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30-day trial: Authority--I am the boss of me
30-day trial: Authority--I am the boss of meBy Sonya Sidky
October 23, 2009
I am hereby publicly committing to post ten articles on my blog by November 22, 2009. Furthermore, I will complete three tasks per day that I pre-define the night before. I will update my blog every night with the tasks for the next day and with the successes and failures of the current day. Why? Because I am the boss of me and I said so.
The new boss of me now recognizes that I need to give myself a chance to get up again when I fail and refrain from shutting myself down.
Here are the details of the trial (complex I know, but simplified from the original version if you can believe that!)
Muscle being challenged: Flexibility, fallibility and follow-through. I have not updated by blog since August 16th, 2008 and I could very well feel some resistance about the order of the articles I write. For example, I feel that my introductory page needs to be updated and the information I posted on my sensory defensiveness problem is sorely out of date—I have made many improvements since I posted that article! I feel self-conscious about making my blog public before it is cleaned up, however, I had a year to do it so now it is time to take a different approach. The new approach is not perfect, nevertheless, I will not be revising it every five seconds.
Muscle being challenged: Self-control. If I am true to pattern, I will find reasons why I need to accomplish other tasks ahead of or in conjunction with the ones that I have selected. I will think for more efficient ways to get things done or modify the task until it becomes unrecognizable to what I committed to in the first place. The new boss of me is asking for more cooperation and in return will be kind when I make mistakes.
Muscle being challenged: Predictability. We all are susceptible to falling into the pattern of getting things done the same old way. I am going to step out of the drivers seat here and be open to approaching tasks in a different way and live with the fact that the randomly selected strategy may or may not fit my selected article or tasks very well.
Muscles being challenged: Need for entertainment and sustaining consistency. I have numerous hypnosis CD titles. I am a person who is very susceptible to suggestions, so hypnosis is very effective tool for me, however I tend to select whatever topic I feel like hearing. Nothing is wrong with that, but it does tend to be more effective if you listen to the same topic for at least a week. Right now I am focusing on achieving my goals and I want to stick to that CD. That does not stop me from listening to other ones as well but I will repeat this one each day, even if it gets boring.
Muscle being challenged: Accountability and consistency. It becomes really clear when you fail a task if you announce exactly what you are committing to and it does not happen. Again, failure is OK, but so is success. Also getting into the habit of posting something to my site every single day will certainly reinforce the opposite pattern of inaction, that resulted in an over one-year lapse in my posting anything to the site. Starting on day one—each night I will post the results of the current day. (Rule change as of November 8th--posting the next morning is also acceptable) Muscle being challenged: Accountability, consistency and self-forgiveness. It is unlikely I will be perfect. This challenge is not perfect. This article is not perfect, but it will still be a powerful exercise, even where I fail.
Muscle being challenged: Completion--seeing a task through from beginning to end. Yeah! I am free from the grips of perfection and inaction! If you are holding yourself back in any way, please feel from to join me and set yourself free!
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