Goal Setting Articles

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Nickolove Lovemore @ Wednesday, 25th July 2007 @ 6:19 AM

Often when you ask someone what they want from life they will reply: "I just want to be comfortable." Well, I can almost guarantee that anyone who says this is struggling in life and frustrated with their results. Someone who says they just want to be comfortable often feels that they don't deserve great success and that success is elusive. And they can prove it, for that is exactly what their life has demonstrated to date. The sad thing is that some of these ... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Stephen Campbell @ Tuesday, 24th July 2007 @ 5:18 PM

Perseverance is an important virtue in order to be successful in many aspects in life. It is a quality that successful people all have in common, because in order to achieve goals and overcome obstacles, we must try again and again. It is that trait that they all share, part of their strong character, because perseverance is the one thing needed to attain success in many aspects of one's life, from sports to business. It is difficult not to be swayed by less important things and be distract... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Mohamad Latiff Bin Rahim @ Tuesday, 24th July 2007 @ 3:39 PM

Your mind is the single most effective and essential tool to craft and program your thoughts, aspirations and goals. Consequently, when your goals are properly planned out, it will be very much easier to shape and design the life you want and ultimately the success you strive to attain. Yet, many people still do not even use their minds to set goals, let along take effective actions to achieve their goals. I am highlighting the mistakes of not programming your mind to set goals because yo... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Stephen Campbell @ Tuesday, 24th July 2007 @ 3:25 PM

Character development without getting a chance to develop perseverance is like an empty shell without a pearl. To develop perseverance one needs a strong willed character that enables individuals to achieve goals in life. In the existentialist world of today where each second costs a dime, it becomes necessary to face all the stress through coping strategies. To develop perseverance one needs guidance and experience in life so as to be successful academically and professionally. In stu... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Stephen Campbell @ Tuesday, 24th July 2007 @ 3:23 PM

Positive thinking is a field that shapes and conforms the individual psychological capability of every person to alter a viewed reality by continuously stating correct psychological statements. An individual implements positive thinking when he practices a positive sense of lifestyle, hope, faith, implication and/or objective from being part of and contributing back to anything bigger and more established than themselves. Positive thinking is a procedure of selective affirmative feelings... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Stephen Campbell @ Tuesday, 24th July 2007 @ 3:16 PM

Positive thinking is a method used by many people the world over for many different reasons. It is a way of using the mind to allow positive thoughts, dreams, ideas, goals and other notions to drift through your mind, allowing for a greater understanding and acceptance of these things. By practicing positive thinking you are opening yourself up to experiencing good and beneficial outcomes in your life. You will begin to see the good in situations instead of focusing on negative aspects, you will... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Kris Koonar @ Tuesday, 24th July 2007 @ 2:13 PM

When you learn how to set specific goals, while goal setting within business planning, you increase your chances of success tenfold. Your business goals need to be specific in order to be achievable. Specific goal setting minimizes chances of failure. But what is a 'specific goal'? A goal incorporating an action plan that lays down ways and means of achieving that goal is a specific goal. A specific goal also needs to provide a way in which is can be measured, to know whether t... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Kris Koonar @ Tuesday, 24th July 2007 @ 2:13 PM

We are all aware how important goal setting is in business and professional life. While many of us do follow this in our work and we usually leave our personal life in a jumbled up mess. But the fact remains that without personal goals, we cannot expect to lead a happy life. Personal goals are important for over all development, and neglecting these can sometimes have a devastating effect. None of us wants to be in a situation where we have been highly successful in our professional life by the ... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Kris Koonar @ Tuesday, 24th July 2007 @ 2:11 PM

If you want a successful career and a successful life, you have to make sure that your career goals match your values in life. This means that you should ensure that your goals are in line with the things that are important to you, and the things that matter to you the most. If you do not keep the goals and values in your life matched, there is going to be only chaos and disorganization. You are going to be stressed and anxious all the time. This is because what you are doing does not ma... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Kris Koonar @ Tuesday, 24th July 2007 @ 2:11 PM

You may want to be the richest person in your neighborhood, or the richest person in your city. You may desire a fleet of cars that will be the envy of even Donald Trump. You may dream of a house in London, a casa in Spain, a mansion in Italy or just to be super-rich. All your wants are dreams and desires, not really goals. You definitely do not want to get disappointed and disillusioned. The best thing to do in this case is set goals that are get-able or achievable. Whether you are setting goal... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Kris Koonar @ Tuesday, 24th July 2007 @ 1:47 PM

