Formation is a sequence, not a seminar.

Where you start

04.1 · Discipline

Governing yourself before anything else is asked of you. You enrol, you are matched with a steward and booked in, and before that meeting you answer this:

• ·What do you intend to get out of this track?
• ·What is most likely to stop you?
• ·What in your week cannot move?
• ·Why these fourteen days, and not some later fortnight?
• ·Fourteen days from now, what is different if this worked?
• ·What does it cost you if nothing changes?
• ·What time do you actually wake and sleep now?
• ·What wake and sleep times are you willing to hold for fourteen days?
• ·What happens in your first waking hour today?
• ·What happens in the hour before you sleep?
• ·Which hours of a normal week are already spoken for?
• ·What is happening on the two weekends inside this track?
• ·Is anything in the next fourteen days likely to break your routine?
• ·What movement is already in your week, and how often?
• ·What are you reading, and when does it actually happen?
• ·Do you have any practice of stillness, prayer or reflection?
• ·How do you currently keep track of what you intended to do?
• ·How many daily priorities can you genuinely hold?
• ·Which part of the day is hardest to govern?
• ·When are you sharpest, and when are you useless?
• ·If you could only hold ONE commitment for fourteen days, which should it be?
• ·What have you tried before that did not hold? What happened?
• ·When it starts to slip, what goes first?
• ·Day four, you have missed two days. What do you do?
• ·What excuse will sound most reasonable to you at the time?
• ·Who in your life will know you are doing this?
• ·Which day of the week will you write your weekly reflection?
• ·How do you want your steward to tell you that you are off track?
• ·Anything your steward should know that these questions did not ask?