Implement

What is the implementation area all about and how do I create my own?

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Implementation is where the rubber meets the road, taking your personal insights and epiphanies towards self-improvement, and testing the way you get to live these out.

 

If the Learning space summarises concepts from external sources, Implementation collates your own internal reflections. This often takes shape as a new thought, being a perspective or idea. A new action, an approach to test or task to set. Or question, to explore when you have the time.

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Thoughts: In this section you can habitualise new thought. Start by writing down a new thought you’d like to experience. It could be replacing a routine thought about work, an event, or something about yourself, which is contributing to maintaining the status quo. Write down your new thought and review this regularly.

 

Read and reiterate your new thought as often as you need, until you notice it showing up more regularly throughout your day. With new thoughts we give ourselves the opportunities to shift away from familiar emotions and perspective, which may be holding us back.

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This isn’t going to be as straight-forward as it sounds. In fact, this is likely to highlight how well entrenched some thought patterns can be. But by practicing being conscious, you will not only interrupt old ways of thinking, help to practice new ways to view your environment.

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Actions: These are intentions you set to create small, gradual changes in your behaviour. These can be prompts to try something different in your day. Or could be a subtle reminder so do a small task, which you may not have time to achieve in the moment.

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As an example, you can set yourself a prompt to be more intentional in how you interact at work. If you work in a corporate environment and want to improve how you communicate professionally, you could notice how often you use filler words, such as “like”, “um”, “ah”.

 

Your action might be “Be conscious of the filler words you use at work, practice speaking with more clarity”, and have this as a small consideration to keep in mind as you go about your working day.

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As well as prompts, actions can also just be simple notes you refer back to. Things that can help your progress you may not have time to achieve there and then.

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Questions are curiosities you have about people, events or self. Implementation is a space to collate your questions. Then, when you have time, you can utilise the Explore section to unpack them using open-ended approaches designed for that area.

 

The act of writing down a question may not seem obvious at first. But through this act, you’re forced into finding the correct language which expresses your perspective about the curiosity. This in itself begins the process uncovering an answer.

 

As you attempt to write down answers, it’s likely you’ll identify related thoughts and beliefs, which weren’t initially present in mind. Additionally, through this process you might just simply notice how you are structuring your self-talk.

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