What are Your Top 3 Strengths? It’s satisfying to draw on your strengths. How can you use them more in your day to day life?
Breathe
Under Age 10 Age Age Age Over Age 25 Track Your Happiness: Finding your Happiness Triggers
My Monkey Mind Mind Reading Control Myth Personalization Catastrophizing Emotional Reasoning Critic Voice Blaming
The average adult grows 5,000 new brain cells a day. We are NOT born with a fixed number of brain cells. NEUROPLASTICITY - the lifelong ability of the brain to reorganize neural pathways based on new experiences. Practice a couple minutes/day changing your thoughts = POSITIVE CHANGE! Source: Interview with Richard Davidson, Seattle, Washington, April 13 th, NEWS FLASH: You CAN change your mind!
What is Your Mindset? Fixed Mindset – 1 – 2 – 3 G – 3 Adapted from: Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: the new Psychology of Success. Ballantine Books (2008). FIXED MINDSET My potential is determined at birth. GROWTH MINDSET A person’s true potential is unknown. “I’m a failure” (identity) “I failed” (action) Avoid challenges.Persists in the face of setbacks. Why bother? It’s not going to change anything. Growth and learning require effort. Feel threatened by the success of others. If you succeed, then I fail. Finds lessons & inspiration in other people’s success. Don’t reach full potential Reach even higher levels of achievement
Tracking YOUR Mindset? Think of a recent challenge you faced either personally or professionally. What mindset did you have (fixed or growth)? How did this mindset affect your experience of happiness?
Practicing Happiness Active Practices (Zumba) Creative Practices (Drawing) Quiet Practices (Meditation) Wellness Practices (Sleep) Relationship Practices (Volunteering) & GRATITUDE!!
What INSPIRED me today? What CHALLENGED me today? What SURPRISED me today? What touched my HEART? Deepening Gratitude
Happiness IS Contagious!!! 25% increase Your happiness has 3 degrees of influence! 10% increase 5.6% increase Happy Guy!! Source: Dr. James Fowler, UC San Diego, Dr. Nicholas Chistakis, Harvard University.