The document outlines six "Pollyanna Principles" related to personal accountability, creating one's future, interconnectedness, aligning actions with values, leveraging strengths, and having systems for success. It discusses change agents being lifelong learners, taking time for reflection, being servant leaders, strong communicators, and keeping focused on goals. The principles emphasize consciously holding oneself accountable, creating the future, acknowledging interconnectedness daily, walking the talk of one's values, and building on strengths with systems.
25. Successful Change Agents and
Catalysts…
• Are lifelong learners
• Spend some portion of their days in
contemplation, reflection, or meditation
• Are servant leaders
• Are strong communicators
• Keep their eyes on the prize
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28. Successful Change Agents and
Catalysts…
• Are lifelong learners
• Spend some portion of their days in
contemplation, reflection, or meditation
• Are servant leaders
• Are strong communicators
• Keep their eyes on the prize
31. Successful Change Agents and
Catalysts…
• Are lifelong learners
• Spend some portion of their days in
contemplation, reflection, or meditation
• Are servant leaders
• Are strong communicators
• Keep their eyes on the prize
34. Successful Change Agents and
Catalysts…
• Are lifelong learners
• Spend some portion of their days in
contemplation, reflection, or meditation
• Are servant leaders
• Are strong communicators
• Keep their eyes on the prize
36. Successful Change Agents and
Catalysts…
• Are lifelong learners
• Spend some portion of their days in
contemplation, reflection, or meditation
• Are servant leaders
• Are strong communicators
• Keep their eyes on the prize
37. Health and
Wellness
Financial
Spirituality
Security
Goals
Relationships
Career
and Family
42. The Everyday Challenge
What did I do today…
…to hold myself accountable?
…to consciously create my future?
…to acknowledge my interconnectedness and
interdependency?
…to “walk the talk” of my values?
…to leverage my strengths and the strengths of
others?
… to make sure that I do the same tomorrow?
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45. One of my favorites…
“I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the
decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the
climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess
tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a
tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate
or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that
decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a
person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as
they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they
ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of
becoming.”
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
47. The Pollyanna Principles
1. We accomplish what we hold ourselves accountable
for.
2. Each and everyone of us is creating our personal
future everyday, whether we do so consciously or not.
3. We are all interconnected and interdependent,
whether we acknowledge that, or not.
4. “Being the change we want to see” means walking
the talk of our values.
5. Strengths build upon our strengths, not upon our
weaknesses.
6. We succeed when we have systems to do so.
Notas del editor
7 homes in 3 states – two of those states twice!
In case you wonder if I’m running from the law…
I’m not…But it hasn’t all been wine and roses and blue skies either…
I’ve watched helplessly as my sister struggled with such severe depression that she was institutionalized and given shock therapy. I’ve rescued my homeless and heroin-addicted brother-in-law from a mattress in the middle of a Nevada desert, and I provided live-in care for my father-in-law as I watched Alzheimer’s steal his life. I’ve also had a hysterectomy and my husband, Mark, was diagnosed with melanoma, which we thankfully caught early enough, in part because of one of the practices I’ll talk about in a few slides.
Pollyanna a novel by Eleanor Porter, is the first of a series of thirteen novels known as "The Glad Books", about an orphaned girl living with her aunt in the early 20th century. Young Pollyanna goes by a philosophy called "The Glad Game" where she finds something to be glad about in every situation. Combined with her sunny personality, her presence helps to reform her dismal town and, most effectively, her miserable aunt.The novel was an instant success, warranting twelve sequels by different authors and passing the name "Pollyanna" itself into the vernacular to describe the archetype she embodies. It was adapted into Movies and tv series several times including a 1920 silent movie, a 1986 Anime series as part of the World Masterpiece Theater series and perhaps most famously made into a film by Disney starring Hayley Mills.After Porter abandoned the "Glad Books" series, it was taken over by first Harriet Lummis Smith, then Elizabeth Borton, Margaret Piper Chalmers and finally Virginia May Moffatt. Later books took Pollyanna into marriage, motherhood and war, not to mention living in places as disparate as a tenement in New York, a castle in Mexico, and Hollywood - playing "The Glad Game" and warming others' lives all along.
What are values?Values are those things that really matter to each of us ... the ideas and beliefs we hold as special. Caring for others, for example, is a value; so is the freedom to express our opinions.
Parable of 83 problems…
Cultivate your attention…
Attention and intention:Self-reflection: Take a few minutes every evening to step outside of yourself and recall the events of the day, from an external perspective, as an outsider looking in.What do you see? Did you listen attentively…going way beyond dowloading to really hear and experience others in your interactions?Did you allow your love for others to shine through?Did you find some time to laugh?Or did you sharpen your claws in preparation for a fight?How was this behavior perceived by others?In retrospect, what would you have done differently?What can you pledge to change?
Attention and IntentionThen…choose the top 10. Then cut the list to 5. Then three. These are your core values.
Most of us just “download” when we listen to others. Use a combination of intuition and attention.Pay attention to how your body feels. Notice first impressions. Inner guidance often expresses itself through mental images, body sensations and responses. Is your belly tightening? Does your heart feel light? Be aware of your personal boundary, of where you begin and end so that you stay centered and in your own space. Over time you will learn to trust your body’s messages and know when something feels right or not.7% WORDS 38% TONE of VOICE 55% GESTURES/BODY LANGUAGE
Pure IntentionPut them in writingShare them publiclyRevisit and revise them often
