#31DayReset Day 14: Catch Up, Reflect, Comment

This post is Day 14 of the 31 Days to Reset Your Life Challenge for 2011. Learn more and sign up for the program here.

You’ve now made it through the second week of the 31 Days to Reset Your Life Challenge. In case you missed it, I posted a handy Guide to Getting the Most Out of Your #31DayReset to ensure you are maximizing this experience. For most participants, it has been a productive and enlightening week. For others, it may have been a bit more difficult to keep up with the daily assignments. That’s why today is dedicated to giving you time to catch up and reflect on the past week’s exercises as well as to connect with others in the challenge.

Estimated Time to Complete: 30 minutes

Today’s exercise is an opportunity for you to rest from all your inner work this week as well as reflect on your learning and share in your fellow participants’ progress over the past few days. Being able to compare and contrast your experiences and offer encouragement to others can be extremely useful as you move forward in your personal development journey! If you missed any of the assignments this week, this is also your chance to catch up.

Catch Up

Here are the assignments from the past week. If you missed any, use today to get back on track!

Reflect

  • What was the most important thing you learned about yourself this week?
  • What has been your favorite exercise so far? What did you like about it?
  • Which exercise did you struggle with the most and why?

Comment

Post a comment reply to at least one of the challenge participants from each of the past week’s assignments. You can either reply in the comments section itself or visit the links to blog posts that have been shared for each assignment.

Take Action and Reflect: When you’re done, please share your reflections with us in the comments. If you blogged about today’s assignment, please post the link in the comments so we can read it!
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20 comments

  1. My most important lesson was that I am not too far off from my ideal life. I just need to put forth more effort.

    My favorite exercise was the ideal life narrative. I enjoyed reading the other HBW’s narratives. I actually took a little more time with mine after reading some very good ones. I smiled when I wrote mine, because I could imagine it.

    Th most difficult exercise was the Lizard Brain. I am a go-getter so I tried to be honest with myself about any lizard brain experiences. I couldn’t think of any recent ones. For the most part I push past that fear and ultimately complete my goal.

  2. The most important thing I learned about myself this week was through the Lizard Brain Letter, I didnt understand the great lengths I was being resistance to things because of my fear of what people would think of me doing something for me. It open my eyes to know that its okay to make a decision for myself regardless of the outcome.

    My favorite exercise was creating my life map because it put my ideal life into prospective for me and let me see that my ideal life is obtainable.

    The exercise I struggled with the most was the Lizard Brain Letter because it made me realize that I have been standing in the way of alot of opportunities because of fear.

  3. I had a major discovery this week: I learned that I am way more hopeful and optimistic than I have ever been, because I actually want to be married again and even have children. That’s a big step for me, because I’d been carrying around negative attitudes about marriage and motherhood for waaaay too long.

    The exercise I enjoyed most had to be the letter to my lizard brain. It felt great to name my weaknesses, call them into the light, and then expel them. It felt doubly great because I realized, about halfway through writing the letter, that my lizard brain is about 50-75% my soon-to-be-ex-husband. Writing that letter and getting rid of it was like relinquishing him from my mind, too, which is a necessary and relieving step for me. (Don’t get me wrong, I’m not putting all of my inadequacies and fears on him. I had plenty of powerful resistance to success in my brain before I met him, lol.)

    The exercise I struggled with most was the life map. For some reason, it just felt overwhelming and impossible, especially the career goals I set for myself. It was mostly fear and resistance to change, but the list format also just felt…dry to me. Kind of like a To Do list, which is useful but not particularly inspiring. Putting the items from that list in paragraph form (can you tell I love writing?) was MUCH better for me. In fact, it was my second most enjoyable exercise of the week.

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    The most important thing I learned about myself this week is from my Hate Mail to my Lizard Brain post. I learned that I am the one who has control over the resistance I sometimes experience to doing new things or even doing them differently. I make the choices that lead to the decisions… so, it doesn’t have to be that way.

    My favorite exercise was definitely yesterday’s creation of an ideal life narrative. I loved being able to envision my wildest dreams (which I don’t think I’ve ever really admitted to myself) and it was really cool to see that much of it is attainable.

    I struggled the most with deciding on my accountability partner. My instinct from the start was to ask my boyfriend, but reading Rosetta’s comments about it not being anyone who was too close got me thinking it might not be a good idea. I feel confident in the decision, however. I think he is close but he’s not afraid to be honest with me.
    Read my latest blog post…31 Day Reset: Day 14 – Reflect & Regroup

  6. What was the most important thing you learned about yourself this week?
    I think the most important thing I learned this week was the life I really planned fr myself and what I needed to change in order to follow that path I need to take.

    What has been you favorite execie so far? What did you like about it?
    My favorite exercise so far this week has been writig the letter to my lizard brain and I liked it because it was pretty much the open avenue to conquer fea and telling fear to kiss off!!!

