Goal Setting Articles

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Enrique Villalobos @ Thursday, 1st March 2007 @ 10:49 PM

Here's a quick "True" or "False" quiz: 1) Successful people have all been "blessed" with exceptional talents or skills. 2) Successful people are highly educated people with college degrees. 3) Successful people inherit their success. 4) Successful people get where they are by being dishonest. If you answered "true" to all of the above, you failed the quiz. What's more, you are most likely undermining your own potential... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Jim Klein @ Wednesday, 28th February 2007 @ 4:43 PM

Living a balanced life is the key to personal goal setting success and your career success in sales. What does it mean to live a balanced life? Balanced living starts by setting goals in all areas of your life. Goal setting has implications far beyond your career goals. In fact, people who set only business related goals decrease their odds of having a well balanced, happy life and achieving their business goals. Let's start by measuring your life satisfaction and to identify areas t... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Jason Johns @ Tuesday, 20th February 2007 @ 6:14 PM

Being distracted from your goals is one of the biggest problems we all face, and I'm going to talk about the biggest distraction of all ... LIFE! Yeah, you heard me life ... life has a tendancy to distract you from your goals. You've got all these wonderful ideas of what you want to achieve in life, all these goals, yet you find yourself getting caught up in the house work, in your job, in the shopping, in going out with your friends, in your kids, in ... You know what I... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Kelly Wissink @ Sunday, 18th February 2007 @ 12:53 AM

Unlimited wealth, toys as far as the eye can see, or family gatherings at your cottage on the lake? Success is a state of mind, and I would like to help you Succeed! Below are some dynamic belief steps to follow. S Start believing in yourself and what you do! Starting=beginning. If you would not have taken the risk and gotten on your bicycle for the first time, would you have the confidence that you do now as you mount your bike for a ride through town? This belief comes from w... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Leon Edward @ Saturday, 17th February 2007 @ 11:35 PM

If you truly want to achieve the goals you set for yourself, you have to have the right attitude. Often it is actually our own minds that can be our worst enemy, directing us to repeat the same old habits over and over again. If you have been experiencing difficulty making the changes you truly want to make, consider a visit to the doctor or psychiatrist to learn emotional intelligence and control. You have to be able to manage your time if you want to create a career. People who fail ... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Jim Klein @ Friday, 16th February 2007 @ 4:43 PM

Use these goal setting technique after you've written down your goals, gotten specific about what you want and why you want it and developed a clear mental image of your goal. When those steps are completed, it's time to take action. There are two types of action, physical and mental. Let's start with the physical. Taking Action to Move Towards your Goal Start the first part of this goal setting technique by thinking of all the things you can do to make... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Joshua Uebergang @ Sunday, 11th February 2007 @ 4:13 PM

Goal setting is the framework for personal achievement. It is the backbone of becoming a person you desire to be. Setting and achieving personal goals will guarantee you success. Most people who do set goals have little to no understanding of goal setting and as a result fail to achieve them and never succeed. You would think that if goal setting was the ultimate skill and secret to success that everyone would develop their own personal goals and learn to achieve them. Unfortunately, the world i... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Kevin Sinclair @ Friday, 9th February 2007 @ 12:20 AM

Are you content with your life? Can you honestly sit back, and say that you have achieved everything that you ever set out to achieve? Can you honestly say that you are likely to achieve your goals and dreams in the future? Many people begin their lives with hope, aspirations, ideas and goals. As life progresses, they slowly come detached from these, and one day, they come to a realization that they probably won't achieve their goals. So they give up all together, and stop dreaming, hoping,... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Jim Klein @ Thursday, 8th February 2007 @ 2:23 PM

If you use these three goal setting tips you will be on your way to creating the life you desire. Goal Setting Tip #1: Where are you going? This goal setting tip can be summed up with the title of a book my father bought me on goal setting quite a few years ago. The title of the book was "If you don't know where you're going you'll probably end up somewhere else". Those words have stuck with me all these years. When you think about the title and realiz... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Peter Murphy @ Thursday, 1st February 2007 @ 7:04 PM

If there was a simple yet very powerful way to get what you want in life, would you want to know the secret? In this article I reveal all. Read on to discover how to have the love, happiness and success you want - more easily and sooner than you expect. After twenty years experimenting with different self help philosophies and techniques I recently made a surprising discovery. Let me tell you how that came about. I am a reluctant healer. What I mean is that I never set out t... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Jim Klein @ Thursday, 1st February 2007 @ 5:05 PM

