uncovering the genius within

UNCOVERING THE

GENIUS WITHIN©

Our Minds Are Our

Greatest Technology!

UNCOVERING THE GENIUS WITHIN ©

Your Workshop Facilitators

Kelly Kozar, B.Ed., CDFI

Star Ristow-Bell, M.Sc.

Welcome You To The

First Day Of The Rest Of

Your Life!

INTRODUCTIONS

HOUSEKEEPING

Breaks

Washrooms

Expectations

Group Norms

OVERVIEW

Power of the Mind

How Beliefs are Formed

The Power of Belief

Learning to Mentor Yourself

Tools for Goal Achievement

Learned Optimism

How to Kick the Worry

BENEFITS OF JOURNAL WRITING

Identify behaviour patterns

Identify “beliefs” that are no longer useful

Identify “blind spots” to seeing problems & solutions

Reinforces & integrates new learning

Alternative method for self-reflection

JOURNAL WRITING

I learned…

I was surprised that…

I feel…

I see how I can apply…

I’m concerned about…

Next time I...

I found it interesting...

THINGS TO WRITE ABOUT

Successes

Setbacks and how you overcame them

“Ah-ha” moments

What you are thankful for

Information about how you are getting in your own way

Your goals and affirmations

Spiritual

Personal

Marriage

Family

Physical Health

Mental Health

SocialCareer/Work

Retirement

Volunteering

Education

Friends

Sports

Finances

BALANCE WHEEL

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

Plan to Judge the Outcome

Not the Process

Module 1

POWER OF

THE MIND

POWER OF THE MIND

75% of all sickness and disease starts in the

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.

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!

Activities

A test of your

potential

POWER OF THE MIND

Is it there if you can’t see it?

POWER OF THE MIND

“SCOTOMA”

If past conditioning does not match what you

are looking at, your do not see it and a “blind

spot” is created.

CAN YOU SEE THE PROBLEM

WITH SCOTOMAS?

POWER OF THE MIND

The Ultimate “Scotoma”

If you always do

what you have always done you will

always get

what you have always got.

POWER OF THE MIND

JOURNAL WRITING

In what areas of my life do I have scotomas

that keep me from being more successful?

What thoughts or beliefs do I have that might

be limiting me?

Module 2

HOW BELIEFS

ARE FORMED

HOW BELIEFS ARE FORMED

Understanding

Source and Strength

of your

Self-Beliefs

The strongest opinions you hold

about yourself are those you formed

at home with your parents or primary

caregivers.

Every cloud has a silver lining

Avoid conflict at all costs

Dreaming is for rich people

Save the pennies and the dollars

will look after themselves

Naps in the middle of the day are

for lazy people

Discussion

Family Scripts

JOURNAL WRITING

What were the spoken and unspoken, positive

and negative codes that my family lived by?

Who Are You

Listening

PERCEPTION

The procedure by which we try and

interpret information about the

environment that surrounds us

Physical sensations, sight, touch,

hearing, smelling and taste

Always incomplete - limited by our

senses and point of view

PERCEPTION PROCESS

Feedback about ourselves and others

Not always based on true picture of reality

We behave as though our perceptions are real

Inaccurate perceptions lead to stereotypes

We behave and act

not in accordance with

the truth but with “THE

TRUTH” as we believe

it to be.

Activity

Mixed Weddings

How Beliefs Impact our Life

“Am I acting on what I KNOW to be

true, or what I BELIEVE to be true?

So…How can I really change so I

become successful?

Change the picture on the inside

Change the belief and your

behaviour will follow

Limiting Thoughts Become Like

The Water We Swim In

Identify Limiting Thoughts

Stressful in nature

Angry and fearful in nature

Attached to words like:

CAN’T...HARD...DIFFICULT...IMPOSSIBLE

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

Activity

Identifying

Limiting Beliefs

JOURNAL WRITING

Limiting Thoughts

Write my insights from the Limiting Thoughts

activity in my journal.

