با عضویت در خبرنامه مدیریت پروژه ایران از آخرین اخبار و سمینارها با خبر شوید
I started Project Simplify in late 2004 when I moved to the small town of Nevada City, CA, a former gold mining town nestled in the foothills of the Sierra. This project very well could have been called Project Easify, but that sounds kind of odd.
The impetus, the burning desire of this endeavor has always been fueled by the question: “How can it be easier?”
The form of help has been varied.
I helped the self-employed organize their offices. I helped them set up their bookkeeping systems and change their perspective on scheduling—or over-scheduling as the case happened to be.
We revamped their filing systems, setup backup systems and wrote up job descriptions for assistants. Whatever they needed, we’d make it happen.
Then came the workshops, talks to groups and an invitation to do a breakout session at a Women’s conference. My newsletter is in its 5th year, the Simplify column for the Advocate is in its 2nd year, and the mini-book How to Kick Ass without Kicking Your Own Ass made its appearance to the public this past April.
Now I’m heading into the territory of online courses and building community across states and continents.
There’s more to the story. The painful side.
This borderline obsession with helping others to have an easier time managing their life and work comes from an experience I never want to see anyone else have to go through.
When I was in my twenties, I had a strong desire to “make a difference”. I didn’t know what that looked like or how it would play out, I just knew that I had to do something meaningful. Armed with plastic toy sword (i.e. liberal arts degree) I entered the workforce feeling ill-prepared and over-qualified. Not a great combo.
Several years later, the dissatisfaction of my work for noble non-profit organizations left me stumped. Even though they were great causes, surely this meaningless paper-pushing admin work wasn’t the extent of my doing good for the world?!
Enter a situation in which I completely lost myself. I still don’t know how to describe what happened. Let’s just say it was weird. A friend of mine called it a karmic cesspool. Basically, my desperation to do good in the world landed me in a situation that I thought fulfilled the desire to create an ideal world. Unfortunately, I ended up financially taken advantage of, emotionally beat-up, and confused as all hell.
When I got out of the situation, I had lost all connection with my Self.
A%#*)CK! The question: “How can I live and work in a way that supports my true self and contributes positively to the world?” should not be life shattering! Crickety!
Putting the gnarliest life lesson into practice.
What I began to understand after that juncture, though, was that I had had a disconnected approach to what “making a difference” was all about. What I hadn’t realized was that the answers I sought were in the very actions I had thought meaningless.
As I see it, the solution is in working and living inline with our Selves. The capital S in Self is to call out our highest and best Self, a integral part of the universal web of life.
Hence, the Natural Professional was born. 
I believe that the solutions we seek to navigate this wild world arise from people like you and me when we are listening inward as much as we are working outward.
Connecting with, listening to, and acting in accordance with your intuition is the most radical commitment you can make to yourself, to your family, and to the world.
Sounds great! And… our work still needs to get done, bills to be paid, blogs to be written, email to Zap…
In order to make as big of an impact as we can, we learn to be as effective as we can. To have our systems dialed in so well that we are crazy productive when working and at total peace when not working—what a powerful place to be!
Most of us work. A lot. Therefore, it’s a perfect arena to cultivate life skills. Hence, the Natural Professional Program, in three phases:
We have the ability to create a world we are proud to pass on to our children, grandchildren and my niece Josie. We have the choice to do so in a way that is joyful, fun, and engaging. We have the freedom to create and express from the depths of our being, to bring forth the juicy, elemental goodness for the word to delight in.
Let’s do this thing!!
-Shawn Tuttle
CEO, Chief Easify Officer
