its about time, its about you

How to Convert the Concept of

Excellence into a Daily Reality

ByDebbie Ohl

Ohl & AssociatesConsultants and Educators

ThinkTheThoughts.com

Your ability to make a difference is one of

your greatest blessings. The more often you put that

ability into practice, the more fulfilling your life

will be.

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Program Objectives

1. Identify how your relationship with time impacts your experiences and interactions with others.

2. Explore the relationship of thought to the actions you take and the outcome you experience.

3. Use the CAB principles of intentional design to advance and experience value in all your activities on and off the job.

Creating and promoting excellence

is a personal responsibility.

How do you define

Excellence?

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What is excellence?

•Possession of unusually good qualities.•The opposite of mediocrity.• Something in which one excels. •The quality of being exceptionally good

How do you define Quality?Quality?

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What is Quality?

Degrees of Excellence or

Worth

How do you define Life?Life?

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What is Life?

A period of time from birth until death.

A manner or way of existing.

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Rules of Life

1. You will be presented with lessons.

2. The lesson is repeated until learned.

3. Learning does not end.

4. “There" is no better than “Here".

5. Others are only mirrors of you.

6. What you make of your life is up to you.

7. Your answers lie inside of you.

Impacting the Quality of Your Life & Those Around You

The point or period when something occurs.

What is Time?

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Laws of Time

1. Everyone has 24 hours a day.

2. No one knows when time will stop.

3. Time is easy to ignore.

4. Time seems to pass at varying speeds.

5. Time is a non-renewable resource.

There are 1,440 minutes in a day and 29,020 days in an 80

year lifetime.

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How much time do you have left ?

80y – 60y = 20 years left

20 ./ . 3 = 6+ sleep years

20y - 6y = 14 years left

14yr x 365d = 5,110 days left

1. Subtract your age from 80 = ___years left

2. Divide years left by 3 for sleep time = _____ then subtract sleep years from years left

3. Multiple years left x 365/year = __total days left

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Thinking About Yesterday and Tomorrow

• I spend ________% of my time thinking about yesterday.

• I spend ________% of my time thinking about tomorrow.

I spend ____% of my life living right now.

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Quality Time Use

1. Stay away from activities and people that do not serve you.

2. Forget the past learn from it.

3. Prepare for the future.

4. Don't save for a special occasion.

5. What if you were told had 48 hours to live,

what would you do? 6. Show and tell the people you love.

Intentional Time

Be Here Now

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Laws of Thought• In every waking moment, we are creating

or altering our future.  

• Our lives are a product of how we talk to ourselves, what we think, envision, and intend.

• Our thoughts are reflected in our words and our physical actions.

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Self Talk

1.What your say to yourself in your head goes on 24/7.

2.Self-talk takes place in real time.3.Our bodies react as if our self-talk were

real. 4.Self-talk is heavily influenced by what we

attribute things to. 5.Our self-talk overwhelms other input,

including reality.

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6. Negative self-talk gets the loudest when you need it the least.

7. Self-talk can be a major life force.

8. You talk to your self in ways you would never think of talking to someone else.

9. Ultimately if you have negative self-talk you create a toxic internal environment.

10.You need to listen to your body because it for darn sure listens to you.

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I immobilization

S saying, not doing

H hung up on guilt

O overly anxious

U underlying anger

L lowered self esteem

D depressed

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I inadequate

C controlled v. in control

A apathetic

N’ negative results

T total despair

“I won’t” or “I choose not to”

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Your life is reflected in:

• Your thoughts

• Your attitudes• Your beliefs; your feelings

• Your intentions

• Words you speak or listen to

• Your self-talk

• The pictures and circumstances you imagine

• What you will and will not allow into your life

When you consider that you spend infinitely more time with your "self" -- listening to your

internal dialogue -- than you do to any other person in your life, it

pays to have it on a leash!

Our lives are Our lives are what our what our

thoughts make thoughts make them.them.

In other words:

MIND YOUR THOUGHTS

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There are no victims, only unconscious creators.

• We create 100% percent of our personal experiences.  

• Most people create their experiences by accident and by default. 

• You can learn to consciously and intentionally create your own experiences.

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I Initiate by acting, not reacting

C confess feeling; control your thoughts

A ask for what you want and need

N negotiate for positive results

Thoughts are Affirmation

Affirmations are a statement of faith

Challenge thought patterns that are not

serving you.

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Intend to Create What You Want

1. What you believe creates your reality.

2. Your feelings are fueled by your thoughts.

3. Whatever you say after "I Am" defines you.

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The CAB Principle

Commitment

Attitude

Belief

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Intentional creation is about

focused action, not reactive, automatic

behavior

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Creating What You Want

1. Decide on what you want to be or achieve.

2. Write it down in one clear statement.

3. Feel what it will be like to have achieved your intention.

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Your “IT”

I am……

I have……

I intend…….

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What if it’s True?

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Happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what

you have; it depends solely upon what you think.

--Dale Carnegie

About Your Speaker ThinkTheThoughts.com

Debbie@ThinkTheThoughts.com513-522-6057

613 Compton Road Cincinnati, Ohio 45231

Debbie Ohl M.Msc., Ph.D is a speaker, educator, consultant, author, and successful entrepreneur.

Debbie’s professional career spans nearly thirty years and includes diverse experiences ranging from that of a health care provider, business owner, business consultant, educator, author, and professional speaker and facilitator.

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