1. 1 Resonance for L3L

2. 2 Does how you feel affect your performance? How many times in your life or career have you been asked HOW you want to feel? Why not? PWD WTHTD ROHTF!! What is the top thought on the minds of most people on their way into work in the morning?

3. 3 Dave Scott 49, Six-time Ironman Hawaii Champion “During a race, I never wear a wristwatch, and my bike doesn’t have a speedometer. They’re distractions. All I work on is finding a rhythm that feels strong and sticking to it.” Outside, 9/03, p. 122

4. 4 Maria Sharapova on “feel” Bernie Goldberg: You are not all that comfortable with all the hoopla... Sharapova: I understand it...I understand that part of it...I understand that this is just part of my life. But do I like doing it all the time? No. I'd rather be on the court. Goldberg: So being back on the tennis court is more relaxing for you... Sharapova: It is a feeling that you have...that I have hit a ball since I was four years old...have I been in front of a camera since I was four years old? No, that's not why I came to the U. S. I didn't come here to be in front of a lens. I came here to work my butt off.

5. 5 John Molo, drummer

6. 6 Risky Recreations Risky Recreations

7. 7 FLOW  Time warps (slow or fast)  Lose sense of self  Intense focus  Perform at highest level  Seems effortless (flow)  Internally satisfying  Regain larger sense of self Adapted from FLOW by Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi

8. 8 What do you think of Flow …  Clearly it comes from a variety of sources  Is it repeatable?  Can it be designed into your life?  Could it be transported from one activity to another? Study of World Class Performers

9. 9 NEWBURG’S CAREER SAMPLES  World Class Athletes  Touring Musicians  Heart Surgeons  Extraordinary Executives  Warriors/Naval Aviators 550 World Class Performers

10. 10 Dream WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCE Doug Newburg, UVA

11. 11 “When people come to work, it’s important that they be connected to a dream.” Bill Gates, Fortune, 1/26/04, p. 124

12. 12 Life’s Dreams LD external  What you wanted to be or do.  Externally measured  Achievements  “Success” LD internal   How you felt at your best.   Internally measured   Experience   “Success”

13. 13 Life’s Dream internal (LDint)  Is not a “goal” which is a “false dream”  Is a connection between Resonance producing activities and the Feelings that come at the peak

14. 14 Examples of LDints …  Easy speed (swimmer)  Playing to win at the highest level  Out of my chest  Being at one with my surroundings  Creative, Intimate, Helping, Athletic  Peaceful, satisfied, alive  Buoyant, connected mastery  Light, unhurried, engaged and connected.

15. 15 Dream WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCE Doug Newburg, UVA Preparation

16. 16 Preparation People ask me, “How do you play so well?” I practiced, intense “shedding.” If you’re willing to put in the time, you can do it to a certain level. Maybe I have a special talent that is intangible, but if you are willing to put in the time, you can really get it together.” Bruce Hornsby

17. 17 The Relationship between Dream and Preparation, Vijay Singh “Confidence doesn’t come from winning. Winning comes from confidence. And that confidence comes from hard work.” Vijay Singh, Golf Digest, “From the Gallery,” June 2005. Singh won nine tournaments in 2004, was ranked #1 in the world, and is known for his extraordinary practice regimen, hours and hours a day.

18. 18 Dream WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCE Doug Newburg, UVA Preparation Energy Cycle

19. 19 Dream WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCE Doug Newburg, UVA Preparation Setbacks Obstacles Successes

20. 20 DREAM WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCE Doug Newburg, UVA Preparation SOSSOS “DUTY CYCLE”

21. 21 What happens when energy crosses the divide between choice and obligation? CHOICE OBLIGATION

22. 22 First in yourself … In your experience, what proportion of people are fully engaged at work?

23. 23 We all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires and comets inside of us. We are all born able to sing to birds and read the clouds, and see our destiny in grains of sand.

24. 24 But then we get the magic educated right out of our souls. We get it churched out, spanked out, washed out, and combed out. We get put on the straight and narrow and told to be responsible. Told to act our age. Told to grow up, for God’s sake. And you know why we were told that? Because the people doing the telling were afraid of our youth, and because the magic we knew made them ashamed and sad about what they had allowed to wither in themselves.

25. 25 After you go so far away from it though, you can’t really get it back, just seconds of knowing and remembering. When people get weepy at movies, it’s because in that dark theater the golden pool of magic is touched just briefly. Then they come out into the hard sun of logic and reason again and it dries up, and they’re left feeling a little heavy, and they don’t know why.

26. 26 The truth of life is that each year we get a little further from the essence that is born with us. We get shouldered burdens, some of them good, some of them not so good. Things happen to us. Life itself does its best to take that memory of magic away from us. You don’t know it’s happening until one day you feel like you’ve lost something… and you’re not sure what it is. It’s like smiling at a pretty girl, and she calls you “sir.” It just happens. From “Boy’s Life,” Robert MacCammon

27. 27 DREAM Breaking through the SOS Barrier Doug Newburg, UVA Prep SOSSOS Revisit your Dream

28. 28 Revisiting the Dream  Reconnecting with your emotional experiencing  Reconnecting with “why?”  Balancing experience with results  Getting OUT of the “duty cycle”  Paradoxically improves results

29. 29 One surgeon …  Reconnects with his LDint through photos  Patients asked to tell “why they want to live longer”  Reconnects them with their LDints  Reconnects him with his LDint  Grandfather dying in the living room when surgeon was six years old.

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31. 31 DREAM WORLD CLASS PERFORMANCE Doug Newburg, UVA Preparation Setbacks Obstacles Successes Revisit the Dream RESONANCE

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33. 33 LDint is not the “goal” … …we still had a long way to go. Like ants getting over an enormous obstacle we climbed up without appearing to make any progress. The slope was very steep... The air was luminous, and the light was tinged with the most delicate blue. On the other side of the couloir, ridges of bare ice refracted the light like prisms and sparkled with rainbow hues. The weather was still set fine--not a single cloud--and the air was dry. I felt in splendid form and as if, somehow, I had found a perfect balance within myself-- was this, I wondered, the essence of happiness. Maurice Herzog, Annapurna, p. 166

34. 34 “I stopped loving golf at exactly the time I decided to turn pro.” Tom Weiskopf Golf, July 2004, p. 133

35. 35 How do you want to feel today?

36. 36 Resonance I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance with our innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive. Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth, 1988

37. 37 Easy Speed

38. 38 Leadership is about managing energy, first in yourself and then in those around you.

39. 39 Leadership is Managing Energy INFUSES DRAINS

40. 40 Five Key Questions 1. How do I want to feel today? 2. What does it take to get that feeling? 3. What keeps me from that feeling? 4. How can I get it back? RESONANCE 5. What are you willing to work for?

41. 41 THE PURPOSE OF LIFE  Find Your Resonance  Invest in Your Resonance  Enjoy Your Resonance  Help Others Find Their Resonance

42. 42 Key Points …  Pay attention to your internal Life’s Dream as well as your external Life’s Dream  If you’re not resonating, will you be performing at a world-class level?  Pay attention to your experience along with your achieving.  It’s your life, what are you willing to work for?  Ignore Task AND Process at the risk of your enjoyment AND your performance

43. 43 Implications for Managers Can you distinguish between LDext and LDint? Can you identify your LDint? Can you identify your team’s LDint? Can you help people reconnect with their LDint? What will the impact be on performance?

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