Archive for 'Goal Setting'
Why Failing in Your Home Business is the Key to your Success
April 6th, 2008. Published under Goal Setting. No Comments.
Thomas Alva Edison failed in his experiment for thousands of times before he was able to invent the electric light bulb. Laurence Peter failed when more than 20 publishers rejected his book, “The Peter Principle,” before it became a best-seller. Abraham Lincoln failed the bar exam, failed in several business ventures, and failed in six […]
Why Success Means Never Ever Giving Up
April 6th, 2008. Published under Goal Setting. No Comments.
How many times did we hear people giving up when problems start? How about the guy who did not finish his college because his family had run out of money to support his studies? What about this American of Asian descent who, despite his immense potential, immediately left a company because he was discriminated for […]
How To Achieve Your Goals Right Now
April 6th, 2008. Published under Goal Setting. No Comments.
If you want to achieve the goal you
Burning Desire — Golden Key or Red Herring?
April 5th, 2008. Published under Goal Setting. No Comments.
Acres of Diamonds… you’ve read the famous story, or at least had it related to you.
A farmer hears tales of diamonds and begins dreaming of vast riches. He sells his farm and hikes off over the horizon, never to be heard from again. Rumors say that years later he died destitute, never having found […]
How to Set Intentions that Energize You
April 5th, 2008. Published under Goal Setting. No Comments.
We’ve all heard how crucial it is to set intentions, goals and targets.
Powerful goals electrify us. Clear intentions energize and pull us forward.
Without a clearcut intention, we’re reactive and don’t get around to doing the important things when we want them done. Instead, we spend our time fighting random fires.
Without clear intentions, anything might […]
How to Conquer Intimidating Goals
April 5th, 2008. Published under Goal Setting. No Comments.
“Oh that would be too hard for me — I could never learn to do that.”
We’ve all heard these words… you may even have said them yourself. Tackling new skills can feel intimidating. But we only feel intimidated because we overestimate the task and underestimate our own abilities. We aren’t confident enough in our natural […]
Freedom from New Year’s Resolutions
April 5th, 2008. Published under Goal Setting. No Comments.
So we’ve got another January coming upon us, ready to wipe this year’s slate more or less clean.
Remember just about a year ago, in the first days of the first month, remember how it felt? Like you had this vast mound of time lying before you, like a huge, un-molded lump of fresh clay? […]