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…
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.
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.
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
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
Cath is loving, healing and serving herself and others by walking, making art, raising funds for the Kidney Foundation, supporting people who are grieving to live wholeheartedly after loss, training grief coaches, tending to her small urban garden, writing, blogging occasionally here at AgileLiving.net and having real and compassionate conversations with new and old friends. Cath is an experienced Social Worker, Neuro-linguistic Psychology Master Practitioner and Martha Beck Life Coach.
