Be an Agent for Positive Change: Positivity Strategies

A story to show that the way you start your meetings and conversations will produce very different energies and affect what comes next.

Why we need our whole brain to help us navigate our increasingly complex world.

A story to illustrate how deep the programming is that results in focusing on the problem side of life rather than developmental side of life.

An opportunity to review the kind of words you use, and when; and, how those words entered your vocabulary and influence your thinking and your emotions.

You'll start by paying attention to the words you use and how they affect your thinking, your emotions, your general well-being and your relationships.

A way for you to check in to evaluate your own levels of awareness about situations and whether you're well aware already and you might want to improve.

You'll learn the four practices of choice to keep you firm and strong, standing in your own integrity.

Here's an opportunity to review the choices you make and why and how you do that.

You'll learn that enactment is all about actions and how to adapt or adjust your actions as you learn your way into new modalities, patterns, behaviors and disciplines.

This worksheet will help you get started on what changes you want to make, or what new habits you can start. When you write things down, it's good for the brain.

You'll learn why sometimes you feel drained at work and sometimes you feel energized.

You'll discover your top strengths and develop strategies to put them to work.

You are encouraged to take this online survey to learn your own character strengths and then self-validate that they are true for you.

You'll begin to apply your efforts and energies to where you get greatest results, and, at the same time, strengthen your relationships with others because you become a better noticer and listener.

A story to illustrate that starting with what you're best at gets you to where you want to go faster than a backward looking analysis of poor performance.

You'll learn to value both negative and positive emotions. They both serve: negative emotions protect, and positive emotions invite trust.

This theory of positive emotions postulates there is a "broadening" effect that opens you up to more positive experiences, followed by a "building" effect which is the accumulation of positivity over time, meaning you get stronger and better at it.

You'll learn that the truly beautiful reality is that positivity can be learned. You can develop it and get better with practice. You'll build a positivity resonance in connection with others.

You will be taken to a site to do a free test of your daily positivity experiences to build your positivity muscle over time.

Since the negative bias is well entrenched, it's important to work at strengthening your positivity resonance to counteract the strong pull of your negativity bias.

This worksheet invites you to put the Principles of Awareness, Choice and Enactment into practice by becoming more aware of the amount of positivity you experience, the choices you make; and how you act on these choices.

You'll learn about Appreciative Inquiry, a change methodology that is inquiry-based, as it seeks to affirm, inspire and accelerate anticipatory learning to bring out the best in each of us, propelling us to greater accomplishments, achievements at the individual and collective levels.

An e-book to download to give you more information about the positive change methodology, Appreciative Inquiry.

You'll get clear that your life is a story or narrative that you construct, shaped by so many variables and influences, many of which are unconscious to you, yet you're living them out every day of your life.

You'll learn that you have the power to change the trajectory of your life whenever you're ready. Some of your favorite public figures have done just that. As an agent for positive change, this is what you do.

This lecture presents an overview of the 5 steps of the Positive Change process. Download the worksheet and follow along how each step can offer you greater clarity about embracing positive change.

In this Step 1, you decide on the change you want to bring into your life. You must be able to name it to bring it to life and it must be stated in the affirmative. It's about getting clarity about your intention and the why.

Your first step in the 5-step process will get you started on the positive change you want for yourself and others.

In this Step 2, you discover through a story from your past what assets you already have that will help get you started on this new change. You've made it so far, therefore you'll determine what else can make the future even better for you.

Investing time in Step 2 - Discover is the key to embracing and investing in positive change. It makes you so aware of who you are, what you stand for and how you've made it so far.

In this Step 3, you'll tap into your imaginative capacity. You will dream what you want to create, what you most desire. You need to make it real for yourself by immersing yourself in the opportunities and possibilities that are out there.

Your future is how you dream it. This worksheet leads you through a process of dreaming in a playful, imaginative way. Your vision will start becoming real.

This Step 4 puts you in charge of designing your life. It's the how to make it happen part. It's how to bring your dream to life. This is where you realize you have moved beyond the default that you've run your life by up to this point. You are the designer of your life.

This worksheet will guide you to design the changes for you to be an agent for positive change. It will help you make decisions about what to keep, chuck and change.

This Step 5 is your commitment to be an agent for positive change. You commit to sustain momentum to continue to develop your capacity to value your life, your work, your relationships with your ever-growing appreciative eye for how you can serve others.

You strengthen your own enactment muscle when you follow the simple recommendations in this worksheet.

You'll be apply to apply this Principle that states, "change and questions are simultaneous," so choosing how you ask a question is so important – it starts the change.

You'll be able to model a question that can start a positive change. Learn how you can get a free cab ride in New York City.

You'll become aware that what you put your attention to and what you focus on will command your energy: your emotional energy, your thinking energy and your physical energy.

You'll learn that when you hold positive images and align your efforts, the chances of positive outcomes are higher than when you don't hold those positive images. Think of your favorite sports heroes, or leaders throughout history who've strongly held onto images to determine their positive futures.

You'll learn that when you feel good or appreciated, you and others around you will behave in a more positive manner, believing and trusting that you can make positive changes.

You'll become clear how you are a co-constructor of your own and our world's future through your words, your actions and your relationships.

Here's the beginning of your personal commitment to be an agent of positive change.

This is an important worksheet. It asks you to take reflect on your inspirations, aspirations and commitments to be an agent for positive change.