Reading Time: 6 minutesSelf-evaluation and self-assessment have become popular in the business community, replacing the old employee evaluations process. Businesses see the value of having employees evaluate their behavior, both the negatives and the positives. Self-evaluations have also been a part of spiritual and personal growth processes for hundreds of years. Why Do Self-Evaluations? According to High Five …
Reading Time: 6 minutesLast week, I did a quarterly review & planning session. To be able to focus on my review, I rented a room at a local desert resort and planned to spend two days working on only my review. I find it helpful to leave my normal surroundings to be able to give total focus to …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA couple of months ago I wrote a blog post about Finding Balance in Life. In this post, I stated my belief that life balance did not mean giving equal time to all of the aspects or roles in my life. Rather, I said, “My definition of life balance is to give appropriate attention and …
Reading Time: 6 minutesAll of us acknowledge that we want to live lives that are in balance. We understand that focusing on one or two areas of our lives and excluding others will lead to problems, and isn’t healthy. I hope you don’t expect that I’m going to give you “three easy steps” to bring balance to your …
Reading Time: 4 minutesI stumbled across a YouTube video this morning that I wish I’d seen before I retired. When I retired, I had a vague idea of how life might change, and I tried to do some planning, but I was really totally unprepared for the reality. When I watched this video, I immediately identified with it. …
Reading Time: 3 minutesLife Roles: A Tool For Helping Me to Live an Intentional Life For the past year and a half, I have been taking life roles inventory and planning retreats every six months. These retreats were based on the system outlined in David Spark’s Personal Retreat Video And Planning Pdf. I’ve written about my experiences here …
Reading Time: 2 minutes1. My Blog Post on How to Work Productively Last week I posted a blog on Working Productively — How Do You Know If You’re Doing the Right Things? My thinking in that post was based on the quote by Chris Bailey in The Productivity Project: “Productivity Isn’t About Doing More Things — It’s About …