This document discusses the importance of investing in yourself through self-reflection and personal development. It encourages asking empowering questions focused on solutions rather than complaints. Examples include "What can I do with what I have?" and "What opportunities are there?". The document also recommends separating external realities from your internal perceptions of them, and controlling your thoughts by choosing how you feel about situations. The overall message is to stop wasting energy complaining and instead decide what actions you can take to work towards success.

1. Investing in Yourself Darren Toms

2. Government Expenses Redundancies Credit Crunch Swine Flu Interest rates Recession Bank Losses

3. 20th January 1961 New President J F Kennedy: Inauguration Speech “ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” As this session is about investing in yourself I take inspiration from this quote but with a small change… “ask not what others can do for you – ask what you can do for yourself.”

4. A Different Way of Thinking Reality What happens These are just the facts Your Reality How you feel about what happens You use words to describe Reality These can become FACTS (to you) If you can’t change Reality, then change how you feel about it. Who’s in control of your thoughts?

5. Questions to ask yourself daily Usual Questions (sub consciously + consciously asked) Useful Questions: Needs to be consciously asked Why won’t they hire anyone else? Why is no one communicating with me? Why me? Why does everything go wrong? Why am I always so busy? Why doesn’t this system do what I want? Why can’t I go on that training? What can I do with what I have? What can I do to get the information? What’s the reason this is happening? What opportunities are there? What can I do more effectively? What can I do to make this work? What have I learned today? “Successful people ask better questions and, as a result, they get better answers” – Tony Robbins

6. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?

8. Separate reality from your reality

9. Stop investing energy in moaning and decide what you’re going to do that works

10. Decide to be here NOW and enjoy NOW

11. Manage your reputation using effective thinking and behaviours

12. Deliver what is needed most

13. Join an ENG to give you new skills and networks to succeed