Frequently Asked
Questions
about the books
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Think of your Dreambook as the place where you do a deep dive and calibrate who you are and who you want to become.
Your Guidebook is the place where you stay on track to weave this into your life every day.
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Less than 5 min. Your guidebook is much more of a weekly, monthly, and seasonal practice than a daily one.
Focus on building a weekly ritual of about 30-45 min.
The easiest way to build this up is to attend the facilitated weekly Dream Sessions (mondays @ 9am PT) where we complete pages together, and the “co-working style” weekly study hall (mondays @ 10am PT) where you work on your pages in community).
If you can do this consistently for a few weeks you will naturally watch your daily practice build up, and once you’re there it’s less than 5-min a day to do gratitude and track habits.
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You will definitely skip a week or 5 every year. Yes, every year.
This guidebook (and H&P as a whole) is an invitation to grow the life of your dreams; it is not a pass/fail program.
The truth is this guidebook is big & comprehensive, and it takes time to build a rhythm of using it throughout the seasons. We get to notice when we're more likely to be in our books and when we're not. We get to notice a difference in how we feel when we use H&P vs. when we don’t.
If you feel better when you use it, then open to the page where you are, do a reflection and start again. Leave those blank pages be, or make an x through them, or make a note to yourself about why you think you skipped them, or rip the pages out, or go back to them if you feel called.
It’s your book, your cycles, your needs.
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If I only knew! All I can say is that the more you put into your practice, the more you'll get out of it.
So much of your work in our pages is allowing yourself to dream in the first place. And depending on your starting point, that could move quickly or slowly.
For most people it takes 4 full seasons to see how it all works together.
I’m not here to sell you on “30/60/90 days to your best life!” because anyone selling that is LYING.
1-2 years of sticking with the learning process will reward you with a dream life you wouldn't believe. In the scheme of things it’s nothing, but it won’t feel like it in the beginning.
It’s hard at first — it doesn’t seem like the effort matches the reward. But, over time your conditioning starts to unwind, your life starts to untangle a bit, and you see progress in every area of your life.
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No, for 2 reasons:
The transformations we've seen in groups, workshops & retreats have been exponentially greater than those who do it alone, and
We fundamentally believe that sustainable progress happens when we bring our efforts to each other in brave, facilitated, playful spaces.
This is how we build a better world and disrupt the individualism that has gotten us far away from ourselves in the first place.
Learning how to take our wisdom and share it creates opening for a new way of being in the world, and we think you'll find it's more fun and definitely more sustainable :).
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It is so much more than a planner. Our guidebook works as a companion to your planner or electronic calendar. There are no time-slots because it’s a tool to help us measure energy instead of how long things take.
Think of your guidebook as your calendar’s friend who sits next to her and asks: “ok how does that appt. make you feel?” and then you put that appt. into the proper "hustle, play, push and/or move" category.
This process helps you understand how your schedule aligns (or doesn't align with your values & dreams. It is challenging at first but gets easier quickly.
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We wholly subscribe to the word community when we say it. Community takes time to build, as do the results from your practice. In order for you to feel the full Hustle & Play experience - you need to go through all 4 seasons of participation.
You will notice a difference between winter, spring, summer & fall. Your practice will shift, your relationships will deepen, and the way you feel your progress after 12 months is transformative.
Also, you can cancel anytime. We don’t believe in locking you in and if you feel like this isn’t a fit for you, you are welcome to leave at any time without penalty.
Just know that if you decide to come back there will be a new enrollment fee and new membership rate.
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You'll login from hustleandplay.circle.so with your email and password.
We recommend downloading the circle app from your app store on your phone for the easiest experience.
If you have questions on this just email hello@hustleandplay.com.
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This is totally up to you! There are no "requirements" but there are recommendations based on how long you've been a part of H&P.
If you're new, it's recommended to do the weekly dream sessions + study hall to build up your practice if you can.
If you're returning you likely have a cadence that you prefer by now - you are welcome to drop into our monday sessions as often as you want.
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We got you. Our spaces are facilitated with kindness & care. You will never be put on the spot or required to share more than you're comfortable with.
You will be celebrated for your amazing introvertedness! And you'll find lots of folks just like you in our community!
about the community
about anything else
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This is the most common thing I hear, and exactly why we need H&P™. It’s a wonderful & courageous starting point to acknowledge we need help with this.
In the US, we are systematically conditioned away from our play starting in middle school when they take away recess. Imagine 11 year olds no longer needing recess?! From that point on it’s about achievement in one way or another.
Those with greater privilege have access to things like vacations and enrichment activities, and those with less privilege work harder to hopefully gain more access to play.
Neither groups are “bad,” but both groups are taught that play is “earned.”
Play is not earned, it's innate. Just take a look at babies or animals in the wild. You do know how to play but it might be buried under many layers of conditioning. This is why we need all the parts of the guidebook and the community. We need to peel back the layers, and usually - our playful self is ready for us to pick up all the things we love when we were little and get back to it!
We're here to help explore this with you - it's a fun, experimental journey :)
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Also the most common thing I hear. Your whole life might be hustle, but the more likely truth is that your whole life is naming hustle.
What we pay attention to grows, and if we've spent a lifetime putting deadlines and obligations Into our calendars and then responding to its reminders all day - we have taught ourselves that our whole lives are hustle.
But what about all the things that never make it to the calendar? The long walks? The book at the end of the day? The sexy time with our partner?
We rarely name those things, so we we don't notice them as much. H&P makes these parts of our lives explicit and helps us see that your life, in fact, is not only hustle.

