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Let’s talk about goal setting; how you go about setting Purposeful goals, and making sure those goals actually get achieved.
How do you make goals work not only for New Year’s time, but throughout the whole year? How do you make them actually changing your life, transforming your life for the ... Views: 1096
This is the time of year when it is most difficult to stay on track with our goals. It is also the time of year when we're all in a rush to make new ones.
It seems to me that we all have a certain ideal, a certain way of living, which gets completely blown each holiday season.
We find it more ... Views: 1096
Established and strong businessmen always seek for the opportunity of expanding their business domestically or sometimes globally. They always make the best use of every single chance which comes their way for the expansion of business. If you are such a kind of businessman and is looking to ... Views: 1096
In the goal setting world, there is a vast difference between the achievers and the non-achievers. The achieves turn their dreams into reality, the non achievers...well...don't!
If you have ever wondered what it takes to be a great goal setter. then this article is for you. Inside we ... Views: 1095
2011 is just days away, and now is the time that people reflect upon the past year and make goals as to how to make the next year better. Upon reflecting for myself, the process led me to what will be my theme for 2011, and even beyond. That theme is this: Living Without Regret.
What does ... Views: 1095
I’m going to stop overeating. I’m going to stop smoking. I’m going to learn to eat healthy. I’m going to, you know, change.
People don’t even make New Year’s resolutions anymore because they made them year after year, right after Ryan Seacrest’s countdown to midnight, only to give up within ... Views: 1095
"The entire purpose of your goals is the step it's causing you to do today. The purpose of your goals is the awareness you must attain, the lessons to be learned, the power inside to be remembered in order to manifest the goal you desire. It's not about getting the carrot, it's about the muscles ... Views: 1095
The United States of America is the greatest country on earth, but unfortunately it is not perfect. Our economy is falling short of what it is purported to be doing: making a well-paying job for everybody who wants a job.
To generate careers, we require a stop to bad trade deals, better ... Views: 1094
5 Bad Habits That Are Sabotaging Your Business Goals
Early on in my career as an entrepreneur I quickly realized that habits had a huge impact on my results. And boy oh boy are there a lot of bad habits that sabotage results.
For some, it’s just not knowing any better. For others, ... Views: 1093
It is important to have goals because they are good for your physical and mental health. You can have goals for all areas of your life. Here are a few ideas: Career, Learning, Clubs, Money,Community, Politics, Contribution, Professional, Emotional, Reading, Family, Relationships, Health, ... Views: 1092
Forget setting New Year Resolutions – a one off activity at the start of each year that often feels forced and hurried, and leaves you feeling guilty and inadequate when they’re inevitably broken or discarded a short while later. Why not resolve (make a firm decision) at another time of year, or ... Views: 1092
In the second of this three part series on taking action, we discussed how to recognize and overcome limiting beliefs to bring yourself closer to attaining what you want from life. In Part 3, you will learn how to get the support you need to get you the rest of the way there.
If you missed ... Views: 1092
Imagine you are in the process of decorating your living room. You begin to think of how you want the room to feel when you are there, perhaps different colors of your walls or wallpaper, and even the fabric of your furniture. Then you begin the process of finding what you like best. Maybe you ... Views: 1092
God gave us the gift of life. How we choose to live it is our gift to him.
