Resources
These resources are useful for most people.
Dream and Goal Sheet
A one-page worksheet for
defining a goal and then creating a plan for it. This is one
of the strong workhorses of All Around.
Lifestyle Review
Featured
Material This general life review can be used for whole-life
review, or the
most recent 4-6
months. It covers seventeen facets of life, your personal mission, your
current greatest obstacle, and then it asks you to look ahead.
Life Pact
This life tool allows you to summarize all
your goals and support methods. We suggest setting goals in
four-month cycles. You can make specific plans with the Dream
and Goal Sheet above, and then summarize it on this form. (If you'd like an example of how some learns how to create a Life
Pact, read Anne's Journal.)
Buddy System Basics
The Buddy System is a
cornerstone of All Around. It's a simple, regular check-in, usually by phone, with someone else
who is
interested in getting personal support on their goals and plans. The article contains tips gleaned from
years of experience.
Helping Inventory
This four-page assessment helps
you focus on the many different ways you help or affect others.
The Well Analogy
Use the image of a water well to help
you focus on your personal vitality and your mission in
life. Then use it to diagnose the obstacles that get in the
way. This exercise helps you
visualize your situation dynamically.
The Discussion and Action Group Most people need ongoing support to do ongoing good. Most people
also filter ideas and methods through their assumptions and priorities, and this can cause them to lose most or all of the power of these materials. This is why we
highly recommend that you find a group of people to study and use the stories and resources on this web site together.
These materials are more specific or more advanced:
Ecological Lifestyle Assessment
This 10-page
assessment covers the basics in ten areas: personal health,
personal relationships, mental health, your community, your
non-personal relationships, the environment, the economy,
politics, raising children and spirituality. It is ecological
in the truest sense of the word because it is holistic and focuses
on all our life-support systems. Ecological Material
Choices Regarding the Empowerment of Others
When people do any good action, they are making choices or
assumptions about what is worthwhile and what approach is good for
them. This assessment will make you aware of 22 sets of
choices available to you. By taking the assessment, reflecting
on your choices, and discussing them with a group, you can extend the range and quality of your
actions
tremendously.
The Misery to Joy Skill
This four-page exercise with
worksheet is one you can use again and again to get a handle on
emotional patterns that sap your energy and interfere with joyful
living.
Wise Giving of Time and Money
Learn how to make
your donations and volunteer work do much more good! This
resource is best used with a small group that discusses your
reasons for giving, and your experiences with good and bad
charities. Then the group members research some excellent
charities so that you can multiply the good that you do many times over!
CLEAR Actions Menu
This is a list of some actions to choose from that are sorted into
the five CLEAR areas. Each area is divided into three
categories: tasks, projects and "habits, skills and
ongoing relationships."
CLEAR Form (PDF format)
This sheet can
be used weekly to set goals and then assess your efforts. In
each box, you can place your goals above the colored line, and
your results below the line.
Also, see the key articles page for some very
important program-related insights.
Some of the Resources Available to
Contributing Members
Here are some of the 75 materials that have already been
developed:
Sounding Board This is a way to
get feedback on a decision that you need to make, or on your plans. It can save you a tremendous amount of time,
money or heartache if your decision isn't wise or if you plans are poorly constructed. On the other hand, it can motivate
you and give you confidence if your decision or plans seem to be good ones. You and your partner simply read the material
and follow the instructions, with one person playing the consultant and one person being the "requester."
Want Management Learn why Want Management is
more powerful than most time management methods. Use the
Want Management framework and exercise to simplify and focus your life.
Path Management This is another lifestyle management framework that is based on
the question, "What is the best, most loving use of my time
right now?"
Goal & Growth Group Format This small
group format gives group members ongoing personal support,
feedback and insight. Members share their learning, plans and efforts to change, and their recent appreciations of life.
Life Mission and
Life Process Statements This four-part
resource covers common mistakes and assumptions about life
mission; how to create a mission statement; how to create a life
process statement; and how to extend your life mission.
Integrating Communication Skills A 16-page overview
of listening and obstacles to good listening. It presents
four communication skills: Attending, Active Listening,
Empathic Listening and Encountering--all with exercises.
Integrating Conflict Resolution Skills Learn
your current style of dealing with conflict and then learn a four
step model for resolving conflicts in a principled manner.
Building Time, Money and Energy A straightforward,
logical exercise that helped one woman save over $1,500 in one
year.
Integrating Assertiveness This tool
teaches the difference between assertiveness, non-assertiveness
and aggression. Then it presents three different kinds of
assertiveness, with exercises to help you practice and master the
skill.
Climb Today's Mountain meeting format This large
group format combines a support structure, a feedback structure
and a networking structure. It builds community, motivation
for personal and world-enhancing goals, and increases the quality
and efficiency of goals and plans through the feedback structure.
The Many-One-New Method for goal-attainment and problem-solving
This nine-step model is useful for in-depth goal-setting, planning
and problem-solving. It's an original model similar to the
process that counselors use.
Becoming 100%
Committed to Your Goals and Plans. This checklist
exercise covers ten facets of goal-setting. You can roughly predict
your chance of success by counting how many of the ten facets you
have defined and worked out.
On Transformation. An article that describes eighteen sources of
transformation, both positive and negative.
How Much Is Enough? A systems analysis of what one person
needs to do to create his or her "one-six-billionth of a
peaceful, stable world."
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