Three presentations delivered at the Wellbeing event at Solis Lough Eske on March 9th as part of Enterprising Donegal Business week 2012

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2. ‘Maximising your potential ’
(Presentation by Gerry Duffy)

4. ‘Maximising your potential’
(Presentation by Gerry Duffy)

8. John F Kennedy
‘Physical fitness is not
only one of the keys to a
healthy body.....
... It is the basis of a
creative and intellectual
activity....’

10. 8
Get/Stay Fit and Fuel to maximise your
performance

11. 7
A SMALL KEY OPENS BIG DOORS

12. 6
THINK TIME

14. 5
IF SOMEONE ELSE CAN, THEN SO
CAN I

20. 4
BE DIFFERENT IN YOUR
APPROACH

31. 3
SURROUND YOURSELF WITH
GREAT PEOPLE

32. Surround yourself with
great people

33. BARRY MURRAY

34. RICHARD DONOVAN

35. NOELEEN
BOURKE

36. Surround yourself with
great people

37. 2

42. WEEK 1 (1-7)
4Hrs 36 Mins
32 Marathons in 32 Days
WEEK 2 (8-14)
4 Hrs 23 Min
WEEK 3 (15/21)
4 Hrs 20 Mins
WEEK 4 (22-28)
3 Hrs 55 Mins
Marathons
29/30/31 and 32 3 Hours 32 Minutes

43. DROGHEDA
SWIM
24 MILES
DUBLIN

44. ANTRIM
RUN
262 MILES
KERRY

45. DUBLIN
AIRPORT
CYCLE
1,160 MILES
MALAGA
AIRPORT

47. Surround yourself with
great people

48. Recap
• How to solve • Be Different
worrying situations • Surround yourself
• Go away and THINK • Tough Days don’t
• If someone else can, last, tough people do
I can
• 3 Steps to achieving
any goal

49. 1
‘YOUR MINDSET’ (def)
A set of beliefs or a way of thinking that determines
ones behaviour, outlook and mental attitude

50. APPRENTICESHIPS
144 Hrs done
9 of 10 Boxes ticked
ONLY 16 Hrs Left
8 months/206
Sacrifices/CREW
MONSOON EXTRA IM
GRATITUDE/ AMBITION
LIE IN TOMORROW!!
9 DAYS/NIGHTS
BODY EXHAUSTED
STILL 16 Hrs LEFT
STRESS FRAC.
IMMUNE LOW L
MONSOON

52. Gerry Duffy
Thank
You
www.direction32.com
facebook.com/32marathons

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54. a day in the life …
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55. agenda
• Introduction
• Productivity
challenges
• Productivity
questionnaire
• Tools
• Your own personal
changes
• Questions
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56. my own challenges
• I dislike paper
• I work remotely
• Email
• I regularly experience
information overload
• I get distracted
• I overload
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57. a few notes…
•Stop trying to be
something you are
not.
•Not all productivity
tools suit everyone.
•Work according to
your natural rhythm
instead of against it.
•Recognise the
patterns of others and
work within them.
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58. productivity score
• 27 points
• Goal: 20/27
• ‘in order’
• Not all
applies
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59. tools
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60. tool 1: master list
• www.wunderlist.com
• master
• weekly
• daily
• What to schedule?
• 2 profit items
• 3 admin
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61. tool 2: end of day check in
• www.idonethis.com
• Accountability
• Tracking for invoicing
• Celebration
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62. tool 3: weekly reading
• www.readitlater.com
• Distractions
• Application versus reading for the sake of it
• Categorised to share with others
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63. tool 4: client management
• www.teamworkpm.net
• No email // Messaging
• Notebooks
• Files
• Tasks
• Time
• Milestones
• Resources
• Billing
• People
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65. tool 5: budgeting
• www.billfaster.com
• www.moflo.co.uk
• Personal
• Business
• Online
• Time tracking
• Printable reports
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66. tool 6: email management
RULE: IT DOES NOT DETERMINE MY DAY. EVER.
• No email for personal mails
• Move to social media
• Separate mail boxes
• Move to project management tools
• Nesting
• Finding mails due to subject line mismatches
• No email before 12pm
• One week turnaround
• No subscriptions
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67. tool 7: downtime
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68. implementation
3 actions
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70. Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/getorganised1
Twitter: @getorganised // @claireburge
Web: www.getorganised.co
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71. www.donegalenterprise.ie
Facebook: www.facebook.com/donegalenterprise
Twitter: www.twitter.com/donegalceb
Slideshare: www.slideshare.net/donegalceb
YouTube: www.youtube.com/Donegalceb
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72. Flourishing Workshop
The Art & Science of Being at Your Best
Dr. Maureen Gaffney
Adjunct Professor of Psychology and Society
UCD
March 2012

