You Choose!

You Choose!
How to Create Positive Life
and Work Fulfillment
Kelly Kozar, CDFI, B.Ed.
kellykozar@employmentreadinesscentre.ca

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Readiness Centre

Introductions

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Workshop Overview
An introduction to practical techniques,
based on cognitive behavioural theory,
for increasing motivation to succeed.

 Understanding and Changing Thinking Patterns
 Motivation
 Learned Optimism
 Limited Thinking
 Kicking the Worry Habit
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Self-Efficacy
The BELIEF about one's ability to perform
One of the predictors of success
in both education and work
A significant component in Bandura’s
social cognitive theory
Enormous effects on
effort, interest, persistence and performance.
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Outcome Expectancy
The BELIEF that your efforts will result
in a successful outcome.

Sense of control over life events
versus
feelings of helplessness

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Uncovering the Genius©
Interactive Workshop based on
-Cognitive/Behavioural Theory
-Positive Psychology

After completing workshop
60 % of participants were self-sufficient in self-efficacy
80% were self-sufficient in outcome expectancy
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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

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POWER OF THE MIND
 75% of all sickness and disease starts in the mind
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.


• 60 – 90 % of all doctors visits involve
stress related complaints
• 15% of the Canadian workforce suffers
from depression
• 65-70% of disability cases are a result
of a mental health disorder
Moods Magazine September 2005

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!


Lock-on/Lock-out
When we lock on to one way of thinking we
automatically lock out other options.

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Lock On ... Lock Out

 Wrong Information

Too Quickly

Too Long


Is It There If You Can’t See It
If past conditioning does not match what you are looking at,
you do not see it and a blind spot is created.

CAN YOU SEE THE PROBLEM
WITH SCOTOMAS?

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The Ultimate Scotoma

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POWER OF THE MIND

If you always do
what you have always done
you will always get
what you have always got.


How Can We
Change Our
Perspective?

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Have To’s Want To’s

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Motivation
 An inner force that compels behaviour

 Comes from within

 NOT from any external circumstances.

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Motivation
RESTRICTIVE

Primarily based on:

“Have To’s”

Fear

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How Do We Resist?

 Slow down…procrastinate…take longer

 Creative Avoidance

 Work just good enough to get someone off your back

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Motivation
CONSTRUCTIVE

Primarily based on:

“Want To’s”

Pay value or Personal Profitability

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Have To’s Want To’s

Everything in life
is a choice!

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LEARNED OPTIMISM
Activity
You Have Two
Choices


HAVE TO’S
The only have to’s in life are to breath and take up space…
everything else is a CHOICE.

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Optimistic Thinking
Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a tea
kettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.

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LEARNED OPTIMISM
Benefits of Optimism

 Respond better to adversity of all kinds
Better physical health
Greater life expectancy


Learned Optimism
Pessimist Optimist
Isolates the Good Isolates the BAD
Globalises Temporalize
Externalises Other Factors

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Develop a
child-like
“anything
is
possible”
attitude.


Activity
Change
Exercise

Comfort Zones

Our self image operates like the thermostat in your home


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


We must get outside our comfort
zone and become psychologically
comfortable with success
BEFORE we experience it in reality


Activity
Your Approach to
Life Quiz

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

Identify Limiting Thoughts
 Stressful in nature

 Angry and fearful in nature

 Attached to words like:
CAN’T...HARD...DIFFICULT...IMPOSSIBLE


DISCUSSION

What are your Limiting Thoughts?
How do they impact your life/work?


Kicking the Worry Habit

Worry may be a killer

Do you know what it means to
ruminate?

Downward Spiral
Worthless

Hostile

Hopeless

Worry Is Wasted mental Energy

Worry is like a rocking chair — it gives you something
to do but it doesn’t get you anywhere.
Dorothy Galyean

Worry is Wasted Mental Energy
False

Evidence

Appearing

Real

Activity
How do you allow worry to keep you
from becoming all you can be?
How do you let worry rob you of better
relationships, better results, and better
communication

Get Free of the Worry Habit
1. Recognize worry for what it is and
admit what it does.
2. Decide that you now want to be free.
3. Argue with your worry thoughts.
4. Examine your fears and worries to see
if they are valid.

“Thoughts of doubt and fear can never
accomplish anything. They always lead
to failure.”
As A Man Thinketh

Remember to…
• Focus on what you WANT rather than
what you DON’T want.
• Think about DESIRED RESULTS-
something good instead of something
bad.
• Work on SOLUTIONS rather than a
possible negative outcome.

WRAPPING UP

Activity
Dear Me


More Information
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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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