A Guide for Cultivating CEDAR in Your Life

A Guide for Cultivating CEDAR in Your Life is a free, self-paced worksheet designed to help you:

• gain clarity on where you experience frustration, confusion, and procrastination in your daily routines,
• identify a key skill that will help you make effective changes in your routines or tools, and
• take your next meaningful action so you can do your most effective work in the world.

I heard this years ago and I’ve never forgotten it:

Character is action; action is character.

What we do is who we are. Likewise, we discover who we are by what we do. #brainteaser

I know that I frequently struggle to align my everyday actions with my deepest values. It’s taken me several years of trial and error to discern tools and rhythms that help me connect with the person I want to be.

Now, I find a lot of joy in helping others make sense of what they know and do so that they can take meaningful action in their lives.

If you’re constantly feeling the suspicion that your actions in the world don’t fully reflect who you are (or want to be), A Guide for Cultivating CEDAR in Your Life will help you find that synchronicity in your daily routines.

What is CEDAR?

CEDAR is my organizing principle to help you define a purpose for the tools, processes, and routines that make up your life. By defining what needs to happen at each stage, you can determine whether or not your tools, processes, and routines actually support you.

With CEDAR, we attend to how we collect, explore, discern, act, and reflect on the information and interactions we encounter each day. Gaining this clarity then helps you make sense of what you know and do, so that you can take meaningful action for yourself and with others.

What You Get

• A Notion-based guide and worksheet that you can duplicate to your own Notion workspace and keep forever
• Eight (8) emails over two weeks that provide further information on CEDAR and recommendations for helpful resources
  • (if you don’t see them, be sure to check your spam folder or Promotions tab)

Other Info

\\ Do I need a Notion account? \\ Yep! The good news is, you can create one on Notion's Personal Plan, which is free forever. So low-commitment tests for both Notion and A Guide for Cultivating CEDAR.

\\ Ok, but really, do I hafta have a Notion account? \\ Nope. You can always just use the worksheet as a digital guide and answer the questions with your tools of choice. The principle of CEDAR itself is tool-agnostic, so that you can identify your actual or desired toolset and make your best choices from there, without locking yourself into a specific tool.

\\ Will A Guide for Cultivating CEDAR help me figure out whether or not I'm ready to jump on the Notion train? \\ Unfortunately, no. However, I do have Boost Your Notion Savvy, a self-paced course that helps you level up your knowledge of Notion, no matter where you start. By the end of Boost Your Notion Savvy, you should be able to move forward with clarity about Notion as a tool for you.

\\ How do I get A Guide for Cultivating CEDAR? \\ Once you click on "I want this!" and complete your transaction, you'll be re-directed to my Notion URL. Click on "Duplicate" in the upper right corner of your computer screen, and it will copy to your Notion workspace. You'll then be able to interact with and edit your version to your heart's content.

Disclaimer: This guide was published in March 2023. Since then, Notion could have rolled out updates or new features.