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9Jan/18Off

Signs Your Life is Out of Balance and What To Do About It?

How do you feel when your life is out of balance?

What are the signs of your life being out of Balance? Here are 7 key areas to look for tells in your life. They cross all areas of your life from work to relationships. How do you react to interruptions? How do you benchmark how well you are doing in yourself? How well do you eat? What is your personal self-worth? How many people truly ask these questions of themselves?

1: The control tell: The easiest way to think about how you feel is how little it takes to tip the scales. You feel emotional, stressed, overwhelmed all the time. This can lead to an unhealthy need to control yourself or others in a desperate need to readdress the balance.

2: The interruption tell: You have a lack of tolerance and patience. The smallest things push you over the edge in an unreasonable overreaction for the level of the challenge. You can also have a lack of tolerance for noise and interruptions. Do you lose it with people in your work or home environment easily?

3: Looking outside tell: There is a constant feeling of being overwhelmed and not knowing where or how to start tasks. Do you always feel as if there is a task hanging over you? You can find it very hard to know what others expect from you. You find yourself constantly seeking validation from others to see if you are doing well enough. You can find your perfectionism crippling. Unable to start tasks in case they are not done well enough.

4: Fitness and diet tell: You either don't do enough exercise or become obsessed with too much. You control your food and don't have good sleeping patterns. You are always tired and can't get out of bed in the mornings. You wonder "what does sunrise look like" - you never see it! The alarm goes off 10 times in the mornings.

5: The wrong key tell: You feel displaced and opportunities don't seem to arrive or never quite fit to work out. You are always blaming fate. The wrong set of circumstances for you. Besides not being promoted in jobs you can find that you are endlessly looking for a new fit, you never quite settle anywhere. You are constantly upskilling to feel whole. Will the next course fill the void?

6: Relationship tell: You can suddenly withdraw from people and relationships. Ending relationships suddenly without clear thought. Have you stopped talking to your family? Do you seem to have displaced friends from your life recently? Do you just feel disconnected from everyone around you?

7: The searching tell: You are constantly searching to fit in and belong somewhere. Never found anyone that truly gets you. This can lead to an obsession in self-analysis. What's wrong with me? This can become a serial self-help or development search. Do you join many different groups and never stick at any one of them for any length of time?

If these are the tells what are the fixes? How do you counterbalance yourself? There are three simple factors;

1: You need to understand your strengths and weaknesses.

2: You need to find a way to express what it really is you want to achieve in life. Set goals.

3: You need to know how to fulfill your dreams or the steps to make them happen. Try to create a roadmap of realistic steps to these goals for yourself.

Why do the people who come to me crave more balance in their lives? Many people would assume that the aspirations are materialistic. The goals of a new car, a bigger house or to earn more money. It's not that many of these achievements do not happen with greater balance but generally there are 7 key mindsets that people seek.

These are;

1: Happiness is the most important element.

2: Confidence is also a top priority.

3: People strive for self-worth.

4: Respect is huge, both at home and in the workplace.

5: Greater work-life balance. To not always feel tired and jaded.

6: Quality time to spend with the people who matter in their lives and for the other interests in life.

7: Better relationships with partners, children, family and work colleagues.

Everyone that comes to me uses the phrase to me that "they are at crossroads in their life". They want me to siphon their dreams out of them, that have often been forgotten along the way. But most importantly they want a roadmap of how to get to where they want to be, "I now have a way of moving forward to achieve what I am capable of in life and doing what will make me happier". I always say start with steps. No matter how small they are steps in the right direction. Take control in a positive way. I don't ever tell anyone anything that they don't tell me already knew inside themselves, "Dr. O'Reilly has helped to bring together feelings, thoughts, and plans that have been floating around in my head for some time".

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21Dec/15Off

2015 A Year in Review – Dr. Naoise O’Reilly

images So, it's that time of year again when we wrap up and reflect on what we have done this year. Reflection is such a critical part in successful development that I encourage everyone we work with to go through the process. I'm always sending 'nagging' type e-mails asking, "so, where are you at now?"

For me, I started the year being congratulated by a series of very influential and hugely successful people internationally. It's impossible to work in a vacuum and this recognition has meant a massive step forwards for me. Especially in little Ireland! It's a sad fact that we are never truly appreciated where we come from. We have beaten our own records on financial success for our Clients this year with an American client making an astronomical amount for an individual in just 48 hours after working with us. But with the Podcast launch, Purple Psychology, it has meant that we are now reaching people in 62 countries internationally. This has also meant that I needed to find a way to work with more employees and hence I created the 4 hour employee system this year. And I said, "no one will listen to the podcast." How wrong could I have been? http://purplepsychology.com/

As always, we have seen a huge mixture of clients this year. From 2 years old upwards. I have helped people to win sporting events, turn their businesses around, get promoted in work, learn to talk, read and write in some of my shortest timescales yet. It's been a year of massive research into empathy creation, speech paths and integration programmes to focus on aspects of Asperger's Syndrome and Dyspraxia/Dyscalculia. My students have expanded across the continents too.

I have also formalised the work I do with Homeschooling (www.homeschooling.ie) and made a separate project for this work. We now support students across the globe and have students in practically every county in Ireland being supported in their homes and in mainstream school. Every year the reach just seems to grow.

I know the high profile client list and the business/sport profiling work I do brings more interest from the media but for me the special moments are still in the videos I get in my inbox of students reading who have never read before, especially when it's only 6 months later and they can read the school play for Christmas. For me my work is still all about others being able to do what I couldn't do at their age or in a way so much easier than what I have had to put in to get where I am now.

