In a recent video post I explained a few of my reasons why I think that traditional goal-setting is broken, and why I’m exploring alternative models for creating an “open-focused” way of focusing our thinking and making progress in making the changes we want to make.

As part of my exploring and researching, I’ve been connecting with other coaches and personal development bloggers and asking them to share their views and it’s really been stimulating my thinking, so I wanted to share with you what some of them are saying, over the next few posts. There have been some interesting themes emerging, and this first theme that jumped out at me is that different people are getting benefits from focusing on different parts of the traditional goal-setting process. Let me take a step back and explain the traditional goal-setting process, since I’m also realizing that there are a lot of different ideas about what exactly the traditional goal-setting process is…