That’s fantastic – I’ll drop you an email to the address you used when posting your last comment.

Cheers
Ally

I’d be happy to put a short piece together. Will have it to you by end of the week

Really glad you liked the article and it sparked off some thoughts for you.

Although I’ve been playing the acoustic guitar for a long time, much of this was doing the same thing over and over again – I got really good at the ‘same thing’ but didn’t grow beyond open chords and barre chords. Recently (with Paul’s inspiration!) I’ve been learning scales an been exploring non-standard tunings (like DADGAD used in the video) and I’m learning again!

I love the way you use your passion for restoring Land Rovers and can connect this with your training sessions – it’s great. In fact, I’d love to know more – it’s a great example that other trainers may benefit from. Would you like to share your thoughts in a ‘guest post’ here on the blog?

My passion is restoring old military jeeps. I’ve used this in demonstrating goal setting. I show a picture of my latest project when it was a puddle of rust and random engine parts 12 months ago. I go through the steps I needed to take to turn it from this into a fully restored jeep. All the time referring back to needing to set myself achievable, time driven objectives that I needed to constantly review.

It seems to hit a chord with most people more effectively than using the tired old SMART acronyms and banging on about how important objectives are.

Very neat.