Category: Personal effectiveness

About New Year’s resolutions, saving and wasting

Over the last week or so, most people I met had a ready conversation opening: 'Have you made any New Year's resolutions?'. Every time someone asked me that, irrespective of how much I may like them normally, I smiled and said: 'Yes, one and it is a big one; my [...] Continue Reading...

‘Skills we need’ and ‘skills we have’

We do tend to focus, a bit too much I believe, on the skills we need. Here I use ‘skills’ very broadly so these can include competencies, knowledge and narrow technical skill sets. This is part of our obsession with control and the illusion we want to create that we [...] Continue Reading...

Get your ducks in line: goal setting for high impact

Lately I have been thinking not so much about the ways in which we set our goals, and our daily tasks, but the ways in which we can organise them to achieve the highest possible impact with the lowest possible effort. Goal setting is usually about changing things, about moving [...] Continue Reading...

Dream your goals and plan your dreams: the Walt Disney groove

You already know that I don’t set my goals by tinkering with the present but trace back my dreams; this way my goals are a compass helping me to follow the direction of my life . There are two main difficulties with this: one is that we have generally forgotten [...] Continue Reading...

Tell me your dreams and I’ll tell you your goals

Anywhere I turn there seem to be goals. It doesn’t matter whether people are busily setting goals or arguing their limitations: it is still goals that excite our discussions. My first reaction was only human – I started looking for the goals I set myself last year and panicking about [...] Continue Reading...

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