Weekly Challenges: A format for continuous growth
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Any self-development learning can only be as good as your application of it. If you don’t apply it to your life, that idea means nothing.
Every week I am taking a self-development learning or something I want to expore and formulate it into an actionable challenge: A task for me to do every day, an idea that I want to pay close attention to, as I go through my daily life, or a restriction on a certain behavior.
I invite you to do something similar.
My challenges #
These are the learnings I have focused on. In the middle of 2024 I converted the format into a newsletter, where the challenges are clearly defined and I give some more insight into my experiences and outcomes.
Current streak: 5 weeks completed- Week 19: Applied:
- Week 20-21: Applied Eat that frog
- Week 22: Neurostreams intensive
- Week 23: Applied:
People are like balloons, with each interaction you can either let some air out of them, or blow them up a little.
- Week 24: No interrupting others.
- Week 25: No new information. Don’t consume anything I haven’t read or listed to before.
- Week 26: Listen to my purpose. Consider the things that I am doing. Are they aligned with my compass (purpose) or are they not? What can I do about the ones that are not? How can I strengthen the ones that are?
- Week 27: Leave work unfinished. Leave a task you want to continue later/tomorrow unfinished, so that you don’t let it go and are drawn to it later.
- Week 28: Watch for signs of VAKOG. What are the conversation partners preferred communication channels? Listen for signals. Preparation for an upcoming NLP seminar 🇩🇪 .
- Week 29: Dedicate some more attention to applying the Hemingway trick. See: outcome
- Week 30: Learn and apply the Milton model to my self-talk. On the weekend make an effort to remember peoples names at the NLP seminar I’m attending. See: definition & outcome
- Week 34: Improve presence in daily life.
See: definition & outcome - Week 35: Wear formal clothing to promote abstract thinking.
See: definition & outcome - Week 36-37: No audio-visual media.
See: definition & outcome - Week 38: Sun salutations as the first thing after getting out of bed.
See: definition & outcome - Week 39: 4x4 + Visualizations. Write down 4x4 goals (4 biggest goals, 4 times each) followed by a visualization technique that sounds actually effective. See: definition
If you have a suggestion for something I should try, just let me know 🙂
Benefits of keeping a page like this #
Defining challenges ahead of time stops this behavior in it’s track: “Oh, I don’t know what challenge to do next”, which leads to “Damn I forgot to define a challenge” âž¡ “I guess I’ll skip this week” âž¡ *ignores next reminder*.
It also works as a way to keep me accountable to stick with these challenges. I combine it with an accountability group that I keep up with every week.
This page will be updated continuously and it will grow with time. Feel free to bookmark the site and come back to it on a later date 🙂.