1. Patrix Alert
   1. rigid deadlines
   2. consumerism
   3. "rational" utility
   4. competition
   5. superior achievement
   6. busyness
   7. profit w/o morals
2. Another Perspective
   1. indigenous cultures
   2. no formal system for managing time, promises
   3. deeply purposeful
   4. long-term, multi-gen perspectives
   5. timely in relation to natural phenomena
   6. multi-gen coordinated action
      1. savannahs in cali
   7. inter-gen responsibility
   8. highly strategic and structured
   9. sophisticated use of fire
   10. precisely timed interventions
3. Meta-tasks
   1. bring proposals into viability
      1. recognize as genuine possibilities
      2. buen vivir
   2. invest in developing these systems
      1. intelligence
      2. organization
      3. energy
   3. work with other, diverse communities
4. Competence & Attention
   1. effective yet relaxed
   2. no one wants to work with:
      1. flakes
      2. desperately driven
   3. liberation
      1. become allies to those who believe:
         1. they don't have the intelligence
         2. they don't have the permission
      2. still in liberation process ourselves
         1. whatever helps us helps others
         2. document process
   4. 2 routes to improving capacity for managing time & promises
      1. cognitive
         1. learning new tools & attitutes
         2. acquire/use knowledge/skills
      2. affective
         1. unlearning/releasing dysfunctional patterns
         2. emotional calm to put mind to task
         3. be in the present
      3. competence
      4. attention
   5. dealing with emotional 'noise'
      1. drowns out intelligent mind/render incapable of organizing
      2. can restimulate/trigger hidden (old) patterns
         1. shows up as:
            1. resistance
            2. rejection
            3. unwillingness to experiment
            4. feelings of exhaustion
            5. boredom
            6. despair
            7. self-loathing
            8. compulsive distraction
            9. isolation
            10. struggling to ask for support
            11. sign of weakness
            12. 'cheating'
            13. reluctant to be visible
            14. being a nuisance/immodest
         2. denial is often a funtion of not knowing there is something effective we can do
5. Tools & Techniques
   1. quick & dirty
      1. avoid block of perfectionism
      2. get it done then get it good
      3. free to throw out large chunks/less invested
      4. rapid prototyping & debugging
   2. scrums & pauses
      1. intense periods of focused work
      2. followed by relative calm
   3. buddy work
      1. think and listen
   4. pushing through beginners crunch
      1. no pain no gain
      2. develop balance btwn perserverence and letting go
   5. Jennifer's method
      1. reviews job lists and priorities
         1. 15-30 minutes daily <I like 15 minutes before work day and 15 minutes at the end of day>
         2. 60 minutes weekly
         3. 3-6 hrs. monthly, 1-2 days quarterly
         4. 3-7 days annually
         5. 1-4 weeks every 3-5 years
6. Time & Promises
   1. patterns of cultures and communities
      1. chronic anxiety
         1. work on eliminating
         2. work out how to rise to the challenge
         3. how to keep thinking and acting well
         4. we have some good ideas
         5. hopeful and optimistic view
         6. holding & recovering
         7. positive, constructive, action oriented viewpoint
         8. work from a place of acceptance
         9. persistence and knowledge
         10. confidence in human capacity
      2. common responses to chaotic situation
         1. denial
         2. anger
            1. blaming of others
         3. bargaining
         4. depression
      3. surthrival
   2. maintaining a flexible, unbound intelligence
      1. skills can keep you from deep learning
         1. act in contradiction to normal tendencies
         2. normally focused - allow unfocus, vice versa
         3. balance between what we know and what we don't
         4. tolerate, work through hard stuff
         5. experiment, get past intitial resistances
   3. condradictions to the world of hard deadlines
      1. flexibility
         1. renegotiate promises
         2. accommodate contingencies
      2. support
         1. buddies, advisors, mentors
         2. train up support people close to home
      3. liberating structures
         1. think and listen
         2. 4 support group questions
7. intention of transformative action un/learner