Goal Setting Articles

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Abhishek Agarwal @ Friday, 12th October 2007 @ 7:17 PM

Determination is a key factor that helps us achieve our goals. Goal setting is the process of identifying something that we wish to achieve in a specific period of time. Many of us still do not set goals in our lives, and some don't even know how they can do so. When they do suddenly decide they need defined goals, they are often unrealistic. So, set your goals with both feet firmly on the ground, keeping your strengths and weaknesses in mind. One of the best things that you can do f... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Abhishek Agarwal @ Friday, 12th October 2007 @ 7:13 PM

Do you know what the term "the big picture" means? It means having a foresight on the bird's eye view of your business, and how you would like to see it grow in the long run. Setting goals is a very important aspect of any business strategy, and the businessman needs to know where his company is headed over the coming months and years. Business goal setting provides the basic blueprint of operating for the company, and helps give direction to the company as a whole. The break up of ... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Abhishek Agarwal @ Friday, 12th October 2007 @ 7:07 PM

Different people read goal-setting articles for different reasons. Some may need to reorganize their lives and they read such articles to help them go on with life. Others may plan to achieve a higher degree of success at the work place and therefore look for such articles. Some may feel that their outlook towards life needs a reformation and they read goal setting articles to help turn their lives around. So, different people read goal setting articles for different reasons but they help them a... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Sam Beatson @ Thursday, 11th October 2007 @ 6:37 PM

Success in any endeavour, in achieving any goal, inserting an objective and going ahead and taking massive action to make it happen to be distilled into eight steps to success. These eight steps to success are universal in application and if you apply them you will not fail to achieve your goals. Anyone who applies these eight steps to success will get to the end result if they keep trying. The acronym ACTIVATE is useful to remind yourself of the eight steps to success. What do the lett... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Kim Kirmmse Toth @ Tuesday, 9th October 2007 @ 9:41 PM

The "Pre-Retirement" stage is the period of time you have to plan and take a look at what you might want down the road. Let's just say you're 5 or 10 or 15 years or so away from retirement. Don't rest on your laurels and let the years fly by. Now is the time to take action to plan your retirement. I truly suggest you really take this to heart! Naturally, you will come from a different place in your life than your friends will so you may not be able to rely on shared... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Kim Kirmmse Toth @ Tuesday, 9th October 2007 @ 9:06 PM

As baby boomers, we do have a reputation for doing things our own way. It appears it's been that way since the day we were born. Not that there is anything wrong with that! I call is being CREATIVE. I know for a fact that I will not be retiring at 65 years old and getting that gold watch like my Gramps did. He worked for Standard Brands all his adult life. I am only 53 yeas old and have had a great many jobs since I turned 21, just like most of you. Gramps had one job. I hear ... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Danette Hibberd @ Tuesday, 9th October 2007 @ 7:52 PM

Procrastination, or delaying an action until another time, is a habit suffered for a variety of reasons. These reasons could include the fear of failure, the fear of success, fear of rejection, perfectionism, poor knowledge or organisational skills, and very often procrastination could be due to low self esteem. The following suggestions will assist in overcoming these reasons to procrastinate and help bust the procrastination cycle once and for all. Fear of Failure or Success <... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Kenneth Delor Taylor @ Tuesday, 9th October 2007 @ 6:27 AM

"Today! On this day..." when combined with a powerful image will have a far more profound and noticeable affect on conquering your goals than any affirmation. Let me show you what I mean. There's a movie "300" about how 300 Spartans fought valiantly against a Persian army of immense size. The Spartans were trained since childhood to never retreat, never look back, never give up...always push forward. Hmm, now don't you think that's a pretty powerful way of l... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Kenneth Delor Taylor @ Tuesday, 9th October 2007 @ 1:17 AM

This idea for executing a goal was first inspired by the movie "Little Big Man" with Dustin Hoffman. In the movie, the girl playing Hoffman's sister is teaching him how to be a gunslinger with some lessons on how to shoot. This is where the story gets good. Hoffman's sister tells Dustin that he has to shoot the target "before" he draws his gun. As you will see, this is just one important part of the "fire". This formula for goal execution is about you tak... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Mary McNeil @ Saturday, 6th October 2007 @ 8:04 PM

