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usually this implies that there’s some sort of internal conflict present—a competing commitment that gets in the way of doing the thing that the person might consider reasonable https://t.co/RgzfulWug5
if I find myself strugging to uphold this commitment, THEN I'll consider that I must have some sort of inner conflict about it, and seek to figure out what it is but as far as I can tell, even time I notice this it's just hilarious & obvious that I want to do something different
but sometimes it's more a matter of simply not taking the time to apply your own wisdom to your own situation. your friend came to you asking for help, maybe, but you're too stuck in the weeds the solution: make an appointment with your own wisdom
put an event on your calendar, and treat it with the respect you’d give any other appointment which is to say: show up or, if for some reason it turns out you can’t, then reschedule for the nearest appropriate time
then, when the time comes, take your own advice. You can do this literally—consider what advice you’d give a friend in your situation, then do that—or you can just do the obvious thing https://t.co/sU3GNBJXqg
tip 1: get clear on what the plan is once the appointment starts, don't take more than 5 minutes to figure out how you're going to spend it you don't need to have a perfect plan, you just need a decent one https://t.co/x52m2TRfNZ
tip 2: make an appointment with someone else if there's a chance you simply might not show up, put a time on the calendar with a friend. you'll still mostly introspect during the hour, but having social accountability will make it happen at all
the overall principle: https://t.co/k56Qj79IjU
a case study: our GCI workshops we've been running Goal-Crafting Intensives for the last 5 years or so: an online workshop where people take a few hours to strategize about their year people say the videos & exercises are great—they are! dense & powerful https://t.co/qW6V1AqIFg
people also say the live coaching is great and it is—we know our stuff and we're prepared to improvise https://t.co/4YN0wPVizu
those aspects are great, but it's easy to focus on these and miss how much of the power of the event comes from the container the most important part of the workshop isn't the content, it's that the person sets aside 5 hours to be strategic, and shows up https://t.co/UDsiM3IO5O
WOW - that was great. 5 hours went by really quickly, but I got through a lot. I felt like I came away with meaningfully refreshed goals, systems, and reflection tools. This was an effortless container in which I incubated and built effortless containers for "work" going forward!
if I imagine two ppl… Allie buys the presentation videos and the handbook plus the ability to get some chat-based coaching. Barry buys a ticket to “Open Goal Setting Afternoon” which is just a 5-hour solo-work context of some sort. who has the better year? my money's on Barry!
Allie would probably never actually open the handbook at all, let alone watch the videos. and even if she did, she would be likely to read it partway and then say, “hmm yeah I really should do these exercises” …but still not actually do them. or give up before getting anywhere
whereas Barry, who only has his own advice to take, is at least taking the time to do the best he knows how to do. and that's what counts. that's why even tho the GCI is 5h long, it's mostly not made of presentations, it's made of work sessions
and as of a few years ago, the whole workshop itself is self-paced, which is vital to allow it to blow the minds of a huge range of people: - seasoned productivity nerds who think they've seen it all - those totally new to the world of intentionality - &+ https://t.co/UQoPajMZ2o
our workshop format a best-of-both-worlds combo of self-paced and cohort-based. and honestly multi-week cohort things are still really easy to end up bailing on compared to a single workshop session https://t.co/kCufgTYBUL
as you may have guessed, we have more workshop sessions coming up so if you want to set aside 5h in which to remix your own wisdom with our suggestions, sign up here! it's pay-what-you-want, so it's hard to waste money on it https://t.co/xau5scMdEW
if you're someone with a course or training to offer and you'd like to learn more about how to run something with this magical best-of-both-worlds structure, you can read more about that here: (& lmk if you want help with that) https://t.co/sIgRzG65d3
Guide 🧵 How I run Online Workshops (an alternative to online courses) TL;DR = 📅 long one-off event ⚔️ choose-your-own adventure workbook 💬 chat-based coaching 📺 video call for co-presence 🤔 optional advance content 🎡 intake form for steering 💸 pay-what-you-want
@AskYatharth this thread was adapted/remixed from a blog post I wrote 5y ago called Make An Appointment With Your Saner Self, but that frame seemed weird now in retrospect I probably should have put the new phrase as the top banger tweet once I found it ...oops
@Malcolm_Ocean https://t.co/oo07PnFdMh