Mapping Your Mind for Success is a powerful training program designed to help individuals realize the potential within for career options. This is the first of three preview clips showing pieces of this interactive training course.
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Explain that perspective is everything if we want change.We will never see anything different if we continue to look at it the same way.
Time: 2 minReview D.H. Lawrence's’ times with that of our own and the availability and support we have as opposed to what he endured – Perspective.Recall some of the comments shared in the Appointment Time activity. Explain that during times of change, self pity does not serve us nor is it a benefit for the outcomes we seek. Explain how life experience gives us both wisdom, and mental ruts that can encumber us if not recognized and managed.Mental ruts can be formed in a matter of seconds. Here is an example…
Time: 10 minAsk if anyone has seen this picture before (if yes, then ask them to let other people respond to your questions)Ask everyone what they see in the picture. Get a number of responses and assure them they are seeing a frog (it’s not a trick question).Explain that you will now “change their perspective”. Click to advance the animation (picture rotates to left).Ask the following:What do you see now? (head of a horse) Did you see the horse before? Why not?How dramatic was the change in what you saw? (a frog and horse has no similarities)Explain this was one change in perspective, but in reality we have to constantly change our perspectives to maintain pace with the world around us. As soon as we’ve gained a new perspective, it can become a mental rut.Click so the picture rotates again back to the original position.Ask the following:How many of you still see the horse?How many of you see both?How many of you can make your self stop seeing the horse? (you can’t, it’s embedded)Maybe seeing the horse at this moment is what you need to move forward, but it’s just a stepping stone. The point of this discussion - we cannot ever stop learning.
Time: 2 minBriefly present who Malcolm Knowles is and the insight he brought to the world of adult learning.First Quote: Point out the “winners” in life are those who have learned how to learn. It has nothing to do with intelligence or aptitude. It is the reason why a very smart teenager breezes through high school without studying, yet does poorly in college. He never learned how to learn when the going got tough.Second Quote: The best way to keep pace with change is to embrace it. The moment we decide we can’t or won’t change, we become a dinosaur. We all know what happened to the dinosaurs.Let’s consider an inspirational story of new perspectives, change, and an unbelievable dream come true…
Time: 15 minLanding on the moon was a radical goal in 1961 because no one had ever done it before, and the time-line Kennedy proposed to execute the job was very short. However, it was Kennedy’s radical perspective on the possibilities that initiated this world changing event.Explain that you want the class to discuss for a few minutes the impact of the “space race”.For smaller classes (up to 30 people) break everyone into three groups. Have each group pick a scribe and spokesperson. Give each group a discussion question (below). They have 5 minutes to discuss (scribe records remarks) and then the spokesperson shares a summary to the whole class.Fill in the gaps and make the transitions as needed.Describe the space exploration industry (globally and in the USA) at the time President Kennedy made this proclamation?How did American’s respond to the challenge? What did they do?What were the ripple affects (then and now) of us walking on the moon?Use the next slide to make your summary points.
Time: 5 minThese images hardly begin to demonstrate the amazing change that took place in our nation because of one person’s new perspective and unrelenting determination to reach that goal.You may not be president of a nation, effecting change in the lives of millions, but you can be the CEO your own life.It is amazing how many adults today choose not to take full control of their life. Instead, they allow themselves to be manipulated by circumstance and the will of others. These are people who live in self-pity and disappointment.I would say, based on the comments I heard at the beginning of this class, it sounds like a few of you in this room.When you decide YOU (and not some “executive board”) are the CEO of your life, then that also makes you fully responsible for it. That’s when the future you want can become a reality.BUT as the CEO of you life you have to consider the following…
Time: 2 minAsk learners to reflect for a moment on these questions. Point out that investing in themselves for their desired future is never a sacrifice. A true sacrifice is accepting that what they have right now, hoping it will work out in the end.Ask for a show of hands from those who feel they could confidentially answer the questions right now (of course they don’t actually have to at this moment).Explain that your goal my the end of the class is to help them have an answer.(These questions are revisited later at the end of the course).
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