College life is completely new for students as compared to the protected one they are used to in school. It involves freedom, and a chance to see the world from close quarters. But the students are no longer shielded by a protective covering of school and parents, and the freedom brings a lot of responsibility with it. Students learn, often in a harsh way, that things do not necessarily go as they might have planed. According to a study by W. Haley (cited in Upcraft and Kramer, 1995), stu... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Kris Koonar @ Tuesday, 24th July 2007 @ 1:46 PM

Almost every person has a goal and a specific destination in mind with the help of which he or she can plan the route ahead of time and make the process of attaining goals all the more enjoyable. Conceiving something and believing in it can make you achieve it as well. If you are sure about doing something then there is nothing that can stop you. You can have goals for future saving, for taking a vacation, traveling or purchasing something that you always wanted; but you can achieve it all when ... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Kris Koonar @ Tuesday, 24th July 2007 @ 1:45 PM

Everyone has certain career goals that we want to achieve. These are your goals that pertain to your career and your future. Your goal may be to climb the corporate ladder or to get that promotion you have been aiming at. Whatever it maybe, make sure it is a concrete, achievable and realistic goal. Career planning questions The most important thing about career goal setting is to know where you are headed and where you are going before you get there. Plan your short term and long-... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Stephen Campbell @ Thursday, 19th July 2007 @ 1:12 PM

The basics of Goal Setting is an open secret known by top-caliber athletes, successful businessmen and businesswomen and all types of achievers in all the different fields from politics to acting. Accessing the subconscious mind and firmly implanting your goals there is critical to ensuring you will achieve those goals. Getting to grips with setting goals and invoking the law of attraction will give you short-term and long-term motivation and focus. They will help you set focus on the acquisitio... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Stephen Campbell @ Tuesday, 17th July 2007 @ 10:26 PM

The basics of Goal Setting is an open secret known by top-caliber athletes, successful businessmen and businesswomen and all types of achievers in all the different fields from politics to acting. Accessing the subconscious mind and firmly implanting your goals there is critical to ensuring you will achieve those goals. Getting to grips with setting goals and invoking the law of attraction will give you short-term and long-term motivation and focus. They will help you set focus on the acquisitio... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Jim Somchai @ Monday, 16th July 2007 @ 11:20 AM

Goal is important for all successes in the world. We need goal to guide our direction. Like a destination in the map, goal let us know where we want to go and how to get there. There are evidences that people who have written goals vastly achieve more than the ones who don't. Success is goal. The rest are just added to give the explicit definition. Every successful people understand about goal. They know what they want and determine everyday to achieve it. Your ability in goal settin... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Stephen Campbell @ Monday, 16th July 2007 @ 1:08 AM

The basics of Goal Setting is an open secret known by top-caliber athletes, successful businessmen and businesswomen and all types of achievers in all the different fields from politics to acting. Accessing the subconscious mind and firmly implanting your goals there is critical to ensuring you will achieve those goals. Getting to grips with setting goals and invoking the law of attraction will give you short-term and long-term motivation and focus. They will help you set focus on the acquisitio... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Stephen Campbell @ Monday, 16th July 2007 @ 1:07 AM

The basics of Goal Setting is an open secret known by top-caliber athletes, successful businessmen and businesswomen and all types of achievers in all the different fields from politics to acting. Accessing the subconscious mind and firmly implanting your goals there is critical to ensuring you will achieve those goals. Getting to grips with setting goals and invoking the law of attraction will give you short-term and long-term motivation and focus. They will help you set focus on the acquisitio... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Stephen Campbell @ Friday, 13th July 2007 @ 6:19 PM

The basics of Goal Setting is an open secret known by top-caliber athletes, successful businessmen and businesswomen and all types of achievers in all the different fields from politics to acting. Accessing the subconscious mind and firmly implanting your goals there is critical to ensuring you will achieve those goals. Getting to grips with setting goals and invoking the law of attraction will give you short-term and long-term motivation and focus. They will help you set focus on the acquisitio... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Jim Brown @ Friday, 6th July 2007 @ 8:38 PM

Do you climb in a boat on the open sea, and just sit in it, waiting for the wind to take you wherever? Unfortunately, a lot of people treat life that way. They think: Life is just happening to me. Or: I'll go with the flow. If you truly want to live life to the fullest, and be all you can be, you need to set goals and reach them. A goal is just a dream until you write it down. As soon as you write it down, it becomes like a map; a roadmap to your success. After you write them down, y... more...