    Which exercise did you struggle with the most and why?
    I mostly struggled with the life map because I had to look at my life currently and admit to myself the things I didn’t like about it and I had to think about the goals I have set for myself and my future. Once I did that I was able to break them down into smaller goals and now I know what I need to change and how to change in order to get back on track to my very own happiness.

  7. What was the most important thing you learned about yourself this week?
    How much my lizard hinders me and talks me out of taking risks and making needed changes.

    What has been your favorite exercise so far? What did you like about it?
    The ideal life narrative, hands down! I had been trying to articulate what my ideal life was for sometime but I had difficulty finding the words. Doing the previous exercises that lead up to yesterdays post helped put things into perspective.

    Which exercise did you struggle with the most and why?
    The do one thing exercise. That’s actually the exercise I’m catching up with today. It was hard because I felt overwhelmed by it. But now some other ideas and perspectives have come into play and I realize that for the past two days I HAVE been taking action and steps. I just need to hone in on the direction my actions will take.
    Read my latest blog post…Gratitude

  8. I would have to say that the Letter to the Lizard Brain was my favorite exercise this week. It was great to face those things that I haven’t really been willing to face in the past. I had just come to accept the procrastination and self doubt after a while. This exercise taught me that it doesn’t have to be that way and I can move past it. This was a great exercise!

  9. The most important thing I learned this week was the meaning of a “Lizard Brain”. That’s really interesting because prior to doing the exercise, I knew that I had an issue with procrastinating for no reason at all. I can’t stand that about myself. The funny thing is I just recently started being like that in the past couple years. 2 or 3 years ago, I was the total opposite. Now I know that I have to be adamant about fighting against that.

    My favorite exercise was the Life Narrative, I felt in control of my destiny while I was writing that.

    I struggled with “Do One Thing” because I had a small feeling of anxiety about getting started, it wasn’t necessarily a bad feeling, just a little excitement mixed with a little fear.

    • I really enjoyed the activities this week. They were challenging but I felt like I was being propelled forward. The life map was great, it made me think about the actions I would need to take to achieve my goals. I was surprised that I dove into the do one thing challenge but it was great and it felt right to at least try to take one step to achieve a bigger goal. Taking one step daily has really stuck with me and I plan to continue doing one thing or taking time to acknowledge something that I do in my daily life that may actually be leading me towards or away from my goals. Outlining my ideal life was wonderful and made me smile.

  10. The most difficult challenge was the Lizard Brain letter, because I had to confront the fact that I self-sabotage. I have moments when I let fear take the wheel. On the upside, writing the letter helped me see that I can overcome that and that while fear will never go away, I don’t need to let it take over my life. I can be afraid and still do what I need to do anyway.

    My favorite exercise was the ideal life narrative. It was fun visualizing what kind of life I’d like to lead and getting very specific. I’ve never really done that before.

    • I comepleting relate to your challenge with the Lizard Brain Letter, sometimes we dont understand how we can stand in our own ways. Stay encouraged and keep up the good work!!!

  11. The most important thing I learned this week is knowing what Lizard Brain is. I’ve always started any project or task with great energy and enthusiam but somehow during the middle I would get tired or easily distracted. I always completed a task but never understood why I had to take time to rest. Well I know Lizard Brain has been trying to prohibit me from doing what I need to do and I refuse to allow it to happen anymore. I am more determined than ever to fulfill my purpose in life and aware that Lizard Brain is always lurking around. Please check out my facebook fan page. I started it to encourage women and women entrepreneurs. It is a community of support. http://www.facebook.com/divasaregamechangers

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  13. The hardest assignment this week was also the most important one. I learned that my lizard brain existed and I wrote it a letter. I lovingly told my lizard brain to get in step. I am not going to allow it to continue running my life as it has for the past seven years. You see, I was hurt really, really, really badly. I needed to be cared for. My lizard brain stepped in and helped me to recover. But, now, it needs to step back. It needs to step back.

  15. Thanks for this much needed catch up! I hope you keep hanging in there. I love that this challenge is allowing me to analyis closely aspects of my life. I have now since realized this and I’ making small changes. Doing this challenge is also breaking my procrastination by keeping up with the assignments. I look forward in making my mission statement come true. Godd luck you all, and keep going.

  16. well i just finished my narrative and i liked the exercise.. it was fun.. and it showed me that i need to make some more adjustments… you can follow at http://www.iambootifal.blogspot.com

    So my hardest assignment was probably finding an accountability coach because i just don’t like peeps in my business.. but i picked 2 just in case one is slacking ; )

    I think do one thing really had an impact on me… i wound up doing more than one…it provided me with so much release and satisfaction to see me moving closer and closer to my middle “inner peace” and to my dreams..

    hope you guys are still living while pushing ~luv

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