Archive for August, 2008

How to Apply Process-Oriented Principles in Real Life (Digest)

Note: This is a digest version of a longer essay on goal-setting, the final installment in a 4-part series.  And here’s the previous installment in this series.

In reality, we can’t live on process-oriented goals alone. We set little and big goals everyday, without even being aware that we do, because we do need to produce [...]

How to Apply Process-Oriented Principles in Real Life

In this final installment of the 4-part series on process-oriented goal-setting, I’m going to discuss how to make peace with the result-oriented world by applying process-oriented principles where it counts.  Along the way, we’ll clear up some misunderstandings and pitfalls, paving the way for truly best of both worlds: great results produced by enjoyable processes. [...]

To My Fellow Self Improvement/Personal Development Bloggers

The 3rd full month since I started this blog just ended.  I am still very much a newbie.
In the last month, I’ve been going out and “meeting” a lot of fellow bloggers.  I never knew that there was such a tight-knit community.  I already feel like I “know” some of you, because I see same [...]

Reader Question: Why Am I Still Thinking about a Past Romance?

The other day, I received a question from Vivian, a married woman in her 30s.  She is a bit consumed by her curiosity about her past romantic interest, so she asked me what I think about it.
Here is her story, and my response, printed with her permission.  (Names and details are changed to protect privacy)
Hello, [...]

How to Set Process-Oriented Goals and Be a Success Now (Digest)

Note: This is a digest version of a longer essay on goal-setting, the 3rd installment in a 4-part series.  And here’s the previous installment in this series.

To set process-oriented goals, you have to ask different set of questions than those you run through to set up result-oriented goals. With result-oriented, you consider the effectiveness, impact, [...]

5 Roles of Process-Oriented Goals: Setting up Infallible Success (Digest)

Note: This is a digest version of a longer essay on goal-setting.  If you agree with the points made here, read the original to understand all the whys and hows.  Also, read the previous installment.

Instead of the common yet ultimately unreliable grounds on which to base our goals, we need to explore a different set [...]

How to Set Process-Oriented Goals and Be a Success Now

This is the part 3 of a series on how to set process-oriented goals.  In the last chapter, we learned what it means to be process-oriented and what the benefits are.  Here, we’re going to look at how to set goals based on new paradigm, and start living the benefits of your goals right away.
In [...]