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Meg Edwards
Getting To Know Your Someday Maybe List
Using the Someday Maybe list is a relief! Why? You can feel more relaxed and more in control. You can be more motivated and have more energy. This can take the project “have to” off of your mind. Here’s an example of how one telecoaching client used her Someday Maybe list to find a renewed peace of mind.
While coaching a senior executive through a weekly review, she came across a project “Set up DSL at home.” She said “Meg, this has been on my list for months. Every time I look at this project, I get overwhelmed and stressed.”
I asked her, “What do you need to do, to be more relaxed and more motivated regarding this project?”
“I don’t know.” she replied. “I don’t want to delete it since I still want to do this. I just don’t have the energy to work on this right now.”
I suggested she put it on her Someday Maybe list. “Hmm, that’s possible,” she replied. “I haven’t really used that list.” She said she would try it. (She trusted that we had three more weekly review sessions together, and I promised we would revisit this the next week.)
During the next three meetings, she reviewed her Someday Maybe list and said she felt more comfortable with it. She trusted this list more and more, particularly since she knew that during her weekly review she would be going over this list, so nothing would get lost.
During our last meeting I noticed that “Set up DSL at home” was back on her Project list. She wanted to spend one day a week working from home. In order to do that she would need to have DSL! Just prior to our last call, she got the OK from her boss to set up a home office. Immediately, she had moved “Set up DSL at home” from her Someday Maybe list to her active Project list. She told me that she had already put a call into her local cable company to install the new line! She said that this was a big Aha moment for her since when she moved the project to an active list; she was feeling relaxed and motivated to do the next actions.
When we connected again, several months later, she said that she loved her Someday Maybe list. “There is a flow that I experienced between my Project and Someday Maybe list. I realized that I was under-utilizing the Someday Maybe list because I thought it was a procrastination list. Since I didn’t trust it or really understand it, I felt I had to put everything on my project list which was making me stressed.”
This client learned to trust that nothing was going to get lost in her Someday Maybe system and that she could use her intuition better to decide what were her current projects that she had the motivation and bandwidth to move forward on, and what projects she could incubate.
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