I think nearly everyone would like a better life. Would you?
Since I was a child, I’ve been pursuing improvement. Perhaps I was discontent, perhaps I was just exposed to a lot of knowledge and philosophy, or maybe I was just bored. As a professional for a few decades I’ve worked on improving organizations, systems, processes, and people’s lives. As a person I’ve had my share of learning and improving through life experiences: relationships, marriage, divorce, children, marriage of children, grandchildren, death of parents. I think I have something unique, useful, and important to share from study, application, and experience.
So this is an invitation to join a continual journey of “just a little bit better”. I’ll add more context as I go. For now let’s jump in.
Exercise
The first set of questions is about “Why?” Why do you want to improve? What will motivate you? [Often people start with a vision of where they want to get to. And this can be part of the picture, but I think it misses the point.]
Give yourself about 5 minutes to write down some answers, and find a place where you can keep all of your work together. The idea here is to focus on reasons that are important to you directly, for their own sake (“intrinsically”), not indirectly, because of what they do for you (“extrinsically”).
What’s going to get you to sit down and do some work on improvement a couple of times a week?