Oh, I almost forgot. We also launched an App on the iTunes store this year, the 365Success Productivity App. http://purplepsychology.com/365success-app/

To think Personality Theory Research can have such profound results. I have been told again this week in Washington D.C. that I look at the world differently to everyone else. I still struggle to see what people mean. All I know is that the answers don't seem hard to me.

Merry Christmas 2015 & Happy New Year 2016,

Dr. Naoisé O'Reilly.

Filed under: Confidence Club, Homeschooling, Periodic Table of the Development of Results, Psychology of Success, Purple Learning Project, Purple Profiling, Purple Psychology, Purple Success, The Homework Club Comments Off

16Nov/15Off

How People Achieve Their True Potential with Dr. Naoise O’Reilly of The Forever Method – Marie Grace Berg interviewed me on Today’s Leading Women podcast

“Success is the joy of seeing my students succeed" -Dr. Naoise O'Reilly

Marie Grace Berg interviewed me on Today’s Leading Women podcast

http://todaysleadingwomen.com/naoise-oreilly/

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2Nov/15Off

A Year of Results with Dr. Naoisé O’Reilly

A Year of Results with Dr. Naoisé O’Reilly

Filed under: APD, Confidence, Dyscalculia, Dyslexia, Premier League Football, Psychology of Success, Purple Learning Project, Purple Processing Scales, Purple Psychology, Purple Success Comments Off

18Sep/15Off

Coming soon – 365Success App

365Success App offers simple Daily Tips for a more balanced life. 365Success is a one year plan over 6 Levels where new Tips are displayed each day. It may be helpful to keep a journal as you work through the Daily Tips. The people behind 365Success are Dr. Naoisé O’Reilly, Dr. Graham Hughes & Marie O’Riordan. Dr. Naoisé O’Reilly & Marie O’Riordan are Academic/Creative Life Hackers who work together with Governments, Royal Families, FORTUNE 500, FORBES ‘Richest People on the Planet’, TIME ‘100 Most Influential People’, Gold World Champions, Olympians & Professional World Footballers.

Dr. Naoisé O’Reilly’s background: Multi-Award Winning Educationalist Awarded Ability Company Status, Personality Theory Researcher, Mentor, Physical Oceanographer, Observational Scientist & Space Satellites Big Data Research Scientist. INFJ. Marie O’Riordan’s background: Mentor, Media & Communications Success Ambassador, International Honorary Award Winning Philanthropist, National T.V. Award Winning Short Filmmaker, Third World Documentaries Maker, Journalist & Broadcaster. INFJ. Dr. Graham Hughes 365Success App Developer is a Post Doctoral Researcher in the Laboratory of Molecular Evolution & Mammalian Phylogenetics at University College Dublin U.C.D. Dr. Graham Hughes has been a key member of Dr. Naoisé O’Reilly’s Educational Team since 2010.

Filed under: 365success, 4 learning styles, Psychology of Success, Purple Development, Purple Learning Project, Purple Profiling, Purple Psychology, Purple Success Comments Off

20Jul/15Off

Website for Purple Success

www.purplesuccess.com

Filed under: Periodic Table of the Development of Results, Psychology of Success, Purple Success Comments Off

16Jul/15Off

Purple Empathy Creation® – Methods to Develop Empathy from Toddlers Upwards

Most Educationists take the summer off. We use this time to refine and develop what we have learned in the last few Academic years. Like our students, we are always moving forward and learning. I will talk about this new Method in more detail over the coming weeks. But needless to say, I'm excited! I think the results we have had contradict everything that has been understood about empathy. In particular, I see this as a way for students to grow and develop their personalities without social anxieties and labels such as Asperger's Syndrome. I would predict that cases will never in future be given a diagnosis of Asperger's. I never set out to "fix" people. It has always been about creating the best versions of themselves but in recent years I have seen that our results mean that students no longer exhibit classically labeled conditions such as Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, ADHD, Asperger's Syndrome or a whole host of other challenges. They move beyond these labels and recognizable challenges.

Filed under: 4 learning styles, ADHD, Aspergers, Dyscalculia, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Learning Difficulties, Pre-School, Psychology of Success, Purple Development, Purple Processing Scales, Purple Profiling, Purple Psychology Comments Off

16Jun/15Off

Purple Integration Programmes® – Methods to improve the lives of People living with Dyspraxia & Dyscalculia.

Since the beginning with The Homework Club we have worked very successfully with people with both of these conditions. But like everything else we have continued to refine and prefect our methods. Always striving to incorporate in the personality factors. We now have a very refined and successful formula to achieve results across the lives of these students, beyond just their academic results.

Filed under: Dyscalculia, Dyspraxia, Personality theory, Psychology of Success, Purple Learning Project, Purple Processing Scales, Purple Psychology Comments Off

27May/15Off

Football Announcement: Purple Success™ Applied to Premier League & Championship in UK

Football Announcement: We’re delighted for the Premier League Team who won 14 Games following Our advice during the Season. The Premier League Teams We warned were Relegated. The Championship Teams We praised were Promoted to the Premier League for the 2015-2016 Season. Who said women know nothing about soccer? It’s less about feet & more about minds. We predicted the true state of play this Season & there are far too many draws across every Football League. Marie O’Riordan & Dr. Naoisé O’Reilly, Monday May 25th 2015.