Helps you develop skills needed to become more positive in life. Helps you change negative thoughts into positive thoughts. How to fill your inner self with positive fuel. This slide presentation is based on the Caterpillar to Butterfly Self-Esteem Workbook that was created by I M Confident Niagara Canada. The workbook has 84 pages of information that will provide you with the tools needed to get you started on your own personal journey to happiness and success plus activities to reinforce what you have learned. You can order your own copy today or download the e-book immediately. Visit www.imconfident.com for more information.

1. CATERPILLAR
TO
BUTTERFLY
A Journey to Happiness and Success
Part 2 – Planting Positive Seeds
Presentation by I M CONFIDENT Niagara Canada
Created by Brenda Silveira

2. IS YOUR LIFE FULL OF HAPPINESS?
ARE YOU SUCCESSFUL?
Most people search endlessly for happiness and
success but many fail because they lack confidence
and have little self-esteem.
Is it really possible to find happiness and success?
YES, but there are NO quick fixes and NO easy
methods as others may promise. It takes a personal
commitment to a lifetime of hard work and patience.
This slide presentation will take you on a journey
inside your soul. It will help you understand and
control your emotions and show you how to develop
skills needed to become more positive in life.

3. IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Please note that our visual
presentations and printed information
are not intended to replace any
professional help you are receiving.
Use them in conjunction with your
current services and/or programs.
If you are feeling overwhelmed by life
situations or feel this information is
not helping you properly, please
contact your health professional for
assistance.

4. WHERE FLOWERS BLOOM, SO
DOES HOPE. ~Lady Bird Johnson
What is planted in your garden of life?
If you have planted positive seeds, you will
produce crops of:
Beautiful words
Kind thoughts
Caring actions
These will develop into:
Plants of confidence
Bushes of self-esteem
Flowers of happiness
Trees of success

5. OUR GARDEN OF LIFE
Just as plants need proper care
to grow and flourish, people
also need proper care.
By establishing strong roots and
becoming grounded in love, we will keep
any nasty weeds from coming into our
garden and wiping away all the beauty.
Let’s learn how to take proper care of our
own personal garden of life.

6. DOES SELF-ESTEEM GROW IN
YOUR GARDEN?
A garden needs proper nourishment in order to
grow. It needs:
Good seeds
Fertile soil
Watering
Weeding
Pruning
Continuous care
When these conditions are met, the garden will
be sure to flourish with beautiful flowers,
healthy plants and fruitful trees.

7. ENVIRONMENT IS IMPORTANT
When butterflies lay their eggs, they
carefully choose the proper plant leaf, so
when the egg hatches, the baby
caterpillar will have the proper
nourishment.
Monarch butterflies lay their
eggs on milkweed plants as
they are the only leaves they
can safely eat.

8. ALL LIVING THINGS NEED
PROPER NOURISHMENT….
…in order to survive and grow.
Babies are nourished in their mother’s womb
where it is:
Comfortable
Warm
Safe & secure
If the mother cares properly for her own health,
the baby will grow and flourish.

9. THE SEED IS PLANTED IN
FERTILE SOIL
A good gardener takes time to prepare the soil
and plant good seeds, so the garden will
produce healthy plants, flowers and trees.
Preparing for a child is extremely important, so
the child will grow up in a proper, healthy
environment.
Yet, do parents and peers spend as
much time in preparation for a child
as they do for a garden?

10. CHILDREN ARE OUR
MOST PRECIOUS GIFT
In order to be healthy physically, mentally,
emotionally and spiritually, children need to:
 Grow in a positive, loving environment
 Learn healthy moral standards
 Build strong commitments
 See positive examples
 Hear encouraging words
As parents and peers, we can provide
a solid base that will help give our
children a secure future.

11. THE SEED GROWS
When a seed is ready to grow, it starts to poke
through the ground.
When a baby is born, it is pulled or taken out of
its safe, secure place and:
• Smacked on the bottom
• Taken away from its mother
• Moved from person to person
• Poked, prodded and pushed
• Left alone in a small bed
How traumatic!

