TOPICS
Re-Ignite Your Fire
Restore Your Sanity
Step Into Yourself Picture the Perfect You
• Build yourself: What gifts were you born with? How are you wired?
• Perfectly Imperfect You: Get to know yourself, accept yourself, and fall madly in love with the person you were created to be
• How do you want people to perceive you? What are the first things you tell people about yourself? On Facebook who do you lead people to think you are?
• Be You, Magnified…be YOU – only magnified
• It’s not about you; it’s about them: what people say is where they are coming from
• You are special; learn to be content with who you are; people’s words won’t stick when you learn your worth
Life’s Gifts Uncover Your Talents
• Use your gifts – however you can. What are your God-given gifts? There is more than one way to use each gift – explore the possibilities.
• Victim or Victor? Life’s challenges Take your mess and make it your message
Belief Change Your Thinking – Change Your Outcome
• Things are Not Always as They Appear – Learn discernment when making judgment calls
• Beliefs bring results; actions and behaviors feed off of your belief system. If you want to make changes, change your beliefs.
• Take down walls of your own doing – church, culture, neighborhoods, family
• Your brain – fertile soil. What are you planting?
• You get what you think about…change the pictures in your head
• HOPE – when all else seems to leave
• Affirmations – Affirm yourself and your life follows
Connect The lost art of connecting with people
• Living alone together – the home – less family/meal–less The importance of gathering ROUND THE TABLE w/o technology - families, neighbors, friends, co-workers
• The importance of the smile, eyes and listening
• Learn how to make a connection with…everybody
• Conversation – Only 7% is the words…learn how to communicate without saying a word
• Communication – looking in eyes, listening – the lost art
• Right and wrong – if you have to talk yourself in to something, you are trying to justify. Become aware of our minds tricks
• Real vs. interpreted (made up)
• Treating people with love, without saying a word
Fears Break Down Your Walls
Attitude Change Your Attitude- Change Your Day
• Dance or shuffle? Dance – a state of mind; shuffle – to drag yourself through the days
The worst dancers are the best at dancing through their days; be the one
enjoying life and having fun – at work and at play
• Attitude is a choice you make every day: many times chosen the night before
Choices Your life is the sum result of the choices you make
• When you say yes to one thing, you say no to other things
• Do you belong in this picture?
• Take the first steps down the yellow brick road of your life, embrace your fears to find that everything you need is in your own back yard
• Ladder to ‘Mr. Right’
Be True to Self Being honest with yourself brings peace and success
• Being Obedient - listen to your heart, intuition doesn’t make sense; justify try to fit it in our practical, have-to-make sense world
• Co-dependent by any other names – is co-dependent
• Do I need it? Do I love it? Does it make $$? If not, get rid of it
Dreams/Passion Uncover your buried dreams; find your passion
• Failure vs. lessons – one and the same
• Dreams never die
• What is your passion?
Abuse Take back the remote control of YOUR life
• Take the face of the abuser off everyone
• The hidden abuse – verbal. No one deserves it
Addictions What hole is your addiction filling up?
• Break the chain without exchanging one addiction for another
What are you ‘weighting’ for?
Breaking the Food Chain: Freedom from Bottomless Hunger
• When is eating not about the food?
• What empty hole are you ‘trying’ to fill?
Your Story Learn to live YOUR own life
• Years from now this will just be a story – will it be worth retelling?
• The empty canvas of your life – What are you going to paint on it?
• Pictures: Do you paint yourselves in pictures that you don’t belong in?
• When you are 95, what will you regret not doing?
• Write your obituary – live the rest of your dash
Live in the Present Learn to enjoy being wherever you are
• Carpe Diem – use your 5 senses to live in the present
• If you had to pay for baggage from your past when you got to the airport, how many bags would you have to check in?
• Running away from yourself – deal with ghosts from the past
• Make you pain your power; make your mess your message
• Your Empty Canvas
Ethics
• If everyone else does it, does that make it okay?
Gratitude
• Your happiness level is in direct proportion to your gratitude level. Take the gratitude challenge and look at life through different eyes
• The little things in life become the BIG things
Celebrate Put the ‘fun’ into each ordinary day
• Celebrate ordinary days and make them ‘extra’-ordinary
Humor
• Humor as relationship connector. Life = Art + Science Art – Humor, Science – Technology
The importance of humor for health and as a relationship connector
• Stories: Everyone can be a good storyteller; if they are telling their own story
• Mishaps as Stories – Play your mishaps ahead as the stories they will become; laugh at life’s accidents, and actually look forward to them
Laugh: Put the Fun & Life Back in Life
Don't be Afraid to Enjoy Life: Love the Life You are Living