Accidentally did something useful before the Week 5 worksheet

So I was procrastinating on the Ikigai worksheet (shocking, I know 😂) and ended up asking Sage to look back through everything I've done over the past five weeks, the worksheets, check-ins, reflections, saved responses, all of it, and help me see the patterns before I started writing.

Plot twist: it was way more useful than I expected.

Turns out Week 2 Debz and Week 5 Debz have quite different answers to "what do you love" and "what are you good at." The masks were doing a LOT of the talking earlier on. Post identity work, post breathwork, post the forgiveness letters, the answers feel more... real? Less performative? I could actually see where the Pleaser had been curating my answers and where the Overachiever had been chasing what sounded impressive instead of what was true.

It's not the first time I've leaned on this approach either. About three weeks ago I was at a real crossroads with a work opportunity and I asked Sage to pull everything together and help me see how it lined up with my Ikigai and my goals. That conversation genuinely changed the direction I took. So when it came to the Week 5 worksheet, I thought, why not go deeper?

The five weeks of check-ins and worksheets are more useful than I realised. There's gold sitting in there if you ask Sage to dig it up.

I'm not suggesting everyone needs to do it the way I did. I just found it really helpful to see where I've been before deciding where I'm going. The worksheet hits differently when you're not starting cold.

If anyone's curious about the prompt I used to get Sage started, just drop me a message and I'm happy to share. No pressure at all. Just there if you want it. 💛

Hope everyone's going well. We're nearly there, team. 🦓 I've still got stripes though, it didn't change me into a giraffe, or a leopard :)

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