E A T I N G T H E E L E P H A N TB E I N G E F F E C T I V E A N D …

@AishaKellaway

http://ordinaryextraordinaries.wordpress.com/2014/07/12/eating-the-elephant/

- B A R A C K O B A M A

“Change will not come if we wait for some other

person or some other time. We are the ones we've

been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”

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It’s All About

Breaking It

Down

Into

Manageable

Chunks

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W H A T W E ’ R E

G O I N G T O C O V E R :• Vision

• The Big Picture

• The Baby Steps

• 3 Most Important Questions

• Thinking

• Know Who You Are

• Desire, Believe, Achieve

• Ask Yourself WHY?

• 80/20 Thinking

• Actions

• Choose Who You Let on The Bus

• Flywheel Effect

• Write it Down and Make it Public

• Keep, Start, Stop

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Standing On the

Shoulders of Giants!

Most of these

theories aren’t my

own.

They’ve simply

worked for me and

I want to share

them!

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Vision… What Are You Shooting For?

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T H E B I G P I C T U R E

• Be Unrealistic: Your “Big

Picture” Goals Should Push

You Out Of Your Comfort

Zone - Make the Impossible

Possible.

• Be Flexible: The Big Picture

is Allowed to Change… and

Sometimes It will Need to.

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– G E O R G E B E R N A R D S H A W

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world:

the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the

world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on

the unreasonable man.”

B A B Y S T E P S

• Think of your “Big Picture” Goal as a

Jigsaw Puzzle…

• It can’t exist without its pieces…

• To create the picture, we need to put

the pieces together one at a time.

• Some Pieces Look More Important

than Others… But you need them all.

• When you achieve your “Big Picture”

Goal… it too then becomes a small

piece of yet another jigsaw.

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3 M O S T I M P O R T A N T

Q U E S T I O N S

• Forget about the “means”

goals (money, grades, etc) and

think about the end goal - to

find the end goals ask:

• What do I want to Experience?

• How do I want to Grow?

• What do I want to Contribute to

the planet?

Vishen Lakhiani

Experiences Growth Contribution

• Travel to 100 countries

• Starting a Family/Raising

Children

• Good Health throughout my

entire life

• Continued love and

companionship in a healthy and

mutually supportive relationship

• Experience new food/cuisines

frequently

• Eat out once a week

• A continuously expanding

network of QUALITY friends

around the world

• Keep becoming a better cook

• Run amazing events which

create memories and motivate

people

• Teach and assist people

(especially children) to grow

• 3 international trips/year

• To own a beautiful home

• Walk the Inca Trail/Kokoda Trail

• Become fluent in another

language (French)

• Constantly improve my

listening skills

• Always work on being less

judgemental

• Improve my culinary skills

• Flexibility

• Complete a Mountain climb

• Walk the Inca Trail/Kokoda

Trail

• Financial stability and

liveable passive income

stream

• Build a school/s

• Pass great morals and compassion

onto my children

• Share my wealth and success with

my family, friends, and others in

need

• Inspire/motivate as many people as

possible to follow their dreams and

succeed

• Make a stranger smile every day

• Practice a random act of kindness at

least once a week

• Be involved in events which create

lasting memories

• Give amazing, genuine, life changing

hugs

• Be the Friend that will unconditionally

be there for support and to listen

• Approachable and helpful to

strangers

Thinking… How to Use Your Mind and Process Information Most Effectively.

K N O W W H O

Y O U A R E

• Are you Introverted or

Extraverted?

• Are you a Leader, an

adopter or a follower?

• How do you learn best?

• How do you socialise best?

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D E S I R E , B E L I E V E ,

E X P E C T

• Desire to achieve your end

goals - Ask yourself “Why”

• Believe that

achieving/attaining your

end goals is possible

• Wholeheartedly Expect to

achieve your end goals

“When faced with achieving something, ask

yourself why you want to achieve it, The why will be

your emotional fuel to keep going, the why will be

your willpower.”

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P R I N C I P L E

• 80% Achievement in 20% time spent

• 80% of total happiness in 20% Life

• If we make good use of time there is no

shortage of it

• “Productive Laziness”

• Everyone can achieve something

significant. Key is not effort but finding the

right thing to achieve

• Focus on Objectives

• Be selective of your relationships

• Pursue what generates happiness

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H A P P I N E S S A N D A C H I E V E M E N T

I S L A N D S

• Make 4 Columns:

• Happiness Islands

• Happiness Desert Islands

• Achievement Islands

• Achievement Desert Islands

Source: Richard Koch - The 80/20 Principle

T O P 1 0 H I G H E S T - V A L U E U S E S O F

T I M E

1. Things that advance your overall purpose in life

2. Things you’ve always wanted to do

3. Things already in the 80/20 relationship of time to results

4. Innovative ways of doing things that promise to slash the time required or multiply quality of results

5. Things that other people say can’t be done

6. Things other people have done successfully in another arena

7. Things that utilise creativity

8. Things that you can delegate to others with little effort on your part and the same results

9. Anything with high quality collaborators who already use time effectively

10. Things for which it is now or never

Source: Richard Koch - The 80/20 Principle

T O P 1 0 L O W E S T - V A L U E U S E S O F

T I M E

1. Things that other people want you to do

2. Things that have “always been done this way”

3. Things you’re not unusually good at doing

4. Things that you don’t enjoy

5. Things that are constantly interrupted

6. Things few other people are interested in

7. Things that take longer than expected

8. Things where your collaborators are not reliable/low quality

9. Things that have a predictable cycle

10. Answering the phone

Source: Richard Koch - The 80/20 Principle

Actions…What are you doing today to help get closer to your end goal tomorrow

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C H O O S E W H O Y O U

L E T O N Y O U R B U S

• Very few people succeed

without the help of others

• Think of yourself as a bus

driver and your end goal is

your destination

• Before you begin your

journey make sure you have

the right people on your bus

• And IN THE RIGHT SEATS

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Source: Jim Collins- “Good To Great”

T H E F L Y -

W H E E L

E F F E C T

• Think of your company or your vision

as a giant flywheel.

• To get it moving from stand-still is

the hardest part.

• Once you’ve completed a few

rotations it gets easier.

• You’ll reach a point where the

momentum of the wheel turns itself.

• Momentum is the key word! People

thrive on momentum and successes,

no matter how small.

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Source: Jim Collins- “Good To Great”

W R I T E I T D O W N

A N D M A K E I T

P U B L I C

• ALWAYS write down your goal and

have it somewhere you can see it

every day

• If you are a visual learner, make

your goal/achievement a visual

representation

• To motivate you to achieve your

end goal - make your dedication to

achieve it public with a deadline -

the social obligation might help stop

you giving up

• Acknowledge Milestones

K E E P S T A R T

S T O P

• Things I want to KEEP

Doing (Refer to Happiness

Islands)

• Things I want to START

Doing (Refer to

Experiences, Growth and

Contribution Lists)

• Things I want to STOP

doing (Refer to Desert

Islands)

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- L A O - T Z U

“A Journey of A Thousand Miles Begins With A

Single Step”

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T: @AishaKellaway

E: aisha.kellaway@gmail.com

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