Framing My SD Work

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Starting Up Your Own Self Detective Agency
Part 4 - Framing My SD Work

Okay, so you now understand the skills needed to be a self detective. You are also starting to think about the tools that can help you, the areas you want to investigate, and whether or not you want to have goals to aim for.

This is all well and good, but you may come unstuck without a framework within which to operate.

While self detective will not prescribe any particular approach for you, we can make some suggestions.

No one is born with their own design for life, or their own road map or guide book. Yes, religion provides scriptures and political parties issue manifestos, but what we are talking about here concerns yourself and yourself only. This is unique to you, so only you can make the required decisions.

In order to stay focused, you may wish to visualise the structure within which your work will take place. In essence: how are you are going to approach your own personal development?

How will you give your work a context, a shape, a platform, an edge, a boundary to work within?

The following notions may (or may not) be useful to you.

• Are you going on a journey along a single road, or a long, meandering river?

• Might you require your own road map? Or have an aerial plan of where you are going?

• Are you stuck within a maze? Or are you on a rollercoaster ride, or at the bottom of a well?

• Would a landscape be of use to you, so that you can split up your issues and concerns into geographical districts or regions?

• Perhaps an outline of an island would assist you?

• Are you looking to navigate your way around yourself (through uncharted territory)?

• Do you wish to understand the mechanics of your life?

• Would a filing system suit your needs?

• Do you have a need to classify what is going on for you?

• Would you like to de-clutter or spring-clean yourself?

• Is measuring a good way for you to operate?

• Are you planning to undergo an experiment or to create a laboratory for yourself?

• Does the solar system relate to anything in your life? (Such as relationships, perhaps?)

• If your life feels like a game, could you describe it or make it?

Framing your SD work is a way of anchoring yourself. It could be a structure, or it could be a system, a picture, a process, an order, a platform, a mission, a case, an equation, a thread, a mystery, a metaphor, or a construction. There is no right or wrong way; there is only what works for you. Do you have an idea of what to use as a frame?

My frame:

If you do, great. If you don’t, by all means continue to progress
forward. Below is an example of what someone else used for
their own ends…

Using a jigsaw as an example of an SD structure

When you start to work on yourself, the task may seem overwhelming and daunting. This could be viewed as a jigsaw with lots of pieces that don’t yet fit.

Yet if you picked up one piece at a time and gave it a name, or understood what it represented in your life, you could have a starting point.

From that starting point you may find other pieces to work with, that link together with the first piece.

If you spend more and more time invested in yourself, at some point you will be able to complete the jigsaw and feel complete and whole – at your journey’s end, having reached your goal! How would that feel?

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Using a jigsaw as an example of an SD structure

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Starting Up Your Own Self Detective Agency
Part 4 - Framing My SD Work