Integration for Level 1 Meeting

I thoroughly enjoyed the level 1 meeting, and I have been experiencing the exhilaration and fun of applying the concept of playing to what I previously considered droll work. I am self-employed in marketing educational-software, and previously I was self-employed as a private math and science tutor.It has always been my passion to communicate with and express myself to others and to assist others to understand new things. I love teaching and speaking to others and especially assisting others to develop effective thinking and reading skills for themselves.

I’ve been applying, for example, the mini-day concept within my work and I’ve been able to start and make significant progress on a number of new projects that I had previously just been putting off. Additionally I’ve been stepping outside of my comfort zone and doing more activities, such as lead generation, that I had resistance to before (seeing it as ‘something I just have to do and even within that not feeling confident that I can make a success of it). However, now that I’m applying the point of playing I’ve become more creative within how I approach these points and what was a really uncomfortable experience before is now really fun.

The tools of the mini-day and power thinking have also really assisted me in this process, because before, even though I work for myself, I was still caught in the point of split-responsibilities and uncoordinated physical movement throughout my day, and what I have found only having applied this point for 2 weeks now, is that I have more ‘mental energy’ (if you can call it that) to apply towards thinking creatively about new projects, projects which I wouldn’t even have considered before or that I would have just put off as ‘too much’ for me to actually put into motion.

What I have noticed is that by coordinating my physical movements through the power-thinking/mini-day tools is that I don’t spend as much time sitting around ‘thinking’ about what to do and wasting both time and energy in that point. I, in fact, spend very little time ‘thinking’ throughout my day except for those times when I have specifically planned to power-think, or when I have planned to read or think about/discuss ideas with others.

Really there is a lot I could say. I am enjoying reading the books, and I can see many points that I have already seen for myself but also many things which I had not seen for myself but which make sense. I also appreciate the level 1 meeting as a way to integrate the points that I have been reading about.