You're Thinking Too Positively

🎯 What’s Included

Skill Spotlight: WOOP

Try This: WOOP Your Goals

From the Community: Update on Retreat + A shift in how we’re describing A² (Repeat)

Resource Corner: Tools for Effective Goal Setting

Join us IRL: A²’s next Conscious Connection for founders, leaders, and curious people is on October 16 at 6:30pm. We'll practice centering, reflecting, and catalyzing conscious connections from the heart together. It's a great laboratory to test living more authentically and to make authentic connections in an intimate setting.

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💡 Skill Spotlight

WOOP, developed by psychologist Gabriele Oettingen, stands for Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, and Plan. It's a mental strategy that combines positive thinking with a realistic view of obstacles.

Unlike traditional goal-setting methods, WOOP helps you:

1. Increase motivation and commitment

2. Improve time management

3. Actually HIT your goals

Do you suffer from being overly optimistic about your goals? Not only does it suck to miss our current goals, but consistently missing also creates a mental plaque that blocks future confidence. WOOP is a great way to pre-commit to those goals by getting them messy.

🏃🏾‍♂️Try This

Are you interested in putting this into action?

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 From The Community

Note from Yash: I want to start using this section to promote events/community gatherings aligned with A²’s mission. The work of living authentically is a global effort and bigger than just this community. If you want me to include something, send it over!

Sanctuary retreat update

This past weekend, I facilitated a transformational retreat with The Sanctuary, a company I co-founded.

We’ve run these retreats for 3 years now, and this one finally hit the vision I had early on for a no-compromises, deeply healing, transformational experience. I’m sitting in awe at how bringing a group of people together in a beautiful setting, with the right amount of facilitation, psychedelic medicine, and nature creates healing like nothing else can.

8 attendees arrived in the Sierra Nevada mountains of Northern California on Thursday. They all seemed very different:

• Freelance consultant

• Therapist

• Psychedelic integration guide

• Occupational therapist

• Law professor

• Corporate executives

• Writer

Over 4 days, we combined various healing traditions from Western psychotherapy, Eastern spirituality, and South American shamanistic ceremony work.

Then, something beautiful emerged.

At the end of 8 days, each attendee realized that beneath the veneer of difference, there was a core of “sameness” that permeated among them. They began to coach each other. The result was a deep sense of healing and community, rooted in love and recognition.

As one attendee said, “I’ve been to dozens of retreats, and this one was like no other. It was life-changing. And I’m sure the impact will continue because I’m still integrating the experience”.

While my mind is still integrating this experience, my body knows how powerful it was and continues to be. Halfway through the retreat, we shared our experiences in a circle. I remember thinking, “Damn, I’m so jealous of the attendees. I wish I could be one of them right now!”.

If that’s not a sign of moving in the right direction, I don’t know what is. 🚀🙏🏾

[REPEAT] A shift in how we’re describing A²

We're building Conscious Connection by inviting both the market-focused leader AND the spiritual seeker within you to the table. Basically this graphic:

Know anyone that’s looking for more of that in their life? I’d appreciate if you invite them to our next event!

📚 Resource Corner

• Book: Rethinking Positive Thinking by Gabriele Oettingen - Dive deep into the science behind WOOP

• TED Talk: The Power of Realistic Thinking by Gabriele Oettingen - Learn about the research behind WOOP

📆 Join Us IRL

A²’s next Conscious Connection for founders, leaders, and curious people is on October 16 at 6:30pm. We'll practice centering, reflecting, and catalyzing conscious connections from the heart together. It's a great laboratory to test living more authentically and to make authentic connections in an intimate setting.

📫 Our calendar is the hub for A² IRL gatherings. Subscribing is the easiest way to get notified of these!