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Workpost 11: Mentalities for Happiness
Today I woke up feeling pretty awful from going to bed at 4AM last night.
I was feeling super overwhelmed with many many things in my life.
Today, I chose to wake up slowly, get to work slowly, and here are some of the mentalities that helped me:
- Cleaning is incredibly healing. Any time of cleaning, cleaning your workspace, your body, your clothes, it all is very therapeutic.
- What can I do for future Jack. This is the Matthew McConnehey’s idea of leaving breadcrumbs. Instead of the common idea of letting your future self deal with a problem (let future Jack deal with the dishes, let future Jack deal with talking to this person) think about what you can do now to make your future self happier. This can look like everything from cleaning, to setting up a super nice workspace, cooking yourself a really good meal.
- Focus on challenge and growth. I think oftentimes I get overwhelmed because I think about how hard things are. What helps me is thinking about everything in terms of challenge and growth. How can I challenge myself? What can I do to grow?
- Live in the hierarchy of being true to oneself. I was talking to a friend the other day about hierarchies and choosing the right one (don’t compete in a hierarchy you don’t believe in such as money). I want to compete and live in a hierarchy of being honest and true to myself.
I still feel a quite a bit of stress of the difficult conversations I’m anticipating, and the difficult tasks I have in front of me.
Unwelcome World
I feel sometimes
I am living in a world
Where every step is heavy
But the gravity only pulls on my heart
And the future feels unknown
Scary and not comfy
Workpost 80: Recovery and creativity
Today I feel like pretty weak and tired from doing a 5k in the morning. But I want to go to jiujitsu later today as well.
So today is going to be a time of hyperrecovery. I need to keep breathing and cough up some of the congestion that built up in my nose and lungs.
Today my main focus is building a landing page that will help increase sales, as well as finishing my business cards.
My strategy for recovery is going to be water and sleep. Lots of naps and water.
AI Consulting Day 2/21
Here is what I decided today.
In order to succeed at the project I am currently working on, I need to focus on developing my business, get me into the right headspace of possibility, positivity, fun, innovation, and purpose.
I don’t need to develop anything external (website, logo) but I do need to develop tools and processes to get me into the right headspace.
Here are some original ideas:
- 7 whys to understand purpose
- Write a science fiction story of the role of the clients company in the future, write an origin story to the company
- Try to tell the science fiction with the brand, website, ads
- Design thinking – how might we solve X problem
- What does level 3 look like? What does level 1 and 2 look like?
- What problem are we solving for humanity?
- What crisis are we pushing the boundaries in?
- Mindmap – fill the whiteboard
- What games can we play with our employees?
- How can we make it fun for our clients?
Here is the main blueprint concept I am working with:
- Build the future: create home base to live in
- Brand
- Mission
- Vision
- Website
- Recruit more people for that future: I need you!
- Lead magnet
- Work together for the future: we build it together
- Offer
- Make it science fiction: push it past what is now
- Technology innovation
- Process innovation
Art Coaching Day 2/21
I also figured out why I have troubling making a coaching website and why it felt so wrong. It had pricing and generic things on it.
I want my funnel to be an homage to my mission and vision, which is to foster the creation of more artistic masterpieces. So I want my website to have a feeling of magic, of the way Harry Potter felt when he was got his invitation letter to the Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry. I want to remind myself of the feeling of reading children’s books. I want the website to be an homage to dreams, creating worlds, and fantasy.
I want my business cards to feel like a work of art, like a magical invitation.
Today I accomplished the following things:
- Bought masterpiececoaching.org
- Ordered samples of premium business card samples from Jukebox
Tomorrow I really want to design and put together my website asap using a template on wordpress.