Program 01 — Your Own Course

Anyone who starts something of their own gets opinions. From family and friends, from people online and from the voice in your own head that keeps comparing you with others. Your Own Course teaches you to stay on your feet amid all those opinions.

In 25 lessons you learn to measure yourself by your own standard, to use criticism instead of shrinking under it, and to make choices that suit you, even when others don’t understand them.

The lessons don’t come from a textbook but from the lives of entrepreneurs who doubted themselves, heard no and still chose their own way, including Sara Blakely, James Dyson, Melanie Perkins, Phil Knight, Michiel Muller and Teun van de Keuken. Every lesson begins with a real moment from their story. Then you read what you can take from it for your own situation, and what you do with it today.

How it works

• 25 lessons in 5 parts: one lesson a day, about ten minutes’ reading.

• Each lesson: a real moment, the lesson, why it works this way, an assignment and two questions to reflect on.

• At the end you turn your key insights into your own rules for your own course: short agreements with yourself that you keep using.

The five parts

• Part I · The illusion of falling behind

• Part II · Where confidence comes from

• Part III · Your own standard

• Part IV · When others have opinions

• Part V · Daring to stand alone

Who is this programme for?

For (aspiring) entrepreneurs and anyone who wants to start something of their own but finds that comparison, doubt and other people’s opinions get in the way. You don’t need any prior knowledge, just the willingness to do something every day.

Not a course and not theory, but the step before: how you think, choose and keep going.

Digital product · 62 pages · PDF · Available immediately after purchase

This programme was written independently by FOREFACT. The entrepreneurs named and their companies are not involved in this publication, have not approved it and are not affiliated with it. This programme is not therapy and not personal advice.