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Smart goal setting starts with learning not to set yourself for failure. You may have all the ambition in the world but if your goals are not achievable or otherwise beyond your reach you will experience much frustration. The danger in this is not only the wasted time and effort but also that ... Views: 820
As a passionate entrepreneur, I know you want to get your work out into the world in a bigger way. You also want to make great money so you can reinvest and keep growing your business to reach more people and, of course, to support a life and family you love.
To move into “growth mode” in ... Views: 820
Our lives are a montage of events. A flurry of activity. Running here and running there. Details. Details. A blur. Lots of movement, but how much accomplishment? Of all the activity we engage in, how much of our energy do we direct toward fulfilling our central mission in life? How much of our ... Views: 820
When is the best time to start working on a new goal? The answer is simple: Begin right now, today! The biggest obstacle most of us face when starting to work towards a new goal is "the paralysis of analysis." Simply put, sometimes we can over think things too much. We are always looking for the ... Views: 819
One woman I respect and admire is Debbie Zimmerman, who is the co-founder of the 100 Women Project along with her daughter, Sheri Oppenheimer Baker. Always delivering a smile and a kind word, Debbie lights up the room with her personality. Her passion - and life's work - is health coaching and ... Views: 818
No matter what job or business we’re involved in, we always want to make sure that our efforts are at par with our expectations. This brings focus to one important aspect, productivity. Work can be demanding at times. If you have a normal 9 to 5 job, you may have to clock in early and sometimes ... Views: 818
The shock and disbelief that comes with grief serves a useful purpose. It's God's way of stopping us in our tracks. It's our body's way of saying hold on, don't move. Something important is happening here.
Sometimes, when something's too painful to face, we override the body's system ... Views: 818
Do you believe in New Year’s resolutions?
Do you think it’s just another commercialization?
Just a lucrative time for businesses?
Well, maybe.
However, resolutions are good. New Year’s is a great time to look back on your life and think about future endeavors.
Between you and me, you ... Views: 815
Even you’re not the very goal-oriented type, I’m sure you’ve got your own goals or anything you want to be in the near future, or whatever you want in life. That’s why it’s still important to have your own goal setting planning. It’s true that it’s all in the attitude if you want to have a good ... Views: 814
Wow what a strange title for an article. So, what clay am I talking about? I would like for you to spend some time focusing on the verse, “Yet, O Lord, you are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter, we are all the work of your hand.” Isaiah 64:8. Have you ever watched a potter work ... Views: 814
Would you like to become a better person?
If I did a survey asking people this question, I'm sure I would receive 100% response YES!!!!
" Who started today deciding on one thing they were going to beaware of and work on today to make them a better person?"
I asked this question recently to a ... Views: 814
There is something truly special about the coming of a New Year. Another twelve months present the perfect opportunity to start over, transform or change your self in some way. Regardless of what you resolve to do, be it to improve your health, develop better relationships with friends, make a ... Views: 812
Portable photograph sharing is currently a piece of our future and is one of the quickest developing internet based life patterns of the most recent couple of years. Huge brands are beginning to pay heed, utilizing the pattern to further their potential benefit. Instagram has gathered 15 million ... Views: 811
Almost every entrepreneur I know started their business because of a Big Dream! What is the dream, the vision and the passion that inspired you to be become an entrepreneur?
