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Official Guide for Goal Setting

Charlie Adams

Charlie Adams is the Official Guide for Goal Setting on SelfGrowth. An author and speaker, he teaches practical systems for setting goals that stick — especially when motivation fades.

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Benjamin Franklin’s 13 Life Virtues

Defining himself as "The youngest Son of the youngest Son for five Generations back," Benjamin Franklin was born in 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts. Throughout his life, Franklin would be known as a writer, printer, political philosopher, politician, Freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, humorist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat.

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By Ted Ciuba
Persistence and Reframing

Adventures come to all.nnThat being the case, you can rightfully determine to steel yourself to it, and endure the “slings and arrows of outrageous fortune”!nnIt’s the way the triumphant pass.nnThe science of NLP, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, has given us the concept of reframing.nnNot really a new idea, but certainly newly qualified idea… Which really means nothing more than changing the meaning, usually by changing internal associations with a said

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Unstoppable! Removing the Possibility of Failure

A friend of mine likes to raise and show dogs. I mean that he and his wife like to take them to dog shows, where prizes are won for the best looking dogs. Preparing the dogs for this event involved training them from birth through their later years, from potty training to doing whatever dogs do at dog shows. I asked him one day, “Lawrence, how do you potty train dogs?” nnI’ll never forget his answer. He thought it over for a minute and then said, “You don’t give the

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Find Time to Achieve Your Goals

There are a lot of goals we want to attain in life like start our own company, become great at something and even write awesome blogs. Problem is, with all these great aspirations, many of us do not have time for anything. We are too busy with our daily lives to focus on dreams that seem superficial to us. There is always time for our dreams; in fact there is time for everything. We just have to learn to organize and prioritize on things. In addition, the lack of time for our

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Goal Setting For Leaders

It’s that time of year when almost everyone sets a few resolutions they would like to see happen in their lives this year. While most of these have to do with our personal life, it’s always a good idea as a leader to set at least resolution pertaining to your leadership. We never ...

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By SelfGrowth Contributor
Go Ahead: Set Those Dream Goals Now!

Life indeed is just too short to let it pass by and success in its most phenomenal state is just around the corner if you simply apply a few of these theories and principles. 1.) Focus, focus and focus. By concentrating and focusing on your dream goals and steps for at least one hour per week, you will be utterly amazed at what you could attain or achieve. Perhaps you might need reference books or accompanying music that inspires—just anything to help you concentrate and fo

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By David Ho, www.practicalgoalachieving.com
The Goal Blueprint: A New and Interesting “Twist” To Setting and Writing Your Goals

Have you ever planned a vacation? If not, then let’s start right now! “Wait a minute… I thought this article was supposed to be about how to set goals. I’ve been tricked!”. Before you hit the ”back” button on your computer, please bear with me for a moment, as I assure you, planning a vacation has every bit to do with how you should approach setting goals and achieving them.rn rnAre you still with me? Good. OK, so what’s the first thing you do when you plan a

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By Productive Fish
9 Highly Effective Techniques To Study More Effectively in 2020

Efficiency. Studying. Effective studying? What does it mean?rnWe know how hard can it be when you have to read, review, or write something, especially with the deadline. It’s not because we’re lazy, we’re just not able to draw our attention to the right task. And this is where some study techniques can totally blow your mind. https://productive.fish/blog/how-to-study-effectively/ Here are some basic steps on the way to be productive at studying:rn1. The learning process

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By Rohit Verma
How To Choose The Best College After Class 12

One of the most important decisions we make in our life is deciding a career path, which sets the course for our lives and where it’s headed. College is the first step of a long to establish your career, so you must choose the best-suited college to cater to all your needs and help you grow into a well-rounded individual, setting you on the road to success. In this article, we will see how you can choose the best college for you after completing your class 12 and also look

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By James
Best Ways to Overcome Resistance to Change in a Workplace

They say that change is the only constant. And then, when we are talking about employees, it can be upsetting and hard to manage. It is important that different perceptions are given importance when trying to bring a successful transformation; be it the one initiating a change, implementing it, or is going to be impacted by it.rn rnNo one can deny that there are a number of challenges and attributes of high-performing teams. Talking about modern organizations, they are full o

