There’s an old, somewhat worn out personal development / goal setting exercise that usually goes something like this:
“Imagine you’ve just six months to live.
What would you do?
Where would you go?
Who would you spend time with?”
I (and some of my coaching clients) invariably have trouble imagining our own future demise - it’s been no easy [...]
Blog Comment Posting Update:
I’ve been manually approving all comments to this blog and while it makes sure that the sp#m is not published, the downside is the delay in publishing legitimate comments (as I typically only check once a day.)
Your comments will now be automatically published on this blog as long as you have:
at least [...]
I’ve just added a “coaching blogroll” to this site - see the right hand column.
As time goes by I’ll expand the list to include other career coaching and personal development blogs I like to follow.
But to start with, I’m including 2 great coaches I’m proud to know in person.
Jacinta Hin was my first career change [...]
I highlighted the incredible story of Scott Rigsby, IronMan extraordinaire in this Feb 2008 post on doing the unthinkable.
Tonight I was pleased to watch his new short movie by following this link: Unthinkable
Honest to goodness, a better example of a true “IronMan” hero to marvel at would be hard to find - even in Hollywood [...]
Whew! I’ve had a busy but productive week.
Time for a TGIF moment and an opportunity to surf the blogs of other posters to the “Carnival of Improving Life“.
One of my recent blog posts has been included and I am grateful for that.
Have a great weekend!
- Mark McClure
Some say life’s not fair
when playboys lie on beaches and bask in lard and larceny,
while children unknown gasp just for life.
But should you choose to care and share with joyful abundance
What riches await your simple gifts.
- Mark McClure
PS - This year I’ll support the Oxfam Trailwalk in Japan by sponsoring a team of 4 super [...]
“The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.”
Professor Albert Bartlett
I came across Prof Bartlett’s work while I was googling how to better explain percentage changes to my sixth grade daughter recently.
Having taught Maths & Physics in the UK many moons ago I was intrigued enough to check [...]
Oxfam Japan’s Trailwalker event is coming up on 16-18 May and it’s a tough one:
Complete 100Km in 48 hours through the “hilly” Japanese countryside.
Team Satree-Lek are up for the challenge and I wish them well.
They did it last year - my daughter and I were part of their support team.
If you are able and [...]
Have current “problems” in world financial markets (probably an understatement, I know…) spooked your career change plans?
I don’t blame you - people have a natural (survival) inclination “to batten down the hatches” in uncertain times and concentrate on staying afloat.
And I know all too well for a lot of potential career changers that means [...]
But sometimes they can be useful.
For example, many years ago my early winter athletics training schedule looked something like this:
Monday: Weight Training.
Tuesday: Hill Sprints.
Wednesday: Weights and Circuit Training.
Thursday: Hurdles (Skill work)
Friday: Rest.
Saturday: Cross Country Running (Fartlek)
Sunday: Track running
Looking back on it now I’m still amazed our group got so much hard work done - all [...]