For many entrepreneurs, at some point you find that you are no longer facing or feeling your Big Dream, the fire of ... Views: 811
Coach John Wooden was one of the most successful athletic coaches the world has ever seen. As the head basketball coach at one of the United States top universities, UCLA, Wooden compiled a record of 620 wins to 147 losses. Even more incredibly, Wooden¡¯s teams won the US national championship ... Views: 811
The change in seasons will traditionally bring with it new creation. Change brings about new life, growth and development all with it the possibility of creating new opportunities for ourselves. Any time of change (whether it be a change of season, career, relationship, living situation or even ... Views: 810
The most critical attribute for realizing our dreams is integrity. In a conversation about dreams, integrity is essential and can be summarized this way: Say what you mean and mean what you say. Honor your word and agreements and you will be living with integrity, where dreams really do come ... Views: 809
Do you make New Years resolutions, resolutions to make you happier, healthier, perhaps a better person or similar? Many people do, but unfortunately many people abandon them within a few weeks. There are many reasons for this, the biggest one being unreasonable expectation or goals, and most ... Views: 808
You guessed it, procrastination! Procrastination by definition is to put off intentionally the doing of something that should be done. It also means to put off intentionally and habitually. The Wikipedia states that procrastination is the deferment or avoidance of an action or task. "For the ... Views: 808
What do you want your year to be like? Do you want it to include more of some things? More happiness, fitness, fun... Do you want it to include less of some things? Less sitting at your desk, working too late, debt...
Pause for a moment to tap into the magic of what this year could be for you. ... Views: 808
Article Title: How to Set and Achieve Realistic and Effective Goals (Part One - Updated)
Author Name: Craig Lock
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Category (key words): Self Help, Personal Growth, Motivation, Goalsetting
Web Site: http://www2.webng.com/writernz/
Other Articles are available at: ... Views: 807
One of the most important keys to success is a goal personal planning setting success process. A series of studies and interviews were carried out to find out the secrets of successful people. If we take a closer look at these studies, we will find out that majority of successful people use goal ... Views: 807
In our previous article: Goal Personal Planning Setting Success. Step 1, we talked about creating your long term and short term goals. By now we should be ready to move forward to the next step of goal personal planning setting success.
The next step in the process of goal personal planning and ... Views: 807
Definition of Coaching
Coaching is an ongoing professional relationship that helps people produce extraordinary results in their lives, careers, businesses or organizations. Through the process of coaching, clients deepen their learning, improve their performance, and enhance their quality of ... Views: 807
Downtime is a necessity in today’s warp-speed world. We are so busy making a living and consumed in day-to-day activities that we often do not have time to enjoy life. We tend to over-commit, never say no and turn into workaholics – always doing something or going somewhere.
Are you someone ... Views: 807
Scientifically, Observation has an effect on the results of an experiment.
Similarly, a Self-Fulfilling prophecy is when "a false definition of the situation evokes a new behavior which makes the original false conception come true."
What we say to others and how we articulate our thoughts ... Views: 807
New Year's Eve is always an interesting time. It is one of the few days people really look back on the past and also look forward to the future. Now is the time to consider the changes to make in your life and figure out a way to make those changes stick. Here is the unofficial list of the ... Views: 807
How does one go from making daily (sometimes twice daily) trips to Taco Bell for the “usual” $20 order of tacos, chips, burritos and whatever else is in the bag, reach 420 pounds on the scale, expand to a 66 inch waist, frustrated with how life turned out to becoming a trim and fit weight (270 ... Views: 806
In my conversations with hundreds of top salespeople over the years, I have found that they all have one thing in common.
In my conversations with hundreds of top salespeople over the years, I have found that they all have one thing in common. They have taken the time to sit down and create a ... Views: 806
Connections
To capitalize via web-based networking media, make the connections you work with it your ultimate objective. That may sound somewhat idealistic for any individual who is grounded in increasingly conventional and unmistakable business estimation and measurements, yet make a stride ... Views: 806
Intent is an interesting word - it always seems to be linked to something rather grand. 'I intend to find my purpose in life' might be an example. And it's an important intent. But what about those lesser intents? I intend to tidy the kitchen, for instance? It might not look like much, but ... Views: 805
When your head spins with To-Do lists, your In Box is overflowing and your desk is cluttered with stuff that needs to be handled it can trigger a feeling that is anything but empowering. Cocktail, anyone?
Feeling overwhelmed by your work and life is a fast way to kill your emotional ... Views: 805
Goal setting and personal planning are skills that have to be learned, developed and honed to perfection by repeated use. One common question about goals setting and personal planning is: “Where do I start?”
