(re)-Discovering

your
BRILLIANT SELF

Be the best version of yourself

EVERY day

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 PICTURING
YOUR
BRILLIANT
SELF…
Being brilliant is the
special secret that we
all have within us.
Þ
What does brilliance
mean to me?
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What helps or limits me to be
brilliant?
Þ
What can I do to be more
brilliant more often?
Þ
What would I like to be more
successful or brilliant at?

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 WHAT
IS
BRILLIANCE?
IT’S IT’S IT’S
PERSONAL IMMEASURABLE MAGIC

IT’S INTANGIBLE

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 HOW WILL WE
KNOW IF WE ARE
BRILLIANT? beThese can
taught,
bought and
measured

What type of things stimulate your thinking

or excite you to act?

INSPIRATION

What knowledge or
experience do you already
BRILLIANCE What behaviour brings
out the best in me
have that you can use and others?
to develop new ideas?

SELF-
INTELLIGENCE EXPRESSION

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 BUILDING
YOUR LIFETIME
ACHIEVEMENT
You need to have belief and
confidence in yourself to be
brilliant. By thinking about

SPEECH
what you want to be known
for, you can see the impact
you could have by being
your brilliant self.

Think about all the things you’d like people to be saying about you…
1 What is the legacy you would like to build 3 What will make you a success in the future?
for the future?

4 What do you wish you did less of?

2 How do you behave? What are the values you
stand by (even when times are tough)?

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 INSPIRED
BRILLIANCE…
– LEARNING FROM OTHERS

Þ Think of someone you feel is really

brilliant. It can be someone famous
or someone only you know. It can be
someone at work or not.
Þ What effect do they have on others?

Þ What values do they have that you

admire and would like to develop
further?

A great way to start to think about the type of

person you want to be is to spend a little time
thinking about who inspires you and why. This
will help you identify some of the traits you
may already value and would like to be
more like...

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 PROUD
STORIES
Þ T hink of a time in or out of work when you achieved something that you were
really proud of:

Þ What key things helped you succeed in your proud story? Noting these down will
help you recreate the environment that helps you perform at your best:

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 USE POSITIVITY TO
DRIVE YOUR THINKING
RESILIENCE A MENTAL SHIFT

Use Gratitude

Choose to be a hero
not a victim

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 MY
FEEL GOOD
FLICKS
3 successful moments from my past... 10 things I am grateful for in my life...
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3 happy moments from my past – really good 6.

memorieS...

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 What are
your FEEL
GRATITUDE WILL good
flicks?
BOOST YOUR
MINDSTATE
Top tips to keep feeling
strong every day

1. 2.
Savour the ordinary – give yourself
Begin the day with affirmations –
permission to slow down and experience
list the 10 things you have to be
small moments. Remember to pause
grateful for.
once in a while.

3.
End the day or week on a positive note
- recall 3 moments you appreciated
instead of focusing on what went
wrong.
4.
Remember your overall goals
– don’t sweat the small stuff.

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 RESILIENCE TIP
BE THE HERO NOT THE VICTIM

Empowered We all make choices of how we react to others when

or things don’t go our way. Inside everyone is a chimp
who wants to fight for survival BUT we can choose
reactive? to respond in a more empowered way in order to
deal with a situation…

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We all know that life is short, life takes over
and with more demands for our time and
distractions than ever, it can feel regularly
like we are out of control.

TAKE CONTROL...
1.
AGREE YOUR NON-NEGOTIABLES
2.
TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF

3.
DO LESS TO DO MORE
4.
EAT YOUR FROGS

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 AGREE MY
NON-NEGOTIABLES…
Þ Things in my life that are most important to me being happy:

Þ Now what can I do each week to succeed in these areas e.g. going to the gym
in the morning; having one day a week out of the office; being home for your
child’s bedtime; eating healthily etc.

Þ The most important one that I will stick by for one month starting now…

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 EAT YOUR FROGS…

Þ When you get back to your desk, write down your “to do” list:

Þ Next to each task mark if it is something you dread doing but

you know it’s important to do (a frog) or if it’s a task you love
to work on (a prince).
Þ Commit to completing one frog item first each day then
reward yourself by doing something you love (or even a coffee
and a biscuit!)

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 YOUR
SUPERHERO
POTION…
to instantly transform Yourself
into your most brilliant self…

My superhero name: My special power:

The traits I use when performing at my best are:

The essential ingredients in my potion are:

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 ARE YOU
BEING YOUR
BRILLIANT SELF?

Be you
Authenticity counts - what makes you brilliant?

Positivity is infectious
Laugh, surprise and delight others, exceed
You can be creative
expectations. Problem solve, be playful and just give it a try.

Fortune favours the brave Find your shield of steel

Try something new and push your comfort zone. Be prepared for things not always going your
way and don’t let set backs stop you.
Remember what you have to be grateful for.
Treat every day as a
school day Breathe
Be open to new thinking. Look after yourself, find space, eat frogs.

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful
beyond measure. It is our light, not our
darkness that most frightens us. We ask
ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be

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Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure
around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do…
It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And
as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously
give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our
presence automatically liberates others.
NELSON MANDELA

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 A LETTER FROM
MY FUTURE
BRILLIANT SELF…
Þ What does my brilliant future self look like? What is happening in my life?
How do I feel? What are people saying to me?:

Þ Write down one thing that I would need to change to be my brilliant self in the
future. What shifts do I need to make? What should I focus on to make it happen?:

Þ Note one person that I would like to surprise and delight. How can I make it happen?:

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