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Goal Setting – To Achieve Your Life Goals Define the Consequence of Not Reaching ThemStep 6 in my series, The 12 Steps to Achieving Your Goals Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising every time we fall.-Confucius The psychologist Sigmund Freud observed that the human mind is consciously and subconsciously motivated by two forces: the need to avoid pain and the need to gain pleasure. Pain is often more immediate than pleasure, so we may become more concerned with avoiding pain and, in general, develop [...]
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Add the 4 Laws of Action to the Law of Attraction to Achieve Your GoalsDo you think you can really just think and grow rich? If so, you’re in for a rude awakening. I am sure that even Napoleon Hill would agree with me that you cannot merely think and grow rich. The Law of Attraction only works when paired with what I like to call the Laws of Action. As a former manager of large building projects, I know that you can’t think a building into existence. That [...]
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Goal Setting – To Achieve Your Life Goals Define the Benefits You Expect to GainStep 5 in my series, The12 Steps to Achieving your Goals Opportunities? They are all around us…. There is power living latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.-Orison Swett Marden To achieve your life goals you need to define the key benefits or results you expect to gain. Once you do that, you will be more driven to do what it takes to achieve those goals. Make your list of benefits as [...]
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New Year’s Resolutions – How to Keep YoursAsk Yourself These 12 Questions So You Can Successfully Keep Your Resolutions This Year Are you like most people who make New Year’s resolutions but never come close to accomplishing them? If so don’t be discouraged. The New Year gives us a perfect opportunity to take time to evaluate our goals and priorities. But to make real progress achieving those goals you need to approach your goal setting at the beginning of the year in [...]
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THE SERENITY PRAYER and The Wisdom to KnowGuest Blog by Eileen Flanagan Many of Us Know and Love the Serenity Prayer: God, grant us ~ Serenity to accept the things we cannot change, Courage to change the things we can, And Wisdom to know the difference. Many of us spend too much time anxious about things we cannot change: the economy, the weather, traffic on the freeway, or people who annoy us. As a result, we don’t have the energy to make [...]
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Goal Setting and YogaAs you may know, at my workshops I incorporate yoga or meditation into our activities. That is because yoga is one of the best ways to align our minds with our bodies. Plus anyone can do yoga. You don’t have to be in top physical condition to start doing yoga exercises. In yoga, you can break a sweat even when you aren’t moving. No running or jumping required. The most important aspect of yoga is [...]
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Goal Setting Step 4 – Define the Compelling Reasons to Achieve Your GoalsIf you cannot articulate a clear, compelling reason for why you must achieve a goal, especially a huge goal, you will likely not achieve your goal. [...]
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My Amazon Campaign – What a Huge Success!The results of the Amazon Campaign for Keep ANY Promise. [...]
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How Bullfighting Can Help You With Goal SettingLearn how finding a mental safe place can help you achieve your goals. [...]
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Goal Setting Step 3 – How to Measure Your SuccessSo far we learned how to define a huge goal and set a deadline in our process to achieve our goals. Today we will discuss how to measure our success. One of the biggest mistakes people make is not defining clearly how they will measure “success”. For some goals, it is easy to define how you will measure progress. But I believe everything can be measured, directly or indirectly via a proxy. For example, if [...]October 24, 2009 0 Comments achieve your goals, achieve your life goals, goal setting, karim ismail, measure your success
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12 Steps to Achieving Your Goals – Step 2 Set a Clear DeadlineIn my first blog post about the 12 steps to achieving your goals we discussed the SMART (or S.M.A.R.T.) system of goal setting, which is based on goals being specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and timely. While I agreed 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. We also learned that [...]October 21, 2009 0 Comments achieving your goals, goal achievment, set your deadline, setting goals, smart goals
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Goal Setting – Learn Why Creating a Life Blueprint Will Make You HappyIf 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 [...]October 10, 2009 0 Comments achieve your goals, goal setting, how to achieve your goals, karim ismail, life blueprint
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The 12 Steps to Achieving Your Goals – STEP 1
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 [...]September 28, 2009 0 Comments Add new tag, goal achievment, how to achieve your goals, karim ismail, life goals, smart goals -
Finding Your Life Purpose
Do you ever wonder why you were put on this earth? What is your Life Purpose?
Join any group of people, and try and determine each person’s life purpose. You will most likely find it impossible! Better still, state your life purpose succinctly to each person, and ask them to do the same: to articulate their life purpose. The likely result? I’ll bet that very few of the people in the [...]September 17, 2009 0 Comments karim ismail, life purpose, life's pupose, live a life of pupose, living your life's purpose -
Living a Life of Purpose and To Its Fullest Every DayLast Friday, I attended the funeral of Zafar Abid, a friend and member of my design team, who passed away with cancer at the young age of 33. The day of his funeral service was also his 33rd birthday. My team and I were especially saddened at losing a close friend and a wonderful human being, but our heart goes out to his parents, who had lost another son due to [...]September 7, 2009 0 Comments how to live a full life, karim ismail, life goals, live a life of purpose, living a life of purpose
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Have you ever tried to find a new destination without a map or GPS?Not having a map is the reason many people have trouble with goal setting. It's not enough to have a list of goals or to visualize what you want to achieve. If you don't map your goals, it will be almost impossible to take the necessary daily actions to pursue your goals. [...]
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12-Stop-You-Dead-in-Your-Tracks-Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make That Will Keep You From Your GoalsIn this blog post, I have listed the 12 most common mistakes people make while setting their goals. If you pay special attention to avoiding these mistakes, your chances of achieving your goal will soar! [...]
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Achieve Your Goals – Learn the 12 steps to achieving your goalsDo you know the number one reason you fail to achieve all your goals? Or fail to keep all your new year’s resolutions? It’s very simple, and if you knew this one little secret, you could easily achieve ANY goal you set. The reality is that most people create goals somewhat like this: 1. I’d really like to lose weight/get fit/look better/feel better. 2. Wouldn’t it be nice if I had more money, a [...]
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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 [...]
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A Bad Economy is the Best Time for Reinvention: Part 2 of 2Think 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. [...]