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! More…
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To Achieve Your Goals Share Your Goal Widely With Others
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 [...]
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To Achieve Your Life Goals, Set Clear Milestones on Your Path to Success
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 [...]
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Goal Setting – To Achieve Your Goals, Focus on the Solutions to Overcoming Your Obstacles
Step 8 in my series, The 12 Steps to Achieving Your Goals The next step in achieving your goals after you define your obstacles is to find solutions. If you have defined the possible obstacles to your goal, your mind will suddenly perceive solutions where none existed before. This is because as humans are instinctive problem-solvers. Most people make the mistake of not listing their obstacles on paper; maybe because we are afraid to acknowledge [...]
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Goal Setting Step 3 – How to Measure Your Success
So 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 [...]
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Goal Setting – Learn Why Creating a Life Blueprint Will Make You Happy
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 [...]
