Robert Kennedy III
I speak about personal performance and leadership. I share a lot of resources with my clients on goal setting, some I have written and others I have just found very useful.
Here we are, a quarter of the way through the year and the din has died down. No one is obsessing about goals and resolutions anymore and everyone has settled in. Except, everyone hasn't really. The goals are still there, accomplished or not. They haven't moved out and occupied new space.
We are almost through the first 2/3rds of the year. And of course, you have probably heard the question, "How are you doing with your goals?" "Have you accomplished what you set out to accomplish?" "Have you reached the benchmarks that you put on your plan?"
One of the things that I absolutely LOVE about life is the lack of boredom. I have a hard time believing someone who tells me that life is boring. You REALLY have to be looking for boredom to find it. There is something different and new each day and I enjoy looking at those moments.
Setting goals gives your life direction, and boosts your motivation and self-confidence. Learn how to set SMART goals and achieve your dreams.
With New Year's (Resolution) eve just around the corner, many people want to inspire themselves to become better but don't for two reasons: they don't know what to do and they don't know how to do it.
We all have things that we want to achieve in our lives -- getting into the better shape, building a successful business, raising a wonderful family, writing a best-selling book, winning a championship, and so on. And for most of us, the path to those things starts by setting a specific and actionable goal.
IN THE EARLY years of this decade, General Motors had a goal, and it was 29. Determined to boost its flagging profits and reverse a long, steady fall from postwar dominance, the automotive giant did the natural thing: it set a goal.
Philip and Karen Smith/Getty Images Setting and reaching goals is a mainstay topic in research across a range of disciplines, including psychology, neuroscience, marketing, and communications. Below is a survey of 10 recent findings about goals, chosen from these and other topic areas, that throw some light on the ups and [...]