Automatic

Negative

Thoughts

Do a mental house-cleaning and get rid of those

All you have to lose are your old limitations

Activity

How the Mind

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

JOURNAL WRITING

Give an example of when I locked-on to the wrong

thing about someone else. How did I change my

perception about them?

Module 3

POWER OF

BELIEF

Activity

Lifeboat

Exercise

POWER OF BELIEF

“Man often becomes what he

believes himself to be. If I

keep on saying to myself that I

cannot do a certain thing, it is

possible that I may end by

really becoming incapable of

doing it. On the contrary, if I

shall have the belief that I can

do it, I shall surely acquire the

capacity to do it, even if I may

not have it at the beginning.”

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

POWER OF BELIEF

You will rarely attempt something

you don’t believe and you will

NEVER give 100% of your ability to

something you don’t believe

possible

Belief always comes before action!

POWER OF BELIEF

BELIEFS = SELF IMAGE

Self Image = ideas and information about yourself

Do you see a swan or an

ugly duckling?

Activity

Change

Exercise

POWER OF BELIEF

Comfort Zones

Our self image operates like the thermostat in your home

POWER OF BELIEF

Discussion

Comfort Zones

POWER OF BELIEF

Comfort Zones

What situations make you feel out of your

comfort zone?

What happens when you are out of your

comfort zone?

POWER OF BELIEF

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

POWER OF BELIEF

We must get outside our comfort

zone and become psychologically

comfortable with success

BEFORE we experience it in reality

POWER OF BELIEF

R e s i g n a t i o n

POWER OF BELIEF

Resignation

Take for granted even the things we find

distasteful about our lives

Just the way things are

Powerless to change them

POWER OF BELIEF

Resignation

Playing it safe

Quitting when things are strange or

intimidating

Choosing to look good rather than take a risk

Becomes a habit

Resignation translates into blindness for

exploring possibilities

Activity

Conquering

Resignation

POWER OF BELIEF

JOURNAL WRITING

Conquering Resignation

Write my insights from the conquering

resignation activity in my journal

POWER OF BELIEF

Develop a

child-like

“anything is

possible”

attitude.

POWER OF BELIEF

Nine Dots Test

Connect all nine dots using only four (4) straight

lines without lifting your pen from the paper.

POWER OF BELIEF

Nine Dots Test

Self imposed limitations

Conditioned to stay inside the lines

POWER OF BELIEF

Self Fulfilling Prophecy

Translate messages and circumstances to

make them consistent with our self-image

Block out messages and circumstances which

are not consistent with our self-image

POWER OF BELIEF

The Hot Dog

Salesman

JOURNAL WRITING

Do I resist change? Why?

What activities or situations am I currently

avoiding because I feel out of place?

What can I do to be successful in situations,

which are uncomfortable

Module 4

MENTORING

YOURSELF

Activity

An Experiment in

Attitudes

MENTORING YOURSELF

The Law of Attraction

Where are you focusing your attention?

The Problem of the Solution?

Are you feeling how terrible of frustrating the “problem” is?

Are you feeling what your life will be like with the “solution”?

MENTORING YOURSELF

What is Self-Talk?

All the thoughts that run through your mind

Includes all things said both silently and out loud

Can be positive or negative, pessimistic or optimistic

Did you know that we have approximately

50,000 thoughts a day?

MENTORING YOURSELF

How our Subconscious Mind Works

Takes in everything literally

Black or white

Good or Bad

It doesn’t interpret or do what is best

It’s like a computer - does what it is told

MENTORING YOURSELF

Self Talk Errors

Focusing on mistakes (past)

Forgetting our accomplishments

MENTORING YOURSELF

How Good Do I Have To Be?

“When we let ourselves be defined in our own

minds by our worst moments instead of our best

ones, we learn to think of ourselves as people

who never get it right, rather than as capable

people who make an occasional, thoroughly

human mistake.”

Rabbi Harold Kushner author of “How Good Do I Have To Be?

Activity

Celebration

MENTORING YOURSELF

MENTORING YOURSELF The Self-Talk Cycle

Self Talk

determines

Self Image

determines

behaviour

Behaviour

reinforces

Self Talk

JOURNAL WRITING

Does my internal conversation build or tear down

my self-image or others’ self-image?

