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Thinking Agility Exercises

How serious are you about making a difference?

If you are serious, then please get a pen and a pad of paper and get ready to start writing. The following 40 questions are ones that a Go MAD Thinking Coach might use if they were coaching you. Whilst it is tempting just to scan through these questions, we guarantee that if you spend 30-40 minutes considering your answers to each question you will really make a difference. You will see that the elements of the Go MAD Framework illuminate to show you where you are with your thinking at anytime.

1: What specifically do you want to achieve? (i.e. what difference do you want to make?)

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2: What is your precise measure of success? (i.e. how will you know when you have achieved your goal?)

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3: What exact date will you achieve this by?

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4: How achievable do you believe this goal to be? (Note: on a scale of 1 (low) to 10 (high) if you assess it to be 5 or less, then redefine the goal to make it more achievable.)

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5: How relevant is this goal to what is important to you in life? (i.e. check it doesn't conflict with any other priorities.)

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6: What are the reasons why you want to make this difference?

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7: How strong is your motivation to achieve your defined goal? (Note: if it is not strong, then choose something else to make a difference about.)

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8: What possible tasks could help you to make the difference you desire? (Note: start making a list of possibilities.)

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9: What resources could possibly help you?

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10: What possible help could benefit you?

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11: Who could possibly help you?

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12: How could they possibly help you?

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13: What other possibilities could you consider? (Note: include possible obstacles, risks and ways of overcoming them. Be creative in your thinking and remember you are only listing ideas - not evaluating them.)

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14: Who else could possibly help?

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15: What could you possibly gain from involving others?

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16: How could you influence others to help you?

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17: What might be the most effective way of persuading them?

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18: What are the possible implications?

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19: Who else could you involve? (Note: think laterally about how and where you can access people that have knowledge/skills but don't even know you!)

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20: What else could you possibly do that might be helpful in achieving your goal? (Note: keep adding to your list.)

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21: What else?

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22: Which of the possibilities are your priorities? (i.e. those that are most important to the achievement of your goal.)

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23: What is your top priority?

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24: What areas need to be broken down into smaller tasks?

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25: When do these need to be achieved by? (Note: convert your priority actions into specific, measurable, time-bound goals.)

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26: How will you ensure you set aside sufficient time to work on achieving your sub-goal priorities? (Note: actually plan these activities into your diary by blocking out time.)

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27: Who will you choose to involve?

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28: How will you involve them and obtain their commitment?

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29: By when? (Note: plan in the time to do it.)

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30: How strong is your self-belief that your goal is achievable?

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31: What potential obstacles are you likely to encounter?

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32: What will be your greatest challenge in achieving this goal?

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33: What can you do to further develop your self-belief?

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34: How strong is your reason why you want to make this difference?

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35: What choices have you got to make?

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36: How accountable are you prepared to be for making it happen?

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37: How willing are you to take personal responsibility (i.e. without blaming anyone/anything) for making the difference you say you want to make?

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38: How will you review and measure your results?

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39: How will you celebrate your success?

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40: When are you going to start to take action?

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