What is Working on yourself?
Working on yourself is the zone where you do not only record what is happening, but can do something with it — at your own pace, and only when you have room for it.
Habits is one small habit at a time, tied to a moment in your day and to the goal it serves. You tick it off with one tap or with an entry in the Journal, and once a week you get a short look back.
Conversations is the place for a session with the guide: start a new one, return to one you left, or simply talk about what is hard.
Themes grow out of those conversations: lasting problems and goals you return to on purpose, with progress told in plain words rather than a scoreboard.
Process is the map of your work as the guide sees it: what the guide understands so far, what the plan is, and what you agreed on. Your sessions feed it.
To do collects the commitments you make to yourself inside your own entries — look them over here and tick them off.
Habits
optional partOne small habit at a time: tick it off with one tap or an entry, and get a short look back once a week.
Conversations
optional partSessions with a guide — start a new one, return to one you left, or simply talk about what is hard.
A conversation is not the same as an entry in the Journal. An entry you write down, and usually nothing replies. In a conversation the guide asks questions, you end it when you want, and you can come back to it later.
If the same matter keeps coming back, the guide can propose a theme out of it. That is a proposal for you to confirm: before anything is created, you name it in your own words or turn it down.
Themes
optional partLasting themes you keep returning to, with progress told in plain words.
A theme can be a problem or a goal. It is the same theme described from two sides: a problem names what weighs on you, a goal names what you want to reach. Pick whichever sounds closer to how you think about it.
The choice changes one question. For a problem we ask how much it weighs on you now. For a goal, how close you are. Everything else about a theme works the same way.
Your answer is compared only with your own earlier answers, never with other people. That is why you see sentences like “you are coming back to this for the third time” or “it seems lighter than at the start” instead of a chart.
A theme can end in two ways. Closed means the matter has settled. Let go means it stopped being yours. Both are endings.
If a theme has been quiet for a long time, nothing is lost. It stays on the list, and you can start your next conversation from it.
Process
optional partThe map of the work as the guide sees it: what the guide understands so far, what the plan is, what you agreed on.
Process collects what the guide understands so far: working hypotheses, open threads and what the two of you agreed on. A hypothesis is a sentence that may turn out to be wrong, not a diagnosis.
The map itself is for reading. New things reach it only once you confirm them, and the ones that were added on their own can be undone.
To do
optional partCommitments you made to yourself inside your entries — to look over and tick off.