The Key Missing Ingredient That Most Goal Setting Strategies Lack

Ξ January 24th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Self-Improvement: Goal Setting |

self-directed learning mindsetMost goal setting strategies include laying out a written plan, determining intermediate and short term goals, and implementing changes in our daily routine that will either help us be more efficient in reaching our goals, or avoid problems that will hinder our progress.

 

Nevertheless, there is one key ingredient most goal setting strategies lack. And it is not about changing your outer circumstances. It is all about switching your mindset from possible failure to doubtless triumph.

 

You see, it’s not easy to implement changes in our lives. Before we change anything on the (more…)

 

Importance of Having a Vision for Your Future to Find Purpose in Life

Ξ January 21st, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Self-Improvement: Goal Setting |


slef-directed learning visionVision is everything. It gives you a dream to pursue and a goal to achieve. It helps you overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles and keeps you holding on when the going gets tough.

 

But not everybody has a dream that gives them a vision for life. Many of us are living our lives as on a never ending treadmill and are barely able to keep up with the pace.

 

Difficulties, setbacks and disappointments take their toll until people just give up trying to excel and settle for a lower level of life.

 

But there is a way out. It’s not because you (more…)

 

Smart Goal Setting Through Accountability: 3 Simple Steps That Will Greatly Enhance the Speed in Which You Reach Your Goals

Ξ June 23rd, 2008 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Self-Improvement: Goal Setting |

self-directed learning Steffi and GermanSmart goal setting is one of the most important steps to being successful in any endeavor. Whether it’s long term goals or intermediate goals, or even weekly and daily goals, they undoubtedly are the stepping stones to success.

It is said that a goal is a dream with a deadline, so each goal we achieve takes us one inch nearer to that dream we have in our heart.

Although this is plain common sense, most endeavors fail in this area. The problem lies in (more…)

 

Setting Goals for Life: What to do When Your About to Throw in the Towel

Ξ June 16th, 2008 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Self-Improvement: Goal Setting |

self-directed learning pusteblumeObstacles are the things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal” E.Joseph Cossman

There are times when all of us want to quit and are tempted with just giving up. Sometimes it’s because all the odds seem to come up against us, sometimes it’s because we’re just plain tired…and most often it is because we are trying to force things to happen.

Let’s face facts, we live in a world that wants instant results. Our entire Western lifestyle is centered around making things as easy, fast, effortless, and painless as possible.

When things don’t happen fast enough, (more…)

 

How Are You Setting Your Goals? 7 Warning Signs of an Unfulfilled Life

Ξ May 6th, 2008 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Self-Improvement: Goal Setting |

Basically, you will find two types of attitudes towards life:

  • Life is hard, with a few happy moments.

  • Life is a blast, with a few difficult moments.

You can choose in which of these two categories you will live for the rest of your life by (more…)

 

Goal Setting: How to Deal With Your Mistakes and Reach Your Goals

Ξ April 21st, 2008 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Self-Improvement: Goal Setting |

Granted. Mistakes are ugly. We don’t want to have a lot of them around.

But are they really that detrimental to our lives?

Human beings are not perfect, therefore they are prone to commit mistakes continually.

Then why do some people seem to be so successful, and others don’t? Do they make less mistakes?

No, they don’t. Successful people make a lot of mistakes.

The difference is that (more…)