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Key Success Factor: Delayed Gratification
One of the greatest key success factors is being able to delay gratification. When you are able to put aside todays baubles for tomorrow’s treasure, real success can come. While this may sound foolish...
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The Step by Step Path to Success
I’ve been writing about personal success for over 8 years. In that time I’ve seen some things work well, but a lot that fell short. Some success paths that looked so promising were mitigated disasters....
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Create a Vision Board With Pinterest
With the New Year upon us, it’s time to do some planning for the coming months. For me, I have some books in the wings, and a couple of longer projects ready to go. For bigger projects, I find it...
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Goal Setting: Process or Outcome?
I’ve been a huge proponent of goal setting over the years. When you write down a goal and give it a completion date, you are much more likely to achieve it than if you just kept the ideas in your head....
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How To Reach Your Goals In Life
You can write down your awesome goals, picture them in your mind, and absolutely fail to reach them. I know, I’ve missed quite a few. Not that I didn’t have good intentions, mind you. I had Technicolor...
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SMART Goals Survey
I’m writing a book about goal setting, and one of the major players in the field is the SMART Goal system, based on the tenets… Specific Measurable Achievable Realistic Timely I’ve had a love-hate...
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SMART Goals: The Data
In my last post I ran a survey on Smart Goals. The data is rather interesting. Looking at the different data points, it’s clear that there is room for improvement with the SMART Goals program. After 7...
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The Shocking Truth About Goal Setting and What To Do About It.
I’ve written about goal setting for years. I’ve tried many different goal setting techniques and have provided a number of goal setting tools. Here are some of the things I’ve found over time. 1. SMART...
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How To Lose Weight Without Dieting
You have probably heard that diets don’t work. You set a diet goal, apply willpower, lose a few pounds, and then something happens. Your willpower fails, and you gain back all the weight you lost… plus...
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Weekly Goal Setting Worksheet
When you really want to get things done, it’s best to bring your goals down to action steps that you can accomplish in a timely manner. To help you do this, I put together a weekly goal setting...
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How To Change The World
As a kid, I used to dream about different cool inventions and imagined how I would use them. Since my imagination allowed me free reign, I had race cars, moon rockets, and of course my own private jet...
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Personal Success: Five Steps You Can Take This Weekend
Imagine sitting down this weekend and changing the way next week turns out. Imagine a clean desk, an organized week, and a prioritized time management system that lets you put aside distractions and...
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Personal Success: Weekly Planner
As a creative, I generally struggle with long term planning. I usually have numerous projects going at one time. The minute I put something on paper, it seems like I’ve got a conflict. This usually...
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The Fight of Your Life: Goals vs. Habits
The New Year is going to be different. You’ve set a Goal to make a change. Nothing can stop you. You’ve set your intention, planned out your moves, and set a time limit. What could go wrong? Every...
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5 Handy Organization Tools
With the New Year around the corner, what better way to get prepared than to pick up some handy organizational tools. Here are five unusual ones, that work well in small spaces or offer clever features...
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Goals vs. Habits: Fight Training
You have set an Amazing Goal for the New Year. It’s big, audacious, and will certainly change your life. Yet it will directly compete with two or three really entrenched habits that you have. How can...
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How To Set SMARTER Goals
January 1st, 7am. The alarm clock goes off and your New Year’s Resolution stares you directly in the face. The reality of that goal you set a few weeks back comes to roost with a jangling of bells,...
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SMARTER Goals: Testing and Fine Tuning
You have designed and set the perfect goal for the New Year. It’s based on an existing habit and you’ve designed a new routine that should be easy to follow. You followed the SMARTER Goals formula, and...
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5 Goal Setting Quotes For The New Year
Goal Setting Quotes Goals need to have an action step. You can write down the best goal on paper, but it’s action that gets them done. When you write down your goals phrase them in a positive way....
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SMARTER Goals for Life
One thing that is common to most goal setting systems, including SMART goals, is the time-bound element. Most goals are set with a deadline for completion. While this is a fundamental structure that...
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