This thought runs through almost every area of our lives in some form or another: I have to impress them.
Let’s use the Slow-Cook Inquiry forum to question this belief in a specific situation when it came up for you.
Slow-Cook Inquiry Is Like Blog Popcorn, But Not Quite So Popcorny
It’s more like slow cooked potato chips. Slow-Cook Inquiry is a place where everyone can see the threads, respond to them on their own time, and do The Work at a slow, methodical pace. We just answer one or two questions per day.
This has the big advantage of letting you show up on your own time every day to contribute. You don’t have to worry about making time for a regular Blog Popcorn session. Slow-Cook Inquiry fits easily in your schedule (about five minutes per day).
Once per day, we take the work session to the next step. Each day, you will get an email with the directions for the next step of the group session. Registration is required.
Just like Blog Popcorn, these sessions are free and open to anyone.
Here’s How It Works
1. Inquiry Circle.
2. You will get an email with the next step of inquiry every day (five days a week).
3. You click on the link in the email to come back here to the blog.
4. You post your answers to the question on the blog.
5. You read and get inspiration from what others have posted.
6. This will continue until we have thoroughly worked the stressful concept. Then we’ll start with a new concept for the next week.
This Week’s Concept
This week we will be questioning the stressful thought, “I have to impress them.”
We’ll all do The Work on this concept together in the comment section below.
Here Is This Week’s Schedule
Friday, April 6, 2012: Describe a situation in one sentence, where you felt you had to impress someone. And answer 1. “Is it true?” and 2. “Can you absolutely know it’s true?”
Monday, April 9, 2012: “How do you react when you believe that you have to impress them?”
Tuesday, April 10, 2012: “Who would you be without that thought that you have to impress them?”
Wednesday, April 11, 2012: First Turnaround: “I have to impress me.”
Thursday, April 12, 2012: Second Turnaround: “They have to impress me.”
Friday, April 13, 2012: Third Turnaround: “I don’t have to impress them.”
Start Inquiry Circle here.
