TOOLS AND TIPS FOR HAPPINESS, OPTIMISM AND POSITIVITY IN THE FACE OF CHALLENGES

Life isn’t’ always a bowl of cherries…sometimes it’s the pits! This humor-filled talk teaches strategies for optimism and positivity in the face of challenges to our happiness. A perfect life isn’t the goal; a better one is.

Course Description: This course teaches encouraging ideas for optimism and positivity regardless of our circumstances, obstacles and challenges. A version of this course was originally developed for the transgender community pursuant to a speaking invitation at the Babs Siperstein Humanities and Medicine Seminar at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. Topics Include:

• Overcoming negative self-talk.
• Letting go of toxic emotional baggage.
• Filling the hole of the dreaded 'inner void'.
• Finding a sense of meaning and purpose in the darkness.
• Using empowering words to empower your world.
• Leveraging gratitude to lighten your load.

POWER UP YOUR HAPPINESS AND A POSITIVE BRAIN TO FUEL SUCCESS!

It’s known as the 'Happiness Advantage'. The happier you are, the greater your chances for success in your personal life, health, and work. Positivity fosters optimal brain function! The humor-filled VIP DAY teaches happiness habits and positivity strategies. Perfect for busy execs, entrepreneurs, and people who want everything yesterday!

Description: Studies show that positive brains have a biological advantage over negative brains or even neutral brains. In one study, doctors given a lollipop by their patients (they weren’t allowed to eat it!) were twice as fast at making a correct diagnosis. In the VIP DAY Acceleration Course, you’ll discover science-based strategies and principles that promote happiness, optimism, and positivity for optimal performance at work and in life.

Topics Include how to:

• REFRAME your thinking to find opportunities instead of seeing problems.
• REPLACE self-defeating talk with empowering words for a Winning Attitude.
• TAME fears, worries, and circling thoughts.
• BECOME more resilient to think great solutions…even under stress.
• PRACTICE mindfulness to reduce stress and increase focus and productivity.
• DISCOVER game-changing, sustainable Happiness Habits.
• LEARN to think like an optimist, why it’s important, and why it’s not la la land.
• FIND ways to incorporate gratitude practices to boost your happiness quotient.
• STAY motivated on your path to success.
• GAIN the 'Happiness Advantage' and optimal brain function from a positive mindset.

WIT, WISDOM, AND OPTIMISM FOR BEATING THE BREAST CANCER BLUES!

A lively talk based on my personal experience embracing the journey of breast cancer, including tips from my new book, "Bonjour, Breast Cancer—I’m Still Smiling!...Wit, Wisdom, and Optimism for Beating the Breast Cancer Blues".

Would you like to know how I got my happiness mojo and optimism back after the shock and fear that came with my metastatic breast cancer diagnosis, two failed lumpectomies, a bi-lateral mastectomy, reconstructive surgery, powerful chemo, baldness, radiation and medical tattoos? I wanted to know too!

That’s why I did some major introspection to find out what the heck I was doing that enabled me to regroup and claim for myself a powerful new optimism and pathway to happiness and inner peace. This workshop is the result of my determination to use what I learned to light the way for others.

In this talk, I share examples of how some of the smallest shifts in my thinking about my circumstance, my prognosis, my physical appearance, brought me huge and immediate relief from anxiety, fear and sadness. So much of breast cancer feels like a loss. I want to share how I turned so much of that 'loss' on its head and put it in the plus column! Using research-based positive psychology principles and my own unique tried-and-true wisdom, we’ll dig deep into:

• Learning happiness habits to beat the breast cancer blues.
• How to use your own brilliant mind to find answers.
• Cultivating resilience and optimism to help you through.
• Living with more courage and less fear.
• Pollyanna Princess Playbook-reframing to see the good.
• Watch your language! – empowerment through words
• Finding the funny.
• Becoming miracle minded.
• Quick calming techniques to managing stress and overwhelm.
• Research-based ways to help your doctor foster optimism and still tell the truth.
• Discovering for yourself how breast cancer can be an amazing, life-affirming gift.

And much more:

This talk is for anyone who has the desire to learn where the smiles live even in dark times, and the courage to turn a challenge into a transformational experience.

HOW TO PUT MORE "ZEN" IN YOUR WORK DAY: Lessons in Positivity, Encouragement, Cooperation, Mindfulness, and Inner Peace in the Work Place

In this humor-filled session, you’ll learn strategies to foster and model a positive, encouraging, cooperative, stress-reduced work environment whether you work inside or outside the home.

DESCRIPTION: More "ZEN" in the workplace stands for:

• Z=Zone of Positivity-creating a positive mindset to make a better day for you everyone else
• E=Encouragement of self and others
• N=Now-mindfulness and being present

Topics Include:

• Ways to encourage yourself and co-workers
• How to foster a sustainable positive mindset.
• Strategies to create a supportive environment.
• Mindfulness practices to become more present.
• Tips for gaining inner calm in a stressed-out world.
• Fun work hacks to make your 'to do' list love you.
• Techniques for exercising emotional intelligence when someone is frustrating or annoying you (or both!).
• How to cultivate trust.

Get Up & Set Up! Morning Practices for Your Happiest, Most Positive, Most Productive Day

Morning is the perfect place to cultivate a happiness transformation. Learn quick and easy morning practices that will set you up for your happiest, most positive, most productive and successful day. Maximize your chances for a royally happy day by setting yourself up for one.

Maximizing your chances for a royally happy day doesn’t happen by fairy dust. You have to program your brain for a fabulous morning. Think of it like programming the software of a computer. If you want it to operate a certain way, you have to know how to code. By doing certain practices, you set the tone, the vibration of positive, happy energy for facing the whole day.

This humor-filled seminar shows you how to craft effective morning practices that put you in a powerful, energetic, productive, relaxed, and happy state of mind. By incorporating these morning practices into your daily routine, you’ll increase your chances for a happy, productive, successful, day. String those days together, and you’ve crafted your most glorious life.