Finding Your Flow will Change Your Life

Flow theory has been used for more than 40 years to describe states of full engagement, peak performance, and joyful living. The components of flow suggest that being at your best includes a combination of principles, strategies, and practices that can be understood and mastered, giving individuals, teams, and organizations a greater opportunity to be in flow and discover individual and collective potential in a variety of “Meaningful Life Arenas.”

The Finding Your Flow course contains both the theoretical and the practical—first reviewing and experiencing the traditional components of flow, followed by a discussion and application of the more than 60 strategies that can be used to advance individual and collective effectiveness. During the course, each participant will have an opportunity to take a personal flow assessment (“the 1080° Sweep”) to identify Flow Assets and Liabilities for cultivating one’s high performance. Using a number of experiential exercises and tools, each participant will have an opportunity to discover the “critical factors” of their own performance, work in teams to develop action plans, and apply new “flow strategies” to the important arenas in their lives.

Even more important, each participant will develop the self-awareness necessary to recognize the key factors most important to them as they pursue future knowledge, skills, and strategies designed to advance their personal and professional effectiveness.

The Finding Your Flow course is designed for both professionals and students.

Find Your Flow

Desire: Like every high performer, becoming your best requires time and persistent effort to master current skills while looking ahead at the next level.

Pain: Too often high performers move up the ranks because of what they know, but often get knocked out of the game because of who they fail to become. This can be avoided. Remember: What got you here won’t get you there.

Solution: We take a reasoned approach to identify the skills that define today’s success while identifying what new knowledge, skills, and behaviors it will take to reach the leadership level you desire.

  • Achieve a broad awareness of the many factors to peak performance and flow

  • Identify the “Flow Assets and Liabilities” of flow within any “Meaningful Life Arena”

  • Set achievable goals and developing action plans towards that “one thing”

  • Develop the ability to be your own best performance coach

  • Re-use the “Finding Your Flow” model for a lifetime of personal development and excellence

  • Set the foundation for all your future personal development training

Find Your Flow

Take your performance to a level you've always dreamed of.

  • ASSESS

    Step one in our three-part process begins with assessing where you currently are. Together we will expand awareness, identify gaps, and clarify both technical and leadership strengths and opportunities.

  • IDENTIFY THE “WIN”

    Winning is all about zeroing in on what’s important now (WIN). Here we narrow down and focus on your “one thing” to help initiate breakthroughs so you can Find Your Flow in your professional and personal arenas.

  • ENGAGE

    I serve clients in many ways—including leader assessments, executive and personal coaching, custom training solutions, keynote speaking, and experiential immersions.

Course Content

    1. Welcome Message

    2. Optimize Your Experience

    3. Finding Your Flow

    4. Outcomes and Possibilities

    5. Personal Origins of Flow: Tennis and Strawberries

    6. The Two Secrets to Flow

    7. Strategic Pitstop

    8. Objectives, Purpose, and Agenda

    9. The Context of Leadership and Finding Your Flow

    10. Workbook - Finding Your Flow Through Attentional Leadership

    1. Introduction - Understanding Flow

    2. What Do You Know About Flow

    3. Anti-Flow Experience Phrases (Audio Lesson)

    4. Flow Experience Phrases (Audio Lesson)

    5. CZ's Definition of Flow

    6. History of Flow

    7. Components of Flow

    8. Benefits of Flow

    9. Quiz 1

    10. Cloud of Butterflies

    11. Attentional Leadership

    12. Goldfish and Attention Span

    13. Foundational Ideas and Models

    14. Holding Your Attention

    15. Logic Model

    16. Runner Preparation

    17. Inattentional Blindness

    18. Stages of Personal Mastery

    19. FOCUS Planning - 5 Steps to Finding Your Flow

    1. Introduction - Exploring Flow

    2. Complex Systems

    3. Future Alignment

    4. Internal Alignment

    5. External Alignment

    6. Past Alignment

    7. The 5th Alignment

    8. Quiz 2

    1. Introduction - Assessing Flow

    2. Step 1 - Find Your Flow Assets and Liabilities

    3. Step 2 - Observe What's Important Now

    4. Quiz 3

    1. Generating Flow and Step 3 - Consider Your Options

    2. Step 4 - Understand Your Plan

    3. Step 5 - Specify Your Metrics

    4. The Iterative Process and 5 Correlations

    5. 3 Brief Scorecard Examples

    6. Talent is Overrated

    7. Become Your Own Best Coach

    8. Summary - The 2 Secrets to Flow

    9. There Is No Finish Line

    10. Attentional Leadership and the Sands of Time

    11. The Cricket Story

    12. Quiz 4

    1. Leading Others Towards Flow

    2. Quiz 5

About this course

  • $199.00
  • 57 lessons
  • 2.5 hours of video content


Meet Your Instructor

Bruce Jackson

I’m Bruce H. Jackson, MBA/MPA, PhD., developer of the Attentional Leadership framework for placing attention with intention on your WIN. As a researcher, I studied under some of the best performance researchers in the country and saw first-hand how focus enhances performance. But focus by itself was not enough. Each person’s past, present, and future played a role, as did external factors and internal feelings and thoughts. Only when these dimensions were taken into account, could they identify and zero in on their WIN. Over decades, I developed a multi-dimensional matrix that incorporates all these factors and empowers individuals, teams, and organizations to identify and achieve their WINs.