Do Work You Love - Workshop 1: "Escape Your Blockers"

DO WORK YOU LOVE WORKSHOP ONE

“Escape Your Blockers”

@escthecity @escroberto

THIS EVENING’S OBJECTIVES

SELF-SABOTAGE

ACTION PLAN

SELF-AWARENESS

LIKEMINDED PEOPLE

SELF-SABOTAGE

ACTION PLAN

SELF-AWARENESS

LIKEMINDED PEOPLE

OVERCOMING BLOCKERS REQUIRES ACTING IN SPITE OF DISCOMFORT

THIS EVENING’S OBJECTIVES

Which means we never actually “Escape” our blockers but we can use them rather than let them stop us.

OVERCOMING BLOCKERS REQUIRES ACTING IN SPITE OF DISCOMFORT

There is no one way. What’s true is what works for you.

- DISCLAIMER -

There is no one way. What’s true is what works for you.

- DISCLAIMER -

Thinking this will keep us stuck!

What we are going to talk about today is simpler than you might imagine and hard as hell to do.

OVERCOMING BLOCKERS REQUIRES ACTING IN SPITE OF DISCOMFORT

Despite FIVE years of acting outside my comfort zone I still haven’t learnt this.

OVERCOMING BLOCKERS REQUIRES ACTING IN SPITE OF DISCOMFORT

PART ONE

- EXERCISE 1 - WHY ARE YOU HERE?

WHY ARE WE ALL HERE?

AUTONOMY PURPOSE MASTERY

THE PATH OF PROBABILITY

“An impasse: when we try to push our way forward using our old views and methods. Soon we realize this is not working and find ourselves at a dead end. Energy and inspiration begin to evaporate; our conviction seems less certain.” - Timothy Butler, “Getting Unstuck”

- EXERCISE 2 - WHAT DO YOU WANT?

If you weren’t afraid... If you knew you couldn’t fail... What work would you do?

- GROUP EXERCISE - One min each.

Share with the group.

WHAT IS STOPPING YOU?

- GROUP EXERCISE - One Post-It Scribe per

table: What is stopping you?

What are the forces – real or imagined – that

are stopping you?

- SOLO EXERCISE - Pick your favourite three and write them on the back of the Exercise 3 worksheet.

- EXERCISE 3 - HOW STUCK ARE YOU?

COMPETITION WHO IS THE MOST STUCK?

DEFINE “OBSTACLE”

“a thing that blocks one's way or prevents or hinders progress.”

OBSTACLE

- BREAK -

- EXERCISE 4 - WHAT HAVE BEEN YOUR

THREE MOST SIGNIFICANT LEARNING EXPERIENCES?

We learn in the same way as we overcome our blockers –

by doing new things.

BACK TO FEAR

Fear of the unknown is an extremely useful survival

mechanism.

"Present fears / are less than horrible imaginings.”

- Macbeth

Fear is less useful when meaning and fulfillment

are at stake.

We can use our fears.

We can use our fears. And without taking crazy risks.

We can simply use them as prompts.

CASE STUDY Matt from Beerbods

IS THIS FEAR OF A REAL DANGER OR FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN?

IS THIS FEAR OF A REAL DANGER OR FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN?

IT’S EITHER A CONSTRAINT OR SOMETHING TO BE INVESTIGATED.

- SOME PSYCHOLOGY -

WHY DO WE GET STUCK? Experiential Avoidance.

WHY DO WE GET STUCK? Experiential Avoidance.

- MORE PSYCHOLOGY -

WHY DO WE GET STUCK? Anxious thoughts.

THINK SOMETHING DIFFERENT

DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT

Mini-Do’s.

LEARN EXPERIMENT NETWORK

All without quitting our jobs.

- EXERCISE 5 - IN PAIRS TURN YOUR MAIN BLOCKERS INTO ACTIONS

- SOLO EXERCISE - PROCRASTINATION POLICE

Remove anything that involves thinking or anything that doesn’t touch the world or

anything that involves deferring permission onto someone else.

- ACTION PLEDGE -

- PAIR EXERCISES - CHOSE FIVE GENUINE ACTIONS That make you feel uncomfortable. Commit to doing them this month.

MATT

“Only in struggling with the impediments that made others quit can

we find ourselves on untrodden territory–only by persisting and

resisting can we learn what others were too impatient to be taught.”

ADELE

“An impasse is a request for us to change our way of thinking about ourselves and our place

in the world.”

ROB

ROB

“Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life

within us. Between the two stands Resistance”

THANK YOU. GOOD LUCK.

DO WORK YOU LOVE X4 WORKSHOPS ESCAPE YOUR BLOCKERS – TONIGHT! FIND YOUR PASSION – Tuesday 9th September OWN YOUR CAREER – Tuesday 16th September MANAGE YOUR RISK – Tuesday 23rd September

THE PASSION TRAP Three myths that keep us stuck

MYTH ONE “Passions are discovered in

searing moments of insight on the tube on the way to work”

ALTERNATIVE VIEW “Passions are grown through the much harder work of getting out there and doing new things.”

MYTH TWO “What if I don’t like the new thing? I don’t want to change

until I know it is absolutely right for me. It needs to be perfect.”

ALTERNATIVE VIEW “Is it perfect now?”

MYTH THREE “I don’t have a good idea or

plan so I’ll stay put till I figure it all out.”

ALTERNATIVE VIEW “We can’t think our way to a new career, we need to DO our way through the obstacles.”