Yesterday I had a great time video chatting with Bas de Baar, a project manager in the Netherlands and the author of Project Shrink, an awesome project management blog.
Bas is a really smart and nice guy who asked me some pretty pointed questions about flexible personal development and my compass direction method of planning (or [...]

We’re now officially in the 2nd week of Traveling By Your Inner Compass. Now that you’ve reviewed your first week and selected some tasks for this week, it’s time to make things a little more challenging. Today, we’re going to stretch our comfort zones by making one small change that is just hard enough [...]

Welcome to the second week of Traveling By Your Inner Compass! If you’ve been playing along so far you have:
1) Selected a Compass Direction for 2009
2) Created a Possibilities List of ways you can start moving in your chosen direction
3) Chosen some items from the Possibilities List for your first week Action Plan
4) and [...]

Today is a big day. We are going to take your compass direction and your list of possibilities and turn them into a plan!!
Wait a minute! Didn’t I say yesterday that planning doesn’t work? Well, I did and I stand by that. Specifically, long term planning doesn’t work. However, I have found that it’s [...]

Yesterday we talked about the difference between a New Year’s resolution and choosing a Compass Direction for your year. If you haven’t done that exercise, read Traveling By Your Inner Compass: A Guide to a Better 2009, do the exercise and come back in a few minutes.
[Long Pause....]
Welcome back! Now that you have a [...]