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By Russell Bishop
How Multi-Goaling Beats Multi-Tasking Every Time

Of course you have multiple things to do. That's a good thing. In fact, if you didn't have multiple things to do you might be coming near the end of an active life. Even if you've lost your job, and I know what that one's like, you still have multiple things to do.nnMore accurately stated, you have multiple goals you are seeking to accomplish, each of which requires multiple tasks in order to complete.nnCan you hold multiple goals at the same time? Of course you can.nnCan you

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By Amy Twain
Know The Secrets To Achieve Effective Goals

Setting effective goals—how do you go about in achieving them? Perhaps you hoped to eat healthily from now on, start going back to the gym or be more patient with other people. But these are just wishes, not goals. Yes, the aspiration to improve ourselves for the better is there and it’s authentic. However, the processes we carry on whilst pursuing this aspiration is rather defective or not working at all. If you want to set effective goals, first and foremost, your goal

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By Joe Bennet
Tips to Create a Business Plan

Today's business leadership go out of their way to create and execute successful business plans. There are many online business courses that you can take to teach you how to create a business plan but the course may not go into the process of analyzing your existing processes before creating your new plan. Before you develop and implement your business plan you should take time to plan your approach. One of the first steps is to analyze your existing processes and look for po

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By SelfGrowth Contributor
Weight Loss Goals Within Your Reach

o you want to lose weight--you’ve set your own weight loss goals. The question is, do you have realistic weight loss goals? It’s easy enough to set your own targets and objectives, especially most people out there who are fat, chubby, or those…obese (ugh!) really and seriously make this as their topmost priority when it comes to making (and eventually breaking) their New Year’s Resolutions. So how to keep your weight loss goals and gradually attain it? I can’t promi

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By Ruth Davis
Following the Light: How to Create a Five Year Plan

I was never one for having a long-term plan. When people asked "what are your goals for 5 years, 10 years?" I'd look at them blankly. I had no idea.rn rnI would tell myself, I live in the moment, I can't possibly know what I'll be doing in 10 years. And yet, in the deep of my heart, I DID have a vision of what I wanted to be doing, where I wanted to be living. I just never shared it. Not even with myself. Because some voice inside of me said that, if I wasn't doing it NOW, th

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By Bruce G
Bad Aspects to steer clear of If you like to Attain All your Desired goals

A lot of people stay not successful or get alternating ordeals with successes together with lack of success, simply because they do not know that they've got lots of bad traits. Bad traits have to do with habits as well as individual features that in the long run trigger failure. A number of the things you've been accustomed to performing for a long time may very well be primary reason how come you struggle a lot. The Essential Bad Habits Inactivity is without doubt one of th

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Purpose - a Context for Goals

Most people don’t set goals. In fact, it is said that less than three percent of people set goals, with everyone else relying on chance, luck and circumstance to get them to where they want to be. Goals are the beacons that light the way towards our dreams. So if we aren’t consciously plotting the way, how will we know where we’re going or how to get there? Setting goals is a powerful exercise that sets us up for success in all areas of our lives. Our goals motivate us and keep us focused on what we want to achieve.

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By Karen Vizer
100 Things and More

I have been playing with a concept for a while, and that is: What are the 100 things I would like to do, have, be, or experience before leaving this beautiful planet? nnI began this exploration myself after noticing that many of the clients I had worked with did not have clear and defined ideas of what they wanted to attract or create. In fact, when I asked several of my regular clients to identify 100 things they had trouble getting past the first 20. One friend and client t

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By Rubel Zaman
Does an MBA mean a bigger salary?

I have 15 years’ experience of working as a senior level ‘head-hunter’ and running an executive CV writing business, dealing with MBA graduates, and in my experience the short answer is yes. If one read down the lists of business school MBA programmes under various headings, many institutions are promising salary increases around 100 %. But is this really the case? Reports released from Cambridge University's Judge Business School, outline that the average salary increa

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By Rhodri Jones
The Simplest Goal Setting Tips that Actually Work

Setting goals is not the simplest task to do. Oftentimes people do not trust themselves enough to achieve whatever it is they hope to achieve, and along the way they may also encounter problems that lead them to discouragement and failure. Although certain goal setting techniques are made available for general knowledge, the problem is, most people never use them because setting up such strategies takes so much time altogether. It is only normal to want to work on goals and t

