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One powerful strategy for living a more productive, peaceful, and satisfying life is to create a “Personal Operations Manual” or POM. Your POM will contain your observations of what you have learned about how you function best in this world. Creating such an instruction manual can prove very useful, since we often overlook the important lessons we can learn from paying close attention to our
experiences.
Try starting with one item - one thing that seems like a key to how you function best and at your happiest. It might be your best routine for starting your day or how you "turn off" in order to get to sleep at night. Notice and be curious about what factors in your behavior, thinking, attitude, or situation might be contributing to your positive experience - and what might be getting in the way of a positive
experience.
Compile all the valuable information about your functioning in one
place in whatever form works well for you -- a digital file, a bound journal, a three-ring binder, etc. Keep this manual handy so that when a challenging situation arises, you can look back at your notes about what worked well in similar earlier situations.
For more detail, see the attached two-page guide, “Your Personal Operations Manual.”
If you would like some wonderful support and guidance for creating your
own POM, check out a POM group program offered by a prominent coach friend of mine, Patty Blinderman. In her groups, Patty provides a wealth of information and support, including many useful templates that can make your POM interesting, easy to use, and effective. Patty starts a new small interactive group several times a year. The next group starts very soon, on October 29. You can learn more at https://addpositivefocus.com/pom/, and from there you can set up a free 20-minute chat with Patty or her assistant to be sure this group is what you need.
Meanwhile, enjoy the beautiful fall, and don’t hesitate to check in with me if I can be of help in my capacity as a coach. We can chat for half an hour at no charge to see if coaching with me is right for you at this time.
Until next time, take care and stay safe.
Neil
Neil Swanson, PCC, CACP, MDiv
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