achieving your goals
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To Achieve Your Goals Share Your Goal Widely With OthersStep 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 SuccessStep 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 ObstaclesStep 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 [...]February 22, 2010 0 Comments achieve your goals, achieving your goals, goal setting, karim ismail, setting goals
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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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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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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. [...]
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A Bad Economy is the Best Time for Reinvention: Part 1 of 2The 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 [...]
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Let your greatness light up the worldWelcome 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. [...]