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Copyright © 2008 Employment

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You Choose!

How to Create Positive Life

and Work Fulfillment

Kelly Kozar, CDFI, B.Ed. [email protected]


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Introductions


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Workshop Overview An introduction to practical techniques,

based on cognitive behavioural theory,

for increasing motivation to succeed.

Understanding and Changing Thinking Patterns

Motivation

Learned Optimism

Limited Thinking

Kicking the Worry Habit


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Self-Efficacy The BELIEF about one's ability to perform

One of the predictors of success

in both education and work

A significant component in Bandura’s

social cognitive theory

Enormous effects on

effort, interest, persistence and performance.


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Outcome Expectancy The BELIEF that your efforts will result

in a successful outcome.

Sense of control over life events

versus

feelings of helplessness


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Uncovering the Genius© Interactive Workshop based on

-Cognitive/Behavioural Theory

-Positive Psychology

After completing workshop

60 % of participants were self-sufficient in self-efficacy

80% were self-sufficient in outcome expectancy

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HELPFUL THINGS TO KNOW Most people do not change because they do not know how to

change

We all have more than enough talent to do anything we want

The word “CAN’T” is the ugliest four letter word

What holds us back is our own self-image

Change the image - change the performance


POWER OF THE MIND

75% of all sickness and disease starts in the mind

Stress, which starts in the mind, is the number one cause of all

fatigue and illness

We only use 10% of our mind

This means 10% of our mind causes 75% of all sickness

Imagine what would happen if we used our mind to its’ fullest.

• 60 – 90 % of all doctors visits involve

stress related complaints

• 15% of the Canadian workforce suffers

from depression

• 65-70% of disability cases are a result

of a mental health disorder

Moods Magazine September 2005


POWER OF THE MIND

You have potential right now that you are not using...

Harness that potential and you can pursue the life of your

dreams!


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Lock-on/Lock-out

When we lock on to one way of thinking we

automatically lock out other options.


Lock On ... Lock Out

Wrong Information

Too Quickly

Too Long


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Is It There If You Can’t See It

If past conditioning does not match what you are looking at,

you do not see it and a blind spot is created.

CAN YOU SEE THE PROBLEM

WITH SCOTOMAS?


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The Ultimate Scotoma


POWER OF THE MIND

If you always do

what you have always done

you will always get

what you have always got.


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How Can We

Change Our

Perspective?


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Have To’s

Want To’s


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Motivation

An inner force that compels behaviour

Comes from within

NOT from any external circumstances.


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Motivation RESTRICTIVE

Primarily based on:

“Have To’s”

Fear


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How Do We Resist?

Slow down…procrastinate…take longer

Creative Avoidance

Work just good enough to get someone off your back


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Motivation CONSTRUCTIVE

Primarily based on:

“Want To’s”

Pay value or Personal Profitability


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Have To’s

Want To’s

Everything in life

is a choice!


Activity

You Have Two

Choices

LEARNED OPTIMISM


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The only have to’s in life are to breath and take up space…

everything else is a CHOICE.

HAVE TO’S


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Optimistic Thinking Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a tea

kettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.


LEARNED OPTIMISM Benefits of Optimism

Respond better to adversity of all kinds

Better physical health

Greater life expectancy


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Learned Optimism Optimist

Isolates the BAD

Temporalize

Other Factors

Pessimist

Isolates the Good

Globalises

Externalises


Develop a

child-like

“anything

is

possible”

attitude.


Activity

Change

Exercise


Comfort Zones

Our self image operates like the thermostat in your home


Comfort Zones

Ability to recall information shuts down

Creative avoidance

Upgrade your comfort zone by raising your self-image

You will NEVER achieve sustainable success

that exceeds the image you have of yourself


We must get outside our comfort

zone and become psychologically

comfortable with success

BEFORE we experience it in reality

Activity

Your Approach to

Life Quiz


Identify Limiting Thoughts

If I am happy now, I won’t be motivated to change anything

I can’t change. This is just the way I am.

My feelings are natural reactions, not something I can control

If I control my feelings, I’ll be like a robot

You have to do some things you don’t want to do in this life

People who are optimistic aren’t realistic



Identify Limiting Thoughts

Stressful in nature

Angry and fearful in nature

Attached to words like:

CAN’T...HARD...DIFFICULT...IMPOSSIBLE


DISCUSSION

What are your Limiting Thoughts?

How do they impact your life/work?

Kicking the Worry Habit

Worry may be a killer

Do you know what it means to

ruminate?

Downward Spiral Worthless

Hostile

Hopeless

Worry is like a rocking chair — it gives you something

to do but it doesn’t get you anywhere.

Dorothy Galyean

Worry Is Wasted mental Energy

Worry is Wasted Mental Energy False

Evidence

Appearing

Real

Activity

How do you allow worry to keep you

from becoming all you can be?

How do you let worry rob you of better

relationships, better results, and better

communication

Get Free of the Worry Habit

1. Recognize worry for what it is and admit what it does.

2. Decide that you now want to be free.

3. Argue with your worry thoughts.

4. Examine your fears and worries to see if they are valid.

“Thoughts of doubt and fear can never

accomplish anything. They always lead

to failure.” As A Man Thinketh

Remember to… • Focus on what you WANT rather than

what you DON’T want.

• Think about DESIRED RESULTS-

something good instead of something

bad.

• Work on SOLUTIONS rather than a

possible negative outcome.


Activity

Dear Me

WRAPPING UP


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In you right now is the power to do things you never

dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you

just as soon as you can change your beliefs.

Dr. Maxwell Maltz