Discover
How You Really Work.
A free two-week journey to greater clarity, more choice and a wider range of response.
Explore one real situation from your life and discover how
Thinking, Feeling, Doing and Will work together.
LOOK BENEATH THE RESPONSE
You know what you do.
But what organizes what you do?
You probably recognize many of your familiar responses. But knowing what you do is not necessarily the same as understanding what organizes what you do.
When something matters, an inner process begins. Your attention moves, certain thoughts arise, emotions follow, and you take action. All of this happens, and Thinking, Feeling, Doing and Will may respond.
Work Smart, be Happy begins one step earlier.
Not with "What is wrong with me?", but with a different question:
What is organizing me when this happens?
A SIMPLE WAY OF LOOKING AT THE INDIVIDUAL
Thinking. Feeling. Doing. Will.
Thinking
Understanding reality
Helps us observe, interpret, connect and anticipate possibilities.
What do I see?
Feeling
Recognizing significance
Helps us experience what matters, what we value and how we relate.
What matters to me?
Doing
Participating in reality
Brings intentions into action through what we say, create or change.
What do I actually do?
Will
Giving direction
Helps us commit and sustain what we consider meaningful.
Where am I going?
These are not four personality types.
You have access to all four. What interests us is how they work together.
YOUR INNER ORGANIZATION AT THE INDIVIDUAL
You are not four separate parts.
Thinking, Feeling, Doing and Will do not operate independently.
When something matters, they begin relating to one another and to the reality you are facing. From that relationship an organization emerges that influences what you notice, what becomes important, how you understand the situation, what you do and where your energy goes.
Your Inner Organization can change from situation to situation. It is not fixed. The question is not "Which capacity am I?" but: 'How are my capacities becoming organized in this situation?"
Reality
What matters
THE RANGE OF VALIDITY
A strenght can remain a strenght --
and still stop serving the situation.
Many of the responses that create difficulty did not begin as weaknesses. They developed because they worked. But a familiar response can continue after the conditions that made it useful have changed.
Development begins by recognizing where it serves reality -- and allowing another response to become available when reality asks for something different.
FROM UNDERSTANDING TO EXPERIENCE
Don't just read about it.
Discover it in yourself.
Personal Development -- Discover How You Really Work
is a free two-week program in the Work Smart, Be Happy app.
30 short lessons and reflections - Two weeks - Completely free
THE TWO WEEK JOURNEY
Begin with one real situation.
Over two weeks, you investigate, understand and explore what else could become available.
Choose one real situation
Observe what happens
Discover your pattern
Experiment with new responses
Create your Inner Organization Snapshot
A CLOSER LOOK
A closer look at your two weeks
This is not a course you simply watch. Each step takes you a little further into one real situation from your own life.
Week 1 -- Discovery
What is organizing me?
You begin with one real situation and gradually look beneath your visible response. You explore what happens within you, where your Attention goes, what the situation means to you, and how Thinking, Feeling, Doing and Will become organized together.
As the week progresses, you begin to recognize what your familiar organization may be trying to accomplish, what strength it contains, where it serves you and where it may carry a cost.
You then take one small experiment back into real life and use what actually happens to develop a Working Hypothesis about your Inner Organization.
Week 2 -- Possibility
What else could become available?
In the second week, the question changes. Instead of trying to eliminate your familiar response, you explore whether something else can become available alongside it.
You investigate what actually belongs to you, where your involvement continues after a situation has ended, what receives your capacity and what consequently receives less. You explore what you are protecting and what you are creating.
Then you experiment with a Small Pause—enough space for another relevant response to become visible—and take that possibility back into reality.
At the end of the journey, you bring what you have discovered together in your own Inner Organization Snapshot.
HOW THE PROGRAM WORKS
The app provides the structure.
Reality provides the evidence.
Each part introduces a question and invites you to reflect. You take the inquiry back into your life, notice what happens and return when you are ready.
WHEN YOU WANT TO EXPLORE FURTHER
Sometimes it helps to look together.
Coaching offers a space to explore what you have discovered, test assumptions and consider what else could become available. For those who want to go deeper., we also offer an eight-week development program.
ABOUT MICHIEL A. M. ARENS
I became interested in what happens beneath the visible problem.
For more than thirty years I have worked with people, projects and organizations. I repeatedly saw capable people facing the same problems, even while working harder. This led me to the Theory of Inner Organization and Work Smart, Be Happy.
YOUR STARTING POINT
You don't have to begin by changing yourself.
Begin by discovering how you already work.
Personal Development
Discover How You Really Work
A free two-week journey in the app.
