You have a major presentation to give. Your budget is due. Your boss anointed you the go-to person for every request that comes into your understaffed department. You have just been given a new plum project. Somehow, you meet all the external demands of your life. You manage to juggle till you drop and then wonder why you have a nagging sense of incompleteness despite all that you've accomplished.

Does this sound familiar? The little trade-offs you make to get things done accumulate and have an insidious way of leaching away your creativity, passion and sense of fulfillment. Life's 2% Solution offers a bold new plan for taking control of one's own happiness. Simply put, commit just 2% of your time each day to following a compelling plan and you will realize the transformative power of the 2% Solution.

In just 30 minutes a day, following a powerful 10-Step Action Plan, this journey of self-discovery puts a simple yet powerful 2% principle into action. Learn the new way to connect with your core strengths and values, balance productivity and reflection, and fully integrate passion with action.

Benefits/Objectives:

• Discovery of your Esprit d'Core , or your spirit at the core of your being
• The 10-Step Action Plan designed with your personal goals in mind
• Learning to live with Passionate Equilibrium – get a grasp on work/life balance
• Exercises and Quizzes that identify strengths and weaknesses and a personal inventory
• Inspirational Strategies to buoy you along the way

Your employees are your greatest asset. Respond by supporting them as a whole person and gain their undying loyalty. Keep your staff from voting with their feet and leaving. With the brief investment of 2% of their time – 30 minutes a day – your staff can find new levels of passionate engagement at work. Maximize your Return on Investment by focusing on proven powerful results.

Benefits/Objectives:

• Recognize the benefits of living at your best – with zest and rest
• Learn to live every day with Passionate Equilibrium
• Develop your Simplicity Value Statement
• Build commitment and clarity

Learn to lead so your people want to follow...and produce results! No matter how powerful your vision and that of your organization is, it must inspire passionate commitment in your teams and individuals to be effective. That requires trust and open effective communication. Learn to grow those competencies until they deliver a measurable return on investment. The highest level of Emotional Intelligence is self actualization. The 2% Solution show your leaders how to love being all they can be by fully engaging their EQ.

Benefits/Objectives:

• Learn the dynamics of emotional intelligence and leadership
• Recognize the 8 factors of EI which build self actualization
• Apply the self actualization top 10 list for leaders
• Connect the dots with successful motivation for leaders and followers

Aristotle said: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” Find new habits to avoid burnout by connect the action and behavior you seek with productive life balance.

Providing enriching opportunities for your employees and volunteers can be just the ticket for juicing up a workplace environment impacted by our world of too much – to do, to keep up with, to juggle. Make your workplace or your projects sizzle by offering your people a process for performing more effectively through committing just 2% of their time. This process helps the participants pinpoint their 2% Solution (their high payoff priorities which respond to their deep wisdom but which keep getting delayed due to what apparently has to be done now). Often we're so involved in doing the same thing that we miss the opportunities to respond to the new possibilities our inner intelligence is guiding us to start acting upon now. participants will learn a proven strategy for feeling renewed, engaged and creative.

Benefits/Objectives:

• Find fascinating “how-to” guidance and stories from numerous professionals who have successfully employed the 2% Solution.
• Answer a questionnaire to clarify your personal values.
• Design strategies to gain energy by living in harmony with those values.
• Develop concrete strategies to juice up your life and workplace with new habits!

Authentic success begets peace of mind, because when you're in the zone, you are living and working in accord with your strengths instead of fighting or ignoring them. You are also acting in sync with your values. A uthentic success recognizes that success is a reflection of your values and your strengths. Using your strengths to achieve authentic success means tapping into your natural power. Increasing your emotional intelligence is a key factor in pumping up your strengths. Happiness and optimism, both components of EQ, are vital to true success; if you enhance those aspects of your emotional intelligence, you will be well on your way toward authentic success. Authentic success combines your inner and outer strengths, though integrating these two is not always so easy. You will learn to:

Apply the formula:
2% + S + A + EQ = AS

2% of your time devoted to your 2% project + understanding and using your strengths + awareness of the relationship between your 2% Solution and your strengths + applying your EQ (emotional quotient), particularly your happiness and optimism, is guaranteed to = Authentic Success.

Benefits/Objectives:

• Take a questionnaire to understand your personal strengths
• Expand your skills in personal awareness through powerful reflective strategies
• Engage your EQ, especially your happiness and optimism
• Build your personal strategy for Authentic Success

Live for your days on, not your days off! Go beyond the theories of emotional and social intelligence and make it real, powerful and meaningful for you. You know your life is working well when you personally experience a quality of living best described as emotional well being. This state reflects a way of engaging with the world centered on a fully developed sense of yourself, your values, strengths and goals. Understand the techniques of moving toward being all you can be rather than running away from the demons of the world – real or imagined.

Benefits/Objectives:

• Understand the theory and application of emotional and social intelligence
• Learn key strategies for enhancing your reflective self awareness
• Discover how to live so you are moving toward life with emotional well being
• Develop your personal action plan for living with emotional well being

Sometimes life imitates art, but often it feels like a treadmill, moving all the time but going nowhere with the same old view. Work. Chores. Errands. Bills. Do it all over tomorrow. The physicists didn't really need to prove that the pace of life is accelerating—most people are barely hanging on. When the focus is just trying to hang on, though, it's pretty tough to truly engage in the full experience. The stress overwhelms the joy, the dissatisfaction squelches the passion, and the pace precludes renewal.

Living with zest and getting some rest—are both possible? Yes—and it's always about balance. Passionate equilibrium is about how you live your life. With it, you can claim the delicate balance of truly bringing your best gifts to life while also living in a healthy, sane fashion. You'll be able to do what you love and actually love it while you're doing it, because you'll slow down long enough to enjoy it all.

Benefits/Objectives:

• Embrace your passionate prerogative
• Identify what gives zest to your life and where to build in the rest
• Learn to just say “Yes!” to your Esprit d'Core
• Learn to just say “No!” to the noise
• Develop your personal happiness plan