Goal setting is a powerful technique. Used properly it will accelerate your personal and professional growth. By deciding what you want to achieve and then taking action to move toward the end result, it gives you vision for the future and motivation for today. Goals are the foundation of my sales training. Some goal setting benefits: * Greater achievement * More balance in your life * Increased motivation * Improved self-confidence * Better decision... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Keith Londrie @ Friday, 26th January 2007 @ 10:25 PM

Many people know about the power of goal setting. Some people even go through the trouble of setting goals. However, for most, part of the reason people don't set goals is they find it to be a tedious exercise. In order to eliminate that, goal setting tools such as software can make goal setting activities much easier. The new age has arrived. Computers and the software that run them are helping humans in ways we never imaged just ten short years ago. There are a multitude of goal se... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Steve Seah @ Monday, 22nd January 2007 @ 5:26 PM

Most people are so tied up in goals that they fail to focus on the more important things. Life is more about achieving a lengthy list of goals. More importantly, you need to sharpen your focus and get better results rather than just dissipating your energy in every corner. There are several people who are successful and rich yet they do not enjoy contentment. This is because they lack focus on what they are and would like to be. You need to decide how you see yourself and how you wish oth... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Nathan F. Shaw @ Thursday, 18th January 2007 @ 2:34 PM

You are now two weeks into your one and only 2007. How far have you got or how well have you forgotten about your New Years Resolutions? Here's the truth. Most people search for information on the net, read some articles with tips and techniques, buy some info produts - all out of hope for 'something'. But most people do not really fully use the information to get the something. With articles or ebooks on setting New Years Resolutions that 'something' ... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Anisa Aven @ Tuesday, 16th January 2007 @ 2:51 PM

The answer is "Yes, but..." Yes, but there's always a price to pay to whatever we create. As conscious, intentional creators our work is to accept our unlimitedness. Our first and foremost goal is to fully comprehend that we are Divine, unlimited children of God. Thus, the heart of your question: If we are unlimited and pure potentiality then anything is possible, correct? YES! Anything is possible. At the core of our being we and the Father... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Anisa Aven @ Monday, 15th January 2007 @ 5:06 PM

"Procrastination is opportunity's assassin." ~ Victor Kiam, American businessman, Remington Electric Razors (1926-2001) "Oh, how I wish I could overcome procrastination! Somebody please help me stop procrastinating! But not today, I'm busy." Procrastination is a double-edged habit. It deserves our attention as well as our appreciation. The guilt we feel indicates that our procrastination serves as the destroyer of dreams. However, when inspired by our ... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Steve Seah @ Saturday, 13th January 2007 @ 9:37 AM

Everybody wants to achieve something yet the number of people who are actually and completely clear about their goals is disappointingly small. Most of us are caught in some kind of imitation behavior where our goals are merely 1 fraction above what the neighbors have achieved. This is not the right approach. If you weigh 200 pounds and read an advertisement that can help you shed half of that in a month then you are being gullible. A goal needs realistic milestones that are laid down in sequen... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By John Savage @ Thursday, 11th January 2007 @ 10:23 AM

Are you ready to live a highly successful life, achieve all of your goals, and enjoy the success you know deep down that you really deserve? If your answer is yes then before you go any further you must answer the following searching question. Just what is your purpose in life? If you dont have a ready answer, dont be too surprised. Even the greatest of the philosophers who have ever lived succeeded only in making this question more profound. Why? Because the answer lies not in simply kn... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Nathan F. Shaw @ Thursday, 11th January 2007 @ 9:26 AM

Here's a fact: "Getting Organized is one of the TOP New Years Resolutions every year" - PRWeb Press Release, 2005. Try to think of something that might be on YOUR New Years Resolutions that does not in some way require being better organized. It's impossible isn't it? I know! And yet most people never really investigate how to organize things. When you're more organized you generally have less stress. When you're more organiz... more...

Personal Development » Goal Setting | By Nathan F. Shaw @ Thursday, 11th January 2007 @ 9:22 AM

Our emotions will make us win or lose with our 2007 new years resolutions. It is our emotions that are behind every decision, every act of laziness or effort that we do. So how do you feel about your 2007 resolutions? How do you feel about maintaining them over the long haul? Are you scared or anxious? Are you strongly motivated to win? Are you already feeling guilty about breaking your resolutions even before January's end, with over 11 months yet to go? Can you st... more...