Jews Talk Racial Justice - Ep 72: If Enoughness is a Carrot It Can Be an Obstacle
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A few weeks into 2022, April and Tracie share with us what they’ve learned about how to set intentions and their best practices for succeeding. Referencing the conversation they had in Episode 70, they chat about achieving goals versus implementing systems. They unpack some of the patterns around setting intentions and assumptions of our own enoughness. Tracie shares her personal 10 commandments for the upcoming year.
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DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Tracie introduces what she learned from James Clear, who wrote Atomic Habits, about thinking about the kind of person she wants to be rather than focusing on a specific goal. How does this sit with you? What do you think the impact of this shift could be?
April also talks about Clear’s suggestion to implement systems instead of setting goals. What’s the difference between these two things? Do you have any examples in your live that were successful (or unsuccessful) and lessons you could learn from that?
Going into 2022, what are your intentions for the new year? What do you think distinguishes intentions from resolutions?
April mentions her monthly habit tracker and her list for morning and night. Do you have or have you had a similar system? What has worked for you in establishing a new habit?
April recounts her experience of seeing other folks who use the Lumen device getting fixated on a particular score or value. What would happen if we saw measurements of our progress as helpful data points rather than as some sort of failure or something that defines us?
Do you relate at all to Tracie’s story about her PhD? Is there something similar in your life that you use to measure your “goodness” with or a goal that you didn’t achieve that you still beat yourself up about?
One of April’s kavenot is that we each get more clear about our own roles and specific positionalities in the role that they can play. Start to think about this for yourself, specifically in the context of social and racial justice and creating the world to come. What are your specific positionalities? Where are you most leveraged to make the most impactful change?
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