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πŸŒ„Morning Odyssey Prompt

Designing Your LifeLife Designers Β· Morning Β· Morning BlockMedium

for the one who wants to live one Odyssey plan for an hour before the day takes over

Goal

Spend the first hour living one tiny slice of your most alive Odyssey plan.

Source principle

Draft three radically different five-year lives to break the illusion there's only one path. : from Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett & Dave Evans.

The plan

  1. β˜•
    6:00-6:05 AM
    Sit. Pick the Odyssey plan that felt most alive. One.
  2. ✍️
    6:05-6:10 AM
    Write one slice of it you can live for 50 minutes. Tiny.
  3. ⏲️
    6:10-6:15 AM
    Set a 50-min timer. No phone, no feed.
  4. ▢️
    6:15-7:05 AM
    Live that slice. First person. Real doing.
  5. πŸ“Š
    7:05-7:10 AM
    Log energy / engagement / flow. 0–10 each.
  6. πŸ’‘
    7:10-7:15 AM
    One surprise. What was different from imagined?
  7. πŸ€”
    7:15-7:20 AM
    Keep / drop / iterate. One word.
  8. πŸ“…
    7:20-7:25 AM
    If keep: schedule tomorrow's slice. If drop: pick a new plan tonight.

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