Well, the ideas are scattered all through his blog, really, so that probably wasn't my best suggestion. The 101 program is an attempt to try to pull them all together into a coherent program. (Parts of it have been described in the "Five Minute Miracle" (or 5MM) and "Lifewriting" programs he's also worked with.
But basically, it's a program in which you focus on gaining self-awareness and working on self-improvement in three areas: financial, physical (health and fitness) and intellectual/spiritual (relationships).* The idea is that everyone has "demons"--emotional baggage, self-doubts, et cetera--that hold us back. Furthermore, these self-destructive tendencies will hide from us in the dark spaces in our psyche. You can be a paragon of physical attractiveness, but unable to hold a job; or a successful financially, but unattractive and unhappy, and so forth--because you've been unable or unwilling to examine some facet of your self that is leading you to continue your bad habits in the areas where you obviously aren't doing well.
By shining a light into all three major areas of your life simultaneously the idea is that you will leave these bad habits or self-destructive tendencies no place to hide. And once you've identified them, you can work on correcting them. So the program begins with five very basic yoga postures (the five tibetans), and the selection of a single, basic goal for the 101 day program. It eventually adds in more specific goals (long, medium and short term, right down to "what can I do _today_ to move toward this goal") in each of the three areas, as well as breathing and meditation practices to help you learn to focus. There are options to do more (adding exercise, yoga, longer meditation periods, and so forth, but the things I mention are the bare minimums).
There's a lot more to it, but that's the bare bones of the scheme. Does that answer your question?
*Why these three areas? Because according to this theory, a truly adult human being is financially stable (able to support him/herself, and ideally another person), physically fit, healthy and attractive, and capable of maintaining healthy, happy relationships.
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Date: 2009-02-02 05:41 pm (UTC)But basically, it's a program in which you focus on gaining self-awareness and working on self-improvement in three areas: financial, physical (health and fitness) and intellectual/spiritual (relationships).* The idea is that everyone has "demons"--emotional baggage, self-doubts, et cetera--that hold us back. Furthermore, these self-destructive tendencies will hide from us in the dark spaces in our psyche. You can be a paragon of physical attractiveness, but unable to hold a job; or a successful financially, but unattractive and unhappy, and so forth--because you've been unable or unwilling to examine some facet of your self that is leading you to continue your bad habits in the areas where you obviously aren't doing well.
By shining a light into all three major areas of your life simultaneously the idea is that you will leave these bad habits or self-destructive tendencies no place to hide. And once you've identified them, you can work on correcting them. So the program begins with five very basic yoga postures (the five tibetans), and the selection of a single, basic goal for the 101 day program. It eventually adds in more specific goals (long, medium and short term, right down to "what can I do _today_ to move toward this goal") in each of the three areas, as well as breathing and meditation practices to help you learn to focus. There are options to do more (adding exercise, yoga, longer meditation periods, and so forth, but the things I mention are the bare minimums).
There's a lot more to it, but that's the bare bones of the scheme. Does that answer your question?
*Why these three areas? Because according to this theory, a truly adult human being is financially stable (able to support him/herself, and ideally another person), physically fit, healthy and attractive, and capable of maintaining healthy, happy relationships.