for the one who keeps reciting what work is 'supposed' to be
Goal
Audit the six dysfunctional beliefs you carry about work and reframe each into one you can act on.
Source principle
Name the dysfunctional beliefs about work you've inherited, then rewrite each into a frame that lets you move. : from Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett & Dave Evans.
The plan
- ☕7:30-8:00 AMSettle in. Coffee, no devices. Today is for the lies you carry about work.
- 📋8:00-8:30 AMList every 'should' about work you've absorbed. All of them. No filtering.
- 🔍8:30-9:30 AMPick the six loudest. The ones that keep running your decisions.
- ✍️9:30-10:30 AMWrite each lie as one plain sentence. 'Work must be passion.' 'I'm behind.' Etc.
- 🚶10:30-10:45 AMBreak. Walk, water, no phone.
- 💸10:45 AM-12:00 PMFor each lie: write what it costs you. What does believing it make you skip or force?
- 🥗12:00-1:00 PMLunch + walk. Let the costs settle.
- 🔄1:00-2:30 PMDraft one reframe per lie. Different angle. Believable, not pretty.
- ✅2:30-3:30 PMPick the single reframe that unlocks the most action. Circle it.
- 👣3:30-4:30 PMDesign one tiny prototype that proves that reframe this week.
- 📅4:30-5:00 PMCalendar the prototype. Real date. Real time.
- 📢7:00-7:30 PMRead the reframe aloud. One sentence. Close the day.