Monthly Archives: December 2009

Wishes for the Holiday Season & the Year Ahead

This is just a quickie, because I’m about to hop in our big old (with the emphasis on old!) Landcruiser with Andy and head off up the East Coast of South Africa to Zithulele Hospital, for our building project. We’ll take 2 days to drive up there, picking up our good friends, Anth and Karen (flying in from Singapore) and spending Christmas day with them at Addo elephant Park, on the way up. And over the next few days, the rest of our team will assemble: Jamie andTeak flying in from London UK, and Jan and Karlien and their two children (6 and 8 years old), who are also coming up from Cape Town. We’re all incredibly excited now (the smack talk started two weeks ago!) and looking forward to two weeks of hard work, sweat, reflection, and bonding.

Does Goal-Setting Make You Too Future-Focused?

Over the past few posts, I’ve been exploring the topic of goal-setting and whether it’s still a relevant success strategy in our high-change, fast-paced, opportunity-abundant world. Here are the posts in the series so far:

* Is Traditional Goal-Setting Broken? (video post)
* Call Recording: How to Create the Framework to Get the Results You Want in Life, With Michele Woodward
* What Other Coaches and Bloggers Are Saying About Goal-Setting
* A Model For Using Your Whole Mind to Problem-Solve And Negotiate Change

November & December Roundup

Here’s what I’ve been up to and sharing over the past few months:
At Mine Your Resources

8 Dec: What Other Coaches And Bloggers Are Saying About Goal-Setting
7 Dec: Why I’m a Christmas Holiday Grouch
1 Dec: Is Traditional Goal-Setting Broken?
24 Nov: Martha Beck’s Top Tips on How to unleash Your Genius
20 Nov: Call Recording: How to Unleash your Genius with Max Kaizen
17 Nov: Extreme African Adventures And How to Create More Meaning in Your Life
10 Nov: How to Do Effective Self-Directed Learning
3 Nov: Agile Living Blog Carnival: November Roundup

A Model for Using Your Whole Mind to Problem-Solve and Negotiate Change

In my previous post I explained a few of my reasons why I think that traditional goal-setting is broken. One of the central reasons is that it’s such a linear, left-brain-directed process, and while this may have suited a more stable, predictable world, in these high-change times, I think we need a more agile approach. I still have a lot of questions and gaps in my model, but I’ve been experimenting in my own life and with my clients and I’ve started to develop a new paradigm that’s serving us well, and I’m going to share it with you over the next while. I’d love you to banter with me, tell me where you think I’ve got it wrong, and add your own questions and ideas, and let’s see where it takes us…

10 of The Best Years Of My Life

Today, I’ve been married to Andy for a third of my life!

And I’m sharing this here with you because frankly I don’t think Mine Your Resources or the Bottom-line Bookclub would exist if it weren’t for Andy and all the support, encouragement, faith, courage and coaching Andy has given me.