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Self Management
Use guides and workbooks to support change
Our guidebooks, discussion-papers and action-planning templates are designed to help you -
- Understand simple concepts and frameworks
- Begin your own changes immediately
- Plan for longer-term improvements
- Engage others in thinking about their practices
- Generate constructive dialogue and action towards methodical improvement
- Boost others' interest and discussion.
We are continually developing new materials for this service. To receive updates, register as a subscriber to our free ezine, Encouraging Progress. Currently, the following publications are available:
Attitudinal Agriculture
Attitudinal Agriculture asks: How much does it matter what we think from moment to moment, or how we think? What control do we have over these processes?
By better understanding our thinking and thought processes we can learn to alter our attitudes, feelings and desires. This can lead to increased emotional intelligence, less stress, and a better ability to serve and influence others with integrity.
In this article, Tom Watkins describes the origins of personal thought systems, introduces the notion of metacognition (thinking about and modifying our thinking processes as we use them) and its potential as a skill for developing critical thinking. He describes some everyday applications, introduces some "start here" ideas, a reading-list and references to useful websites.
A 2,200-word discussion paper downloadable as a PDF.
Order and download this article.
Hear and Be Heard - Guidebook and Workbook
Hear and Be Heard has a focus on discovering and altering the altitudinal bases of the behaviours we use for relating to others and determining our own self-esteem.
Guidebook: A4 format, 167 pp. Workbook: A4 format, 98 pp. Both Perfect binding, full colour cover, black and white text amply illustrated. Sold as a set. Includes an emailed questionnaire received first, to establish personal reference-points.
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Manage priorities, not time
Time-management is a misnomer and the notion of managing time, plainly absurd. Like phases of the moon and the year's seasons, time is a constant that will not be planned or controlled: it can only be managed in the sense of "coping with". When we speak of time-management we are actually referring to our ability to self-manage, the methodical, intuitive, improvisational or haphazard ways we organise ourselves.
The basis of successful self-management is planning and priority-management based on a clear sense of values and purpose. This is a matter of keeping the main thing the main thing once we've discovered what that is, and of knowing ourselves well.
Many urgent activities have the appearance of importance but do not contribute to making the difference we want or are paid to make. If we cannot readily distinguish between urgency and importance, we may have a well-ordered day that is otherwise pointless, one which generates pressing and serious problems or puts us further behind.
Why is this easier to discuss than to do?
A 2,200-word discussion paper downloadable as a PDF.
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