calming the chaos at work

Calming the Chaos at WorkJACKIE WOODSIDE, LICSW, CPCWWW.JACKIEWOODSIDE.COM

Course Objectives Identify specific skills that will enhance

productivity while reducing stress.

Apply a model of energetic consciousness to the day-to-day experiences of time and stress.

Course Objectives

Identify specific behavioral patterns and ways of thinking that reduce overall effectiveness and productivity and add to the experience of stress and burn out.

Course Objectives

Create an entirely new way of managing self-in-time that dramatically reduces stress and increases clarity, efficiency and productivity.

Course Objectives

Course Objectives

Section I: The Need for a New Paradigm

Relevance of this topic

"A study by a researcher at the University of California, San Diego says that by 2015, the sum of media asked for and delivered to consumers would take more than FIFTEEN HOURS PER DAY to see and

hear!!

That is equal to 6.9 million gigabytes of information, or a daily consumption of nine DVDs worth of data per

person per day."

90% of the world’s data was generated in the last two

years!~Science Daily

May 2013

Information Fatigue Syndrome:concept by Dr. David Lewis

Poor concentration Sleeplessness Hurry sickness (the unending

feeling of needing to rush or feeling pressured)

Chronic irritability Increased stress and anxiety Compulsive “plugged in” behavior Depression Feeling burned out

80% of all American workers

say they feel STRESS on the job.

Gallup Poll

80% of medical expenditures are STRESS-related.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

70% of American employees work beyond their scheduled time due to self-imposed PRESSURE and self-reported DISORGANIZATION.

Pew Research Center

We are the most OVERWEIGHT, OVER MEDICATED, ADDICTED generation in history.

Dr. Brene Brown,University of Houston

Top two deathbed regrets: I wish I spent MORE

TIME on what was IMPORTANT TO ME.

I wish I didn’t WORK SO HARD.

Bronnie Ware, “Top Five Regrets of the Dying”

Themes?

Cultural Paradigm

Calming the Chaos by managing your PERSONAL ENERGY rather

than TIME or STRESS

Section II: A New Paradigm

ENERGY?

MANAGING ENERGY 1. AWARENESS of what impacts your

energy positively and negatively.

2. Making conscious decisions to do things that INCREASE ENERGY and eliminate or reduce things that DRAIN ENERGY.

3. Managing your work life by being PRODUCTIVE rather than BUSY.

4. Employing HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS.

5. Employing SKILLS AND PRACTICES that improve energy, mental clarity, order and ease in life.

MANAGING ENERGY

Skill-

Building

Empowerment

Awareness

AWARENESS

ASSESSMENT

BUSY Scattered Disorganized Random Reactive Stressed Overwhelmed Time as enemy Driven Anxious Confused

Psychological Payoffs of Being“Crazy Busy”

PRODUCTIVE Intentional Orderly Planned Responsive Optimized Centered Enthusiastic/Inspired Time as opportunity At ease Clear

Psychological Benefits of Being Productive

BUSY PRODUCTIVEScattered IntentionalDisorganized OrderlyRandom PlannedReactive ResponsiveStressed OptimizedChaotic CenteredOverwhelmed Enthusiastic/InspiredTime as enemy Time as opportunityDriven FocusedAnxious At easeConfused Clear

PRODUCTIVE IS BETTER

Clearly and consistently taking ground on what is important to YOU.

Duties

Intent

Plans

ActionsPRODUCTIVE

Planning

Values

PRODUCTIVE

Goals Responsibilities

Scheduled Actions

Time To Assess My

Productivity

Section III: Understanding Energetic Consciousness

Survival

Survival: Predominant feeling is that life is too much Often feel victimized by things and people May experience apathy as a result of circumstances

being so hard Often feel resentment and blames others Resigned

Stress Life is hard Conflict and anger often tantamount If I work hard enough and learn enough, I can

improve my situation Good work ethic in service of “getting ahead” Willing to learn more but more for hoped gain

than for the love of learning or enjoyment

Stress

Transformation Living beyond the notion that life is hard Committed to personal growth and the growth of all that

one is involved with Recognizes the natural flow of life and is able to align with it Takes little personally and maintains harmonious relations

with people and circumstances

Transformation

Transcendence Lives in peaceful harmony Experiences ease, awe and sacredness in life Able to create extraordinary outcomes for oneself and for

large groups of people Natural motivator Feels at one with life and humanity

Transcendence

Time Consciousness

= Poverty Consciousness

Energy Busters - Energy Boosters

SECTION IV:PLANNING AND INTENTION

The Consciousness of Overwhelm

Lack of planning

Disorganization

Information overload

No relationship with time in reality

Reacting rather than determining

Procrastinating due to all of the above

The Consciousness of Overwhelm

A Disorganized MIND Creates a Disorganized LIFE

How much can you keep in your head?

Planning and Intention Capture all of it

Organize all of it

Plan and schedule all of it

Step 1: Create Your Everything List

Step 2: Establish Your Intentions

Step 3: Schedule the Rest…

THREE STRIKESRULE

END PROCRASTINATION NOW?Ask Me How!

Section V:Skills, Habits and Practices

ORGANIZATIONStuff: TIOO - Touch it only onceSet up systems to manage paper

The Myth of Multitasking

Schedule Daily and weekly debrief

GoalsAnnual goal planningBreak down into small actionsSchedule those actionsReview goals quarterly

Wellbeing Mindfulness, Present Moment Awareness Take Breaks Every Hour Manage Your Energy Boosters and Busters Elevate your Consciousness Laugh! Enjoy Your Coworkers and Your Work Practice Gratitude

Practice GratitudeWhat are you grateful for today?

Your Personal Action PlanWhat TWO things will you take away from this

training and begin implementing tomorrow?

The Promise of Calming the Chaos

“How often do you feel overwhelmed by the demands you place on yourself and those placed on you by your family, friends, co-workers, and life in general? The real problem is not everything that’s being asked of you but forgetting that you have the power to choose how you will respond to everything that’s being asked of you. Claiming your ability to choose is the dynamic difference between feeling pushed and pulled around all the time and intentionally living – sometimes dancing even – to the rhythm of holy empowerment.

  This brings us to a fundamental question: Who is in charge of your

life?”

Kirk Byron Jones, Addicted to Hurry

Thank you for

Calming the Chaos

in Your Life!

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