Faith without (meaningful) work is dead Meaningful work in a culture of compulsive busyness

Story from Tulsa to illustrate what productivity is not

Vision Psychology Systems I’m not going to give you a system or an app. Each of you are so varied that what works for one might not work for another. I’m going to give you principles in a framework so you can apply them to yourself. Explain the three layers framework, using my story as a non-example. Vision

What you’ll learn today ASSBAT: Define what productivity / meaningful work means for them List psychological blocks that prevent meaningful work Identify productivity problems they want to solve and evaluate various possible solutions Make a plan for the above Make a "make a plan" plan

Vision Our culture lacks vision for productivity Compulsive busyness Aimlessness No concept of “meaningful work” “What does meaningful work look like for you?” Never missing a deadline Not just doing the right things, but doing them well and making a difference Being able to drop what he's doing to play with his grandkids Take 3 minutes to write your definition of “meaningful work”

Psychology Fear/guilt/shame Lack of clarity Momentum/motivation Boundaries Lack of clarity Tyranny of the urgent What should I be doing right now? Inability to pivot Momentum/motivation Planning fallacy Decision fatigue Analysis paralysis I’ve organized this one into three blocks with a few examples of each, but it’s not exhaustive by any means. Fear/guilt/shame: fear of a task or how it’ll make you feel (MPD, anyone?), “I’ll feel bad if I don’t do this, so I should do it” Lack of clarity: unknown tasks get pushed aside Momentum/motivation: long to-do lists don’t get done, initial excitement that wears off Take 3 minutes to identify your most common ones

Checking in ASSBAT: Define what productivity / meaningful work means for them List psychological blocks that prevent meaningful work Identify productivity problems they want to solve and evaluate various possible solutions Make a plan for the above Make a "make a plan" plan We’ve gone through the first two, but before we get to the final three, we’ll look at some case studies

Case studies! Divide into 5 groups. You’ll each cover one, and tell the group what you came up with. For each case study, answer these questions: What psychological things do they face, and what impact does it have? What are problems that could be solved? What are potential solutions to those problems? We’re not going to cover vision in the case studies since you’d have to just guess. Points to highlight if they don’t come up: asking for help, pre-mortem, inversion analysis, pivot, waiting for list, Next Actions vs. Projects

Define the problem, evaluate solutions Take the next 10 minutes to Define what problems you want to solve Pick one to work on first List some potential solutions Figure out what solutions you want to try Make a plan If you have time now (otherwise, do it later) Make a “make a plan” plan When to re-evaluate What criteria to use James Clear presented some research in a TED talk about people who made a life change regarding working out: the control group and the group who got an inspiration speech worked out about the same, 35-39%. The ones with a clear plan were at 91%.

Checking in ASSBAT: Define what productivity / meaningful work means for them List psychological blocks that prevent meaningful work Identify productivity problems they want to solve and evaluate various possible solutions Make a plan for the above Make a "make a plan" plan