Assemble:
Environment
An Ecosystem to Support Your Journey
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Answers: How do I ensure success?
Architecting an environment that sustains you. This is about having surroundings that support and enable your effort. It’s people, systems, symbols, score, objectives, and other environmental cues.
lesson 1
Introduction
course objectives
- Shape my environment(s) to directly impact the outcomes I seek.
- Identify the environment(s) I spend the most time in.
- Determine what things I can eliminate, minimize, or add to my environment(s) to increase my motivation to accomplish my goal.
- Change my environment(s) to represent the outcome of better behaviors.
Learning Objectives
Learning about your environment is an important step toward creating change and finding fulfillment on your Journey to Purpose.
By the end of this lesson, you will know how to shape your environment to directly impact the outcomes you seek.
personal assessments
a moment for reflection
Confronting Fear
Have you ever found yourself confronting a situation where you were very worried or even afraid? If you were able to proceed, what did you do to manage that which frightened you so badly? In the activity below, check all of the words that apply.
lesson 2
The Power of Environment
A Change in Environment
Designing an environment that supports our desired outcome can have immediate impacts.
Children show a sensitivity to their environment that we can learn from as we design our own. A simple change can make all the difference.
Shaping Our Environment
Our environment can have a huge impact on our mental, emotional, and behavioral experiences.
If we want to support our goals, there are so many ways that our environments—electronic as well as physical—can make a difference. Our senses will take it all in—does it have a positive or negative impact?
lesson 3
Motivation and Environment
The Power of Environment
Our environment has the potential to create some of our most powerful and productive emotions and thoughts.
But environments left to decay can have devastating effects. For good or bad, our environments are playing a significant role in our journey to purpose.
personal assessments
a moment for reflection
Motivation Exercise
Different people will add or subtract things from the same environment to make it ideal for them: some need no music, sound or distraction to study or work, while others love to blast music to stay focused. Some rely on rituals or routines to get energized at the gym. Even building in simple triggers like setting something out to use later can positively shape your environment to help you reach your objectives.
lesson 4
Ability and Environment
Impacting the Outcome
Our behavior can have a big impact on our environment. We often have more potential to shape the environment that is affecting us than we realize.
If we want certain outcomes, how can we impact our environment to support them?
Reviewing Your Environment
If you created an Objective Postcard through the Objective Element Course, you captured a clear vision of the future state you’re working toward.
As you explore the impact of Environment more deeply, consider what could be added or removed to flesh out your description of the ideal future state.
lesson 5
Allow Your Environment to Shape You
Allowing Environment to Inspire You
Sweden has been the birthplace of a huge movement to shape our environments.
No better example of this is the origin story of a global business that has had one of the biggest impacts on the way we design our environments.
lesson 6
Conclusion
Environment Conclusion
Our environment has a lasting impact on our motivation and ability. In contrast to letting our environment decay,
intentionally shaping our environment to support our progress not only improves our current objectives, but bleeds over into the rest of our lives.
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