73. What is Flourishing?
Being at your personal best
Feeling good, doing good & doing well

74. The Four Common Elements of
Flourishing
Rising to a Challenge
Connectivity
Autonomy
Using your most personally valued competencies

75. Flourishing related to Emotional
Intelligence
EI – being intelligent about your emotions
& using your emotions intelligently
EI is what enables you to fully use your
intelligence, talents, skills & life experience
Longitudinal studies – IQ contributes
about 20% to life success
Leaving 80% due to other factors
EI is one of those very significant factor

76. The Problem ?
Only 20% of individuals & 20% of
business teams flourishing
20% are ‘languishing’ – functioning well
below par, blocked, frustrated,
‘running on empty’

77. What Blocks Us from Flourishing?
Flourishing is dependant on
achieving a very precise ratio
of positivity to negativity
What blocks us from flourishing
is losing that critical balance

78. Critical positive-negative ratios
Just to manage day-to-day - the minimum platform
for normal functioning requires a ratio of 3:1
Three invisible thresholds
Below 3:1 – triggers a downward vicious cycle
Achieving a ratio of 5:1 - triggers upward virtuous
cycle
– For individual success in life
– For happy & stable marriages
– For flourishing teams at work
At a ratio of 12:1 dynamics of flourishing break up

79. What Drives Positivity & Negativity?
Basic Emotions
Liking/Love Anger
Joy Fear
Gratitude Sadness
Contentment Shame
Interest Guilt
Hope Envy
Pride Jealousy
Humour Contempt*
Inspiration Disgust*
Awe

80. Why Do You Need so Much
Positivity?
Brain hardwired to prioritise negative as signal
of threat
So negative more powerfully than positive,
‘stickier’ & more contagious
Only way to counter the negative is
numerically

81. The power of the negative
Negativity is highly contagious - the power of
‘contamination’
Any loss has more powerful negative impact than
‘equivalent’ gain
Negative first impressions very difficult to reverse –
need 9 ‘bits’ of positive information to reverse
negative impression but less than 4 new ‘bits’ of
negative information to reverse positive impression
Stronger & longer lasting effects of negative moods
Negative interactions more predictive of long-term
outcome relationships
Trust in relationships & organisations easier to
destroy than create

82. Two Basic Principles of Flourishing
Consciously & actively build the positive – in
yourself, in others & in organisation
While
Consciously & actively de-limiting the frequency &
intensity of the negative – in yourself, in others &
in organisation
So as unavoidable negativity rises -as long as you
ramp up positivity to maintain the right ratio you
can still flourish

83. Building the positive

84. How to build the positive: overall
principles
3. Build your capacity for happiness & work to make others happy
4. Set yourself goals - ‘personal projects’
5. Learn to get control over your attention & spend your units of attention
wisely
6. Define your positive purpose in every important interaction
7. Take charge of your mood
8. Master the art of vital engagement
9. Work to create & clarify meaning
10. Build your resilience - Be ambitious about set-backs, failures &
adversity
11. Stop sabotaging yourself – you can’t be driven crazy without your full
cooperation
12. Create a compelling future vision

85. 1.Be happy & work to make others
happy
Are more successful in virtually every domain in life
Have long lasting & fulfilled marriages
Have better relationships with friends & colleagues
Help others more frequently, volunteer more & contribute to society
Enjoy better mental & physical health & more vitality
Live 7.5 years longer (irrespective of age, sex, socioeconomic
status)
Positive feelings more important for health than body mass,
exercise or even smoking
Smoking knocks 5 yrs off man’s life, 7.5 off woman’s life. Persistent
negative feelings knock 10 yrs off your life

86. How do you experience the ten basic positive
emotions in your life day-to-day?
Are you aware of what arouses each emotion in
you?
Do you register them as they happen?
Do you have a conscious strategy to build
their frequency & intensity in your work?
If you cant do it for yourself, you can’t do it for
others or in your work

87. Liking/Love Anger
Joy Fear
Gratitude Sadness
Contentment Shame
Interest Guilt
Hope Envy
Pride Jealousy
Humour Contempt*
Inspiration Disgust*
Awe

88. 2. Personal Projects
Life
circ
10%
Genetic
50%
Personal projects
40%

89. 3. Spend Your Units of Attention
Wisely
Your attention is your most precious resource
What you pay attention rather than events determines
your experience
But the negative has automatic first call on attention
So attention has to be consciously directed to the positive
by the right questions
Positive feelings NOT opposite of negative feelings
Some choice involved paying attention to positive
feelings especially when feeling negative & build on them

