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How to Achieve Your Goals – 3 Ways to Achieve Your Goals by “Doing the Right Thing”
Posted by karim101ismail in General, goal setting, setting goals on May 25th, 2010
Just “do the right thing.” It seems a cliché to say that these days. What is the right thing anyway? How do you go about doing the right thing? Because my work focuses on helping people with goal setting—especially setting bold, audacious goals—in the workplace and in one’s personal life, I will share with you 3 ways to focus on doing the right thing within that context.
1. Pursue Inner Peace
Although I would never recommend that you always trust feelings over logic, I ask you to think of situations where you felt totally at ease and peace with both yourself and those around you. How did you feel internally? When you do the right thing, that sense of inner peace follows and you’ll know you’re doing the right thing.
To Achieve Your Goals Share Your Goal Widely With Others
Posted by karim101ismail in goal setting, life goals, setting goals on March 24th, 2010
Step 11 in my series, The 12 Steps to Achieving Your Goals
In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle can contain it or stand against it. – Jane Smiley
Sharing your goal with others is vital to your success. However, many people are uncomfortable doing this, so they make the mistake of hiding their goal, or only sharing it with one person.
When you don’t share your goals it may be an unconscious attempt at self sabotage. If you don’t tell anyone about your goals they will never become real in your mind. When they don’t feel real it will be hard to be serious about them. You might feel uncomfortable at first, but hiding your goals will not help you.
Instead, you will find that when you have the courage to share your goal, you articulate it more clearly for yourself, and you strengthen your commitment to it. Sharing your goal also allows you to receive objective feedback. By sharing your huge goal, you will undoubtedly inspire friends, family, and colleagues. So please consider doing what we always ask children to do, and share! Read the rest of this entry »
To Achieve Your Life Goals, Set Clear Milestones on Your Path to Success
Posted by karim101ismail in goal setting, setting goals on March 15th, 2010
Step 10 in my series, The 12 Steps to Achieving Your Goals
“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo de Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” – H. Jackson Brown
Sometimes reaching a goal feels miraculous, like a quantum leap. But if you look closely, you’ll notice that the goal was attained by moving from one step to the next. To make steady progress, it is critical to define steps and time frames along the way. Time frames allow you to assess your goal, determine your progress, and take corrective action if needed.
Many people make the unfortunate mistake of not setting clear milestones or well-defined steps with clear time frames while trying to achieve their goals.
I have found that it is best to define 90 day milestones. Why 90 days? It’s long enough for you to achieve meaningful progress (rather than a 30 day time frame, which can sometimes be too short). But it’s much shorter than an annual milestone, thus allowing you four times in a year when you can measure progress and take any required corrective action. Read the rest of this entry »
Goal Setting – Learn Why Creating a Life Blueprint Will Make You Happy
Posted by karim101ismail in life change, life goals on October 10th, 2009
If you are like most people, whether in your twenties or eighties, there are likely a number of areas in your life that leave you feeling disappointed. Are you satisfied with every aspect of your life? Are you living the life of your dreams, and thriving, day to day, month to month, year to year – or is your life a struggle. Are you just surviving or getting by?
Ask yourself these 10 questions and answer yes or no.
1. Do you have the financial freedom you desire? Is your family’s financial future secure, and well able to ride out economic downturns?
2. Are your family relationships everything that you desire them to be?
3. Is your health, fitness level, weight and energy at an optimal level?
4. Do you love what you do and are you using your talents to their maximum?
The 12 Steps to Achieving Your Goals – STEP 1
Posted by karim101ismail in life goals on September 28th, 2009
You have likely heard of the SMART (or S.M.A.R.T.) system of goal achievement based on setting goals which are specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and timely. While this is a very useful way of looking at goals, I believe it misses out on MANY other key factors that you will want to consider if you wish to achieve huge goals.
Over the next weeks, I will share with you a FOOLPROOF way to achieve any goal, based on a system that is well illustrated within my book Keep Any Promise: a blueprint for designing your future.
I will use the example of a HUGE goal I set, and share with you how I went about thinking through and achieving this audacious goal.
When thinking about the results or goals you want to achieve, start by focusing on those goals that have the most meaning to you. Think of those achievements from which you have the most to gain. You will discover a simple truth: our minds do not change their deeply-ingrained ways of thinking if we set small goals.
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Can You Really Think and Grow Rich?
Posted by karim101ismail in General, Tips, tools, tricks, Travel on July 14th, 2009
Today, I want to answer the question: can you really think and grow rich?
As you probably know, the concept behind the Law of Attraction is not new. Most ancient religious texts talk about the importance of how thoughts influence our actions. Descartes famously said, “I think, therefore I am.” In the 1930s Napoleon Hill wrote the book “Think and Grow Rich” that has gone on to influence millions of people even today. “The Secret” is only the most recent variation on this theme.
I confess that I don’t really believe in the Law of Attraction. At least not as a law unto itself. The Law of Attraction works when paired with what I like to call the Law of Action.
Therefore you can’t merely think and grow rich (and I think Napoleon Hill would agree with that). As a former manager of large building projects, I know that you can’t think a building into being. That would be absurd. Yes, every project begins with a vision and inspiration. But you can only visualize for so long. You need detailed blueprints. Then you need to assemble the right materials and the services of skilled laborers. . MORE>>>
A Bad Economy is the Best Time for Reinvention: Part 2 of 2
Posted by karim101ismail in Tips, tools, tricks, life change, life goals on June 3rd, 2009
Think of your life as a building project. No architect would attempt to build something without a blueprint, so why would you approach your life plan without one? The details may change over time but it will always remain the building block on which to focus your energies and base your decisions.
The best way to start creating your own blueprint? Take stock of where you are right now. Start by writing down the ten most important categories in your life. They can be career, relationships, spirituality, health, or whatever is important to you.
Next, make two columns next to each category. In the first one, write down where you are right now in your life in that area. Be brutally honest. For the second column, close your eyes and think of where you’d like to be in the three years if no obstacles were in your way. Think hard and big. No idea is too big or impossible and the more uncomfortable or daunting the vision, the better. MORE>>>
A Bad Economy is the Best Time for Reinvention: Part 1 of 2
Posted by karim101ismail in Tips, tools, tricks, life goals on June 3rd, 2009
The 1st Step is to Create a Blueprint for Your Life
The numbers are frightening. Millions of people are out of work or crossing their fingers they won’t find a pink slip in their next paycheck. Many have watched their retirement funds slip away. More North Americans than ever face foreclosure. Who wouldn’t be afraid?
Do you wish you could close your eyes and wake up on the other side of this mess? If you did, you’d miss one of the greatest opportunities of your life. Did you know that more millionaires were created per capita during the Great Depression than ever since? There is no better time than now to figure out your life purpose, set goals, and design a life blueprint. And the best part is that the process won’t cost you a dime. . MORE>>>
Let your greatness light up the world
Posted by karim101ismail in General, life goals on June 3rd, 2009
Welcome to the first post in my blog! The blog is based on my fundamental belief that each of us has a bright spark in us that has the potential to brighten the world – if only we let our inner light shine strongly. I hope to share with you success stories of real people just like you and me, so that you too can be inspired to let your greatness light up the world.
What will you gain from visiting the blog, or better still, subscribing to the RSS feed? I will start by sharing the stories, in the next few weeks, of the 12 ordinary-yet-extraordinary people featured in my recently published book, Keep Any Promise: a blueprint for designing your future.
These are people who have met great challenges, overcome obstacles, made fear work for them —and have gone on to achieve undreamed-of heights! MORE>>>
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