What are some examples of positive self-talk that I

have used to trigger positive feeling for myself?

In which areas of your life am I not using my

potential? Examine my self-talk in those areas.

MENTORING YOURSELF

Techniques for Controlling Self-Talk

Pay attention to self talk every day

Identify supportive & destructive self talk

Confront negative self talk

Replace negative self talk

Make self talk your best friend

Practice thought stopping

Rubber band technique

Activity

Thought Stopping

MENTORING YOURSELF

JOURNAL WRITING

Thought Stopping

Write my insights from the thought stopping activity

in my journal

MENTORING YOURSELF

More Self-Talk Tips

Tell Yourself What You CAN Do!

Plant Positives In Advance

Develop a Self Talk Plan

JOURNAL WRITING

When I do something wrong or make a mistake,

how long do I dwell on it?

What is my self talk about my life’s direction and

goals?

What are some of the limiting statements I tell

myself? How may they be affecting my behaviour?

Module 5

TOOLS FOR

GOAL ACHIEVEMENT

The Mind

The Conscious Mind (Perceiver)

The Subconscious Mind (The Recorder)

The Creative Subconscious Mind

(The Generator of Direction)

GOAL ACHIEVEMENT

Activate your RAS

Reticular Activating System

A group of cells at the base of your brain stem

A little control centre that serves as the filter for

what enters you conscious and unconscious

Writing triggers the RAS

Wake up! Pay Attention!

JOURNAL WRITING

Where am I finding difficulty in my life?

What would I like to change in my life?

In what areas of my life would I like to grow and expand?

What new habits would I like to begin?

What old habits would I like to eliminate?

If I want to I can

GOAL ACHIEVEMENT

Affirmation

A statement of fact or belief

GOAL ACHIEVEMENT

Self Talk Attitudes Beliefs

Behaviours Self Image

GOAL ACHIEVEMENT

Guidelines for writing affirmations

Personal

Positive

Present Tense

Indicate Achievement

No Comparisons

Action Words

Emotion Words

Accuracy

Balance

Realistic

Confidential

GOAL ACHIEVEMENT

Guidelines for writing affirmations

PROBLEM SOLUTION

Move Away From Include in Affirmation

Bad Temper Calm, Clear Minded

Lazy Energetic

Procrastination Accomplish immediately

GOAL ACHIEVEMENT

Sample Affirmations

I am an optimistic person who lives a successful life.

I am an important and valuable persons, worthy of the

respect of others who are important to me.

I remember how well I recovered from difficulty and

losses, and I use this feeling to strengthen my resiliency for

future use.

Activity

Group Affirmations

GOAL SETTING

Activity

Personal

Affirmations

GOAL SETTING

GOAL ACHIEVEMENT

That’s Worth Thinking About!

“It is a well know fact that one comes, finally, to believe

whatever one repeats to oneself, whether the statement is

true or false. If man repeats a lie over and over, he will

eventually accept the lie as truth”

Napoleon Hill (1883-1970) American speaker and motivational writer.

GOAL ACHIEVEMENT

Visualization

Mental rehearsal of the future in the present

GOAL ACHIEVEMENT

Imprinting Process

Impact on subconscious

GOOD - Reading the affirmation

BETTER - Reading and Picturing the affirmation

BEST - Reading, Picturing and Feeling the affirmation

GOAL ACHIEVEMENT

Benefits of Visualization

Eliminate fears

Boost self-esteem

Inducing relaxtion

Reframe old situations

Change old habits

JOURNAL WRITING

How can I use the affirmation and imprinting

process to assist me in reaching my goals?

Module 6

LEARNED

OPTIMISM

Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a

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

LEARNED OPTIMISM

Activity

Your Approach to

Life Quiz

LEARNED OPTIMISM

Have To’s

Want To’s

LEARNED OPTIMISM

Motivation

An inner force that compels behaviour

Comes from within

NOT from any external circumstances

LEARNED OPTIMISM

Motivation

RESTRICTIVE

Primarily based on:

“Have To’s”

Fear Based

LEARNED OPTIMISM

Motivation

HOW DO WE RESIST?

