Future Work: Keep your Inner Compass updated

Conclusion

Congratulations, if you followed along and made it this far, that means you’ve learned the mindset and built the tools needed for values-based living. We hope this first pass through Inner Compass work immediately reveals multiple opportunities for you to get out of your own way.

Did the handbook help you successfully make a challenging decision or navigate a daunting transition? If so, we’d love to hear from you.

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Keeping your Inner Compass Updated

It’s important we remind you that this is just the beginning. You’re missing out on many future breakthroughs if you mistakenly follow the current iteration of your Inner Compass too rigidly. Remember:

• Tenets come from your lived experiences, which you’re constantly accumulating.
• There are no capital-T truths for how you should live your life. You have agency to decide which tenets to prioritize and which to explore.

Full adoption of values-based living requires iteratively following and updating your Inner Compass. When done correctly, you’ll be more intentional about seeking out new experiences and feel more control over the direction of your future personal growth and perspective changes.

Surveying new Sound Bites

The initial pass through Inner Compass work is primarily focused on producing immediate value by helping you get out of your own way via subtractive thinking. On the other hand, ongoing Inner Compass work shifts the focus towards additive thinking.

You’ll survey new tenets in search of your next Sound Bites to experience further. However, reliably finding compatible new tenets is a difficult task. Because exploring a Sound Bite can require significant time and energy, it’s important to have a method for discovering new tenets that are unbiased and relevant to you.

Reevaluating existing Tenets

Besides actively surveying new tenets to explore, your Inner Compass will naturally change as you gain more lived experiences. It’s easy to imagine the following:

1. Your current Sincere Beliefs lose their importance.
2. Your current Defensive Narratives are successfully purged.
3. Your current Sound Bites graduate to become Sincere Beliefs.
4. Other Defensive Narratives start getting in your way.

If you do not identify and recalibrate your Inner Compass when these changes naturally occur, your model of your Inner Compass will become outdated. Following an outdated Inner Compass means living by tenets you no longer hold, which can misguide you and erode your conviction.

Luckily, the exercises within our Inner Compass handbook can be continuously reused to recalibrate and update your Inner Compass. It’s your job to identify when to do so by periodically reevaluating your existing tenets.

What’s Next

We’ve discovered a few promising methods to find compatible new tenets, and are actively testing them out in our spare time.

We’re also exploring what our handbook would look like if refactored for ongoing Inner Compass work.

We have not committed to building and releasing more resources yet, but we hope to support people in the later stages of following and tuning their Inner Compass. If these resources sound interesting to you, please let us know via email!

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