Following on from the previous instructions on how to clarify your values for a particular area of your life, here’s the next step that’s vital to do before you set any personal goals – discover the order of importance of your values. This is another extract from my book, Achieve Your Goals (Dorling Kindersley 2006)
This article follows on from part 1 (how to elicit your values) and part 2 (how to discover your values hierarchy). What follows is an edited extract from my book, Achieve Your Goals (Dorling Kindersley 2006). —- Conflicting values (for example, ‘adventure’ versus ‘security’ in your career) are a recipe for dilemmas, and for feeling
I found this helpful ‘strategy tracking tool’ (actually an old-fashioned paper form) by Kaihan Krippendorf, author of Outthink The Competition. It’s simple, easy to use, and gratifyingly close to what I used to teach on my ‘Create The Life You Want’ courses. Get it, and other free tools, here.
Most people have had the experience of setting New Year’s Resolutions and not sticking to them. One of the biggest reasons for failure is setting resolutions which you’re not 100% aligned with. If your resolutions are not aligned with your values, your motivation won’t last. You may even find yourself doing things that sabotage the
Following on from the last article about the differences in psychology and brain structure between ‘liberals’ and ‘conservatives’, here’s a fascinating video of a TED talk by Jonathan Haidt on the five moral values that form the foundation of our political outlook. Plus, he’s set up a site (www.yourmorals.org) where you can take an assessment to
Or: Why does everyone love Occupy Wall Street when they hated the English rioters? It’s not every day that something useful comes out of an online discussion, but in this case I think something has. During the recent riots in England, most of my Facebook contacts, who I had thought had a fairly liberal political
From our own experience we know how effective and energising Appreciative Inquiry can be. I would like to see more peer-reviewed research to prove its effectiveness to people who haven’t yet experienced AI first-hand. Peer review is important, because it acts as quality control and increases the likelihood that you can trust the research methods
I came to dog ownership at a relatively late age – we didn’t have pets when I was a kid, and consequently I grew up with something of a fear of a) dogs that were big enough to kill me and b) aggressive yappy dogs, although later that disappeared with some help from NLP. Fortunately,
Image of Nasreddin from WikipediaA tale of the incomparable Mulla Nasreddin on reaching enlightenment: Nasreddin was walking in the bazaar with a large group of followers. Whatever Nasreddin did, his followers immediately copied. Every few steps Nasreddin would stop and shake his hands in the air, touch his feet and jump up yelling “Hu Hu Hu!”. So
The biggest problem that people have in their strategies for motivating themselves is that they never get started. The could be because they are feeling overwhelmed by the size of the task, or just because of inertia – the tendency to keep on the way we’re going. It takes energy to change. Either way, the
If you are looking for a way of using Appreciative Inquiry for evaluation, or you would like to have a business-friendly alternative to the standard 4-D/5-D model, this may be what you’re looking for. Deb Gurke has written an interesting article about how school boards can use AI for self-evaluation, in a way that restores
Wordle.net is a free web-based application that generates ‘word clouds’ from whatever text you paste into it. That makes it great for creating a quick visual summary of the themes, values, wishes etc that come out of an AI summit. You can change the colour, font, background and layout until you find one you like.