90. 4. Define positive purpose in
every important interaction
Your brain is an anticipation machine. Once you give it a
purpose it automatically does half the work for you
– Alerting you to opportunities to achieve your purpose
– Motivating you to take avail of them when they
happen in the moment
– Helping you to avoid distractions or the temptation to
be drawn into other agendas
– Generating other options when you are running into
set-backs
–
Positive Purpose focuses your unconscious attention on
‘Am I missing an opportunity here? ‘ vs. narrow task
focus

91. 5. Actively manage your mood
 Feelings provoke mood
 Moods typically last 2 hours & mood affects
(nearly) everything
 Feelings & mood are contagious – particularly the
mood of the person you depend on for anything
 So you can’t leave your mood at the door of your
life

92. ‘Mood’ of Organisation
Emotional contagion happens in groups & spreads like
virus
The more emotionally interconnected a group, the longer
worked together, the stronger the moods expressed by
individuals – the more contagion
Mood at work counts – to individuals but also to
productivity
When negative mood in organisation performance of
entire team affected
– In cardiac unit where the nurses’ general mood
depressed, death rate among patients four times
higher than on comparable units.

93.  ‘At work do you have the opportunity to
do what you do best every day?’
When employees answer ‘strongly agree’ to this
question
 50% more likely to work in organisation with lower turnover
 38% more likely to work in more productive organisation
 44% more likely to work in organisation with higher satisfaction
in those they serve

94. 6. Live a Life of Vital
Engagement
 Creating experiences of ‘Flow’
 Builds strong capacity for sustained attention &
concentration
 Facilitates the perfect balance between automatic
& conscious behaviour
 Auditing experiences of ‘Flow’ – in work & leisure
 Growing experiences of ‘Flow’ into a life of vital
engagement

95. 7. Work to create & clarify
meaning
 Meaning bookends flourishing – drives commitment
 Four sources of meaning in our lives
 Purpose – sense of heading somewhere you want to be
 Values – sense of goodness about what you are doing
 Efficacy – belief you can control & influence things to
make them better
 Self-worth
 The role of narrative – personal & organisational

96. 8. Building Resilience
Flourishing
functioning
Level of
recovery
Survival
TIME

97. Building Resilience
Build a portfolio of coping strategies
The role of positive feelings in stress resistance
Re-write your story– ‘Redemption’ vs ‘Contamination’
stories
Actively look for the lesson & find some value in set-
backs & failure – ‘stress-related growth’
Learn the ask one important question
Is there anything about this situation that allows me
to do something positive that I otherwise would not
or could not have done?

98. 9. Stop sabotaging yourself
YOU CAN’T BE DRIVEN CRAZY.
WITHOUT YOUR FULL.
COOPERATION

99. The Rules of Entrapment
 Self-imposed ‘if-then’ rules
 Give us short-term relief of anxiety or guilt
 But prevent us from facing a painful truth about
ourselves or a relationship & from taking
responsibility for our own lives

100. 10. Create a Compelling Future
Vision for Yourself & Your
Organisation
Vision is deeply emotional
Facts convince. Emotions motivate
So Vision has to inspire strong emotion in you & those
you lead
Vision hampered by being too anchored in the present &
by fear: We expect future changes will affect well
being much more they do - forget our extraordinary
ability to adapt to new circumstances

101. Lesson?
Lesson? Don’t compare the present to the past - more likely to
make mistakes
Instead compare the present to the possible
Negative emotions draw you into past.
Remember this
– when thinking about present or immediate past - regret ‘acts of
commission’ – things we did that we wish we hadn’t
– when thinking about the more distant past –regret ‘acts of
omission’- things we could have done but didn’t

102. 8. Cultivate Optimism
Remarkably little evidence that optimists are EVER
worse off than pessimists.
Realistic Optimism = Strong expectation that things
will turn out alright in the end
– Despite frustrations/set-backs
– With effort
– And with no guarantees
Optimists brains work differently – alert to both
threat & opportunities

103. Give the Future the Benefit of
the Doubt
1984 Economist experiment
The classic experiment – 284 experts
making 27,000 long & short term
predictions
‘Foxes’ & ‘Hedgehogs’
–

104. Cultivate ‘positive illusions’
Cultivate the ‘illusion of wellbeing’
A slightly exaggerated view of your own
strengths
A slightly exaggerated sense of personal control
over situations
A slightly exaggerated optimistic view of the
future
Is a formula for success in all aspects of life
Being relentlessly ‘objective’ associated with
being mildly depressed

105. Good Leaders are Optimistic
‘In this world the optimists have it, not because they are
always right, but because they are positive. Even when
wrong they are positive, and that is the way of
achievement, correction, improvement and success.
Educated eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only
offer the empty consolation of being right.
The one lesson that emerges is the need to keep trying.
No miracles. No perfection. No millennium. No
apocalypse. We must cultivate a sceptical faith, avoid
dogma, listen and watch well, try to clarify and define
ends, the better to choose means’.

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