Goal-Crafting Intensive
- A series of online workshops hosted by Intend, typically around New Year's, where we guide people through setting goals & setting up systems for how to achieve them.
- Read my article Make an appointment with your saner self for further description of the Goal-Crafting Intensive and why I think it's something worth investing in.
- To see the current GCI landing page (updated for January 2020)
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December 20th, 2023
- Suggested to @EthanReeder last night that our imminent workshop might be helpful for him figuring out career plans for next year, and he said he was kinda turned off by "chat-based coaching"
But then I explained that it's good, and he was like "ahh, like... synchronously interactive high-touch text-based coaching
- Basically how it would suck if you had to DM the coaches, but instead we have the coaching channel, where you can think out loud a ton or you can just periodically ask questions
- And you don't need to know who to ask, because to some extent the coaches self-organize to
- even just thinking out loud can be really clarifying, as folks on twitter know
- "synchronously interactive high-touch text-based coaching"
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Intend Philosophy & Paradigm
- In our Goal-Crafting Intensive workshops, we encourage people, once they've set some new goals, to come up with a thing to do towards each goal immediately (today or tomorrow) that they wouldn't have thought to do at all prior to having the goal. This also points at the distinction.
Podcast summaries
- Keywords - barn-raising collecting barn-raising resources metaphor meta-team meta-vision Goal-Crafting Intensive Intend Philosophy & Paradigm Intend Philosophy & Paradigm Intend Philosophy & Paradigm me as project advisor / biz consultant / design jammer / co-visioner steward ownership What are the components or dimensions required for collaborative culture? Self-Organized Criticality Everything is a Remix how do we arrange the world so that I get to eat bananas in Canada and everyone is satisfied with the arrangement? UBI
January 2nd, 2022
- orienting questions from a Goal-Crafting Intensive participant:
- Daily Questions.
- What was yesterday’s key inch?
- What will I make happen within 5 years?
- What will I make happen within 1 year?
- What will I make happen within 30 days?
- What will I do to start this day positively?
- What must I get done today that develops my main craft?
- What 3 extra tasks must I get done today, if any?
- Who will I contact today to generate opportunities and good will?
- What will I do today that scares me?
- What will I do today that benefits my health?
- What will I do today to expand my extra-curricular world?
- Stoic Questions.
- Who are you spending time with?
- Is this in my control?
- What does your ideal day look like?
- To be or to do?
- If I am not for me, who is? If I am only for me, who am I?
- What am I missing by choosing to worry or be afraid?
- Are you doing your job?
- What is the most important thing?
- Who is this for?
- Does this actually matter?
- Will this be alive time or dead time?
- Is this who I want to be?
January 25th, 2021
- Re other potential Goal-Crafting Intensive content/exercises
- could be a cool thing on slingshots / indirect approaches
January 9th, 2021
- Someone at a Goal-Crafting Intensive asked me for systems thinking reading recommendations
- Oh man, Thinking in Systems would have been my first reco
- if you want to go more into the spiritual elements, Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory is an amazing book (and one that Sarah recommended to me)
- if you want to go into more pragmatic/business elements, The Fifth Discipline is a great one, and also just a great general intro to perspective-taking and "there is no blame" and other deep systems thinking principles
- for a kind of snarky take on how people get confused about how complex systems work: Systemantics: The Systems Bible
- For a more technical orientation, Gerald M. Weinberg's An Introduction to General Systems Thinking is great
- oh, also Seeing Systems or Context Context Context by Barry Oshry
Example Goals
- from Goal-Crafting Intensive participants, shared with permission