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Personal Goal Setting: The Way to Success

You don't have to be a professional sportsperson or the CEO of a company to set personal goals. Instead, what you do have to be is an individual who wishes success in your career, within your family, or perhaps with your personal finances. Personal goal setting is just a structured personal planning process. It's an effective way to identify what you want to do, whether in the short or long term and whether it's in your professional career or personal life. And the process o

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Four Simple Ways To Help You Achieve Any Goals You Set

Sometimes it’s relatively easy to set goals, but the hard part is how to really achieve them. Everyone can set a few goals. It’s no big deal to set some goals, such as, to excercise more, to eat right food, to lose weight, to earn more money, to spend more time with family, to learn more etc. But how many of us can honestly say that we have accomplished all the goals we have set for ourselves? Probably only a very few.nnHere are several simple tips that can help you reall

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By Teddy Griffin
Getting from Here to There Requires??? Gravel???

Getting from Here to There Requires??? Gravel???rnBoy, how's that for a title that leaves room for thought!! This blog post is not really just a cleverly disguised attempt at increasing my gravel sales...(even though, if that is one of the end results, then that is good too!) I have been doing alot of thinking in the last several weeks and months about this idea that I have mentioned in my last few blog posts. I came to the realization a while back that I needed to re-tool, r

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How To Set Goals & Achieve Ultimate Success In Business and In Life

When people say to me:n n- I want to go someplace, but I don't know where n- I want to do something, but not what I'm doing n- I don't know what I want to do, and if I sound confused, that's part of my ntrouble n nI tell them, "You have to set a goal." n nThey say, "I know, I don't have a goal. How do I get a goal?" I ask them what they like to do. They may say, "I don't know."n nYou've been there, I'm sure. We all have. But eventually we all get out.n nWe each have within us

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By K>R.Mangalam University
HOW WILL THE CURRENT PANDEMIC CHANGE THE FASHION INDUSTRY WORLDWIDE?

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought in a sea of changing trends for us. All the industries got impacted. A lot of new propensities seeped in, and the fashion industry is no exception to it. To that end, if there is one thing that is sure in the post COVID world, it is definitely going to be a huge revamping of traditional fashion trends. And the fashionistas are leaving no stones untu ed to accept the trends brought in by the pandemic and use the time as an opportunity to redis

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Internet Productivity--Lofty Goal or Oxymoron?

When you work for yourself and do business on the internet you have to be a great strategic leader and a skilled tactician; even under the best of circumstances, it’s hard to be both.nnIn the corporate world, goals and milestones are the absolute measure of productivity and success. But when you work for yourself there’s no objective-other there to hold you to your goals and keep you on track. Add to that the untamed complexities of doing business online and suddenly sett

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By Elvis Ukpaka
The power of goal setting

A wise philosopher once said: “success is goals and all else is commentary.” Indeed, success in any area of your life—either in business or personal, begins with a clear-cut goal. Your ability to set and achieve goals will provide you with a sense of direction and is the master skill of success. Becoming a goal setter will do more to enhance living your dream. Below is a ten-step formula for achieving your set goals in line to utilizing your potential. 1. Decide What Yo

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By Denis Obrien
Tips for Overcoming Barriers Standing Between You and Your Goal

Reading your written goals daily will have an uplifting effect on your vision of the future. This vision propels you into action and things start to happen. And if you take advantage of these things as they come along, you will steadily advance towards your chosen goal. But everyone experiences a period, where for some reason, even though the vision is clear and stimulates action, there comes a point where, no matter how hard you try, you seem to have come to a sticking point

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The Day Josephine began ete al life

On Behalf of the Palmieri, Pagliaro, O’Brien, Gai, Agid, Brault and Graney families I say thank you for honoring mom, better known as Josephine and coming to here to celebrate her life, and we thank you for supporting us. I want to tell you about my mom .......she was an ordinary woman who lived an extraordinary life

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By Rubel Zaman
Tips for board level competency based interviews

In the current economic crisis, executive level roles are few and far between and competition is fierce. Once you have spent time making your Curriculum Vitae as professionally written as possible, securing a first interview is only the first hurdle. Employers today’s marketplace have their pick of high calibre candidates and the interview process is more rigorous than ever and complacence on your part is a pathway to failure. Effective preparation is the key to performing

