Field Notes #33
Look behind me. For the first time in the library, the door is open, and what's behind it is my house. This one is about leaving. The door isn't locked, and here is how to know whether to use it.
THREE REASONS TO WALK OUT
Just Now includes a 5X return-on-investment promise. If you can't see what the return is on profiling your blind spots, snapshotting them and integrating them until you see them live, it is probably one of these.
You don't change lanes. You climb the ladder, follow the rules, stay in your lane and do it really well. That wasn't naming; that was noticing, and it's perfectly fine to be that. But these programs are written, unapologetically, for leaders and for people who really want to become leaders, which means switching lanes, novelty, risk, adaptive change. Without that, the last seven days won't fill the room your hand reaches into. You'll be groping wildly in a room one percent full of examples. If the page before this one isn't producing anything, this is why.
Your collisions don't cost you. Oops, sorry, no offense taken, no big deal. A life so stable that even a broken relationship isn't a mess. I don't practice low-cost, low-risk things either. If you can't figure out the cost of a collision, leave. Use the door. Keep the activation and the reflection, I heard, and I understand, and know that you are smarter for the program. Don't do another one.
You can't put one on a napkin. For those still in the room: clarity, as My Room defines it, is something you can explain to a five-year-old with a crayon on a napkin. One blind spot. Not fifty, not five. One, with the reason it's worth it written beside it.
Don't answer any of that with your head. The primitive doesn't get gaslit; you can't lie to yourself down there. Close your eyes, hand on your chest, breathe, and reach for the story you've told yourself about this program and about you as a leader.
In six years and many formats, there is always a session, somewhere around fifteen or twenty, where a guided client says I would have paid you and names the figure for that one thing. This is my third marriage. You just stopped it from becoming my third divorce. Spouses have written to thank me for one blind spot. If you can get one onto the napkin, no amount of practice is worth it to lock it in. If you can't, leave the integration alone. It's the more expensive thing, and it takes longer.
"I don't need you to grab all fifty. I don't need you to grab all five. If you can grab one and figure out why it's worth it to you, then it's worth the effort of going to the exercise sheet and locking it hard in." – Robert (Sherpa) Millar
Field Note Card: Ten minutes, one take, black and white. Fifth and last of the integration Field Notes. Prompted from the Session Five practice page in every self-guided workbook. Recorded with the door open.
The series ends here. To start again, click Field Notes #29 below. Then turn to the last page of your workbook: your Snapshot, and the Field Note that walks mine.
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Fifth of five. It ends on the three words #29 opened with. Information, education, and the one that costs more.
– Robert (Sherpa) Millar | Just Now
