88: Creating Meaning and Significance, with Bonni Stachowiak

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Management, Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2013

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Bonni Stachowiak: Teaching in Higher Ed

Bonni is the host of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, Dean of Teaching and Learning and Professor of Business and Management at Vanguard University, and my life partner. Prior to her academic career, she was a human resources consultant and executive officer for a publicly traded company. Bonni is the author of The Productive Online and Offline Professor: A Practical Guide*.

What does a life plan give you?

Clarity around what is important
The ability to better manage priorities and balance your time
Better sense of what to say no to…
More of a sense that you are truly living

“Contrary to popular belief, great things almost never happen by accident. Great accomplishments are planned. Sadly, much of the planning we do goes into accomplishments that leave us feeling empty in the end.” -Donald Miller

How to phrase a goal:

SMART goals
Careful of negatively-focused goals, such as I want to lose weight…
Focus on what you will gain (as in what will the benefit be…)

Increase the likelihood of following through on goals

Put them somewhere where you’ll see them
Track your progress along the way
Share them with others
Create an ideal week that aligns with your life plan and your goals
See Michael Hyatt’s book on Creating Your Personal Life Plan

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0:00.0	Hey every once in a while it's really important for us to take a look at the big picture,
0:04.0	not just our roles and our careers and not just our families, but the really big picture.
0:09.0	Life planning, that is our topic today, Life planning and and goal setting meaning and achievement.
0:15.5	This is coaching for leaders episode number 88.
0:18.8	Produced by Innovate Learning Maximizing Human Potential. learning, maximizing human potential.
0:25.0	Greetings to you from Orange County, California.
0:30.0	This is coaching for leaders, and I am your host Dave Stahovac.
0:35.0	This is a weekly show that helps smart people improve their communication, leadership, productivity skills.
0:41.0	And this week we're going to tackle pretty big topic. Life planning, there's a nice small topic for everybody.
0:48.0	Yeah, life planning and goal setting, you know, it really is important to look at the big picture and I'm a firm believer in this show of not just looking at the day-to-day things of leadership and how to be more effective and how to lead better, but really the big picture stuff too,
1:04.7	because that's so important to us being successful and
1:07.2	happy in what we're doing and being effective at being able to influence others.
1:10.4	And so Bonnie gave this great talk at a conference this past weekend on life planning.
1:17.0	And even though we've hit on this topic on the show about a year ago,
1:20.0	I thought this would be a great time to revisit it and look at not only from not from my
1:25.6	perspective this time but actually from Bonnie's perspective and I am so glad to have you
1:29.6	back.
1:30.6	Well I'm glad to be back and I actually was not surprised at all to be asked to speak at a conference about life planning and goal setting.
1:38.0	In fact, I have been as you know Dave an expert planning type person since about the age of five.
1:47.0	So I used to love to go to those
1:55.0	little grade books and you can go and you could get the teacher's edition of the book and then the student edition.
1:58.0	You could get those little grade books where you had all the names.
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