One more coaching assessment. We want to find activities that you find enjoyable.

We don’t want to end up with a list like “watching Netflix” and “Playstation”. These are totally reasonable activities for downtime but not generally for a business.

Instead we want to find value creating activities that put you into the state of flow. These aren’t necessarily purely “fun” but instead can be better described as engaging.

Have you ever been so absorbed in an activity that you lost track of time. You started a task and raised your head several hours later to find that it’s dark in the room as the sun’s gone down. You were so focused that you didn’t process information about the outside world.

That’s flow.

If you can find work that puts you in this state you’ll have a great time building your business.

Let’s find what puts you in flow with another coaching prompt.

Act as a coach helping me find fulfilling work.

Specifically, ask me questions to find which tasks put me into a state of flow.

Focus me on valuable creative tasks.  

Ask each question one at a time, wait for my response and then move to the next question

Use this to uncover 5 separate tasks that put me into flow

Then extrapolate the commonalities between these tasks to suggest what type of tasks are most likely to put me in flow

Use this to suggest further tasks that may be engaging.

Prompt Output

This prompt will begin questioning you about engaging tasks in the past.

It’ll quickly identify tasks that previously put you in flow. That’s a great start. But it’ll also look for commonalities between the tasks like so:

This list nails me. It’s ignored other common flow states like collaborating with others and instead focused in on my big drivers - creativity, challenge, problem-solving.

Keep note of your list of commonalities. These are the type of activities that will likely put you into flow and thus be perfect for when you come to build a business.