I believe everybody has a reason for being. We are all born with a purpose, a set of skills, a bevy of abilities, and a talent or two. Our life should be in the uncovering, identifying and expressing these gifts to ... Views: 1091
One of the best ways to tackle a problem in your life is to set powerful intentions. Many people have the desire to be different, yet they do not know how to go about making the changes they'd like to see. Lofty goals are often set and seldom achieved, because of a lack of understanding of HOW ... Views: 1091
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The Next 10 Years... - by Thad Mangalino - Peak Performance Coach - Firm Focus PT
It was only a few weeks ago when I opened the envelope and discovered my new drivers licence sent by VicRoads, As I was walking to my front door I was admiring the new style licence with new intricate designs to prevent identity fraud. I looked at my drivers licence photo and started to ... Views: 1091
The best way to convert a fantasy or a dream into a goal, which you can readily achieve, is to write your dream or fantasy down and then to formulate a broad plan to achieve that goal. This simple step begins the process, of goal achievement, by creating something concrete in your mind. This ... Views: 1091
There`s nothing that compares to the feeling of satisfaction, fulfillment and accomplishment when reaching a big goal. It`s like being a kid all over again and just learning to tie your shoe and ride your bike. The sense of pride and wonder fills you. A whole new world has opened up and ... Views: 1090
Alignment; having a plan and seeing it through to realization takes the arrangement of actions and the configuration of your schedule to enable it to happen. Every accomplishment that you achieve takes time; it requires your ability to make the choices that are in alignment with your ... Views: 1090
Just this morning I got an email from another coach that said, “Become totally immersed in your subject and goal. Eat, drink sleep and live for this goal; think of it all the time.”
I don’t know about you, but that doesn’t sound like much of a life to me. I want to be able to be fully ... Views: 1089
1. The biggest benefit of setting a goal is that we get the right direction of our life. Those people who don’t have Goal, they cannot move forward in any direction. If we have a goal then we would know what to do and when to do. if we have set our goal, then we can go ahead with our goal ... Views: 1089
Most New Year’s resolutions fail within the first few weeks. How are you doing? Or do you skip making resolutions altogether, because you're afraid of failure?
Real, sustained change can be a challenge. Many of us start with a vision that ignites us. That momentum carries us for a little ... Views: 1089
Ambition! Success! What exactly do these words mean to you—because without one you can’t have the other. The mere impelling force to struggle and exert for anything we desire to accomplish is as strong and powerful as our will to survive. Ambition is what drives you to dream, strive and reach ... Views: 1089
If you’re like most people, your New Year’s resolutions are now just a dim memory of good intentions shared over a glass of champagne. Don’t give up or feel guilty. There’s still time for a fresh start.
First, forget resolutions and think goal setting instead
Start by taking a bird’s eye view ... Views: 1089
At the start of a New Year many of us are thinking about New Year’s resolutions or, what we want to “do” in the coming year. Being a goal-oriented person, I set annual goals every year, which I’m pretty good about accomplishing. Since it’s the start of the year, I’ve been thinking about what I ... Views: 1088
Do not wait for another day because the future is now. Perhaps you have heard some of the techniques and strategies for accomplishing goals before but oftentimes we have to hear them again. A simple and easy acronym to recall is “smart” goals. These smart goals actually stand for specific, ... Views: 1087
A couple of ways to manage fear is what this story is about. They came to me while I was on a white water rafting trip in Costa Rica with my son, Michael, and have been applicable on a number of occasions when I’ve been “stuck” because of fear. Here’s what happened.
Michael had just graduated ... Views: 1087
The first step to be taken in order to start the Plus Factor operating is to learn to be a creative dreamer. In some uncanny way that no one fully understands, they seem to contain the seeds of their own fulfillment. If you dream something long enough and hard enough, a door seems to open and ... Views: 1087
Let's start with one of the basics for getting what you want.
Do you know what you REALLY want?
This may seem like a silly question, but I often find in working with clients that they don't know the true answer.
We frequently spend much of lives our dreaming about the things we think we ... Views: 1087
Q. What do I do when my goals don't match the company's goals for me?
A. This is a question from our recent Virtual Seminar on setting goals. Since I hear this, in one form or another, almost every month, I thought it would be worth responding to again.
I can look at this is in two ways — ... Views: 1086
Did you know that habits are incredibly powerful tools for personal growth and success?
Think about the habits you have now and how they affect virtually every aspect of your life. Your weight and health are determined by your eating habits. Your relationships with people are determined by your ... Views: 1085
Happy New Year!
Well, no. Unless you are following the fiscal calendars as some organizations and corporations do.
But it is now a little over six months since the new year began which means – unless I got my math wrong, which is always a possibility – the year is half over. O, my gosh! ... Views: 1085
WHY GOALS FAIL
There are two reasons why goals fail or we give up trying to achieve a specific goal. When I first learnt this, I knew I finally found the Holy Grail of goal achievement.
