Winning Formulas - Strategies

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• The power of choice - transform my life

  • Responsibility exists not as an obligation but as a way to be the master of my own fate.   When I take responsibility then I am the cause of the outcome and have the power to change that outcome.  This is a much better place for my state of mind to be than feeling like a helpless victim

• Circle of influence - Start with personal actions and expand out to engage with the people, businesses and entities in my community with whom I have direct influence

  • If I do something right people are frequently drawn to that and join me

• It only takes 25% to reach a tipping point and influence the broader population

  • When a sufficient number of people use their choices to achieve drawdown it will become contagious

• Let others know when I make a positive intentional choice! 

  • to cause the tipping point we have to let the world know we are making positive choices!

• The foundation of participation is to choose specific goals

  • The whole program is grounded in making specific choices that have specific measurable results in reducing or eliminating emissions.

• Measure results

  • My effectiveness will be a function of my measuring progress

• Pick low hanging fruit (big impacts)

  • Use the ‘Action Priority Matrix’ do choose what to do first (click on pop up box for graphic)

• Don’t bite off more than I can chew

  • Pick things that are achievable. 

  • Do one solution at a time

  • Gain a couple of successes before moving on to new targets

• Get on a team

  • Doing something purposeful with people I like is a big source of meaning for me

  • What is more fun and rewarding than doing something purposeful with people I like?

• See where I get derailed in the solution sequence in making a choice that I intended to make to accomplish a goal

  • Was it not waking up to the issue?

  • Not learning about the supply chain cause and effect of the choice?

  • Not taking responsibility? 

  • Not figuring out the better choice or resource?  Or

  • not actually making the preferable, intentional choice?

  • This is where a lot of the time of the working group sessions is spent.  Share challenges and support each other in figuring out how to solve them

• Assess the need to dedicate time and attention to get more of the desired results and for my participation to be meaningful

  • Plan for this

  • I am habituated to making choices that have results I don’t want.  It’ll take time and energy to change that and it won’t happen overnight (though somethings can and will!)

• Criteria for participation

  • As long as I intend to do what I can I’ll keep participating