In general conversation, both with members and in my personal life, there are a number of questions that I might ask.
“What are you up to this week?”
“What are you most looking forward to this week?”
“Have you had a good week?”
By far the most common answer to the first one is some version of “just normal stuff” or “nothing in particular”.
The second one people really struggle to answer.
And the third generally gets some version of “not especially”.
Which always makes me a little sad.
For my experience, there’s a few things to look at here.
Firstly, what was actual definition of a good week?
I wasn’t asking if it was the greatest week of their life, just if it was “good”.
And what really went so bad that it wasn’t good?
And then beyond that, what was the plan to tave a good week.
Usually there wasn’t one.
We just bowled into the week doing normal stuff..
Without a planned definition of what will make a ‘good week’ and then putting steps in place for that to happen, we’re probably going to end the week not thinking it was good.
No specific plan meaning will we just resort to default behaviours and results.
A lack of planning basically meaning that we’re planning to not have a good week.
I get the concern about making plans.
That they might not end up happening.
If that’s the case then they clearly weren’t very good plans.
We either didn’t really put some concrete steps in place as to how they were going to happen…….
Or we just planned something that we’re not really all that bothered about deep down.
If that thing would genuinely mean we got to the end the week thinking it was a good week, I’m pretty sure we’d feel motivated to do it.
Between now and the day we draw our last breath, we’ve got, hopefully, a number of hundred or thousand weeks.
How many of them are we willing to just leave to default behaviour?
To leave to being ‘not good’?
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Much love,
Jon ‘King Wenceslas’ Hall
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