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Written by Jay Earley, performed by Alexis Zielke

If you have the Taskmaster Pattern, you have an intense focus on hard work or discipline. You may have this because you want to be successful and thereby gain the satisfactions of success—money, praise, power, freedom, or admiration. You may do this because you want to avoid being a failure or mediocre and being judged, shamed, or rejected. You might be more concerned with developing a discipline such as meditation or exercise or eating in a healthy way. You might be focused on accomplishing things that are needed for your life to work, such as doing your taxes or mowing your lawn. This becomes a problem when you push yourself too hard or expect too much, not allowing yourself to be relaxed and easy. You may not respect your need for a healthy balance in your life.

The biggest problem with the Taskmaster Pattern is that there is often a Taskmaster Part of you that attacks you for ‘not living up to its expectations’. Your Taskmaster Part may believe that you must work very hard or be extremely well-disciplined to get results. It believes that the best way to get you to do this is for it to tell you in no uncertain terms what you should be doing, and to push you unmercifully to do it. It thinks that the harder it pushes, the more likely you are to succeed. Your Taskmaster may believe that if you take any time off from your project or fail even once to do your discipline, you will be a failure. Its attitude is all or nothing.

Your Taskmaster may tell you that you must work this hard to be a good person or even to be OK. It sets high standards and expect you to meet them completely. It may even ignore the connection between the work it demands and the results it wants. It just rigidly tells you what you should do.

This guided meditation takes you through an IFS session in which you access this part, get into Self, get to know the part, find out its positive intent for you, and develop a trusting relationship with it.

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