It has been a few months since I posted about my experiences with this Covid 19 thing, so now I want to seriously ask “How you doing?” and offer some possible assistance. (channelling my inner Joey from Friends)
You might recall that I was encouraging you to press pause and determine what sort of life you were heading full pelt into. With a Global pandemic, literally the world stopped and all the usual distractions fell away. This might have caused you to pivot and start baking, knitting or Prime Minister endorsed jigsawing. It might also have caused you to reflect on the life that you really want.
Get more from 2021
Anyone else notice their inboxes and LinkedIn feeds, turning their attention to 2021, I can see I am in good company. Below you will find 3 suggestions on how you can get more out of your 2021.
The 4 part methodology (Design your Life on Purpose), has been curated, crafted, and forged for well over 5 years. Reflection Revolution and Dream Quest are the first two parts and can be done independently or part of a Strategic Life Plan.
Reflection Revolution
Sometimes I think the ability to reflect is a super power. Being able to review and assess activities that have happened and determine actions as a result. I find reflection a necessary part of making change in your life, whether that change comes from a negative nucleus or a positive one. You can make changes in your life by removing what you no longer want or desire, or make positive change towards what you want and desire.
The Reflection Revolution is a series of tools and templates that allow you to reflect on the last 6-12 months. It goes for 8 weeks, with a new template arriving each week, via snail mail^ for 7 weeks. The final week is about consolidating the thoughts into a handful of the ones that you want to action in the next 6-12 months. Each template will get you thinking at a different level or perspective.
Sign up for Reflection Revolution here
Dream Quest
The divergent super power to reflection is dreaming. As we start moving into adulting, we let go of the ability to dream, or it gets schooled out of us. This is an absolute tragedy, and probably responsible for the deluge of sameness we get surrounded with (but that is not for now). People that create amazing, desirable lives are the ones that never let go of dreaming and make those dreams come true.
Dream Quest is about kickstarting that process to unearth possibilities. When I am coaching people, some people know what they want and others have a vague idea that, what they have now is not working. So, dreaming allows them to unlock those possibilities. If you really want a life that suits you perfectly, reflection is not enough, you need to expand your thinking beyond your now and dreaming is the mechanism to do this.
Dreaming gives you a glimpse of the future you are trying to create and forms the north star or stars depending on your dreaming, that you can anchor actions against.
Similar process to Reflection Revolution, in that you get tools and templates sent to you via snail mail^. Dream Quest consists of 7 weeks of dream prompters. The final week is around determining what dreams you want to start or continue in 2021.
Sign up for Dream Quest here
Is there a way to fast track this?
Funny that you ask, yes there is (here is something I have prepared earlier).
Design your Life on Purpose Retreat
The Design your Life on Purpose retreat is where you deliberately and intentionally design 2021 to get you closer to a life that suits you perfectly. The immersive retreat, allows you the time to reflect, percolate and really think through the options for your future. Leaving you with tangible actions to help create a future that suits you perfectly. The culmination of the investment of time is the crafting a strategic life plan, for your future.
There is a lot to cover in the retreat, including why we are doing it face to face, during Covid 19, so all the info is here. The retreat is filling up fast with ½ of the places already filled.
Design your Life Retreat information here
^Why delivery is via snail mail?
For Reflection Revolution and Dream Quest the delivery is not via Zoom or any other online method, this delivery is rocking it old school, via the post, in your letter box, snail mail. There are a couple of clear reasons why this sort of activity is delivered via post:
Analogue learning/processing is better – some things are just better in an analogue version, designing is one of those. A lot of designers will start by creating sketches of the items they are working on before making it digital. We often go beyond the information presented, interpreting and perceiving more. Finally, you develop less attachment to it, as you can often draw really quickly and get the concepts/words out.
Reduce the friction for action – if you have to open the email and print the attachment or can't because you don't have a printer (relying on the office to get any printing done), so it moves to the “I’ll do that later” pile
Feels less like more work – if it arrives via email, which you are in all day when working and then open up to complete on the computer – ugh more work
It is designed that way – in order for you to reflect or dream, you need to create space, physical as well as mental space. By getting you to complete the activities analogue you also create space to do it. You make a cuppa and go and sit in a quiet place.
The three actions you can take to get a better 2021
Obviously, the retreat will give you both Reflection and Dreaming, as well as loads more, including a Strategic Life Plan for 2021.
Go Forth and create a fabulous 2021!
Yours Collaboratively,
Christina
Incahoots exists to
Unearth possibilities to design a future that suits you perfectly
About CMM
Christina Morgan-Meldrum (CMM) is an author, speaker, curator, change professional and creative. She particularly loves helping people and organisations unearth what’s possible to design a future that suits you perfectly (a Strategic Roadmap for your life).
She has cultivated the ability to walk into any industry; see what is not seen, distil what is complicated, and simplify the chaos. This skill has been forged in a deliberate and concentrated way for over 20 years, through Personal Coaching and working in Organisational Change Management.
Christina fills her time on various side hustles, blogging, creating and learning the piano. If you are looking for her, she is likely at her spiritual home JB Hi-Fi or exploring stationery stores or artisan markets.