Dawn "ZigZag" Montefusco presented at the May 2015 pdxMindShare event on how to get your groove back. If you are stuck in a funk and need some motivation to get you back on track, this presentation should do the trick. Each month we try to equip job seekers with useful information to reach their career objectives through educational workshops that are followed by the opportunity to network with dozens of Portland professionals. Events are held on the 3rd Wednesday of each month, and everyone is welcome!

2. How to Get Your Business
Groove Back.
Presented by
Dawn “Zigzag” Montefusco
Writer / Speaker/ Coach
www.dawnmontefusco.com
www.askzigzag.com

3. Get Into Your Groove
2: To have passion about doing something and feel motivated to get it done.
- Urban Dictionary
1: A verb meaning to smoothly interact, maintain or improve relations
with business associates, a person or a situation.

4. Everything is a business
From Elle Luna’s book, The Crossroads of Should and Must.

5. Everything effects your business.
Everything effects how you do business.
Everything is connected to your groove.

6. How do you feel when you lose your groove?

7. Signs of Lost Groove:
lack of energy
angry / bitter
depressed
isolating yourself
drinking too much
unusual weight gain
physical accidents
frequent illness

8. Why? What Happened?

9. Stories
• Should
• Should
• Should
• Should
• Should
• Should
• Should
• Should
• Should
• Should
• Should
• Should
• Should
• Should
• I suck
• It’s too hard
• I have too much to do
• There isn’t enough time
• I’m too old
• Maybe it’s not for me
• …………. ——> endless….

10. As an adult, we talk to ourselves
at the rate of nearly 100-350
words a minute,
or 50,000 thoughts a day.
80% of the time we are thinking the same thoughts
from the previous day……
James Jensen, author of Beyond the Power of Your Subconscious Mind

12. Be Yourself.
Be The You That Got Buried
Underneath “Shoulds”
and other people’s stories.

14. “How dare you settle for less when the world has
made it so easy for you to be remarkable.”
- Seth Godin
“Don’t compare yourself with anyone in the world.
If you do so, you are insulting yourself.”
- Bill Gates

15. How?

16. Neuroplasticity

18. With repeated and directed attention towards your desired change
you can rewire your brain.

22. “If you don’t have ten minutes you don’t have a life.” - Tony Robbins
Slow Down.

23. Wash, Rinse, Repeat
• Write down your vision.
• Be relentless in your desire to change.
• Create a daily routine and practice it over and over and over again.
Once is not enough.
• Surround yourself with people who support your vision.

24. What do you want to improve or make better in your life?
What do you have to change to get it?
What might you have to give up?
What habits do you need to create to be the best you?
What new stories do you want to tell yourself to rewire your
brain?
Who do you know that supports your vision?
DO IT NOW.
Improve Your Groove
With Powerful Questions

26. Thank you.
www.dawnmontefusco.com
www.askzigzag.com
“Be Yourself. The world worships
the original.” - Ingrid Bergman