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Improving Results: How to Apply Your Unfolding to Real-World Action
You've done the inner work.
You've assessed who you're being. You've unfolded into a deeper sense of yourself.
Now what?
Now we shift focus to Improving Results.
This is where your unfolding meets the external world where you take action, run experiments, and create new outcomes in your life and work.
But here's the key distinction:
Improving Results is not about fixing yourself.
It's about applying the version of you that's unfolded to the challenges you're facing.
The Distinction: Self-Improvement vs. Self-Unfoldment
Self-improvement approaches often reinforce a sense of deficiency.
They operate from: "I'm not enough. I need to become better. I need to fix what's broken."
Self-unfoldment operates from a different place:
"I am already whole and complete. I'm revealing more of that wholeness and applying it to my life."
When you unfold, you're not fixing yourself.
You're expressing your innate wholeness more fully.
But here's where it gets practical:
While we don't apply "improvement" approaches to ourselves, we absolutely apply them to external results.
You don't need to improve who you are.
But you can improve:
- How you lead your team
- How you communicate in relationships
- How you structure your business
- How you navigate a career transition
- How you take action on your goals
Improving Results is about taking the freshly unfolded version of you and experimenting with new actions in the real world.
The Pattern to Watch Out For:
Here's what happens to a lot of people (maybe you):
You feel a lack of self-worth.
So you drive toward getting a promotion. A bigger paycheck. External validation.
You think: "If I achieve this, then I'll finally feel valued."
But it doesn't work.
Because you're trying to solve an internal issue (lack of value) with an external result (promotion).
This is a horizontal thread, trying to do something that results in being valued.
And you've probably been running this pattern for a long time. Maybe since childhood.
The Shift:
Instead of chasing external validation to feel valued, we first unfold the vertical thread reconnecting to your innate value.
You practice embodying the truth that you are already valuable.
Not because of what you achieve.
Not because of what you earn.
Because it's your nature.
Once that's stabilized, once you're operating from a place of innate value, then we return to the external situation.
And here's what's interesting:
You might still want the promotion.
But now it's not about proving your worth.
It's about:
- Making more money for practical reasons (baby on the way, higher living expenses)
- Shifting your career from technical work to managerial work
- Taking on a challenge that excites you
The goal didn't change. But the identity driving it did.
And when you operate from innate value, you're more likely to:
- Demonstrate leadership potential
- Take a stand for your true worth
- Get the promotion (because you're showing up differently)
When to Shift Focus to Improving Results:
There are two ideal moments:
1. After you've experienced some unfolding
You've done the inner work. You have a new assessment of your situation. New possibilities are opening up.
Now it's time to act.
2. When you need to focus on tactics and implementation
You've reconfigured your strategy. You know what needs to happen.
Now it's time to execute.
What Improving Results Looks Like in Practice:
When you shift focus to Improving Results, you're creating new actions and experiments.
These often take the form of:
✅ New requests for support — "Who can I ask for help?"
✅ New offers of support — "What can I offer to others?"
✅ New boundaries — "What am I saying yes to? What am I saying no to?"
✅ New experiments — "What's one action I can take to test this new way of being?"
✅ Amplifying what works, dampening what doesn't — "What should I start, continue, stop?"
Questions to Ask Yourself:
If you're ready to shift into Improving Results, ask yourself:
- What is my new direction?
- What do I want to say (that I haven't said yet)?
- What actions or experiments are possible now?
- What new requests can I make? To whom?
- What new offers can I make? To whom?
- What actions will I start, continue, or stop?
- What new boundaries can I assert?
- What am I saying yes to? What am I saying no to?
- How can I amplify what's working? How can I dampen what's not?
One More Thing:
As you start taking new actions, you might notice Parts showing up.
Risk-averse Parts. Scared Parts. Parts that want to protect you from failure or judgment.
That's normal.
When that happens, we pause Improving Results and return to Integral Unfolding to address those Parts.
We honor them. We listen. We help them see that the new version of you can handle what's coming.
And then we return to action.
The Integration:
Unfolding is the inner work.
Improving Results is the outer work.
Both are necessary.
You don't just unfold and stay internal.
You unfold and then you apply it to the real world.
You take new actions. You run experiments. You create new results.
That's where transformation becomes real.
So here's my question for you:
What's one new action or experiment you're ready to take based on who you've been unfolding into?
Drop it below. Let's support each other in moving from insight to action.
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