Just Do It!

You now have two new tools in your tool bag:

1) The Three Stressors: categorize for clarity and forward action.

2) Face your fear: speak it out loud, then re-frame it as a Hero's Journey. What would breakthrough on the journey look like? What is the vision you see ahead? What will it take to Leap?

Try using these two tools and following your live-with, JUST DO IT!, this week in order to take action on your course challenge. How can you get enough clarity, so that you can take appropriate action on your challenge and any other challenges you might be facing?

Again, as Hal stated last week, go for progress, not perfection. Remember:

"Perfect is the enemy of done." clarissa pinkola estes

Week #6-- Do Only What You Love; Love What You Do

We hope you are having fun with this Live-With and will post your experiences below. Please also share your thoughts about matching how you spend your time with your values and goals. Go for progress, not perfection...
Have a great week.
Hal

Share Your Challenge

If you would like, you can share your challenge for the class here. It can be helpful to share your goal/challenge/intention with others, because it can make it more real and powerful.

If you do want feedback/advice, make it clear so others know you are asking for it; if you don't, say that, too, so others honor that.

Week #5-- Leadership & IDEO

We covered a lot of material about leadership and we encourage you to share any reactions or questions that were stimulated.

Further, after reading the IDEO case, you can share some ideas and comments about this company in advance of the class. Why is it successful? What are some of the concepts that might be useful for YOU in your own organization? How easily can other design firms "copy" its methodologies? Would you like to work there?

Week #4-- Ask Dumb Questions

Please share your experiences as you work with dumb or penetrating questions.

Let us know about your feelings as you frame the questions-- for example, what is the role of the VOJ? How about the reaction? Did you get your answer and maybe more?

You can even try questions with strangers-- so long as you genuinely want to know the answer. Many of us REALLY like to share of knowledge if someone asks and is interested...

What have you found?

Week #3 - CoolBurst

We touched on our CoolBurst case study in Monday's class, with three excellent presentations that covered the case. If you haven't done so, read the case study, then see what the 'expert' in you thinks Luisa should do.

Please share with us here any questions, thoughts, etc. that will help us all to get more out of this interesting case study.

Next Monday, we'll discuss the case more, and delve into the management side of things.

Week #3 - Precise Observation: Pay Attention!

So, now you are in week three of our class and, we imagine, getting the hang of these live-withs. You've had time to experiment with Have No Expectations and Psych(e) Out Your VOJ. Our new live-with, Pay Attention, builds on these first two.

You are becoming familiar with your own creative process and with your VOJ, and when you have a deeper awareness of both, you begin to be more open to the world around you, and the world inside you. This week, we invite you to pay attention to both worlds.

Listen, see, taste, touch and smell with precise observation, as a young child filled with wonder, a scientist absorbed in research, or an alien who has just landed on earth and is seeing things for the first time.

Shake things up! Travel a different route, eat different foods, talk with strangers - do anything you can to have a foreign experience, as if you are a traveller in a new world, because in reality you are. In every moment, life is changing right before your eyes.

So, get out there, and in there, and Pay Attention. Then come back here to fill us in on all the wonder-filled moments you have experienced and how those experiences have affected your Self and your VOJ.