On 1 April I’ll be releasing the Bottom-line on one of my favorite books of all time: “Loving What Is” by Byron Katie. Usually, when I interview the author or expert for the Bottom-line Bookclub, it’s a pre-recorded call, but Susan and I decided that the best way to help you to learn the ideas in Loving What Is is through experiencing The Work for yourself.

The author/ expert interview for “Loving What Is” will be with Susan Grace Beekman, who is a Martha Beck Certified Master Coach and a Certified Facilitator of The Work. As one of the first people to be trained by Byron Katie, Susan is incredibly experienced at using The Work and she’s now one of the Trainers on Byron Katie’s faculty at the Institute For The Work. Susan is also a Trainer on Martha Beck’s Life Coach Certification Program.

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As is the Agile way, over the last two months I’ve been tweaking the formatting and the different components of the Bottom-line Bookclub. I want to make sure that I’m giving you an elegant, lean and efficient solution to help you to get straight to the Bottom-line on the best ideas and change tools and to actually use those ideas and change tools to create what you love. I don’t want any waste or unnecessary information to clutter your inbox, your harddrive or your attention, so I wanted to check in with you what’s most essential to you in the Bottom-line program and whether we could pare down anything at the Bottom-line Bookclub to make it even better.

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Agile Living is about dropping labels and mental rules and restrictions, and expanding yourself and the contribution you make by embracing change and continually creating, doing and being more of what you love. Ian’s concept of juggling is a great example of Agile Living in action. Juggling is essentially about dropping the common belief that you need to focus on just one thing if you want to have a successful career, business or personal brand, and to claim the freedom of shaping your work and life around a unique mix of all the activities, projects and experiences that you love instead.

If Agile Living values like curiosity, lifelong learning, variety, options, creativity, meaning and expanding your contribution are important to you in your work, then I think you’re going to love Ian’s Juggle way of living and working.

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We’ve been living in a world that’s incredibly focused on collecting things and building facades of wealth, status and happiness in the tangible “world of things.” But more and more people are realizing that stuff like the number of employees you have, the size of your desk, the fancy equipment you collect, the posh suit you wear and all that tangible stuff doesn’t matter nearly as much as the intangible resources you can build and share. In fact all that material stuff can even hold you back by making your business heavy and unwieldy, difficult to re-direct and expensive to run. A truly agile business places greater attention on building and sharing their intangible resources – the resources that paradoxically expand when you give them away.

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Motivation is such a central issue when it comes to thriving at work and creating more of the life you want. Without motivation, you’ve just got dreams. Motivation makes stuff happen. Motivation also gets other people on board, making stuff happen. And motivation gets you through the hard bits and the drudgery of change.

But it turns out that, when it comes to motivation strategies in parenting, schools and corporates, the traditional carrot-and-stick approach doesn’t work as well as we’ve been thinking. In fact, Dan’s research shows that, rather than increasing motivation, there’s a strong chance that rewards and punishment will decrease motivation when you use it. So Dan’s presenting a new model for motivation, a model that’s more appropriate to the new economy where we’re engaged in much more right-brain-directed, creative, heuristic problem-solving. It’s a model designed to elicit intrinsic motivation.

Whether you’re a self-employed entrepreneur who struggles with motivating yourself, a corporate manager who needs to motivate your team, or a parent who wants to motivate your children, the Bottom-line on Drive will give you a new paradigm on motivation and all the tools you need for igniting your own and other people’s natural, intrinsic motivation – a far more powerful and pleasurable form of motivation than extrinsic motivation ever was.

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Coaching is an art form, where we’re intuitively drawing on a wide range of different coaching tools, to address people’s unique journeys and help them create the life they want. But the common thread that runs through most coaching styles is the idea of helping someone get from where they are to where they want to be. Jinny Ditzler is one of the earliest coaches in the business and personal coaching industry and her Best Year Yet system is one of the fore-runners of all the goal-setting systems that coaches use.

So if you have ideas about changes you want to make and you aren’t sure where to start with making those changes, or if you want change but don’t even know where to start with deciding what to change and what new direction to go in, then the Best Year Yet system will be just your thing.

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