Abstract:

Only 8% of people who set personal goals achieve them. By contrast, 67% of projects are achieved.

The life goals that get set as a project, get achieved!

Tiago Mateus is a Project professional and certified project manager who spent years developing important skills. However, it was only when he faced the worst period of his life--fighting against lung disease--that he came to a crucial realization: the same skills and tools he had been using in his work could also be applied to his private life. They could help him achieve the goals that he desired, starting with improving his health, but also extending to spending more quality time with his family and further advancing his career.

In the Project Your Life lunch and learn, you will learn the 7 crucial skills of Life Project Management, distilled into 7 levels and summed up with the acronym GROW POSITIVE. By creating and managing a Life Plan, you can transform your life goals into life projects and yourself into a Project Lifer, multiplying by 7 your chances of success and increasing your sense of fulfilment. In the end, you will learn how to use Project Management skills to achieve personal goals, life balance, and success:

• You can increase the probability, by more than 7 times, to achieve your wishes;
• You can achieve a better life balance: Myself + Family/Friends + Business; and
• You can become a better version of yourself: Project Lifer and Project SEAL.

Speaker Bio:

I was born in Paris, France but relocated to Portugal with my family at the age of 10. I hold a Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of Porto. In 2009, I became responsible for the management of my first project at Bosch Thermotechnology. This was the beginning of the work that I’ve been engaged ever since and that I continue to be passionate about.

In 2012, I moved to Germany, where I obtained two important certifications: Project Management Professional from PMI and Project Management Qualification from Bosch (see pictures). With both certifications in hand and the knowledge acquired on the job, I was now a senior Project Manager.

In 2017, back in Portugal and now working at Bosch Car Multimedia, I got very ill. It was during that difficult time in my life that an idea dawned on me. The project management tools that I had been using professionally for years could also be applied to my private life. In fact, they could be the key that would help me to unlock the door between me and what I desired, starting with the improvement of my health but also extending to other areas, such as being a better father and husband and further advancing my career.

I knew that to improve I needed to begin by getting clear on what I wanted to achieve in each core area of my life and then turn those goals into projects—my Life Projects.

I started making my health a top priority. By getting quality sleep, considering what I should eat and drink, becoming more active and gaining useful knowledge to improve my day-to-day life, I became a Project S.E.A.L.

Tiago's Mission: Adapt project management tools and techniques and provide relevant articles to transform life goals into life projects and ordinary people into Project Lifers, so that, by using the GROW POSITIVE method, everyone can increase by 7 times their chance to succeed in their yearly life projects, achieving their purpose, happiness and freedom in life.

Meeting Details:

Pre-registration Expires:  Day of event @10a. Registration is capped at 100 attendees.

Cancellation Policy: Event will be cancelled and re-scheduled if we do not have a minimum of (6)

PDUs: 1.0 (Power Skills)

Meeting Agenda and Times:

• Announcements: 12P CST
• Presentation/Q&A – 12:10P-1P CST

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