You know the pattern. A fortnight of getting serious about growth, a plan you were genuinely proud of, then it thins out until one ordinary Tuesday you realize youâve quietly stopped. You blame the plan for being too loose, or yourself for being undisciplined. It took me a long time to see the third option: I was following a script for growth Iâd never written. Someone handed it to me and I read from it for years.
I learned this on a hospital floor beside my son, with a notebook and a question I couldnât put down: who am I becoming? Seventeen years in corporate had taught me how to plan. That month taught me Iâd been planning around a script that was never mine. What got me out from under it, eight months later, wasnât a tidier plan. It was a re-scripted one.
Thatâs what these 75 minutes are for. One small, live workshop, and you leave with your growth and learning re-scripted, on paper, in your own words. You wonât be doing it alone. Itâs a small room on purpose, a handful of faces on the screen and a pen going quiet in your hand while someone else finds their words first. When they name the inherited script theyâve carried for years, something goes still in you, because you recognize it before theyâve finished the sentence.
Thatâs when the thing youâd been circling for a week finally lands, and your own pen starts moving again. Youâll borrow a line from the person two squares over, the one who said what you didnât have language for yet, and youâll leave with a page thatâs yours and a couple of names you already want to keep talking to.
What youâll walk away with:
The one inherited script thatâs been quietly running your last three attempts at getting serious about growth, named on paper inside the first twenty minutes.
Your own rewritten version of it, plus a short scene of what a normal Tuesday looks like once itâs true.
A one-page growth plan you design yourself: what youâre growing towards, and what youâre learning purely because it interests you. It closes with one thing to do tomorrow. Your curriculum, not somebody elseâs.
âI did this after reading your piece, and it kept unfolding two days later,â one member told me. This isnât something I built for July. Itâs Future Scripting, the method Iâve run in more than 25 live workshops with people on several continents, pointed now at the one plan you keep abandoning.
A few things you might be turning over before you commit.
If itâs a time thing, I understand, though abandoning another plan next month costs more than one Saturday afternoon. You come once, you leave with a single page, and thereâs nothing to keep maintaining afterwards.
Maybe youâve set goals before and they didnât hold. Thatâs usually because the goal sat on top of the inherited script instead of one youâd rewritten. We rebuild the foundation first, so this becomes the first plan you make standing on ground you agreed to.
And if you donât see yourself as a planner, neither do I. There are no spreadsheets in this. Itâs a pen and one page, one honest sentence at a time, written the way youâd write to yourself at 11pm when nobodyâs watching.
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Bring a pen. Coffee or tea optional but encouraged.