A 3.5 month sprint — wise or counter-productive? 🤔
I want to walk you through some of the behind-the-scenes for Project Unf*ckwithable. I think it'll help you chart your own growth and transformation.
Here's the issue: my life is amazing but sometimes I stop it from feeling amazing.
To fix that, I need an internal change.
Unlike external changes — which need time (you can't lose 20 lbs in a day without losing a limb) — internal changes can happen in an instant. Logically then, it might suggest that we should have deadlines for external changes, and none for internal ones. But it's important to note that — especially for internal changes — change is not linear.
In Atomic Habits, James Clear talks about warming up a room with an ice cube in it. If you've warmed a room up from -10 degrees to -1 degree, you've made progress, but no change has happened yet. The next two degrees? Everything shifts.
If my transformation follows that route, then it will not be exponential change, it will be nothing then everything.
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In the 8 years since I've started on this path, I've learned that transformation can take forever if it's not prioritized. Plus, we have finite resources. If I dedicate resources to a project I'm not really committed to, then they aren't going to the things that matter most.
I don't want to let it take forever. I want it now, and I'm willing to prioritize it. By putting a timeline, I free myself to go all in — other priorities will get their turn come Q1, 2026.
A 3.5 month sprint.🏃♂️ Extra attention. Extra intention.
And since I'm changing my identity — changing how I interact with the world — everything downstream will shift too. The sooner the transformation, the sooner everything changes.
When I put it like that, now that I'm ready, I can't see why I wouldn't put a timeline and throw my resources at this.
If you gave yourself a 3.5 month sprint, what would you transform?
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