1. Why this topic and why now?
    1. Philosophical and cultural considerations
      1. Agile deadlines "lifelines"
      2. Patrix alert
        1. Managing distress around this topic
      3. Other ways of looking at this
        1. Timely purposefulness in other cultures
          1. Balance with nature
          2. My dad's work in Big Sur with the Oak trees :)
          3. Strategic, organized, drawing on multiple intellegences
      4. Our intention is to be agile
    2. Time & Promises in world change context
      1. Are we a realistic option?
        1. There will be many ideas of what this needs to look like in the future
      2. The Meta-tasks
        1. bring proposals into viability
        2. invest in developing these systems
        3. learn to work with the other, diverse communities
      3. Show up as effective (yet relaxed)
        1. Don't want to be a "flake"
        2. Also don't want to come off as too driven
        3. We do want to have competence and attention
    3. A liberation perspective
      1. Some people don't take role of visionary b/c:
        1. They are convinced by oppression that they don't have intellegence
        2. Or the permission
      2. Our job is to become allies to people submerged in internalized oppression
    4. Why now?
      1. Many aspects of this element are threaded into the OR before this element
      2. Can be distressing subject, so now we have tools to work through it
      3. Good to revisit the topic many times
    5. Perspectives on world systems
      1. Thoughts from Vandana Shiva
        1. Contest btw destructive, dying, outmoded paradigm and life enhancing, emergent paradigm
  2. Issues around managing time and promises
    1. Time & promises overview
      1. The times we live
        1. Neo-liberal capitalism in decline > chaos
        2. Confusion, fear and anxiety is a symptom of this
          1. Work on eliminating it
      2. Our individual approach
        1. We want to work out navigating these complex systems
        2. We want to learn how to think and act well amidst chaos
        3. We have good ideas of what that thinking and acting looks like
        4. We are optimistic that we can turn the chaos around
        5. Surthrival (survival/thive) strategy
        6. Work from a place of acceptance, not:
          1. Denial
          2. Anger
          3. Barganing
          4. Depression
      3. Contradiction
        1. Maintaining hopeful optimism
          1. Takes a lot of work
          2. We need balance to do this and rest is at the top of that list
    2. Contradictions, oppressions...
      1. You could see contradictions as a way to balance
      2. I tend to take on more than I can handle with competence and attention to detail
        1. I actually just cancelled something I don't have time for tonight!
      3. Culture and community
        1. Conventional schooling can be very harmful
  3. Two routes to success around Managing Time and Promises
    1. Two routes to success
      1. 1. Cognitive route: learning new tools and attitudes
      2. 2. Affective route: unlearning or releasing dysfunctional patterns
      3. Summarize this as being Competence and Attention (BOTH are needed
        1. Competence is the ability to acquire and use knowledge and skills
        2. Attention is having the emotional calm to do the task at hand
      4. Very important to deal with emotional noise
        1. Be alert to re-simulation around this topic
    2. Attitudes to cultivate
      1. Get it done, then get it good
        1. "Perfection is the enemy of the good"
      2. Rapid prototyping & debugging
        1. Where are the rapid prototype opportunities here?
      3. Scrums and pauses
        1. Intense and focused time (scrum) followed by a period of calm
      4. Buddy working & seeking support
        1. Think and listen time
      5. You can do everything you want, but not all at the same time
      6. Pushing through beginner's crunch
        1. Know when to persevere and when to let go
        2. Experiment with approaches that contradict your normal approach
    3. Tools of value
      1. Getting things done
        1. 1. Set up reliable system that gets your agendas out of your head
        2. 2. Pay regular attention to maintaining it
      2. Loadings (can I really say yes?)
        1. make realistic estimates
      3. Important/urgent (Eisenhower Matrix)
        1. Urgent/not urgent
        2. Important/not important
      4. Wheel of life
        1. List everything you want to pay attention to
          1. My family and friends
          2. Is currently a medium sized blob and that feels just like where I'd like to keep it
          3. My work
          4. Is currently a rather large blob, would like it to be slightly smaller
          5. My book
          6. Is a medium sized blob, would right now like it to be much larger
          7. My school
          8. Is a medium/small sized blob, that feels right for now
          9. My pets
          10. A medium/large sized blob, which feels right for now
          11. My writing workshop
          12. A medium sized blob, which feels right for now
          13. My peer buddies
          14. A small/medium sized blob, which feels right for now
          15. My garden
          16. A very small blob, which I would like to be a medium sized blob
          17. My health
          18. A small blob, which I would like to be large
          19. Reading and daydreaming
          20. A small blob, which I would like to be medium
          21. Contributing meaningfully to society
          22. A small blob, which I would like to see grow slowly over the years
          23. My home
          24. A small blob, which I would like to grow to medium
      5. Now, sooner, later - small, medium, large
      6. Stacking - meeting more than one goal at once
        1. I'm doing this with my book, job and school work:)
      7. M.A.P: client/contractor promise manager
      8. Review cycle
        1. Regular review sessions
  4. Dealing with restimulation
    1. Noticing restimulation (triggering)
      1. Hard to acknowledges problems if we don't know solutions are possilbe
      2. Ex. soil erosion
      3. What are the contradictions?
        1. Flexibility
          1. Permission to renegotiate
          2. Not have pressure
          3. Let our Gaia U work overlap with other projects we're already doing
          4. Stacking functions
          5. We can switch focus to deal with changes that arise
        2. Support
          1. Use of guild buddies, advisors, skillflex advisors, staff, etc.
          2. Seek support in your own community also
        3. Liberating structures
          1. Think and listens, the 4 questions
    2. Reaching out for support
      1. Just do it!
      2. Do it now!