In your first week, you will get to know your other Circle members a bit better, and each of you will pick your own individual goal. Then you’ll take a step toward that goal by creating a “relationship list”—an initial list of people related to your goal.

In Week 2, you will make simple contributions to people on your relationship list, deepening relation-ships in a small way. Just reviewing the list will further attune your attention to your goal, and the small steps you take each week will gradually increase your sense of empowerment.

In Week 3, you will make an adjustment to how you manage your time, add to your relationship list, and offer another kind of contri-bution. These small steps will re-inforce and expand your practice.

How you offer a contribution can make all the difference. This week, you will practice refining the way you write your messages, and how you approach people in general. These exercises will make your communications feel more personal and valuable, and make them more likely to be effective.

Most people think far too narrowly about what they have to offer. This week can change that for you. The exercises will help you understand how a broad set of things you may take for granted can serve as the basis for meaningful connections with others.

Visible profiles and contributions increase your chances of making connections and give you access to resources and feedback that can improve your work. This week, you will take a small step toward improving your online presence. Then you’ll use your improved presence to deepen a relationship.

This week, before you attempt more advanced contributions and tech- niques, you will do one of the most powerful exercises in your Circle: “A letter from your future self.” It will give you a chance to reflect, and perhaps open your mind to goals, aspirations, and possibilities you didn’t dare to consider before.

Although you spent the last seven weeks thinking of your goal in terms of people and contributions, you’re still working on making that a habit and a mindset. This week, you will explore ways to reinforce your new WOL habit so that it takes less effort and feels increasingly natural. Then, you will practice empathy (again) in a way that might surprise you—and will certainly distinguish you.

At this point in your Circle, you are ready to expand your range of contributions further by making more of your work and thinking visible. Whether this is new to you or some-thing you are already comfortable with, the exercises this week will help you create content that is simple, generous, and useful.

Having a system can make things easier. This week, you’ll work with two simple systems, one for identifying new contributions and one for managing your relationship list. Then you will take an action that you may never have thought of as a contribution: asking for something.

So far, the focus has been on your individual contributions and connections. In Week 11, you will expand your sense of what is possible by thinking more broadly about your network, your role in it, and what you might accomplish together. This week may change how you think about leadership: both what it takes to lead and who does it well.

This final week marks the end of a process, and also a kind of beginning. You will reflect on what has changed for you and what might come. And in your last exercise, you will make several additional contributions, including some for yourself.