Recently, an advisee told me that they’ve been procrastinating on replying to my email. It sits at the top of their stack each week. When they try to reply, instead they act on the prompts within, and so no longer need to correspond with me for the time-being.
They run this in a loop, and keep moving forward.
My email:
(1) Can you write out, say, 5 questions that you have uncertainty about? What would answers to these questions mean for your decision? (It’s important to pick questions/uncertainties that are actually decision-relevant, such that a different answer to those questions would change the decision you make.)
(2) Can you come up with 2-4 actions that can reduce that uncertainty/help get you more clarity? Are any of those actions particularly cheap? (Maybe reading a particular thing, talking to someone in a particular role or organisation?).
Consider setting up such prompts for your own weekly check-ins. Let me know some of your most effective prompts in the comments!
Weekly Prompts
Recently, an advisee told me that they’ve been procrastinating on replying to my email. It sits at the top of their stack each week. When they try to reply, instead they act on the prompts within, and so no longer need to correspond with me for the time-being.
They run this in a loop, and keep moving forward.
My email:
Consider setting up such prompts for your own weekly check-ins. Let me know some of your most effective prompts in the comments!