Eureka Presentation

1. Mindful
Entrepreneur:
How mindfulness can help you build
and grow your business

2. Rich Decker
Mindful Accord LLC
“Mindful Every Moment”
A little about me
&
A little about you

3. Rich Decker
Mindful Accord LLC
“Mindful Every Moment”
What we will cover:
∞What is mindfulness?
∞Why you should practice it.
∞What happens when you practice it.
∞How you can practice it.
∞Q & A

4. Rich Decker
Mindful Accord LLC
“Mindful Every Moment”
What does mindfulness mean to
you?

5. What is mindfulness?
Mindfulness is:
∞ Both a process and an outcome.
∞ A way of being.
∞ Awareness that emerges when we pay attention to our
experience in a particular way; intentionally, in the
present moment, with curiosity, acceptance, and non
judgement.
∞ Maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our
thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding
environment.

6. What mindfulness is not
Mindfulness is not:
∞It is not some type of magical elixir.
∞Is not a medication that you take and it
starts working immediately.
∞Is not something that is done randomly.
∞Is not a distraction.
∞Is not easy.

7. Why you should practice it?
Your brain has only one agenda in mind:
SURVIVAL
∞ It is always watching for signs of “lack and
attack”
∞ Our brain is programmed to seek out the
negative – dwindling resources, destructive
weather, whatever’s out to hurt you.

8. Why you should practice it
∞With the brain’s main agenda being
survival it is mostly looking in the past to
learn from past threats and looking to the
future for further threats.
∞Our brains are programed to look for and
recognize patterns. While looking for
patterns it is continually running through
loops or repetitive programs. Hence,
repetitive thoughts.

9. Why you should practice it

10. Why you should practice it
Numerous studies have shown the benefits:
∞ Lessen stress, fear, loneliness, and depression
∞ Reduces worry, anxiety, and impulsivity.
∞ Increases focus, memory retention, and recall.
∞ Better cognitive skills and creative thinking.
∞ Better decision making and problem solving.
∞ Numerous health/body benefits including: Improved immune system,
reduced blood pressure, helps in pain management, heart disease,
etc.
∞ TECHNO-STRESS: Constantly connected, less connected to
ourselves.
∞ You can train you mind to see more of the positive and less of the
negative.
∞ These are time tested ancient practices. It is not a fad.

11. What happens when you
practice it

12. What are you waiting for?
∞ Research has found that those who practice mindfulness
shift their brain activity from the stress prone right frontal
cortex to the calmer left frontal cortex.
∞ Less activity in the amygdala, where the brain processes
fear.
∞ Research has shown an increase in the grey matter of
the neocortex (higher functions such as sensory
perception, generation of motor commands, spatial
reasoning, conscious thought, and in humans,
language.)

13. What are you waiting for?

14. How to practice it
∞Be aware of what
you feed your
head!

15. How to practice it
∞Find a word or
saying that has
some meaning to
you. Repeat that
word or saying
when you catch
yourself caught in
the past or the
future.

16. practice it
∞Take some time each day to
have a visit with yourself.
How to practice it

17. How to practice it

18. Questions or Thoughts?
∞Rich Decker
∞“Mindful Every Moment”
∞Mindful Accord LLC
∞rich.decker@mindfulaccord.com
∞602-717-5650