Objective: You begin your journey by exploring the connection between your physical and emotional realms. Learn how to intently study your own pictures and capture your comments and responses to each picture you take. Let's get started.
- Take photographs from all angles within your (office/home) area.
Examine the current physical conditions in your pictures. Describe in your notebook the Physical State of the Environment (cluttered) rather than the items such as (papers, books, old pens).
Learning Objectives: Study your pictures you have taken without "judgment" or "justification”. It is vital that you examine them and write down everything in great detail.
Ex: things piled up or jammed.
Write down a few words in your notebook as to how you feel when you look at this disorder.
Ex: overwhelmed, stressed.
Option: You may desire to upload your pictures to this document.
Please make a list of at least 10 individual words or short descriptive phrases that describe the physical condition of your room.
Example: Things that belong together are not together.
Today, you learned how to be in touch with the physical state, so you may begin to connect with core issues behind the conditions you find yourself in. In Day Two, you are taught regarding Emotional State.
LET THESE NEW PICTURES BE YOUR GUIDE
Learning Objective: Examine the pictures you have taken and look at each one separately. Imagine you are stepping into this environment for the first time and pretend that these pictures belong to someone else. What emotions do you feel connected to the physical condition, as you examine these pictures? What words best describe the emotional or (internal state) that might be felt?
Ex. Physical State: Things piled up on the floor (external state).
Emotional State: confusion (internal state).
Insert picture of your physical condition:
Ask yourself, what emotions might one experience in this environment and how does this influence having a fully expressed life? If it were you, what emotions might you feel, operating in this space? As example: Everything is mixed up. I feel confused and do not trust myself to make a decision.
Now you are going to continue to gain insight into the connection between your (external state) physical condition and your emotions (internal state). Describe the emotions you feel including the statements of your physical environment you wrote in day one?
1- Describe your emotions behind each physical condition viewed in your selection of pictures?
Do not be vague as you describe how it makes you feel as you connect with disorder within your environment.
Ex: frustrated and do not know how to begin.
Today, you learned how to get in touch with your actual internal and external states of which you have not been aware. In Day Three, you learn to recognize Avoidance Behaviour and how this interrupts you.
Learning Objective: Consider that the current state of your environment is different from your desired state. For example, you feel "out of control" and desire a feeling of being "in control."
Use the following checklist to determine where you are conquering the clutter and where help or change is needed. Place a check mark next to the questions in which you answer “yes.”
DESK & WORKSPACE
- Do you have stacks of papers, books or catalogs spilling over in different areas?
- Do you have mail that needs attention?
- Does your workspace hold distractions that interfere with completing your project?
TIME MANAGEMENT
Do you often miss appointments?
Are you consistently late?
1- What might be some ways that disorder in your physical space feeds feeling "out of control?"
2- What external habits or scenarios keep interrupting you from completing a task?
Ex: Scenario: Busy with getting a project complete and someone interrupts you:
Response: You drop everything to join them- forgetting original project.
Response: You tell them you aren't available until you finish what you are doing. They tell you this is the only time they can meet you. What is your response?
3- What feelings might keep coming up for you in spite of your choice?
Response: You figure you will stop and get to it later-with no idea when. What beliefs do you have?
4- What different scenarios might you see for yourself that interrupt you completing things?
Learning Objective: The purpose today is to examine what your behaviors costs you in your relationship with your finances, business and your own personal well-being. Examine each picture you have previously taken and "tell the truth" about your “hanging on attitudes” behind physical objects that you keep.
Telling the truth regarding physical objects you have in your space, reveals underlying beliefs about the item; as well as how this impacts your life.
Uncovering these beliefs leads to recognizing specific forms of behaviour that shape your circumstances in life.
Ex: You avoid things and put them off.
Outcome of Behaviour: You never get to it= Cease keeping your word.
Delay=Avoidance.
Cease keeping your word= Life out of balance. It is easy for others to break their agreements with you, as you do not value your own promises. The following is a set of scenarios that allows you to become aware of what this behaviour can cost you. Evaluate each and respond accordingly.
Scenario:
Friend arrives and you allow them to interrupt you completing your project. What cost is this to your business in terms of productivity and keeping on schedule?
Ex: Highly stressed as you attempt to reschedule.
Cost you see with your behavior:
What cost might occur for your well being?
Ex: You are angry over how you continue to give up your own needs to please others.
Costs from your behavior:
What does this cost you in your business? What does it cost you in relationships?
Ex: When you are not authentic with others, you lose respect for yourself which interferes with effective management.
Costs from your behavior:
What does this cost your business in terms of growth?
Ex: When distractions interrupt you, you lose track of time, which diminishes productivity and financial increase.
Cost from your behavior:
