Permission
to Play
Map your 30-day Game in pursuit of your potential
You have explored your coherent aim, your character, and the culture that supports you. Now you are invited to give yourself permission to play: to create, experiment, share, and discover what becomes possible through action.
Over the next couple of days, work through these three steps:
Choose your challenge level.
Map your quest.
Set your mission.
Keep your answers brief and specific. You will leave with a clear commitment for the next 30 days. We will add to your game as we go.
If you choose to craft an offer, two guided prompts will follow after you complete your game map: an Ideal Avatar prompt to clarify exactly who you are creating for, followed by an Aligned Offer prompt to shape an offer for that person using your knowledge, experience, and passion. For now, focus on setting your intention and clarifying what you want to create. Your initial answers will give us a starting point to develop together.
1. Choose your Challenge Level
How intensely will you play?
Begin with an honest sense of the time, energy, and attention you are willing and available to dedicate.
Easy: Give yourself a gentle stretch with a small, manageable commitment.
Steady: Make room for consistent action and a meaningful stretch beyond your current habits.
All In: Make this a priority and bring focused effort to a substantial challenge within your capacity.
Each level can support meaningful progress. Choose the level that reflects your availability and willingness to participate.
Ask yourself:
How much time, energy, and attention am I willing to dedicate?
How ready am I to act toward the result I desire and grow through the experience?
What level of commitment am I available for over the next 30 days?
Write your initial choice and the time you can make available each week. You can revisit this after mapping your quest, when your commitment is clearer.
Before you map your quest, ask yourself:
If it were simple, if it were easy, and if it were fun, what would it look like?
Imagine the next 30 days through these three lenses. What would you create? What would the process look like? How would you want to experience it?
Let your answers guide the scale, format, and rhythm you choose.
2. Map your Quest
Choose one primary focus: Product, Publishing, or Practice.
Your challenge level describes the intensity you bring. Your quest describes what you are committing to create.
Product · Minimum Viable Product
Choose this quest if you feel called to craft an offer: a program, course, guided experience, service, artwork, or another product you can invite people to buy.
Choose something that inspires you, stretches you, and draws on what you can offer. Aim to bring a clear first version to market around 30 days from now. Set an initial launch date; if it is a live experience, consider its start date and duration.
Begin by sketching your initial ideas:
Who is it for?
What does it help them do or experience?
What might be included?
What price are you considering?
How might you deliver or facilitate it?
Brief, provisional answers are enough here. The Ideal Avatar and Aligned Offer prompts will help you develop these decisions after you complete your game map.
For a guided program, a live individual or group experience can give you a practical starting point. As you develop the offer, you will map its main milestones and prepare the material needed for each stage.
Your work during this window may include shaping the offer, creating promotional content, speaking with potential participants, inviting people, and preparing delivery. A program can continue beyond this 30-day window.
Further frameworks and systems will follow in the coming days and weeks to help you clarify and create what is needed. Build, test, gather feedback, and refine as you go.
Publishing · Minimum Viable Publishing
Choose this quest if you want to commit to creating and sharing your work publicly. This might mean videos, writing, artwork, music, or another form of expression.
Choose what you will share, where you will share it, and how often. Give yourself a first publication date and a rhythm you can follow for 30 days.
Practise allowing your work to be seen, and learn from the experience of sharing it.
Practice · Minimum Valued Practice
Choose this quest if you want to cultivate creativity, explore a new form of expression, or reconnect with your imagination and intuition.
Choose a specific practice and schedule daily or weekly sessions. Your work can remain private or be shared if you wish.
Make the commitment tangible: what you will practise, how long each session will last, and how often you will return to it.
Make your choice
Which quest calls to you? What have you wanted to create or explore? What feels both inspiring and a little uncomfortable?
Write down your chosen MVP and a few sentences describing what you want to do.
Give your quest purpose
Stay with your chosen quest and clarify who it serves, what it is intended to do, and why you care about it.
Who are you creating for?
For Product, describe the person you currently imagine your offer serving. What are they experiencing, what do they want, and how could your offer help? Capture your best understanding for now. The Ideal Avatar prompt will help you explore and specify this person in greater depth once your game map is complete.
For Publishing, identify who you hope to reach. This may include people who share your interests, people navigating something you understand, or your past self. You may also be creating for your own expression and discovery.
For Practice, you may be creating primarily for yourself. Name what you want to explore, express, or cultivate through that practice.
What is the intention of your creation?
What do I want this offer, work, or practice to make possible?
Who do I want to reach, and what do I hope they experience?
What do I want to explore or develop in myself?
Why does it matter to you?
Why do I feel called to create this?
What meaning or greater purpose does it hold for me?
If someone could feel my passion for this, what would I want them to understand?
Use your own words. Let the answers remind you why this commitment deserves your time and attention.
The napkin version
Imagine describing your quest to someone you meet at a park or a gathering. Write a few sentences that would fit on a napkin and help them understand what you are doing, who it is for, and why it matters.
Use these sentence starters if helpful:
Over the next 30 days, I am creating or practising…
This is for… and its purpose is…
It matters to me because…
Read your description aloud. Is it clear? Does it sound like you? Simplify it until you can explain your quest naturally.
3. Set your Mission
Turn your quest into a specific goal with a date, measurable targets, and actions you can follow through on. Choose the measures that fit your quest.
Define your goal
By [date], I will have [created, launched, published, or completed something specific]. I am aiming for [a measurable result].
Your result might involve income, buyers, participants, reach, subscribers, published pieces, or completed practice sessions. Choose a small number of relevant measures.
Choose the actions that support it
Alongside the result you hope to achieve, specify the actions you will take. Sales, views, and subscribers depend partly on other people. Your creation schedule, invitations, and completed sessions give you concrete commitments to track.
For example:
Product: Launch a four-week live program in 30 days, aiming for three participants. Use the upcoming prompts to clarify the audience and offer, then set the price and dates, map the weekly milestones, prepare the opening session, publish four pieces of relevant content, and personally invite ten suitable people.
Publishing: Publish eight videos over 30 days, beginning on a specific date. Reserve two creation sessions each week. You might also choose an audience target, such as your first 100 subscribers.
Practice: Complete twelve 30-minute creative sessions over 30 days. Choose three weekly times and record what you explored after each session.
For an offer, choose only the supporting materials that help you invite people and deliver well. A clear one-page description may be enough; a workshop, free training, or resource may be useful if it fits your approach. You can decide on these as you work through the Aligned Offer prompt.
Make your mission playable
Answer these questions:
What exactly will I create or complete, and by what date?
What result am I aiming for, and how will I measure it?
What are the few essential actions or milestones?
When will I work on them, and how will I record progress?
What is my first action, and when will I take it?
Revisit your challenge level. Does it fit the mission you have chosen and the time you have available? Adjust the scope or intensity so your commitment is both meaningful and workable.
Your Game Map
Bring your answers together on one page:
Your challenge level.
Your chosen MVP.
Who it is for.
Its purpose.
Why it matters.
Your dated goal.
Your action commitments.
Your first move.
What comes next for your offer
Once you have completed your game map, the next resources will guide you through:
Your Ideal Avatar: Clarify and specify the person you want to reach, including their desires, challenges, and what they are looking for.
Your Aligned Offer: Bring that understanding together with your knowledge, experience, and passion to craft an offer for them.
For now, give yourself a clear direction and an honest commitment. We will develop the details step by step.
And Remember… If it were simple, easy, and fun, what would it look like?