The CLEARER the vision the EASIER the decision

...and other mantras which get me out of bed at 4 am

Have you heard of the Hawthorne Effect?

(if not don’t feel bad :-) right up until the time of writing this I’d somehow attributed the whole thing to a guy named Karl Pearson, given it the moniker the Pearson Effect, and wandered throughout my life citing all this incorrectly. yay me!)

To paraphrase it’s a concept we all know:

📈 When performance is measured—performance improves.

💪 When performance is measured and *reported* (to bosses, to friends/mentors, to progeny, to our greater community) the improvement accelerates.

Accountability breeds responsibility

The Hawthorne Effect (sorry Pearson!) is accountability (no matter how motivated we are) meets evaluation apprehension (I made this. do you like it? actually wait! I wanna make it better!) meets self-presentation (we all want to present favorably especially in situations where talents are being evaluated).

After we Wintered together I shared I’d spent much of my shorter days working on a book.

A passion.

A belief system.

A concept which weaves Consistency and Future Self work together resulting in a bridged empathy gap which facilitates our living our most desired lives.

A process for which I’m leaning heavily on the Hawthorne Effect of reporting (until now only to my FRP).

Meet my mornings.

The consistent routine which sets the tone for my day and which writes the book and parents the child and finishes the Kenya-project and where have we heard all this before?

Leaping out of bed to work on my book about the intersection of CONSISTENCY & Future Self.

Pausing for the (always mind-blowing) reminder of today (and every day):

🔮I am my own FUTURE SELF🔮

Whatever I do TODAY is based on the future I most believe in or EXPECT.

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My vision of FutureCarla drives my actions and my behaviors

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To paraphrase Roy Disney:

THE CLEARER THE VISION THE EASIER THE DECISION.

Now you.

What are YOU working on this early morning (or whenever you read this) where a little bit of accountability reporting might accelerate YOUR progress?