Any important area of life has many (perhaps, unlimited) layers of understanding and application. This is certainly true with Joyful Productivity. Each time you return to one of the lessons, consider these 4 steps: Choose one concept, tool, or exercise from the Lesson that you're most interested to apply right now. All other ideas, put on the "back burner" for future consideration. It'll always be available to you to revisit. Choosing to apply one idea at a time will make your real-life learning more sustainable. Experiment as you apply it into your life or business. This means you're open to making "mistakes" as you try implementing the idea. Reflect on your real-life learning and implementation: add a comment underneath that particular lesson. Share your experience with the class. Ask any questions. Netcare by reading a few other comments and replying underneath them. Perhaps even reach out privately to someone to appreciate their reflection. By using these 4 steps again and again, you will spiral deeper (or higher) into your skillfulness with Joyful Productivity 👏🏽
I love the concept of spiral learning, it resonates with my own experience of how I learn and grow. The idea of just taking one thing and experimenting with it is helpful.
@Rebekah Berndt Yes me too.
George Kao's Focusmate Group Yes, everything in business is spirit-based, but don’t use that as an excuse to not be organized. 😄
You mentioned parenting here - my biggest fear of becoming a parent was the routine and consistency. Like a big fear! I really struggling with rules or order, even self imposed, bit nuts and I 'just went with the flow' of my moods and needs. But a child needs to have routine and you need to respond to their needs even if you're tired or not in the mood and so on. But once I had my daughter, when I had a healing crisis but my trauma finally cleared after a year of intense support, because my usual supports or time was gone, I had to be consistent and resilient - to be a Mum.
Once she was two I started this business and I think I was able to start to apply the same principles I had been developing i.e. showing up even the piece of work felt inconvenient, hard or boring (as a lot of parenting can be in the early year for me). Also becoming a parent made me more ambitious. I'm not just doing it for me to get by, I want to take her on holidays and buy the sparkly boots that make her happy and go on day trips - as well as pay the bills.
I thought Motherhood would be derailing but for me it built muscles to apply to my business, gave me ambition in a real way and made me very focused as I have less time. I remember an intuitive said when I was pregnant - your daughter is coming to help you with your work and I thought it was ridiculous, turns out for me she was spot on.
You 100% do not need to be a parent for this to happen, but I was reflecting on my journey with consistency and thought I would share.
I learnt about spiral learning doing my shiatsu course and I really love it as it feels much more natural and true. We cycle back round and go deeper. I also find the idea of habit stacking really helpful - I listened to a Kaizen book and loved that, similar I found, with that it is do it for 1 min a day, just start, don't aim too high but build the habit. Bother are kinder and more realistic
@Nicole DrummondWhat kaizen book Nicole? I love the idea of implementing in a kinder way (not too much at once to start with)!
@Claire Gillen https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ka... I listened to the blinks - an app. But this is the book :)