Slow down…procrastinate…take longer

Creative Avoidance

Work just good enough to get someone off your back

LEARNED OPTIMISM

Motivation

CONSTRUCTIVE

Primarily based on:

“Want To’s”

Pay Value or Personal Profitability

LEARNED OPTIMISM

Have To’s

Want To’s

Everything in life

is a choice!

LEARNED OPTIMISM

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

everything else is a CHOICE.

Activity

You Have Two

Choices

LEARNED OPTIMISM

JOURNAL WRITING

What are some of my “have” to actions?

Now that I realize there are no “have to’s”

in my life, what are some of the reasons I

choose to do what I do?

Where do I give up accountability to

someone else? Why?

LEARNED OPTIMISM

Can you learn to be an

Optimist?

LEARNED OPTIMISM

Benefits of Optimism

Respond better to adversity of all kinds

Better physical health

Greater life expectancy

LEARNED OPTIMISM

Optimist

Isolates the BAD

Temporalizes

Other Factors

Pessimist

Globalizes

Externalizes

When something bad happens:

LEARNED OPTIMISM

Optimist

Globalizes

Externalizes

Pessimist

Isolates the GOOD

Temporalizes

Other Factors

When something good happens:

JOURNAL WRITING

How do I think when good things happen?

Give an example.

How do I think when bad things happen?

Give an example.

Module 7

HOW TO KICK

THE WORRY

KICKING THE WORRY HABIT

The Downward Spiral

Paralysis of Will

Self-talk declares thoughts of worthlessness, hostility and

hopelessness as valuable.

Block out all other information

Blind spot to anything positive

Isolation sets in

Imagination goes runs away with you

The human mind has a built-in potential for flexibility.

Substitute images of solutions instead of endlessly

ruminating about problems

Affirm your ability to deal effectively and calmly with all

challenges instead of worrying about failure

JOURNAL WRITING

What can I do to help myself when I realize

I am slipping into a downward spiral?

Activity

Defining “Worry”

Worry is like a rocking chair…

it gives you something to do

but it doesn’t get you

anywhere.

Worry is Fear

vidence

ppearing

JOURNAL WRITING

How do I allow worry to keep me from

becoming all you can be?

How do I let worry rob me of better

friendships, better business, better results,

better communication, better family

relationships?

Get Free of the Worry Habit

Recognize worry for what it is

Admit what worry does

Choose to be free of worry

Activity

Affirmation Writing

Affirmations

I’ve had it with worry

I refuse to be tricked by false facts

I refuse to let my life be short-circuited any longer by

letting my mind run wild with a distorted view of the facts

Prove It to Yourself

96% is irrelevant

40% never happen

30% nothing can be done

12% they were needless

10% petty things

8% something substantial

4% out of our control

Give Worry a Bad Time

Analyse it to death

Start to use worry rather than let it use you

Worry begins with a thought of doubt, which

causes an emotion of fear, which manifests

itself physically as anxiety.

Conquer Doubt and Fear

Change your mind about the doubt and keep it changed

Focus on what you want not what you do not want

Start working on the solution rather than thinking about a

possible negative outcome

End Result Thinking

Do the thing you fear and fear will disappear

Fear and Faith are directly opposite views of

the future and they cannot co-exist

JOURNAL WRITING

Select a challenge. What attitudes, beliefs

comfort zones, self-talk, habits and goals do I

want to adjust to overcome this challenge?

Activity

Artful Closure

WRAPPING UP

Activity

Dear Me

WRAPPING UP

Taking these five steps can make anyone a “Gold

Medalist” in their chosen endevour

1. Prepare to WIN

2. Take control of your thoughts

3. Re-evaluate your situation

4. Don’t worry about “how to do it”

5. Finally…YOU MUST ACT!

Chantal Petitclerc, 800m Wheelchair (CP Photo Tom Hanson)

WRAPPING UP

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

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