%% #📓 #📢 #🟠 %% **Title:** **Author:** [[Michael Bungay Stanier]] **Citation:** --- # Abstract ~ 3 Sentence Summary # Structure - 3 Principles of a Worthy Goal - Coaching Demo - The Conspiracy - 3 Tactics for Managing Overwhelm # Notes & Important Ideas ### 3 Principles of Taking on a Worthy Goal 1. [[When you take on a worthy goal your identity is changing]]. - May be overwhelmed because you have to-do list of two identities - current self and future self - Growth curve > [! question] > Whose to-dos are on your list - present you or future you? 2. Sacrifice is required. - What choices do you make to make your worthy goal sacred? > [! question] > If you're going to say yes to this, what are you going to say no to? 3. Things are going to get messy. - In order to focus on what's important, some things are going to be a disaster > [! question] > What will stay ugly? ### Coaching Demo - What's on your mind? - What do you know to be true? - Can't do a project, you can only do the next step. It doesn't matter where you start. ### The Conspiracy - Online membershp community - People working on the How to Begin course and their worthy goals - Conspire = to breathe together - Working together to make progress on our worthy goals - Onboarding process - Live opportunities to connect, accountability groups, live teachings each month - More focused on encouragement and community than additional content ### 3 Tactics For Managing Overwhelm 1. Bring a cold eye to reality. - What is really going on? What are the facts? - Overwhelm = fact + judgement + feeling - Recognize what is just your judgement and feeling? 2. Find the next step you can take. - Start anywhere, don't get stuck on where's the perfect place to start. - Shrinking things down so they're not so overwhelming. 3. Gather your people. # Connections to Other Materials # Personal Reflection & Application --- # Other References ## Tags