The Beautiful
Mosaic.
Aligning your many inner drives to design your next chapter
By giving each one permission.
There is no
single decision-maker.
Permission, not persuasion.
Write three lives.
Give each one permission.
Five years from now.
Ask what each one
longs for.
And dreads.
Every part gets a vote.
Above all, a veto.
Design a 4-week experiment.
Permission to try (even something useless)...
Evidence over more thinking.
You stayed on the safe path.
Same kind of work, same kind of life. Just more of it.
The mortgage is closer to paid. The skills are deeper.
You sleep well. Nothing surprises you.
What relaxes? What part of you is bored?
No one's watching.
Money doesn't matter. Ridicule doesn't matter.
Nobody is judging. No one is watching.
What did you give yourself permission to do?
What lights up? What part of you is terrified?
You had to start fresh.
Your Life A? Commodified. Even the machines do it now.
But you still have your craft... and some new tricks.
So you built something that didn't exist before.
What got more interesting? What part of you is excited... and what's scared?
What does each life long for — and what is another part terrified of? name the veto. then give it permission anyway.
The 4-Week Experiment.
Pick specific elements from any of the possible lives.
I give myself permission to try them (even if they turn out useless).
I'm not broken.
I'm a mosaic.
pedori.com/mosaic
This presentation (in all its HTML glory)
The handout as a downloadable PDF
a 5-min follow-up walkthrough
a 30-day check-in email
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