Your Graduation Story
My personal mission was to learn about designing and marketing an Experience Product and creating more ways to be of service and have a bigger impact. I feel I am well on my way, and I am extremely grateful for this experience. I have learned so much and will continue to engage with the materials and expand on what I have already been working on and learning.
It was my intention to get to Mission Accomplished by this evening and I really thought I could do it, because I have people who have already agreed to work with me in the Beta version of my Experience Product, but as of this evening, I have not finalized sales or details of the program itself. And I recognize that I have been getting in my own way with this.
The Experience Product itself has been something of a moving target, with many different iterations and options emerging on how to structure my work and super powers into experience products that will resonate and help people.There have been many pivots in the ideas for my Experience Product during these 10 plus weeks. That has been very positive in some respects
because it has shown me a range of possibilities, however, it got in the way of me focusing on one thing and getting it done to Mission Accomplished.
I had a big idea, that will be a really good idea in the future, but at this point got me feeling overwhelmed. The positive outcome was that I redirected my focus to the people that I already serve and work that I do well, with the intention of working with a small group with a Beta program.
I work in an organic and unique way in my counselling and coaching practice, and in the guided meditations and workshops that I facilitate in a one to few format.
I am usually spontaneous in organizing and delivering my group events. I felt the call to create experiences for people in my community in December 2019 and now in the beginning of 2020 to support them to Thrive in 2020. I took more decisive action in reaching out to people to invite them to these events, even last minute, and I got a good response. I have also been integrating what I am learning into the emails that I am writing to clients and community members.
One of the challenges is that this focus on You Thriving 2020 drifted me back into the personal development and spirituality niche, which I recognize is tricky to nail down. It is however the work that I do and felt like the appropriate focus for the timing of entering a new decade and experimenting with what I am learning in a Beta application.
I have noticed as well that it has been tricky to take the leap and try new technology. I still am able to get things moving best in in-person gatherings. It will be interesting to see how the integration of more technology, like ZOOM, will go.
I have some regrets. One is that I was not able to make good use of the group/personal coaching in the way that it was structured and that I did not ask for help with this to get it sorted out and to find out how to do it differently.
I attended almost every Mondays with Marisa live, some Fridays with Don, and all but the first session with Coach Paul. The side door coaching benefits were amazing.
However, during the course of the whole program I was only able to get one live question answered in my pod. In the beginning the chats filled up quickly. For some reason I was not able to cut and paste into the chat, so I was never able to type in my question fast enough. At other times I felt overwhelmed by having fallen behind so I hadn’t done the work to ask a good question about something I was stuck with. I definitely would have liked to access more coaching. Some people made really good use of the support and I am grateful to them.
I am one of the people for whom technology got in the way (It sounds silly, but I had trouble with the Google Milestones document. It didn’t work at first. Later I filled in things, but I think I did not tag it correctly, and so I did not get as much feedback as would have been useful). I also did not know how to find my pod in the Facebook Group. I would still like to connect with them if possible. Once I am comfortable I am able to engage in a Zoom setting, but I found it hard because of the pressure to rush to get a question posted. I realize you are delivering a lot of support to a lot of people, but I wanted to mention that the technology, although a tremendous help can also be pretty tricky for some people.
The catching up and falling behind was also tricky, because sometimes that led to more falling behind. I know this is a sprint. Sometimes I was sprinting and sometimes I got stuck. I regret that I did not ask about how to find my Facebook group sooner, because I realize that would have been a good place to get support, advice, and encouragement with some of the new stuff that we were being introduced to. I did respond and give support to others whose feeds crossed my path, but they were not from my coaching pod.
Overall, however, this has been an amazing learning and creating experience. You have created a remarkable structure for learning and filled it with an abundance, value and richness of material. Thank you sooooo much! I am grateful that I have been able to engage with all of it and that it continues to be available to us.
I feel that although my experience product is in process, I have been applying what I have been learning into my work in other ways. All is well. Thank you!
It is past midnight. I would like to revisit this another day if possible to expand and/or retract some of what I have said. I believe I have completed the required fields. The information about regrets is input about the experience. Could you please email a copy of what I have written. I would like to be able to revisit all of it. Thank you!