Potential beneficiaries of this coaching pill are

• Talented millennials, entrepreneurs and young professionals that (at the end of the day) want to do meaningful work, BUT who feel vaguely uninspired
• You are a couple of years into your career and now you wonder: “Was this it? Will this be it for the next 5-10 years? Like … REALLY?”
• You know something might be holding you back, but you are not exactly sure what.
• AND: You feel even less capable of solving that issue (potentially because “solving it” would be potentially very costly and involve horrible things such as quitting your job or even worse committing to a certain career path ;))

This is a brainstorming exercise, so you will need paper and pen! Having done this exercise many many times in the past we also know that it is truly tempting to lapse into perfectionism with this. NOPE! We do this in a lean way: Be a perfectionist for 20min and then stop writing! Don’t go on for hours. Follow your intuition.

Before you take this pill: Preparation

• Sit down. Get pen an paper.
• Repeat this mantra as many times as you wish:

“I shall not be scared of any potential outcome of the next 20min. I have no obligation to follow my passion. I may however do so in case I feel ready.”

(read this at least 2 times)

 

Then take the pill (= start the timer)

 

For the first 3min:

• Write down what you wanna change and why. This is your PROBLEM STATEMENT.

For instance:

I wanna change … [my career], because … [I don’t aspire to become like the leadership level of my organisation and I don’t have any room for growth].

Leave 4-6 cm of blank space under your problem statement!

For 7min:

• Write down 4-5 limiting statements (aka excuses) about your situation. WHY ARE YOU STILL WHERE YOU ARE?

I wanna change [what you wanna change], BUT…

• I don’t have money to quit my job and live of.
• I don’t have the time to get started.
• I am too scared to show myself and I have no real good idea.
• ….

For 3min:

Your limiting statements likely are centered around one particular level:

• Your context
• Your actions/behaviour
• Your doubts of your abilities
• Your assumptions about the world or yourself

Find out what level your limiting statements are mostly on by hovering over the four grey boxes below.

Pick one only! If you have two, try to feel which one resonates with you more.

For the remaining 7min:

• The answer to your challenge lies on the next level. Now, click on the little “read more” button below the level that resonated with you the most.
• ONLY READ THE ONE THAT RESONATES WITH YOU! Resist the urge to read them all (you can do that after the 20min). Let’s go!

 

Step 4a | If you are thinking CONTEXT…

Step 4b | If you are thinking ACTIONS…

Step 4c | If you are thinking ABILITIES…

Step 4d | If you are thinking ASSUMPTIONS…

Eureka! Now below the blank space of your initial problem statement (Step 1) write this:

I seem to be limited by the [context / action or behaviour / doubt in my abilities / assumption] because [state the most powerful excuse].

BUT I can free myself by [starting to do … / understanding that I can learn … / choose to believe … / come to terms with the fact that I am actually a person who …].

In those 3 dots you just insert your most powerful statement from Step 4.

 

DONE!

Like all pills, this coaching pill can cause side-effects, although not everybody gets them.

In 80% of all cases you might experience:

• Spontaneous energy boosts
• The sudden need to DO SOMETHING and to CRACK ON (check our Calendar of Events here, if that’s a problem for you)

In 20% of all cases you might experience:

• Enormous frowning about “hmmm… should it really be that easy?” (in that case pls take our after-pill titled: “Sometimes: Yes!”)
• A feeling of unease as the thing you just wrote down might just be too big (in that case, just contact us here. We answer every message <3)