Sanjiv Sidhu11:16
Okay. And actually, I want to celebrate how vulnerable it is for you to say, hey, these are the things that I have been tracking about myself that disempower me. And they're really self-selective because, as our users will see, it's really whatever you choose to report on is what's going to show up in the word cloud right there. There's another option here. Kamaladevi, as she does it, she also puts her empowering behaviors. I haven't been doing that, but I learned that practice from her, and I think it's very powerful. And I encourage you, as you go and put your episodes, for both empowering and disempowering behaviors. I've just started that. That way it makes me feel good that I have so many empowering behaviors that I can track and feel good about. Okay, let's go to Emotions. So again, this is a tag cloud of my emotions, and again it's a frequency report. You see anxiety there, you see frustrated by a lack of progress. That's more important to me. The anxiety is not such a big deal, luckily for me, but I'm often frustrated by lack of progress because I'm very purpose driven, and I feel good when I am delivering or making progress on what my hill to climb usually is. And once in a while, when I get frustrated, it's not very helpful in the sense that then I scramble, then I take shortcuts, then I'm not as creative. So this has been really useful. I look at it, and later when we do balances, you'll see how I can actually balance this behavior or start creating a version two of myself. But as I told you, the moment I see this, the moment I enter it, it's already helping me not go deeper in the ditch because you have the intelligence, even without this training, to take corrective actions. It's really innate in all of us. Sort of like tattletaling on yourself so that you're held accountable, and the app holds you accountable. And I also see you've got grateful and peaceful in here. Yeah, and so the more grateful and peaceful you are, the more those grow. Great. Yeah, so that's been recent where I'm starting to enter those. And for full disclosure, I feel actually quite grateful more often than five times, and I was just not entering those initially. So let's go look at Desires. This is kind of what desires drive me because I'm entering them. And usually, as I said, desires are not necessarily unhelpful, but once in a while they become unhelpful. We talked about it in the last class, and we'll talk about them often. So the question I usually ask myself is: what am I feeling in terms of desires? I report against them, but I also ask another question. The other question is: how compelling is this desire, and am I driving this desire or is this desire driving me? The moment I find that the desire is driving me, that means I have a false sense of urgency about that desire, or I feel that if the desire is not met, my life will be not as good, which I believe is an illusion. It's just my belief system that drives me to that conclusion. Then I take corrective actions. Okay, now that is my ripple. You can see the ripple that you were building and how the ripple is building and how I can get analytics about it. So I had desires, emotions, and behaviors. So now I like to show you the connection between them. Maybe we can go back to Behaviors and let's pick a behavior: unmindful eating. And what I'm now trying to find is the connection between the behavior, which was the end of the ripple, it was the outward most expression of the ripple, right? Finally I have desires and then I take actions. This way my behavior was unmindful eating, and I want to know what emotions were connected to it and what desires did I have typically when I went to unmindful eating. So you see that different colors show emotions. Maybe what color is this? I'm colorblind, by the way. Brown for emotion. So what you see is that rush is three. What we're looking for is the threes, not the ones or frequency. So it seems as if rushed is an emotion that's associated with unmindful eating, and that's an aha for me. I look at it and say, okay, they're connected. Of course I know it even without the analytics. I know it's when I'm rushed then I'm doing unmindful eating. But again, I see many of these associations, and many times the advantage of working in community is if you share this with a friend, many times a friend will notice things about you that you didn't really catch. I'd like to go to Desires because I believe that desires drive more, and I can quickly point to seven, which is the need for more energy is a seven right there. So to feel more energetic, you can just move that and you see that that was a 7, and success of V2 was a 13. And so I can see that when I'm really driven by that desire, which is success of V2, then the desire is taking over me, it's controlling me, so I'm somewhat disempowered, and then I resort to unmindful eating. Do you see the connection? I find this fascinating, get quite excited about it, and I'm kind of waiting for the day where you have two weeks of data and you can start getting all kinds of ahas and then continuing to build on it. So I'll show you a little bit of the analytics of what you'll get out of it. So what you get is better and better view into yourself, but that's not the only point. You can also do balancing, which we'll get to next week. But before that, let's go and talk about how to create episodes. So let's stay there for a moment. Under the Awareness button, you'll see many, many views. There's a calendar view. Let's just swing by that for a moment. And that gives all my episodes in April. Let's go to March, and you'll see all my March episodes are right there, and many things, fun things you can do with it in area of introspection. We'll come back to it. Let's go again to Awareness and go to the Timeline view. This is all my data presented in a timeline view, which is similar to Facebook, which is my last entry is first and then all my entries are in reverse chronological order. There's a lot of numbers here, and let's take you through an explanation of those. So what we did in your exercise was you did a daily recap. I'm going to do something different here, which is I'm going to do a status check, and it's also called a real-time check-in. Better start listening in carefully because this is going to be one of your exercises. So Kamaladevi is entering, and she's calling this a real-time check-in. So what she's putting in is a column called What. So any episode you enter, using this app is all about entering episodes and introspecting about that deeper and deeper. We suggest that the What labels should be short, and they should allow you to come back and search on Watts. For example, if you regularly have meetings with your boss and they're disempowering, you can create an episode about that and you can introspect about it. Okay, on any episode, there are two things you want to do. One is you want to rate the circumstances: what are the circumstances compared to your regular circumstances? And then how are you responding to it? Is your response intentional? More importantly, is your response empowered? And if it's disempowered, we encourage you to look at it. You know, there's some schools of thought which say if you have a backache, ignore it, watch TV, or ignore it and do your work. Based on my research and the way I like to face life, I don't like to hide things under the carpet. I don't feel that that's productive because you slide greater and greater into the ditch before you know. So if you have a backache and you need to work, it's better to acknowledge it. So this is your acknowledgement. Right, so two things we're going to do. Let's go ahead and rate the circumstance. And my circumstance right now, it's a real-time check-in. I'm getting to show our creation, our team's creation, for the first time to 200 people. So circumstances are pretty good. I would rate that as six. I would have given it a seven if all of you were already experts, or I have some apprehensions about how the tool should have been, this it should have been much better, etc. So the circumstances aren't perfect. For example, if we had a mobile version today of the tool, I would be more happy about the circumstance. Yeah, I have a lot of version one in myself still. Luckily, yeah, it makes me human. Okay, now let's talk about how to react. What my response to the circumstances? The software is asking me to rate my behavior, just like you rated your behavior in your homework on a scale of one to seven. But your homework was a daily recap. I'm doing a real-time check-in. How's my behavior right now? And I would give it a 7 because it's totally in line with my intentions. And how my emotions? I would give them maybe a five. I feel fairly happy, but there are other things though. I'm doing a real-time check-in. I'm here. There are other things that aren't perfect, or which I have some anxiety about certain things, etc. If everything was just totally turned on and totally empowered from a feeling sense, then I would give myself a seven.