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By Darcy Eikenberg
Breaking the "Busy" Bias

Don't misunderstand – I am a fan of being busy! There's nothing better than doing work you love . . . work that makes a contribution and creates results . . . and work that feeds your brain, heart, and soul. If you're busy with that, congratulations! You're unique. For many of us, though, "busy" is a frenetic, slightly-to-wildly out-of-control feeling that we hope is beneficial at some level – but realize can be damaging at the next. If, when asked to describe you, the fi

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By D. Ho, http://practicalgoalachieving.com/
How To Empower Yourself When Problems Arise.

Many years ago, I used to know this friend who was very intelligent and knowledgeable. As a matter of fact, I used to go to him for personal advice often. However, there were two things about him that many people (including me, eventually) did not like about him. The first was his personality: While, overall, he’s very friendly and outgoing, there were times when he can be very opinionated. He always felt he was right and usually discredited other people’s opinions. Perha

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By Nathaneal Mohr
How to Pull All the Benefits From 2011 to Maximize Your Business Results in 2012

If you, like me are about to set your goals for 2012 then its important to first take a step back and pull as much life experience out of 2011 as possible. This way you can get the greatest results from your strategic planning and goal setting. In this article I am going to give you a couple simple questions that will help you make better decisions in your goal setting and strategic planning for the following year. Outline Your Biggest accomplishments. When we outline our ac

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Positive thinking: Why everyone's wrong about positive thinking

Why is everyone wrong about positive thinking? What Is Positive Thinkingr Positive thinking is the process of focusing your mind, your emotions, your skills, and your attitude on success. Benefits of Positive Thinkingr The benefits of positive thinking may include: -Focus on what you want -Releasing negative outcomes -Having a positive attitude -Lower stress and release negativity -Increased healthy feelings of happiness -A happier outlook -An improved situation -A happier

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The 10 Lessons I’ve Learned from 10 Years of Marriage

Today, April 30th is our 10th wedding anniversary. Yes, just like Prince William and Kate Middleton. (They copied us btw, long story.) The photos here were take 10 years apart – the one on our grand staircase taken on our wedding day, and now today in our new home, Success Manor. Wow. Sometimes I can’t believe how fast the time has gone. Sometimes it feels like we’ve been together forever. The irony is that we didn’t meet until we were both in our 40s and had both gone t

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How Can We Set Goals, When We Don't Really Know What We Want?

It has become very clear to me as I discuss the law of attraction with people as part of my personal development coaching events that when I ask “What is success for you? Or “What do you really want from life?” Many people just don’t know and don’t know how to even start down the pathway to wealth creation that they feel is the answer to this question. I ask you “Do you know what you want?”nnPersonal development is designed to sharpen your senses and defining yo

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By Chandni Siddiqui
How to Be Bold and Confident: The Ultimate Success Mantra

Are you going through the worst period of your life and wish to get over it soon? Are you enough frustrated and tired of your personal issues but unable to cope with? So, if you are waiting for a miracle then your wait is ended here. Simply, apply these steps in your life, we’re sure your problems will be sorted out and doors of success will open automatically. 1. Chase your dreams without hesitating: If you have ever dreamt of becoming someone or something then wake up and s

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Goal Setting Made Easy

Effective Goal Setting Made EasynnThe next time somebody tells you that setting goals is really a lot of hype, tell him this: if life is a journey, how will you get there if you don’t have an itinerary? nnBreak down a single goal into little piecesnnRegardless of your goal’s size, you should have a plan of attack. Ask yourself:nWhat do I know about this? nWhat information do I have? nWhat information do I need? Where can I get it? nWhat skills do I need to master?

