About the Guide to Reduce Shiny Tool Syndrome
How can you listen to your life so that you can grow into your truest self and do your most significant work in the world?
By paying attention to the tools you use to do that work, day in and day out. Tools exist to extend who you are into the world and help you do the things that only you can do.
Our tools support our work - not the other way around. But too often we get into the trap of “well, I’ve invested in this tool, so now I have to keep it up” or “I don’t even know why I’m using this tool this way, but I don’t know what to change.”
Additionally, tools are never neutral; they reflect the ethos, intents, and goals of their makers, the ways in which those individuals construe the world and why it exists.
When we use those tools, those implicit perspectives shape how we move through the world: what we conceive as possible, likely, or valid. It’s an inescapable reality of being homo faber: human makers.
You can use your tools, or your tools will use you.
So how do we make good changes to our toolkit?
That’s what this guide exists to help you figure out. By articulating and evaluating the digital and analog tools you use regularly, you can:
reduce “shiny tool syndrome,”
identify a clear purpose for each tool in your toolkit, and
choose your best tools for doing what matters most to you.
If you want to see the tool in action, check out this video!
When you’re ready to audit and define your best tools for your most significant work, just tap the button below to get your workbook!
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If you’re ready to explore where your life is inviting you into, I offer a Wayfinding Session for when you’re ready to begin from where you are.
Let’s be hopeful, creative, and wise—together.
Shalom,
