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Happy new you: blow past ordinary goal-setting and achieve extraordinary results

AS SHE HAS DONE EVERY Jan. 1 for the past six years, Kari Odiatu will sit down on the first day of 2005 and write down 100 dreams and goals. This isn't merely an overly ambitious take on making New Year's resolutions. This is how the pro fitness competitor and motivational speaker plans what she wants to accomplish, not just in this calendar year but throughout her life.....

Above and beyond - business goal setting

Set higher goals for your employees - and they'll excel.

Could you double productivity in your business or leapfrog over competitors? Think these are just dreams? Not so fast. Stretch goals can make the impossible happen - "that's the formula for mining fantasy into fact," says Jeff Blackman, a management consultant in Chicago and author of Peak Your Profits (Career Press).....

The Need for Goals!

"Would you get into a taxi and tell the cabby, 'Driver anywhere'?
Would you wander onto the first plane you saw at the gate without bothering to ask where it is flying?
Of course not. Yet it's amazing how unfocused we can be about the biggest asset we have - our lives.....

Goals shouldn't be blurry, half-baked or fuzzy.....

Resolution Reality

Every year, and even sometimes throughout the year, we promise to make those changes in our lives that we think we need or that are good for us. Self improvement is a good thing. Resolutions are a good thing. When we look at ourselves honestly and find places to improve, we allow ourselves to grow and open up new opportunities. Too often, though, we get caught in the moment and make promises to ourselves and others that we really aren’t ready or able to keep.....

A Personal Mission Statement… Arghh

Write it down, are you kidding? No one could ever get me to commit like that. A Mission statement is for business or so I thought…

Can you imagine taking a boat, loading it up with supplies and stripping out the compass and all the communication equipment and then heading out to sea with no idea of where you are going?

This is what most of us do, both in our businesses and in our personal life.....

Achieving the Life You Want

When it comes to getting what you want out of life it can be difficult to know where to start. Setting and achieving goals is hard when you have never been shown how. Getting what you want by achieving your pre-set goals, really is what you life should be about. It really does not matter what these goals are as long as you are one hundred percent committed to achieving them and that is where the average person falls down.....