Bring what matters
into reality.
AQMeets is a membership programme for pursuing your goals through regular planning, guided reviews and follow-through.
Connect your longer priorities with daily action. Use what happens along the way to improve your next decision. Give important work the sustained attention it needs to advance.
Our method, Fractal Feedback, connects these practices so that learning from one week can improve the months and years that follow.
The Scorecard helps you reflect on how your recent actions relate to your intentions.
You have something you want to accomplish.
A project you want to complete. A business you want to develop. A capability you want to build. A responsibility you want to fulfil.
You make plans and put in the effort. Then circumstances change, demands compete and the work takes a different course.
It is frustrating to give so much effort and still see a commitment you care about remain unfinished.
Sometimes you need to protect time. Sometimes you need a better working method, additional support or a decision about competing priorities. Understanding the difficulty helps you choose a useful response.
Without a regular way to compare intention with experience, the same difficulty can shape another month before you address it.
A regular practice, with guidance and support
AQMeets gives you a recurring opportunity to examine your work and decide how to proceed.
You bring your goals, responsibilities and experience. The workbooks provide questions to work through. Guided reviews help you consider the evidence, recognise progress and make decisions you can put into practice.
The programme was founded by John Angheli, leadership counsellor and founder of the Center for Motivation Research. John facilitates AQMeets and provides private Leadership Counselling through Leader membership.
Your judgment remains central. You decide what deserves your commitment and how to respond to what you learn.
How you take part
Choose a priority to work on
Bring an undertaking or responsibility you want to advance. You may have a clear goal, a partly completed project or a decision that needs attention.
Use the workbook and join your reviews
Work through the relevant questions and participate in the reviews included in your membership. Bring your calendar, notes, completed work or other information that helps you examine what happened.
Put your decisions into practice
Act on what you decided. At a later review, examine whether you followed through, whether the response helped and what should happen next.
Keep using the calendar and task manager that suit you. They can provide useful information for the reviews.
See What You Do Each WeekFractal Feedback connects experience with decisions
What you learn in daily work can change a larger decision. That decision then changes what you do next.
A recurring difficulty may call for a change in your next action, working method, strategy or resource allocation. Fractal Feedback connects your reviews so you can examine the relevant decision and assess your response.
Your longer priorities inform what you do. Evidence from that work informs later planning. Useful learning remains available as you move between daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual decisions.
Your longer commitments inform the work you choose.
Experience helps you decide what to continue or change.
An example: a project that keeps losing its time
This is an illustration of the method, not a member case study.
You intend to develop a new service, but client delivery repeatedly takes the time you allocated to it.
Your weekly review identifies the pattern. You clarify the next development task and protect a working session.
If the difficulty continues, further examination may reveal that routine delivery depends too heavily on you. You decide to document part of the process and delegate suitable work.
Later reviews examine whether client delivery remains dependable and whether development advances.
The observation has led to a change in how you work. You now have something specific to assess.
The same connection can help you develop a capability, sustain a responsibility or carry a creative undertaking forward. You address an issue where a sound decision can be made, without waiting for every scheduled review.
Explore Fractal FeedbackAchieve. Adapt. Integrate.
Achieve
Connect a worthwhile goal with the resources, decisions and actions it requires.
You give important work a place in your plans, follow through and examine progress. The result may be a completed project, a functioning process, a developed capability or a responsibility sustained over time.
Adapt
Discover what helps your work and what needs to change.
Compare results with your expectations. Examine recurring difficulties. Retain effective practices. When circumstances change, decide how to respond with a clearer understanding of what has happened.
Sometimes you continue. Sometimes you adjust your approach, seek support or reconsider a commitment.
Integrate
Consider how your goals relate to the rest of your life.
Higher Horizons helps you examine your longer direction through four fields: Far Horizon, Lifetime, Legacy and Eternal. These concern the future you are working towards, your lifetime responsibilities, the contribution you hope to leave and the ultimate standards guiding your choices.
Keep your longer commitments in view.
Your Higher Horizons Charter records your current commitments, boundaries and unresolved questions. It provides a reference when choosing annual priorities or considering a substantial change.
You can begin with established goals and a provisional understanding of the questions that remain.
Discover Higher Horizons
Five connected rhythms
Each practice gives attention to a different kind of decision.
January Annual Aims begins with an assessment of your actual circumstances before you plan the year ahead. Your Higher Horizons Charter informs those choices.
Pro and Leader members also participate in the facilitated two-day Higher Horizons programme at midyear.
- Daily DirectivesYour actions for the day and what you notice as you work.
- Weekly WrapsWhat happened in execution and what needs attention next.
- Monthly MasteriesRecurring patterns, habits, capabilities and systems.
- Quarterly QuestsWhether your strategy is working and how to proceed.
- Annual AimsYour vital few priorities, resource allocations and what will wait.
See progress in your work and in how you approach it
A project advances because you gave it the time and resources it required.
A process becomes more dependable because you examined a recurring difficulty and changed your approach.
An important responsibility receives sustained attention through a demanding period.
These are outcomes you can recognise. Reviews help you understand what contributed to them and what is worth continuing.
As you practise, you also develop your ability to make commitments, exercise judgment and return after interruption. Confidence can grow from seeing yourself follow through, learn and respond.
Progress can include a justified decision to change or release a commitment. What matters is understanding the reasons and acting responsibly on that judgment.
Choose the support you need
Lite
Establish daily, weekly and monthly practice.
Lite includes the full conceptual orientation, an initial Higher Horizons Charter and guidance for revisiting it independently, alongside daily, weekly and monthly practice.
View Lite detailsPro
Add facilitated support for strategy and longer commitments.
Pro includes Lite, Quarterly Quests, January Annual Aims, the facilitated midyear Higher Horizons programme and Jonah’s Club.
Through Jonah’s Club, conversations and peer relationships can continue between gatherings. Members can seek perspective while retaining responsibility for their own decisions.
View Pro detailsLeader
Add private counsel for matters needing individual attention.
Leader includes Pro and a 50-minute private Leadership Counselling allocation each active month.
View Leader detailsWhat if I already know my goals?
Bring them. You can focus on execution, follow-through and learning from your results. You do not need to reconsider every goal before beginning.
What if I already review my week?
Your existing practice can provide a useful foundation. AQMeets connects weekly observations with broader decisions about capabilities, strategy and priorities, then helps you return to those decisions in subsequent reviews.
What if I miss a review?
Resume with your current circumstances and the information relevant to your next decision. You do not need to reconstruct every missed day before returning.
Do I have to share personal matters with a group?
You choose what to share. Peer sharing in Higher Horizons is optional. Private reflection and appropriate personal or counselling pathways are legitimate ways to work through sensitive questions.
Can I use the programme beyond business?
Yes. You can apply the practice to study, creative work, family responsibilities, service and other undertakings that need sustained attention.
What do you want to see further ahead in the coming months?
Bring that priority to AQMeets.
Establish a regular practice, act on your decisions and use what you learn to keep moving it forward.