A few weeks ago, I wrote a post for Charlie Gilkey’s Productive Flourishing blog called, How To Recover From I0 Types of Demotivation and it got a great response. One of the types of demotivation that I discussed was values-conflicts and quite a few folks said in the comments that they identified values-conflicts as causes of demotivation in their lives, so I thought last week I shared more about how you can discover your values and align your work with them, because that’s the first step to clear a values-conflict.

Another of the 10 types of demotivation that’s really common is when you’re working on the wrong goals, so I wanted to share more about how you can avoid setting demotivating goals.

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Last week I wrote a post for Charlie Gilkey’s Productive Flourishing blog called, How To Recover From I0 Types of Demotivation and it got a great response. One of the types of demotivation that I discussed was values-conflicts and quite a few folks said in the comments that they identified values-conflicts as causes of demotivation in their lives, so I thought I’d share more about how you can discover your values, because that’s the first step to clear a values-conflict.

Personal values are the stuff and experiences that you consider important in life. They’re your “why” behind all the choices you make. When we’re in relationships and environments and doing things that match our criteria of what’s important in life – in other words, our personal values are satisfied – then we’re highly motivated. And when we’re in relationships and environments and doing things that don’t match our criteria of what’s important in life, then we feel highly de-motivated. A key to feeling that your work is purposeful and getting motivated is in discovering your life values and aligning your work with your life values.

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Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Eduard Ezeanu from People Skills Decoded. A lot of the Agile Living tribe are smart folks with the ability to understand abstract concepts and a deep curiosity for learning about things that most people don’t even notice. As someone with the ability to “go meta” very easily, I know it can be easy to use that to dissociate from emotion and my own lived experience – a skill that’s sometimes useful, as I found out when I was working in child protection and trauma debriefing. Is your curiosity about abstract or global issues a sign of healthy curiosity and the ability to see beyond your little world or a sign that you’re dissociating and running away from your own reality? Have a read of Eduard’s perspective and I’d love to hear your thoughts on this!

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I get a bunch of emails from people saying, “I love your Bottom-line Bookclub idea and it’s so well executed! How do you do it?”A lot of these folks are coaches and therapists working to share tools to help people to transform their lives and be more of the person they want to be. I love to see more of that kind of work spread in the world.

So, because of all these requests, I’ve consolidated my biggest mistakes and lessons learned and the best secrets I picked up along the way as I developed my Bottom-line Bookclub and I’ve put it all together in a report, so you don’t have to make the same mistakes. And, starting 26 July, I’m running a mastermind group where I’ll guide you to create your first digital program and set it up so it’s ready to share in just 6 weeks.

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I’ve had a bunch of people asking me to share examples of people who are living Agile lives so that you can see the Agile Living values in action. This interview with Jack, Aye and Emma from gotpassport.org is part of a series of “Agile Profiles” that I’ll be sharing with you.

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Tim Ferriss has made a name for himself as a guru in the world of accelerated learning. Some of his “accelerations” are about hacking the system and taking short cuts by finding loopholes in the rules and doing things in unconventional ways, but his success is also due to the fact that he knows how to learn.

This month we’re featuring the Bottom-line on Daniel Coyle’s “The Talent Code,” and it’s all about how to learn. Daniel visited the top talent hotbeds in variety of different fields (music, art, education, sport) around the world and researched what they were all doing that enabled them to accelerate learning and create such solid talent so consistently, and The Talent Code is the compilation of what he found and a guide to how to learn.

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