The first reason is the “Brick Wall”. Often if we make an attempt or several attempts at ... Views: 1085
It’s Monday morning, the beginning of a new week. Let’s start off with a story:
“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows that it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning, a lion wakes up. It knows that it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it ... Views: 1084
There are many ways to stay on track with your goals and keep moving towards creating the life of your own design. Making a list of what you value most in life, and then being true to those things you value, is one of the best ways to get you from where you are to where you want to be. This list ... Views: 1083
Developing a Career in Tuned with You
Dorothy Narcisse, MSW
Many times people go through life content with the fact that they’ve earned a degree and/or that they have a job that allows them to pay the bills and vacation. However, there is always that underlying factor of purpose and ... Views: 1083
These days, everyone seems to set life-changing goals. It’s fun, trendy and quite easy. But how many of these people actually achieve them? Not too many I’m afraid. Why? Because actually reaching a long wished goal is not that simple as you’d think.
So what does it require to reach the peak ... Views: 1083
This is a tremendously powerful time of year -- a time when the universe is moving all of us in an exciting and positive direction, a time when everyone, whether they know it or not, is looking to complete the past and move into a new future. 2017 offers all of us a new beginning!
We're ... Views: 1082
One of the most common reasons that people don't get to accomplish their goals is that we tend to get distracted, and we lose track of important things that need to be done consistently in order to move forward towards our goals. Maybe you have set a perfectly achievable goal and planned every ... Views: 1082
Goals are set and achieved everyday. These are small goals and are set and achieved by everybody. For example, you would like to prepare for a date tonight, one that you would want to make a success.
The actual task of preparing for a date to make it successful is an instance of an easy goal ... Views: 1082
Even though the number of related jobs is estimated to decline during the next few years, more and more people are getting interested in learning how to program. It makes sense. The promise of high salaries, the sense of working with the tools of the future, and the number of jobs available ... Views: 1081
Price is what you do or give in order to acquire another thing. Virtually, everything in life has a price, nothing is for free. I what to use this ample opportunities to clearly state that even the air we breathe is not for free. The energy you dissipate to free the system is the price you pay ... Views: 1081
“There’s a small fly burning out the last of its short life’s energies in a futile attempt to fly through the glass of the windowpane. The whining wings tell the poignant story of the fly’s strategy — try harder.
But it’s not working.
The frenzied effort offers no hope for survival. ... Views: 1080
I’ve often wondered why people who seem sincere in their desire to succeed and to move up in their careers or to change careers never make the change.
I’ve counseled individuals who are unhappy with their present career and salary. We talk about what they want out of life and what they need to ... Views: 1080
Debbi was only 19 years old when she reached a crossroad in her life. She was married to a well-known Economist and Futurist, and had quit work to play the role of a conventional wife. She hadn’t expected her decision to deal such a hard blow to her self-esteem. No one seemed to think she had ... Views: 1080
It may be simple to say that you are ready to take certain steps in discovering your goal. But once you have decided to do something towards your goal, you will soon recognize that nothing is truly easy when it comes to this. There are a lot of things to think about and matters to be sorted ... Views: 1080
Every professional can not only be a game changer, but they can open themselves to a world of possibility beyond current dreams and goals. AND that Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG).
Ten years—that’s how long I worked in network marketing until something came along that offered me a life beyond ... Views: 1079
What’s your New Year’s Resolution? Is it to lose weight or begin an exercise program? If you’re like most of us, a fit, healthy body is something you may want to work towards this year. In fact, it’s probably something you wanted to work towards last year as well as the ... Views: 1079
Do you sometimes feel that your goals are a little too conservative? Or maybe you consistently find that you have overestimated your potential and set the bar just a bit too high?
If you find that you consistently set your goals either too high or too low then this would indicate that you ... Views: 1079
I offer you a gift of power. It will save you lots of heartache and wasted time and money. It will also prove to be the single most important factor in your success, not just in my business but any business! It is the silver bullet that you can use to overcome any challenge between you and ... Views: 1078