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The Contribution Question
A seconds-scale daily micro-practice for Inner Compass (VCoL collection): In the minute before entering a meeting or starting an interaction, pause and ask: 'How might I contribute to the common good here, not just my own interests?' Consider what would serve the team, the project, the organization, or wider stakeholders. Set a quiet intention to let this guide your participation. Practised many times a day, with a brief evening reflection, until the move becomes automatic.
Practical
- Time
- 0-2 min
- Group
- 1–1 · individual
- Settings
- self-guided
- Materials
- None beyond ordinary meeting/work settings
- Mechanisms
- life-embedding, values-clarification
- Change scope
- skill · recurring-practice (multiple times daily; same exercise for at least a week)
Instructions
- Where
- idg.thomasjordan.se/IDG_VCoL_website/skills/inner-compass.html — Thomas Jordan's IDG Resource Library, open
- Availability
- Open online — published at the link, free to read
Source link checked 29 Aug 2026 — unchanged since we recorded it on 28 Aug 2026
This directory describes and points home; the instructions stay with the people who made them.
Origin
Thomas Jordan & Claude [AI]; VCoL method by Theo Dawson (Lectica) — IDG practice (idg.thomasjordan.se)
In this directory via Thomas Jordan's IDG Resource Library
status: checked · added 2026-08-25