Positive Steps RFI Dec 09

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Positive Steps

Laura Fitzsimons2009

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Agenda

• Changing your Perspective

• Current Thinking & Language

• Resisting Change

• Making the Change

• Taking Those Positive Steps

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Changing your Perspective

• Re-framing • Looking at things differently • Taking a step back & re-framing

• Benefits• Different perspective• See the ‘whole’ picture• Evaluate & assess differently

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Changing your Perspective

• For you:• Discuss a recent situation where

reframing would have changed your perspective

• Feedback

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Changing your Perspective

“The future depends on what we do in the present”

Mahatma Ghandi

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Current Thinking & Language

• States/Moods• How do you view yourself/the world?

• How productive are you?

• What do you lose out on?

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Current Thinking & Language

• Change your State/Mood• Good state – record how you feel,

think, act and talk

• ‘Save’ this picture

• ‘Recall’ it later – bed/chilling

• How do you feel?

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Current Thinking & Language

• States/Moods• Awareness of your less productive

states/moods

• Stop!

• Recall your ‘saved’ productive state/mood

• Result

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Current Thinking & Language

• Your Language• Effect on others/you

• What we do with Language:• Delete (what we don’t want to hear)

• Distort (change what we hear)

• Generalise (make things general vs. specific - always, never)

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Current Thinking & Language

• Positive Language - Instead of:

• ‘I can’t’ use ‘What I can do is …’

• ‘That’s not possible’ use ‘What is possible is ..’

• ‘It’s not my fault’ use ‘Let me see what I can do’

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Resisting Change

• Self- Limiting Beliefs • Limitations

• Conscious or Unconscious

• Colour our perception

• Determine our actions or inactions

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Resisting Change

• Recognise Them

• Challenge Them

• Identify your Self-Empowering Beliefs

• Coaching

• Work Through Them

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Resisting Change

“If you think you can do a thing or can’t do a thing, then you are

right”

Henry Ford

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Making the Change

• Positive Affirmations • What do you do well?

• What challenges have you overcome?

• What have you learned to do?

• What compliments have you been given?

• Note & Replay

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Making the Change

“It’s hard to fail but it’s worse never to have tried to

succeed”

Theodore Roosevelt

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Making the Change

• Not Motivated - Feeling Gloomy • Can’t

• Not able

• Don’t know how

• Not good enough

• Inspire Yourself

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Making the Change

• Re-charge your battery

• Feed your inspiration

• Extraverted - pictures, people, gatherings

• Intraverted – quite time, reflection, alone

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Making the Change

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Making the Change

• Inspiring yourself:

• List 3 things/people/places/quotes that inspire you

• Feedback

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Taking Those Positive Steps

“Thomas Edison dreamed of a lamp that could be operated by

electricity, began where he stood to put his dream into action, and

despite more than ten thousand failures, he stood by that dream

until he made it a physical reality. Practical dreamers do not quit.”

Napoleon Hill

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Taking Those Positive Steps

• Plan your Future - Document:• Your goals, dreams, aspirations

• Work out ‘Baby Steps’ to Achievement

• Tick the Box & Move on

• Repeat X 10,000

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Summary

• Changing your Perspective - Reframe

• Change your Thinking & Language

• Work through and Implement Change

• Take ‘Baby’ Positive Steps

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PowerPoint Slides

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Positive Steps

Merry Christmas

&

a Happy New year