city

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After leaving Kunming and an interesting one-year residency in Bogota, Colombia, Dwight returned to Asia, settling in DaNang, Vietnam. Wow! What an amazing city and country to live in!

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37 years and counting...

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Dwight has successfully coached thousands of people around the world over the past 37 years and loves what he does. He has worked with corporate executives, small business owners, artists, musicians, doctors, lawyers and others from every walk of life.  He has partnered with people from all ages…from 7 to 82 years old!

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Launching AskDwightHow in February of 2018

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After eight years in Kunming and over three decades as a life coach, Dwight started publishing his seminal discoveries about how to live a great life through AskDwightHow.org. He now calls this labor of love The 14:24 Guest House, currently boasting almost one thousand, three hundred suites.

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Eclectic learning

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Deciding to explore life eclectically at the age of 14, he bombarded himself with often disparate philosophies, ideas, and technologies: Christianity, Foundation for Economic Education, Objectivist Philosophy (Ayn Rand), Gestalt Therapy, Transcendental Meditation (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi), Biocentric Psychology (Nathaniel Branden), Primal Screaming, Rebirthing, NLP (Bandler and Grinder), The Forum (Werner Erhard and Landmark Education), Hermenet (Fernando Flores), Omega I, II, III (George Adair), Provocative Therapy (Frank Farrelly), Cognitive Therapy (David Burns and Shad Helmstetter), Date with Destiny (Tony Robbins), Buddhism, Taoism, The Work (Byron Katie), Integral Theory (Ken Wilbur), Source School of Tantra Yoga (Charles Muir), Getting Things Done (David Allen), How Not to Die (Michael Greger), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (Steven Hayes), plus reading about one book per week for most of his life.

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Describing what he does

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You know how people have difficulties in their relationships with others. You know how people often feel conflicted within themselves. You know how people are not fulfilled in their job or career. Well, he fixes those problems and he trains others how to keep them fixed. Even more fundamentally, he trains others to be both deeply excited about and profoundly in love with the moment-by-moment and day-to-day journey of their life, enchanted with their own life as an extraordinary work of art. Lifestyle coaching, that's his job.

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