life improvement workshop - self-development - personal-revolutions
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- 1. Life Improvement Live Event Self Improvement Concepts Life Strategy Personal Revolutions November 12, 2011 2011Paul Worsham
- 2. Agenda
- Introduction
- 3. Slides & discussion & breaks
- 4. Wrap-up and after-discussion
- 5. Introduction
- This is a first-time presentation of this information
- 6. The content is for informational purposes consult a professional before taking action
- 7. Ask questions at any time
- 8. This information will be put online after the event
- 9. Housekeeping notes: If you need to feed a meter, we can help remind you.
- 10. Please put your phones on vibrate/silent/low volume
- 11. 3 steps
- Know yourself
- 12. Improve yourself
- 13. Enjoy your life
- 14. 3 Things
- Know yourself become aware of:
- Your passions/goals/motivation
- 15. Your capabilities
- 16. How you (really) function
- Improve yourself once you know yourself:
- Map out how to get to where you want to be
- Enjoy your life
- Create flow in your activities
- 17. Happiness recognize, allow, expand it
- Know yourself become aware of:
- 18. How Do We Change, Improve?
- Just identifying a problem is half solved.
- 19. Identifying your own challenges gets you past denial and blockage.
- 20. Sometimes you need to act without believing.
- 21. mind-body connection
- Somewhat obvious, sometimes not
- 22. Vision example:
- Our eyes see pixels - not shapes
- 23. Our brain filters, for patterns such as horizontal motion.We can even dictate these filters.
- 24. Our mind gets this input, and applies meaning to these pixels and patterns
- 25. We see our world
- 26. biology, diet, and environmental interactions
- Exercise changes the brain in beneficial ways
- Neurons are created, chemicals are released
- 27. Blood flow is increased
- 28. Better mood, skin, muscle tone, energy
- 29. Confidence
- What you eat affects how your body operates
- Complex interactions within our biology
- 30. Who you are = in your head (brain/mind)
- 31. What you eat = who you are able to be (brain performance)
- Exercise changes the brain in beneficial ways
- 32. enjoy "flow" in life's activities
- Flow a positive mental state of operation
- ... in which a person in an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity. (Wikipedia)
- Enjoyment without trying:
- The hallmark of flow is a feeling of spontaneous joy, even rapture, while performing a task, although flow is also described as a deep focus on nothing but the activity not even oneself or one's emotions
- Flow a positive mental state of operation
- 33. focus, willpower, and motivation
- Focus situations:
- Learning
- 34. Tasks completing actions, thoughts
- 35. Communication
- Why USA phone numbers were 7 digits?
- 36. Biological focus & follow-through (theory)
- When running, we have to focus 1 to 5 steps out
- 37. The most important decsions are near to us
- 38. The better working memory, the smarter?
- Focus situations:
- 39. focus, willpower, and motivation
- Willpower
- Deciding on goals
- 40. Prioritization
- 41. Focus battling internal & external distractions
- Motivation
- Expected benefits from an activity (reward)
- Willpower
- 42. focus, willpower, and motivation
- Motivation questions
- 43. Emotional Mathematics?
- Happy + Loving = Positive Support
- Happy + Purpose = Motivated
- Anger + Impatience = Revenge
- Anger + Understanding = Forgiveness
- Purpose + Energy = Confidence
- 44. (ingredient 1) + (ingredient 2) = Happiness
- Happy + Loving = Positive Support
- 45. brain
- Human brains are the most complex.
- Four lobes, folds making each brain unique
- Composed of billions of neurons, each with thousands of synapses (connections to other neurons). 80 to 120 billion neurons.
- 46. We are born with more connections than we need, and lose them as part of becoming who we are
- 47. Belief factor fiction more powerful than fact?
- 48. Multi-tasking fact or fiction?
- Human brains are the most complex.
- 49. brain plasticity
- Neuroplasticity: re-wiring our brains
- 50. Refers to the ability of the brain and nervous system in all species to change structurally and functionally as a result of input from the environment. (Wikipedia)
- 51. Plasticity occurs on a variety of levels, ranging from cellular changes involved in learning, to large-scale changes involved in cortical remapping in response to injury.
- 52. meditation
- Practicing meditation may lead to changes in the neurological
process, creating physiological health benefits
- Examples of benefits include: reduction in stress, anxiety, depression, headaches, pain, elevated blood pressure, improved focus, mood.
- Practicing meditation may lead to changes in the neurological
process, creating physiological health benefits
- 53. limitless
- being limitless in pursuit of all that inspires us
- 54. what limits us?
- * physical - boundaries, energy,
- 55. * logical - laws, society
- 56. * emotional - confidence, social pressure - our interpretations
- 57. life planning, blueprinting, setting vision, goals
- Parameters for life planning:
- A blueprint is a structural design.
- 58. A plan is how builders take the blueprint, and over time make it a reality.
- 59. Plans change, timelines change, flexibility is always needed.
- A vision precedes a blueprint; not as detailed.
- You have a vision, it is what got you here.
- 60. long-term vision create one, or use "default".
- 61. default = dependent on external influences, training, expectations
- Parameters for life planning:
- 62. Goals
- goals - these are milestones.
- 63. a goal must have a deadline, or else it is a dream?
- 64. Really?Must be someone who likes deadlines.
- 65. A goal must have a feeling associated with it, which is perhaps the real goal.
- 66. Do you want marriage, or the feelings that it will bring?
- 67. the real goal may be happiness - pleasure.
- 68. Self-Deception
- Understanding how our minds deceive us, and using that
constructively
- How do we decide, anyway?
- We think we know ourselves, especially our preferences, but not always.
- 69. Marketers continue to study this area.Why?Because if they know us, it will help them.
- Understanding how our minds deceive us, and using that
constructively
- 70. Destiny
- You are exactly where you are supposed to be.
- 71. Next Thoughts
- Meta-cognition thinking about thinking
- Why are you acting/thinking this way?
- 72. Think it through what do you really want?
- Watch What You Feed Your Brain:
- You will move towards what you think about
- Everyone wants to influence you
- 73. Keep learning, growing
- Happiness set point
- 74. Become comfortable with what fits in with your personal sense of destiny & purpose
- Meta-cognition thinking about thinking
- 75. Wrap-up
- What did you get out of today?
- 76. What will you remember tomorrow?
- 77. What other topics are you interested in covering?
- 78. Social time is beneficial to our minds & brains...
- 79. (continue sharing with each other)