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How to Avoid Setting Demotivating Goals

Written on July 27, 2010 by Cath

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.

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How To Get Motivated By Aligning Your Work With Your Personal Values

Written on July 20, 2010 by Cath

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.

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Are Your Hobbies & Interests A Sign That You’re Running From Your Reality?

Written on July 13, 2010 by Cath

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.

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How I Created The Bottom-line Bookclub: My Biggest Mistakes & My Best Secrets

Written on July 8, 2010 by Cath

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.

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Live Small. Give Large: An Interview With Jack & Aye from gotpassport.org

Written on July 6, 2010 by Cath

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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