Design Yourself Point Road Studios

Summer is a season of rapid growth – in our gardens, our home lives, and at work. What is your relationship to this season? What transformation might you like to spark in the weeks ahead? Join Sharon as she shares five prompts and personal reflections inspired by this season.
 
Summer Series 2024 | Curated guidance and resources to guide and support you in making this season - and what follows - just what you wish it to be.
 
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Ideas Shared Reflection Questions What emotion or energy does summer inspire in you? What is your present experience with Summer? What are some sweet memories of this summer? What would you like to call into the remaining weeks of summer? What parts of summer would you like to bottle up to take with you into fall?

Hitting goals is not enough. Don't get me wrong: I love to run after a bold and audacious goal. But goal achievement can't be the end aim. Goals naturally come and go. They are a way to focus our energy and attention on something. This episode of Design Yourself explores the guiding question: "For the sake of what?" For the sake of what are you working hard to hit those goals? For the sake of what are you running your business? Sometimes work gets us so heads down that we forget to look at the big picture and ask if our energy is driving towards the kind of success that we want. Using the lens of running a business, Sharon offers up questions to ground you in your for the sake of what and then offers how you can cascade this foundation into the way you run your business. This episode is a great fit for anyone who runs a small business or dreams of starting one. It will also speak to those who seek more alignment between your actions and your dreams.
 
Summer Series 2024 | Curated guidance and resources to guide and support you in making this season - and what follows - just what you wish it to be.
 
 
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https://pointroadstudios.com/podcast/for-the-sake-of-what/
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@Sharon Lipovsky
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Ideas Shared Things to Consider for Your For the Sake of What What is it that you are after in this life? What are your values? What is your deepest held conviction? What do you want to offer into the world? What is your unique contribution that you and only you can make? What do you want? Resources and Links Guided vision meditation in Episode 5 of Design Yourself Original Episode Show Notes with photos from family hike

Have you ever found yourself in a place where your head keeps spinning on the same question (or set of questions)? But no matter how much energy you expend thinking about it, you can’t seem to come to a confident conclusion? You are not alone. We often get stuck on “unanswerable questions” because they are rooted in a way of seeing the problem limiting our ability to move forward. In today’s episode, Sharon shares a simple process for moving from question to action. Learn what it means to “live in the question” and why this practice is powerful for helping us shift from stuck to transformation.
 
Summer Series 2024 | Curated guidance and resources to guide and support you in making this season - and what follows - just what you wish it to be.
 
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https://pointroadstudios.com/podcast/living-in-the-question/
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@Sharon Lipovsky
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Ideas Shared:  Let us all remember to be in the practice of resilience together.
resilience, noun: 1. the ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape; 2. the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness Process for Living in the Question Write down the unknowable questions Capture the questions underneath each question Probe Deeper Gather information Watch your questions evolve Give yourself grace Insights on why this process works It makes big, important questions more accessible It promotes a growth mindset It empowers you with actionable steps Resources and Links: Podcast on grief that I reference in today’s show.  Here is the Jimmy Kimmel clip that brings a spirit of humor to the grief that half of the country is feeling in the wake of the election.

To lead a life of intention asks us to connect to what we desire. Simple in concept, but often hard in execution. Many things will grab our attention: Competing priorities; jampacked schedules; and people-pleasing habits - to name just a few. Many of us will falter on this path because we have been trained to act. When something is missing, we feel compelled to do something - anything! - to find a new way forward. Today's podcast offers an antidote to that restless pacing.
Learn to listen to yourself. What is it that you really want? 
In this episode, you will be guided to think about:
What kind of a vision is meaningful to you right now? What type of vision? What time horizon? What parts of your story are you proud of? What parts do you want to keep holding? What parts are you ready to release? What do you look like when at play? When you imagine yourself in your desired future, what do you sense? Feel into the details. What steps could you take today to start moving you on this path?  
Summer Series 2024 | Curated guidance and resources to guide and support you in making this season - and what follows - just what you wish it to be.
 
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https://pointroadstudios.com/podcast/where-am-i-now/
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We are halfway through the calendar year and officially into the summer season. It’s a natural time to take stock of how your year is going. What’s working? What’s getting in your way? What do you wish for? Do your answers inspire you to make any shifts as you head into the second half of this year? Let’s explore these questions in “Where Am I Now?”
 
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Ideas Shared Taking Stock: 5 Prompts to Cozy Up to Where You Are Right Now? What’s True: How am I doing right now? You think specifically about: Mood? Energy? Emotion? Fulfillment? In the whole of your life and in key parts of your life (e.g. work, family, health, finances, creativity)? What’s Working: What am I most proud of right now?What brings me most delight in my daily rhythms and routines? What’s Missing: What am I wanting? Consider something that you might be missing or wishing that you could amplify Lessons Learned: What do I notice (without judgement) as I answer these questions? Taking Action: What changes will I commit to making?

Consensus is not an evergreen goal. It is neither realistic nor a worthy goal to chase everyone agreeing all of the time. How can we promote productive dissent? How can we move forward as a team when we don’t all have the same opinion on what the path forward ought to be? Tune in to this Design Yourself show to discuss how to disagree and commit.
 
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Ideas Shared When is it okay to disagree and commit? Expertise and authority sit with a functional leader Time requires us to move swiftly Team is at an unresolvable impasse Experimenting with HOW to do something based on more options than you have capacity to do right now Team can do so in a way that honors or vision, mission and values Watch For: Disagreeing on core teaming tools: Vision, Mission, Values, Goals, Measures of Success Creating conditions for Productive Disagreement
Team Lead listens only Ask powerful questions instead of making declarations Art of empathetic summary Practice in a low risk way Get clear on what the team is doing and how we will use the commitment in the rest of our work How Framing and Decision Making Impacts this Matrix Lack of clarity on what your focus is, if there is a decision being made and if so how that decision is being made quickly deteriorates trust.