12. THE BABY CRIES
• I want attention
• I am angry
• I am confused
• I am afraid
• I am hungry
• I am lonely
• LISTEN TO ME!
Doesn’t this sound like
many adults today?
• I want this
• I need that
• Why are you not
listening to me

13. BABIES ARE NATURALLY
SELF-CENTERED & NEGATIVE
• Everything is ‘I’ or ‘me’
• The world revolves around them
• Everything they see and hear will
affect their growth
• Without proper guidance,
children will become selfish,
negative adults
• They need good role models
• They need to learn proper
behaviours

14. CHILDREN NEED
TO BE MOULDED
• Babies are like a
lump of clay that
is waiting to be
moulded into
something
beautiful – a
unique individual.
• Just as shaping
clay is a delicate
process, children
need to be
handled with care
or they can
become damaged
and broken.

15. WATERING YOUR GARDEN
What would happen if we didn’t water our
gardens?
Water is a basic need for all living things.
Without water and proper nutrition,
everything would wither and die.
People have the basic needs of:
 Food & water
 Shelter
 Clothing
Is there anything else?

16. EMOTIONAL NUTRITION
Children and all humans need emotional nutrition
– love and attention.
We can EXIST without it, but we cannot LIVE
without it.
Too often, children
They become adults with:
are given the wrong
• Insecurities & fears
food:
• Anger, resentment
• Disrespect
& bitterness
• Abuse
• Relationship issues
• Neglect
• General inability to
• Being ignored
cope with life

17. OUR BODIES ARE
EMOTIONAL TANKS
A tank is a ‘receptacle for holding, storing…’.
Our bodies already store water, but imagine it
as a holding tank for emotions.
Every day, we pour hundreds of emotions into
our emotional tanks, both positive and
negative.
As humans, we tend to fill ourselves with more
negative than positive and this can have
disastrous effects!

18. POSITIVE & NEGATIVE FUEL
Filling our tanks with positive fuel makes us..
…..MORE positive.
Filling our tanks with negative fuel makes us…
…..MORE negative.
It is impossible to stop negative emotions, but
we CAN fill our tanks with more positive
emotions. HOW?
 Surround ourselves with positive
people and things
 Fill others with positive fuel

19. WE ARE CREATURES OF HABIT
People often do things without thinking, simply
because we have formed habits.
 Research shows that it takes about 21
consecutive days to develop a new habit
 Since people tend to be negative and self-centered,
bad habits are easy to form.
Good habits can be easy to start, but they
require more time and patience,
so we lose interest quickly
Need to practice and repeat new
habits to reinforce them

20. GOOD HABITS BUILD
CONFIDENCE
Learning new, good
habits will help
overcome:
• Feelings of
worthlessness
• Fears and insecurities
• Addictions
• Poor behaviours
• Pressures and
stresses
• Depression and
anxiety
Replacing bad habits
with good habits will
improve ourselves:
• Physically
• Mentally
• Emotionally
• Spiritually

21. WEEDING & PRUNING YOUR
GARDEN
• Gardens need to be weeded and
pruned in order to gain
strength.
• People also need weeding and
pruning so they can become
strong and confident.
• Negative words and actions
need to be changed into
positive words and actions.

22. POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE
SELF-TALK
• People often talk to themselves in a negative way
• We are ‘our own worst enemies’
• Negative self-talk can destroy
our self-confidence
• Need to be aware of what we are
saying
• Need to change bad habit
• Consciously replace negative with positive words
and actions

23. CONTINUOUS CARE IN
YOUR GARDEN
If you want a beautiful garden, you need to care
for it on a continuous basis even when it looks
good or appears to be lying dormant.
People need continuous care:
• Always give love and
appreciation
• Fill emotional tank with
positive fuel
• Fill others with positive
emotions

24. WHAT IS IN YOUR GARDEN?
What would others see in your garden?
Beautiful flowers with bright, vivid
colours
Thick trees with ripe, juicy fruit
Full bushes and healthy plants
OR
 Wilting and drooping flowers
 Dead and brittle branches
 Ugly weeds
 Rotting leaves and debris

25. THE GRASS IS GREENER
If your personal garden of life is not as healthy
as you would like it to be:
Determine what is missing
Review the steps needed to create a beautiful
garden
Make a plan and start growing
KEEP IN MIND
The grass is only greener on the other side of the
fence if they are taking better care of it.
Try taking good care of your grass and it will
also be green.

26. Thank-you for viewing this
presentation.
The Caterpillar to Butterfly
Self-Esteem Workbook will
help you get started on your
journey to happiness and
success.
Order your copy today! Visit
our website for order
information.
www.imconfident.com