Wednesday, February 6, 2008
This is a classic job interview question.
Do you have an answer ready?
Perhaps the question’s too easy - especially if you’re already following a supposedly vocational profession such as teaching or medicine or law?
Don’t be so sure!
Before I start my series of posts on success and goal setting I’d encourage you to visit the fascinating [...]
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
My first introduction to Brian Tracy’s personal development material was his CD Audio course, “Psychology of Achievement”.
I listened to that course many times during my “university on wheels” commute by train and made at least a dozen pages of notes, which I still have. And being an active student of different learning styles, I [...]
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Here’s the followup to yesterday’s post on Al Secunda and his 15-Second Principle.
I created an 8 minute YouTube Video to highlight the relevance of Al’s approach to slipping past the procrastination giant. (The answers to yesterday’s quiz are also shown underneath the video here.)
1- For many people their biggest DREAMS remain FROZEN FANTASIES.
2- Al’s purpose [...]
Yesterday’s post referenced my all time favorite book on slipping past the (sometimes well intentioned) procrastination giant. It’s subtitled: “Short, Simple Steps To Achieving Long-Term Goals” and is available on Amazon.com
I’ve read and lent Al Secunda’s book out so many times that the pages are coming apart! And he’s such a great storyteller that you [...]
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Two quotes from the end of this marvelous ESPN Tough Guy video:
“I’m a provider of fear for those who want it.”
“If you’re mentally tough, you can stand up against the world.”
So why do apparently sane people do crazy stuff like that - and in the bleak mid-winter, for crying out loud?
For all sorts of reasons [...]
There was one question submitted on the topic of successful career change using goals, coaching and mentoring:
http://markmccluretoday.com/question-and-answer-time
1-Fred Friedman wrote:
Q1-Isn’t career change just running away from problems you’ll meet again anyway?
A1- Let me start by reminding you that there are no such things as problems - only opportunities
Sorry for that helpless Dilbert-esque outburst - but [...]
To help you with your goal setting for 2008 and beyond, here’s a free goal setting template from my goal creation maps course.
Please feel free to download it for your own personal non-commercial use.
It’s a 162 KByte Adobe Acrobat pdf file and should print out on letter or A4 paper in landscape format.
To download it, [...]
Monday, December 31, 2007
A few days ago I wrote about my 2007 personal best running goal to break 7 minutes for the mile.
Alas I had 2 attempts before 31st December and did not make it. My first time trial on a windy and cold day ended in running 7 minutes and 20 seconds.
(My daughter took the photo [...]
Sunday, December 30, 2007
Here’s what I’ve come up with for the career goals “reality review” exercise I wrote about here:
http://markmccluretoday.com/reviewing-your-career-change-goals
1- Complete this paragraph in 15 minutes or less.
I had some interesting experiences on my career change journey in 2007. For example, here are 5 important lessons I’ve learned from the past 6 months:
My ex-employer hasn’t missed a beat.
I [...]
Friday, December 28, 2007
Some really big goals are best experienced as a journey towards and beyond your own personal best in a given field.
For example, I like to go running - although I am probably classed as a jogger these days in the eyes of most club runners.
And I no longer have much desire to compete against others [...]
