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Successful Goal Setting - Seven Proven Steps

"All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small." - Lao Tzu

It is possible to have greater happiness and satisfaction in life than you are having right now. The satisfaction of achievement, the regular improvement of yourself is a powerful force that you can use to change your life for the better! Perhaps you want to quit smoking, or buy your child a birthday present. Maybe you want to lo... Continue Reading...

Goal Setting That Works

So, you've decided to make a New Year's resolution. You write it down, tell everyone about it, and then break it three days later. Then, you spend the next six weeks beating yourself up because you're such a failure. However, you aren't the problem; your resolutions are. Setting resolutions just doesn't work for most people. Instead, why not try a combination of affirmations and general goal setting.

Instead of saying you aren't going to smoke any m... Continue Reading...

Six Requirements For Fun & Effective Goal Setting

There is an old expression: If you don't have a goal, you're bound to reach it!

Goals, as you know, are crucial factors in helping us to achieve success.

Specifically, our goals need to be these six things to be effective:

(1) They need to be simple. For instance, your primary goal could be making money. That's simple, isn't it? Or, you may want to learn self-defense.

(2) It should be specific. "I want to earn a half millio... Continue Reading...

Goal Setting the Smart Way

Goal setting is a task that is often overlooked until the New Year, when people decide to set resolutions. However, these resolutions are nothing more than wishes and are far from what we would call "goals". Hence these "so called" goals have very little chance of being realized. Just ask any fitness club owner when the greatest number of sign-ups occur and when the greatest number of drop-outs occur. Clearly, these "... Continue Reading...

Goal Setting with Motivations and Plans

"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."

-Dale Carnegie

We are now two months into the new year and every year more than 90% of americans come up with New Year's resolutions. Most of them never start even start thier goals, a few start but never finish or follow through and even fewer yet accomplish what they set out to do. So why do so ma... Continue Reading...

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Goal Setting: Five Tips For Getting Motivated

Goal setting is a well known means of giving any self-improvement plan a greater likelihood of success. Whether it's in your personal or professional life, you'll stand a better chance of realizing an ambition if you have a clear idea in advance of what you want to achieve and if you've planned the steps you'll take to reach your target.

Motivational experts call this the S.M.A.R.T approach to setting goals: the acronym helps you to remember the crit... Continue Reading...