In the coming weeks and months we're going to be doing a lot of work together. Some of it will come naturally and easily for you. Other parts you'll resist and have a natural tendency to put off or skip outright.
All of it matters.
All of it is designed to move you along towards your goals, toward accomplishing those things that are important to you. Together we'll be creating numerous tasks and assignments for you to work on, and the things you resist doing are quite likely the things that are most important: they'll be the stuff of you growing, reaching beyond what is already typically comfortable for you and into true expansion.
For this to work as best as it possibly can, we need for you to create a commitment to doing the work and staying true to the plans we make.
In short, I need for you to create for yourself that this work matters.
On a scale of 1 to 10, without yet having gone through it, how much do you trust this process to be worth doing?
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Say more about that.
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How committed are you to making this work?
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What's likely to prevent you from doing all of the work?
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What sort of things are you apt to put off or ignore?
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Are those things worth doing to get you what you want?
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What will you do when you're feeling stuck to get unstuck?
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How about if it's something you think is genuinely not worth doing?
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Thanks for bearing with. The point of all of this is to provide a map for you to circle back to when the going gets tough. We don't ever want to have your dashboard Overview to be littered with a red smattering of incomplete and overdue stuff.
Instead we want to cultivate a sea of timely green completion and accomplishment, a sure sign of you making worthy progress.
Put this all together. In a paragraph or three please summarize your commitment to doing the work: what's at stake for your efforts here, and what your strategy is for keeping on track.
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Now, commit to live like this:
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, commit to do the work and get what I came for.
Signed:
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