I’ve been doing loads of unpacking, playing and creative meandering about the idea of Agile Living, dealing with fear, making your contribution in spite of the risks, doing meaningful work, feeling the way you want to feel, and much, much more over the past few months. And I realized that, although I get a bunch of emails from people saying, “Wow, I really resonate with the whole idea of Agile living,” I really haven’t done much in the way of actually explaining on this blog what Agile Living is all about. Some of my creative meandering recently has involved riffing with Jamie Smart and some of our other team members while building in the Eastern Cape (admittedly, the potent varnish played a part in stimulating our creativity at times), and I wanted to share some of those conversations – in particular some of my thinking on what Agile Living means for me.
We had such a great bunch of people on the building team at Zithulele and one of the things I most enjoyed about the project was the chats we had about life, the universe and everything. And since I’ve followed Jamie’s work for 5 or 6 years now, I really enjoyed picking his brain on some of the stuff about goal-setting and other personal development questions that I’ve had on my mind lately. So we decided to record some of that conversation for you while we were in Zithulele, so you could get in on it too. Here goes…
One of the things I enjoyed most about our recent volunteer building project in the Eastern Cape was the opportunities for me to learn more about myself, to learn more about collaboration and co-creation, and to push my mental, emotional and physical agility a little further. Africa is a strange and complex and beautiful place and life in Africa is certainly very, very different to the average lifestyle in the Western developed world. And while I can’t say that we had a truly authentic African experience (ours was much, much more comfortable!), as we moved closer to experiencing the African lifestyle, and further from our own comfort zones and what’s familiar to us, each of us in the team had the opportunity to discover how we deal with difference, physical discomfort, inconvenience and situations where life isn’t going as we think it should and people aren’t behaving as we think they should.
Just a quickie: while I’m away, working on our building project in the Eastern Cape, I’m also taking some time to reflect on this previous year and to set my focus areas for 2010. I want to make sure I put my energies into serving you in the ways that are most relevant to where [...]
While I’ve been sanding and varnishing this week on our volunteer building project, I’ve had a lot of time to think, and I wanted to share with you something that’s been on my mind ever since Max Kaizen spoke with me about the idea of unleashing your genius by having “good taste in problems.” Here we go…
New Release: The Bottom-line on Daniel Pink’s “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us”
driveOne of my favorite, favorite things about the Bottom-line Bookclub is that I get to interview a bunch of my favorite authors, and I have to say that this month was a bumper month when I got to interview New York Times Best-selling author, Daniel Pink, about his latest book, “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us.” Not only is he a compelling writer – he’s a compelling speaker too, so I thought I’d share a clip from our interview, for you all to enjoy.
