Matches: Back to the Grind

These days I feel a bit lethargic. It might just be because I’m recovering from 5ks and need more rest than normal. I also just feel a lot of pressure overall. I see these mornings as a way for me to slowly set up my house, set up my mental space as a good place to work.

I like to go through my to do list, my calendar, and work things out.

On thing that occurs to me when I’m thinking through my to do list is that I’m way to ambitious and unfocused. The point of the to do list is to brain dump and really find the most important high priority thing (using emotional priority not logical priority).

And before I even think about prioritizing, I want to get back to building my house – you are in my house, take risks, be ok with silence, take your time.

Today my main goal is to finish my business cards and website for my art coaching.

Another main system or habit I want to institute, if I miss a time block to do something on my calendar, I delete the event and add it back to my to do list.

Today I feel tired. Coming off of a early morning and a workout, watching a lot of Valorant, I’m in a position where I still feel a bit tired. I’m excited to update my blog, but I’m not so sure about the marketing call.

I really hope to make money off of my passion and find success in the AI space finally and I hope today’s session will help with that.

I feel strongly that I want to preserve boundaries with this coach because I feel he doesn’t respect boundaries for some reason.

I feel nervous and uncomfortable with the call. For some reason I feel he has a bit of a temper and is not good at listening.

But I can protect myself, I am his client and I have a bit of a temper too if it comes down to it.

I’ll take my time and be as clear and direct as possible with him.

My main issue is that I feel uncomfortable disagreeing with him. I feel unsafe. When processing it, I decided to be very clear about what he is saying and then say my views/opinions.

I’m having trouble getting work done today. I’m going to focus on the taoist productivity – work until I feel empty. Also, I want to leave the apartment to feel more productive.

Here are some more ideas furnished by Claude:

I have a business called epiphany AI group. It’s main aim is to take a business that has the potential to move humanity forwards and removes it’s blocks. I want to develop some questions, exercises, and processes that help me get into the right consulting mindset that is in line with my company with the sense of anything is possible, positivity, seeking innovation, and purpose. brainstorm some ideas for me

Thank you for sharing about your business, Epiphany AI Group. It sounds like an innovative approach to consulting with a focus on transformative potential. Here are some ideas for questions, exercises, and processes to help you get into the right consulting mindset aligned with your company’s values:

Questions:

1. What would this business look like if all limitations were removed?
2. How can we reframe perceived obstacles as opportunities?
3. What emerging technologies or trends could revolutionize this industry?
4. If we were to start from scratch today, how would we design this business?
5. What’s the most audacious goal this company could set for itself?

Exercises:

1. Reverse Brainstorming: Identify ways to make the business fail, then reverse these ideas.
2. Future Retrospective: Imagine it’s 5 years from now and the company has achieved incredible success. What steps did we take to get there?
3. Random Word Association: Choose a random word and find ways to connect it to the business, sparking innovative ideas.
4. Mindfulness Meditation: Practice mindfulness to clear your mind before consulting sessions.
5. Empathy Mapping: Create detailed empathy maps for various stakeholders to gain new perspectives.

Processes:

1. “Moonshot Thinking” Sessions: Regular brainstorming focused on game-changing ideas.
2. Innovation Pipeline: Develop a systematic approach to capture, evaluate, and implement new ideas.
3. Cross-Industry Inspiration: Regularly explore innovations in unrelated industries for fresh perspectives.
4. Purposeful Reflection: Schedule time to align business strategies with broader humanitarian goals.
5. Constraint Removal Exercise: Systematically identify and challenge assumed constraints in the business model.

Would you like me to elaborate on any of these ideas or explore a specific area further?

can you explain empathy mapping?

Certainly, I’d be happy to explain empathy mapping.

Empathy mapping is a collaborative visualization tool used to gain a deeper understanding of a stakeholder’s (often a customer’s or user’s) experience. It’s designed to help teams better understand the needs, thoughts, feelings, and motivations of the people they’re designing for or working with. This process encourages teams to consider a person’s complete experience, going beyond just their obvious actions or statements.

A typical empathy map is divided into four quadrants, each representing a different aspect of a person’s experience:

1. Says: What the person says out loud in an interview or during an observed experience.
2. Thinks: What the person might be thinking but not explicitly saying.
3. Does: The actions and behaviors the person takes.
4. Feels: The emotions the person might be feeling.

Additionally, two more sections are often added: 5. Pains: Frustrations, obstacles, or risks the person experiences. 6. Gains: Wants, needs, hopes and dreams of the person.

To create an empathy map:

1. Define the user or stakeholder you’re mapping.
2. Gather data through interviews, observations, or existing research.
3. Fill in each section of the map with relevant insights.
4. Review the map as a team to identify patterns and generate insights.

In the context of your business, Epiphany AI Group, you might use empathy mapping to:

• Understand the mindset of business leaders you’re consulting for.
• Explore the perspectives of various stakeholders within a client’s organization.
• Gain insights into the end-users or customers of your client’s products or services.

By using empathy mapping, you can uncover hidden needs, motivations, and pain points that might not be immediately obvious. This can lead to more innovative and effective solutions, aligning well with your company’s goal of removing blocks and moving humanity forward.

Would you like more information on how to implement empathy mapping in your consulting process?

Some more ideas that I came up with:

What customer do I want to fall in love with
Meditate for the answer
Write a time capsule
Body exercise emotion from motion
I don’t let my mind run me I let my heart and soul run me

I felt that something was missing today. I felt like I has a lot of pieces of the puzzle, but I was missing something from stitching the whole thing together.

I realized that the thing I cannot lose sight of, that will help create boundaries and structure for the project is to remind myself what the deliverables are:

1. Create a working funnel where money goes in -> money comes out
2. Create the “rulebook” that will allow anyone run the funnel
3. Set up the funnel

With that in mind, here is the timeline:

1. Week 1: Create the Future Package
   • Goal: Create a package of branding, website, mission and vision, and other visuals and documents that can bring me and anyone else into the correct future
2. Week 2: Create the Recruitment Package
   • Goal: Create a leads magnet that can get attract a buttload of leads and sell the future
3. Week 3: Create a Conversion Package
   • Goal: Create an offer that will allow us to incorporate our customers into the future
4. Week 4: Execute and innovate
   • Goal: automate, innovate, and make the process more fun, optimized and exciting