Start with a finished picture
You might be tempted to start at the beginning – ... Views: 804
If you had all the money you would need, all the time it would take, and you knew you absolutely couldn’t fail, what would you do? Who would you do it with? Where would you go? What would you have? What would you want to be? In other words, what goals would you set for yourself, if you knew ... Views: 803
Do you know your goals for 2008?
When was the last time you set yourself a goal? Studies tell us that only 3% of people in the UK set goals and those that do are among the wealthiest in the country. So what about those that don’t set goals? Well, I call them plodders! In order to achieve the ... Views: 803
It's that time of the year again. Time to set new goals for the year and to start creating your own destiny! But where do you start? You know you want to change and at least for now you have the motivation, but how exactly do you start down the path to change.
Quick tip? Take a look at ... Views: 803
I got a mass email the other day asking me where it was that I would rather be. I thought and thought, I am already living on a tropical island, so this was a little difficult to answer... :)
So, I changed the wording to instead say,
Where do you want to be in the future? In the end I came ... Views: 802
Here is a basic simple way that you may have read or know already to set an income goal and keep track of your achievements.
If you want to earn $20,000 a year, then work that back to what you need to earn a day. $20,000
A Year $416.69 per week, $83.35 per day, or $200 per hour, that’s two ... Views: 802
Life Coaching is a process that facilitates the performance, learning and development of the client. Sessions, whether face to face, by email or by phone involves a conversation between the coach and the client, which encourages the client to explore and work a way through an aspect of the ... Views: 802
Did you know that recent research says that concentrating (staying focused) on the muscles you are using during a given exercise increases the effects of that exercise! Think about that. Focusing on each muscle group and what it's doing at the time (visioning) will increase your strength, ... Views: 802
Recently, Joy and I had the pleasure of speaking at a conference of Educational Office Professionals in Baltimore, MD. The other speakers included Ms. Deborah Phelps, mother of six-time gold medalist in the 2004 Summer Olympics swimmer Michael Phelps, and Agatha von Trapp, the 91-year-old ... Views: 800
I don`t know how spring cleaning became a tradition, and I know that phrase means different things to different people. And while some of that cleaning could take place at any time of the year (and often does), there`s just something about the spring to help you think about airing things out and ... Views: 800
Babe Ruth was once quoted as saying, “It is hard to beat a person who never gives up.” Setting goals is one of the most essential keys in accomplishing success. Setting goals is not the same as making your New Year’s Resolution—now, that is simply a wish. Merely hoping and wishing for something ... Views: 800
What's the Best Gift You Can Receive Next Holiday?
How about your own success?
As I write this, we are entering the holiday season, during which you will try to figure out the best gifts you can give friends and family, and they'll do the same for you. Odds are, the results will be less ... Views: 799
Because the New Year and goal-setting time is approaching, we will take this opportunity to spend some with you time thinking about what it is that you want to achieve, and set some goals around that for the new year!
To either start (or to continue) achieving what you want out of your life, ... Views: 799
There's no denying that the Internet is allowing more and more entrepreneurs to start their own businesses and effectively market their new products. However, there seems to be an increasingly common misconception when these businesses try to generate media attention and publicity for their ... Views: 799
THE HIGHLY EFFECTIVE- YET VERY DOABLE - STEPS FOR OVERCOMING PROCRASTINATION
We started this blog series talking about procrastination in general, and then shifted our focus to start thinking about what we procrastinate about and why. Now we’re going to get to work! Remember, document your ... Views: 798
It is that point of the year once more while presents and festivities are exchanged and nicely, extra importantly to us, new vehicles are sold. The auspicious time of Navratri and Diwali is ultimate in and in case you're starting to bite your nails as to what to shop for and make the nice of it, ... Views: 797
2009 had two significant events that nearly derailed me—I lost my beautiful and inspirational mother to cancer, and had a terrible car accident that left me quite injured. At one point, I questioned everything. Was I successful? Was I truly making a contribution to my clients and my community? ... Views: 797
SWOT stands for Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats - strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in Swedish. It is a planning tool and approach for defining what needs to be done to develop a company. SWOT can also be used by associations and individuals.
What does SWOT ... Views: 797