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Here is the first in a new
Apprentice Series of
Day Crafting workbooks. This works as a standalone course or as a compliment to the Day Crafting Apprentice Course – or as a refresher if you've completed the Day Crafting Apprentice Course. Further workbooks are
available here.
In this post you will find some photos from the workbook,
a free sample to download containing a range of example pages and a link to
buy the book.
Why is Day Crafting primarily concerned with shaping today, this day as the way to a good life?
I began coaching leaders almost 20 years ago in the context of their skills development, quality of life and ambitions. I noticed that nearly everyone could easily imagine exciting future goals. I was part of a programme that took executives through a deep visioning process and at the end they knew this:
where I want to be in x months or x years time. However, almost none of them knew
how to affect the quality of the day they were actually in and most goals were dropped a matter of weeks later. The part of our thinking that imagines the future is no match for the identity and behaviour part that dominates the present.
Given that the human brain is constantly monitoring our energy budget and predicting our energy use and attempting to get us to balance output with restoration, it is perverse, but not altogether out of character, that the part of our brain that thinks it runs the show should come up with a notion such as, 'I'll rest when I'm dead'. Sometimes we choose to believe the dumbest ideas.