
I didn't want to flop onto the floor and hurt myself and ruin my week. I didn't know what all it entailed and when the the moment came to literally Jump, I hesitated. I was given an opportunity to do something really fun but kind of scary. I learned something about myself last week. Level Up Your Life: How to Unlock Adventure and Happiness by Becoming the Hero of Your Own Story It's all down to the planning.Īnd this post doesn't even get me started on the power of story to effect change. That's how change, progress, and excellence can be achieved. I think that's brilliant! Real behavior change is often rooted in emotions, and fantasizing exactly what you want, down to deep details, can evoke powerful emotions which can elicit change, even with deeply-entrenched thoughts and behaviors. He asks you to fantasize, envision it, write it down for yourself in tiers, and then grind it out toward each level just like in a video game. The perfectionist in me is tired of these mediocre results as I reach toward my hopes and dreams for myself, so I find myself looking for systems or paradigms that will help organize my thoughts and efforts, and my memory fell back on a book I started reading a while ago and hadn't finished (because I was too excited to put its system into action)Īnyway, I think the thing that drew me back to this system is the idea Steve Kamb has to envision what each "level" of achieving your goal looks like. I have been working on some personal and career goals for a while now with varying-and I mean VARYING-levels of success, focus, and motivation.

I've been thinking a lot about goals and how to achieve them, especially the difficult ones.

It's asking for answers, but it's not cheating. I don't know a single professional who hasn't asked a colleague to be a second set of eyes on a high-stakes communication. It's about building on real-life actions and experiences by actually DOING the thing. One thing I love about experiential and competency-based learning is that it's not about rote memorization to help you pass a test and move on. She responded with "now I feel like high school students looking up the answers to online tests on Quizlet just so they can pass."

I have a good friend and former coworker who asked for my help writing a business communication assignment for her degree for a manufacturing simulation, and because I had about 8 months of project management experience in a manufacturing facility (a random pivot in my career), I had some insight I could offer her that helped her out.
