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Mind Management

AKA: How to Change the World, Stay Sane and Always Be Home For Tea

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We manage time

We manage budgets

We manage projects

We manage people

We manage stress

Mind Management?

Would you benefit from

• A more positive mind, able to see and go for opportunities, and less limited by self doubt

• A more creative mind

• A more relaxed mind

Would you benefit from

• A more positive mind, able to see and go for opportunities, and less limited by self doubt

• A more creative mind

• A more relaxed mind

Would you benefit from

• A more positive mind, able to see and go for opportunities, and less limited by self doubt

• A more creative mind

• A more relaxed mind

Tour Route

Science …

• 75% water

• 10% fat

• One indiscernible from another

• No trace of you

• Weak

Things we know for sure …

A few mililitres of C2H5OH

• 100,000 miles of blood vessels

• 25% of our energy

• 100 billion neurons

• 10,000 synapses for each

• 70,000 thoughts per day

The most complex thing in the Universe

1. The Brain Is Plastic

The Case of Dominique Riel

Habit

Another name for a funny story, beginning with ‘J’?

JOKE

Another name for Coca Cola?

COKE

Unpleasant thing to do with a sharp stick?

POKE

Pleasant thing to do in a hot tub?

SOAK

The correct name for the white of an egg?

DID YOU SAY YOLK?

DON’T YOU MEAN ALBUMEN?

Tony Buzan’s Jungle Model

… no alternative route is considered

Once there is a well-trodden neural pathway …

Do this … Now also do this …

Practice makes perfect

Benefit 1: A more positive, less limiting

mind

Put your hand up if you

regularly hear a voice inside your head …

Self Talk

Poor Performance

Negative Belief

Self Talk / Thoughts

Reinforced Negative Belief

Worsening Performance

Self talk is usually negative.

Why?

Because of over 100,000 ‘no’s’

Put your hand up if anyone has ever called you

• ‘Stupid!’

• ‘Clumsy’

• ‘Selfish’

• ‘Naughty’

• ‘Ungrateful’

• ‘Nerdy, uncool or unattractive’

By the age of 14, 98% of children have a negative self image

‘The self image of the adolescent is small… helpless… powerless… socially unacceptable … confused… inferior and (sometimes) unloved and unwanted as well. Then nature plays you the dirtiest trick imaginable. You grow up, but your self image doesn’t’

J.H. Brennan

But we weren’t born with this programming …

Roger Bannister

6th May 1954

+ 37

+300!

Good Performance

Positive Belief

Self Talk / Thoughts

Reinforced Positive Belief

Better Performance

Poor Performance

Positive Belief

Self Talk / Thoughts

Reinforced Positive Belief

Better Performance

Your internal monologue (your thinking), strengthens and reinforces those neural pathways, including those concerned with belief

This has implications for your beliefs about what is possible, what might happen, what can be

done, etc.

“Whether you believe you can, or believe you can’t … you’re

probably right”

Henry Ford

The imagination is more

powerful than the will

A short history of the brain…

• 500 million years ago?

• 50 million years ago?

• 2 million years ago?

Your sub conscious cannot tell the

difference between a real event and a

strongly imagined event

Visualisation

Arizona State Basketball Team

Edson Arantes de Nascimento

1. Everything you do is the result of how your brain is wired up

2. The architecture of your brain is physically alterable

3. Your subconscious is more powerful than your conscious mind – and it does work to mould your brain

4. You live with the consequences

5. You can take charge of the process to produce only good

Benefit 2: A more open and creative mind

Positional Thinking

The Chimp Paradox: Dr Steve Peters

The Chimp Paradox

The Chimp Paradox

The Chimp Paradox

The Chimp Paradox

Ditch paradigms

Benefit 3: A more relaxed mind

Work Smart

Don’t Feed The Monkey!

Regularly work late

Travel during the rush hour

Be honest with everyone. All the time. About everything.

Nurture grievances

Try to finish your to-do list by Friday

Listen to the news in the morning

Always make sure that you have the last word

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Learn to love Incompetence

- These are actual excuse notes teachers have received, spelling mistakes included-

My son is under a doctor’s care and should not take P.E. today. Please execute him.

Please excuse Lisa for being absent. She was sick and I had her shot.

Please excuse Ray Friday from school. He has very loose vowels.

Please excuse Tommy for being absent yesterday. He had diarrhea and his boots leak.

Please excuse Jimmy for being. It was his father’s fault.

Don’t take yourself too

seriously

Take the work seriously – but yourself lightly

• The General

• The Politician

• The Florist

• The Policeman

• The Airline Pilot

The Power of Laughter

Norman Cousins

The health benefits of laughter

• Laughter relaxes the whole body. A good, hearty laugh relieves physical tension and stress, leaving your muscles relaxed for up to 45 minutes

The health benefits of laughter

• Laughter boosts the immune system. Laughter decreases stress hormones and increases immune cells and infection-fighting antibodies, thus improving your resistance to disease

The health benefits of laughter

• Laughter triggers the release of endorphins, the body’s natural feel-good chemicals. Endorphins promote an overall sense of well-being and temporarily relieve pain.

The health benefits of laughter

• Laughter protects the heart. Laughter improves the function of blood vessels and increases blood flow, which can help protect you against a heart attack and other cardiovascular problems.

“She who laughs, lasts."

You can’t have too

much fun in your job!

…or can you?