The creative life is somewhat of a paradox. That is, if you define a creative life as a life that produces ample amounts of recognized creative output during its decades of existence. In order to produce plenty of creative output over the sustained period of a lifetime, a large helping of discipline is involved. That and some extremely robust routines. Here we encounter the paradox, because discipline and routine are not popularly associated with the concept of creativity. They would seem... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Kevin Sinclair @ Wednesday, 3rd October 2007 @ 9:14 PM

Without priorities life can become a jumbled mess lacking in direction. Priorities are the driving force that keeps us on task, moving toward our goals, and leading a satisfying and productive life. But in order to live your life according to priorities, you must first learn what your priorities are, how to set them, and how to keep them. Priorities are a personal matter meaning that no two people's priorities will be the same. You might want to be promoted at work whereas a coworker... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Abhishek Agarwal @ Wednesday, 5th September 2007 @ 11:36 PM

If you want to attain success in life then ability to set goals is a must. The goals should be effective. This is to say that they must be realistic. Once you have set your goals you are motivated to attain them. When you realize your goals your self-esteem and self-confidence boosts up. It charges you for the next assault. Goal setting is an activity that requires skill. Only then you can set right kind of and reachable goals. Many factors have to be considered while setting goals so that you k... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Stephen Campbell @ Tuesday, 4th September 2007 @ 4:07 PM

The benefits of and growing as a person and making constant expansion is an innate part of us as human beings. All of us want to grow more and more and one's definition of personal growth along with a list of personal skills for use in your personal development is of paramount importance. Reaching your potential personal and professional development becomes more and more important as time goes by as everyone wants to get better in his or her life in every way possible. Now when consi... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Stephen Campbell @ Monday, 3rd September 2007 @ 4:41 AM

Sometimes, when all our doubts, fears and insecurities wrap ourselves up, we come up with the idea of "I wish I was somebody else." More often than not we think and believe that someone or rather most people are better than us.- when in reality the fact is most people are more scared than us. The fact is You, I, We can be whoever or whatever we choose to be it is all a matter of the choices we make in life. For example, let's assume you are a guy and spot a totally eye-catch... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Kenneth Delor Taylor @ Friday, 31st August 2007 @ 9:27 PM

Last night I watched a lunar eclipse from my garden under a Japanese maple tree. What a show. And I saw six lessons in goal success. There may have been more, but these six really stood out. Here's the story with the six lessons. The copper colored moon started to reveal a sliver of bright light as the Earth's shadow began to migrate from its full eclipse of the moon. As I watched the revealing sliver of bright light get larger, I couldn't help but think how we have ... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Kenneth Delor Taylor @ Wednesday, 29th August 2007 @ 6:19 PM

Recently, I've been using a famous quote by Calvin Coolidge as my mantra to get me going and get things done. Specifically, getting a product together; getting it up on a website; and getting it promoted. "Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; The world is full of educated derelicts. Persi... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Joe Farcht @ Sunday, 19th August 2007 @ 10:25 PM

Practice a behavior once and find out how it's done. Repeat the behavior once more and you correct some mistakes. Practice it a third time and start to feel more comfortable. The fourth time you start to feel a little confident. Practice it six more times and start to build mastery. What's so hard about mastering new skills that will bring you greater success? Fear of never having behaved in that new way and failing is a huge personal threat to many people. You are taught ... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Anisa Aven @ Thursday, 16th August 2007 @ 6:18 PM

If you've ever wondered how the imagination works as it relates to recreating the past, you'll enjoy the question I received -- as well as the reply to the question. Here's the question that was asked: How does my imagination work when I have imagined receiving a passing mark on exams that I've already taken but haven't received the grade yet? I'll get the grades back in a few weeks but can my imagination change the marks that have already been awarded? ... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Laurie Weiss @ Wednesday, 15th August 2007 @ 12:54 AM

Affirmations are basically lies. They are statements of the things that you are, that you do, or that you have that you don't believe. You don't believe them because they're not true, but you wish they were true. Although many programs for working with affirmations would have you believe that repeating these lies over and over again will make your subconscious mind believe that they're true, I don't find this approach very helpful. I think it's far mo... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Steve Dempster @ Tuesday, 7th August 2007 @ 10:21 AM

Nowadays many people seem to be chasing that elusive, mythical crock of gold just like in the story. Alas, too often it is never found, always being just that bit out of reach - just like in the story! This article looks at a way of bringing it that bit nearer. Although the old 'rainbow's end' story is meant to teach us that nothing comes easily and that riches don't just fall into our lap, it doesn't offer any suggestions as to how to reach the crock of gold at a... more...