Workpost 53: Overwhelmed

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

Time is really running out in the first part of this challenge.

Perhaps it is time to actually create a challenge. I want to create separate challenges for art coaching and AI consulting (now AI gaming).

However, I think it’s ok to do both at first because the setup for each is pretty light work and can be done at the same time. In that case, I can include today.

Setup Challenge (4 days, Sep. 2nd – 6th)

UNIT ONE: Workspace cleanup (day 1)

1. Ideal workspace brainstorm
2. Action items
3. Execution

UNIT TWO: Processing pain + work (day 2-3)

1. Workday for art coaching
2. Workday for AI gaming
3. No work needed, only emotional processsing

UNIT THREE: Planning (day 4)

1. Design a challenge for art coaching (3 days)
2. Design a challenge for AI gaming (3 days)

I’m feeling a lot of pressure for not making a huge amount of progress in finishing my funnels and progress in my businesses as a whole. I feel that I need to get much more productive in general and I’m not getting there currently in the working environments I’m in. I perhaps need to spend more time out of the apartment working out and in working spaces that help me focus.

I made a change today by going to one of those working spaces.

Let me process the emotions, then look at the dates strategically.

My tailbone and my neck are in tension and sore, probably from running a 5k yesterday.

I feel my heart is gripped in a vice when I think of the time running out.

I feel scared. I feel a bit of the trapped feeling as well.

I almost feel this hollowness in my heart. Almost the same feeling as feeling unloved and misunderstood.

I’m remembering what I felt last night:

• I need to focus on the end goal (for my art coaching its helping people who want to pursue this beautiful masterpiece and feel so alone on this journey)
• Those people need me, there is some urgency to get it done immediately
• I want to inspire my own artistic journey
• I just need to create and let the art be what it wants to be

I also saw this amazing video:

It makes me want to do YouTube again, but I feel overwhelmed.

Now that I think of it, it may be a better fit for my AI consulting business. That is a space that is likely very hot, gets a lot of clicks and views and I don’t have a clear idea or mission on what I want to do.

Now let’s look at timelines:

Art Coaching

Start: 7/12 | End: 9/12 | 63 days total

What needs to be done for the funnel:

Payment/banking systems
How much to pay myself vs save for taxes vs reinvest into business
Website
Business cards
Calendly
Client contracts
Mailing lists/CRM

AI Consulting

Start: 7/12 | End: 9/12 | 63 days total

What needs to be done for the funnel:

1. Payment/banking systems
2. How much to pay myself vs save for taxes vs reinvest into business
3. Website
4. Business cards
5. Calendly
6. Client contracts
7. Mailing lists/CRM
8. Branding
9. New contract for funnel

So we are day 26/63 meaning we are 41% through the period, we have 37 days left