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By SelfGrowth Contributor
Why setting the right goals is the key to success

rnThe internet contains a ton of articles about the importance of goals. The process seems as simple as setting a target and chase it with discipline. Boom, you'll achieve what you want. But are things really that simple? What if you set the wrong goal for yourself? People often try chasing something without knowing the reason. When I started my first business venture, I did not know what my goal was. All I knew was I wanted to make a cartload of money and become famous. I bu

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By Jonathan Greenblatt
Remembering Ron Brown and Crafting an Agenda of Sustainable Commerce

While most of us might not pause today on April 3, it is a date that should resonate with every American. It is the anniversary of the death of Commerce Secretary Ronald H. Brown. Secretary Brown and 34 other people, including more than a dozen dedicated public servants, lost their lives 13 years ago when, during an official trade mission, their plane crashed into a lonely mountainside outside Dubrovnic, Croatia.nnIt is interesting to imagine what the first African-American t

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By Peggy Murrah, Founder of PMA Web Services
Top Tips to be More Productive

I love working in a team environment, managing multiple clients, keeping it all together and organized. It’s the thrill of taking your inbox from overwhelming to in-control (or at least as the appearance of being in control). I love a good challenge. But keeping the team productive is even a greater challenge because I quickly realized that I frequently stood in their way, by not getting them what they need, when they need it. So my need to be as productive as possible now

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By Isabella Whitmore
Global Energy Problems

Electricity is one of the greatest creations of human and most essential innovation in the world . The development and generation of it drastically changed the way we live, from domestic to industrial activities. We use electricity in almost everything that we do. At home, we depend so much on electric appliances for cooking, cleaning, and recreational activities such as watching tv or playing video games. When we step outside, we see offices, shopping malls, schools, hospita

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By TJ Philpott
Putting Your Goals within Your Grasp

rnWhen establishing your goals it is important to not set yourself up for failure. In order to achieve goals you have set for yourself they must be realistic and measurable goals. In fact the key to success in achieving goals is to possess the skills required and the ability to monitor your progress. It is therefore critical that any goal planning process takes this into consideration. Let's look at 3 important elements that you will need to have in any goals you establish fo

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The Right Way to Set Goals

The BeginningnnOk so you decided that you want to set a goal. Good for you! What is it? Do you want to get in shape? Make more money? Maybe meet someone new and start a relationship? Whatever it is the important thing is that you’ve taken a step towards your goal. Now think about your goal. I’ll give you a second. Ready? Alright. On a scale of 1 to 5 (5 being absolutely confident and 1 being not confident at all) how confident are you that you can reach your goal?

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Goals are Moving Targets

I was raised on the Oregon Coast, and I enjoy hiking in the woods. nnA while back, I signed up for a class on wild mushroom identification. I learned the basics of finding, recognizing and cooking some of the many varieties of edibles in the rain forest. I learned to find some basic varieties: boletus, chanterelles and corals. The process of hiking in the woods was more gratifying, because now I brought home some dinner! I had become the mighty hunter. nnI drew conclusions fr

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By Antonio Howell
Writer's Block: Strategies to Beat It

Maybe you had a very clear vision for the first few chapters of your novel, and you zipped through those, typing so fast that your fingers blurred on the keyboard. Or maybe you started with the ending, scrawling out a climax of epic proportions, and getting the characters exactly where they needed to be. Problem is, what do you do with the rest of the story? This is a difficulty that doesn’t just apply to the non-planners among us. Even faithful outliners may realize that t

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Digging for Gold

When I was a young boy in Santa Cruz, California I used to help my grandfather in the fields by his home. This was not his land but back in those days it was not unusual to barter with the neighbors to work it for them so he could grow the vegetables that he loved. He would then share them with the neighbor for payment. He grew corn, beans, peas, zucchini, cucumbers and garlic. And nobody could grow bigger dahlias than my grandfather. nnAs I worked along side him he used to l

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By Muhammad Nasir Aziz
Escape Room: Type of Player you Should Seek for

‘Escape Room’ or ‘Live Escape’ is a live-action team sport. In a room, a group of people find clues, solve puzzles to get the task done in a limited period of time of one hour. There are many ‘Escape Room’ tournaments held by different brands across the entire globe. The most essential element to winning these tournaments is the formation of a proper team. Every member of a team has some hidden talent, some specialty, something in which they are good at. Today, in

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By Luke Hirst
Going for the pink licence!

All start with their driving instructors with a green provisional driving licence, but all pupils are aiming for one thing and one thing only, and that's to acquire a pink full driving licence! But you must earn your pink driving licence by passing both your driving theory test and your practical driving test. Some choose to go for the full driving licence earlier on in life, whereas others choose to acquire it later, but at some point in most people's life they will look for

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