Career Goal Setting: How Important is it?

No matter what career you’ve chosen for yourself, you want to go as far as you can in your field, limited only by your personal desires.  It’s true that most people want to make as much money as possible, but it’s just as true that many of those same people would turn down a promotion [...]

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How To Set Goals For Maximum Success

If you want to achieve everything you can in life, then you’ve got to learn how to set goals and accomplish them.  This holds true in every single area of life.  Take money, for example.  Many people do OK in life, they’re fairly successful, or at least make enough money to get by.  Their bills [...]

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Writing Goals Part 2: Five Basics of Goal Setting

There are five basic principles when it comes to writing your goals. As you go along and master the skill of goal setting, you will want to keep these in mind.

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Short Term Goals: They Can Get You Where You Wanna Go!

I am really serious about this. My whole outlook about goals setting is that it is a skill and that it can be learned. If this is true, once you learn how to set a goal, create a plan, and the reach your goal, you are setting all the groundwork for a habit and skill [...]

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Personal Goal Setting: I Wish I May, I Wish I Might

Cover of Starlight, Starbright

My little girl LOVES to hear in her words, “I wish I might, I wish I know”. If you do not remember the childhood rhyme, let me remind you: “Starlight, star bright the first star I see tonight, I wish I may, I wish I might, get the wish I wish tonight.” [...]

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Writing Goals Down: Pushing that Boulder up The Hill

So how many goals have you actually written out into a plan and then followed it until you actually reached your goal? I think New Year’s Eve is the most notorious time for a person to write down their resolutions of what they are going to accomplish: stop smoking, lose weight, get out of debt….
But [...]

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Short Term Goals: Baby Step Your Way

How many times has this happened to you?  You decide you’re going to make a major change in your life for the better.  Maybe it’s a decision to lose weight.  Or to get in shape by working out.  It could be something that’s work related, like resolving to go back to school to get your [...]

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Goal Setting Examples

If you’re interested in being more successful, you’ve probably heard about the power of goal setting.  Examples of just how powerful this technique is are all over the place.  Actually, referring to goal setting as a technique is probably selling it short.  Some experts on goal setting call it a technology.  When I first heard [...]

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Goal Achievement

Have you ever stopped to consider just what it is that makes a person or business successful?  What is the one underlying factor that ties together success in any field, from all walks of life?  Is it talent?  How about hard work?  Many people would say money – it takes money to make money, etc.  [...]

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Setting and Achieving Goals

Do you ever feel like you’re just drifting through life?  As if things happen to you, outside of your control, and that you’re really not in charge of your life?  Do you sometimes look around and wonder how in the world your life turned out this way, and what you can do to change it?  [...]

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