Experiential Results

How to handle an uncertain house-move situation; Why choosing/planning not to write can sometimes feel productive; How to feel good about working hard at writing when the results are invisible/when you feel you’re not making progress; Sophie coaches a DA on Success Resistance; Permission and Authority: how to use both to your advantage.

Sophie’s Poirot 5 update: Progress vs Experiential – which is winning?;how to balance achievement results with Experiential Results; a Dream Author feels better after reading the Stoics and Leonard Cohen!; teens who don’t tidy up the basement to our standards – should we care?; should we try to stop being ‘last minute’ people, if that’s how we’ve always worked?

Sophie’s update re her Poirot experience; a Dream Author’s ‘morning writing’ experiment, and why morning writing might work better; the benefits of taking the plunge and doing the thing you’ve been avoiding; how to make sure you don’t miss out on looking forward; choosing our likes and dislikes on purpose; why ‘dislike’ might be better than ‘disapprove’; Sophie coaches a Dream Author can’t decide what her book should be; is a boundary the same as a grudge?

Sophie coaches a Dream Author on her unintentional and intentional models; how to approach backstory; senior or junior agent – which should you choose and why?; when Experiential Results clash with your Projects and Progress plans.

Sophie and Dream Authors talk about grading Experiential Results on a 1-10 scale, and the interesting results this can produce.

How to remain confident when your last two books have been rejected; why it’s untrue that success creates more success, and failure creates more failure; a new Experiential Results exercise!

Sophie and Dream Authors discuss yeses and nos from the past, and different ‘experiential’ responses to the choice of a first project.