9 & 10. How To Prepare For The Arena and Bonuses
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This is a summary of part 9 and 10 of the engaging the field handbook.
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8. Engaging The Field Progression & Ascension
How To Prepare For The Arena
Here’s a “behind the curtain” look at how we prepare Arena members to participate and get the most out of the Arena. As a refresher, the purpose of engaging the field is to improve your ability to get what you want. For this process to aid in that pursuit, you have to be clear on what you want - a direction.
Shift the focus on speed to a focus on velocity. Ever wish that you would just get to your goals faster?
I get it. Everyone struggles with the "need for speed." But it's not actually speed that you’re after. Remember, you can move really fast in a big circle. Or worse, in the wrong direction - which will get you further away from what you want (duh).
The need for speed can decrease your ability to get what you want. Using our definitions, that means chasing speed can make you less intelligent.
Try this:
Close your eyes and imagine moving toward your goal quickly. You aren't just moving fast, you're closing the gap between where you're at now and where you want to be. There is a vector component; a specific direction. You aren't imagining speed, you're imagining speed + direction…
You’re imagining velocity
...and mistaking it for speed.
Shift the focus from going faster to closing the distance between where you’re at and where you want to be. They are very different things.
Shift all resources and focus to the most immediate constraint. Don’t know what to read? Watch? Learn? Do you think so? Identify the most immediate constraint; the one thing that would make the biggest difference for you if you were to get it solved.
It can be tempting to learn a bunch of different stuff and call it “productive” - but if it doesn’t remove the current constraint, it cannot get you close to what you want - it hasn’t made you more intelligent. If you don’t know how to identify the most immediate constraint, that is your constraint and, therefore, the next thing to learn by engaging the field. If you can’t identify a constraint, you can’t intentionally remove it. If you can’t remove the constraint to getting what you want, you won’t get what you want.
Here are some simple ways to start thinking about the constraint:
What is the smallest change that would make the biggest difference?
What is the one thing that, if solved, would make solving everything else easier?
If the current situation feels impossible:
It’s impossible unless__________________________ (We got this one from Dr. Alan Barnard)
The answer(s) to those questions may create even more questions. Follow them to their logical conclusion(s) and you’ll be on your way to identifying what to focus on.
Learn how to articulate an effective question. Our good friend Jeff Moore says
“you’re only limited by your ability to articulate an effective question”.
The quality of feedback you get when engaging and reflecting on your experience will depend on how effectively you can communicate what you did, what happened and what you need help with next. Inside the Arena, we have multiple calls a week designed to help members help each other formulate more effective questions so that every interaction they have becomes more effective.
Take a microstep. Once you’ve identified a constraint, do something about it. The smaller the step, the better. As soon as you take a microstep, you have data and as soon as you have data…
You’re in the game. You can step into the Arena. The microstep provided data, bring that data to the Arena and you’ll get everything you need to take the next microstep. Rinse and repeat.
You can follow the steps above to get into the game. If you’re ready to step into the Arena right now, see the next page. If not, that’s okay.
Just start with frequency and start the work
Bonuses And Prompts
The Engaging The Field Handbook has almost 30 pages of powerful bonuses and prompts. Many are covered (or will be covered in the future) in the Arena podcast.
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Watch or listen to this three part audio series.
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