May 15th, 2007
Achieving complex and difficult goals requires focus, long-term diligence and effort. Success in any field will require foregoing blaming, excuses and justifications for poor performance or lack of adequate planning or in short emotional maturity.
Long term achievements are based on short-term achievements. Emotional control over the small moments of the single day makes a big difference in the long term.
By accepting a degree of realism within one’s own goals, one allows oneself not to change reality to match his own dreams by his own efforts alone, but to accept it how it is until a certain degree. This degree of "laziness" can prevent one from falling in unhappiness by losing too much control of life by trying to specialize in a very small area and to become a top leader in that field. No matter what level of society one identify with, it is very likely that one will keep the above and below scheme. On the other side, to put up personal goals does not necessarily mean merely to put up goals for one’s own best. One does not need to put personal and non-personal in a binary opposition as in egoistic/altruistic, body/mind, cultural/natural etc. One may say that there are elements in the making and realising personal goals that necessarily are transpersonal. In the interzone of the personal and transpersonal, the personal but also culturally dependent judgements of tastes and values will be challenged, and probably changed. In such personal processes, that might be termed crisis, which often occurs in the processes of achieving personal goals, the hierarchised up and down, better or worse scheme can be altered.
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April 28th, 2007
The approach, showing your goal online to others has a tremendous effect on your willingness and endurance to achieve your goal.
It is always easier to give up then to go for something. Ask yourself, how many times you wanted to achive something but at the end you failed because you lost interest, had not time or another plausible excuse.
FreeGoalSetting.com Forum makes it "harder" for you to find an excuse not going for your goals since you already told about your goal to others. They count on you and they want to see your success!
At the same time your friends are supporting you by leaving comments on your goal page. This is like a clap on your shoulders.
Go on the Forum and write your Goal. 3 Boards were created for you so that you can achieve your goals and to have the maximum of tools necessary to arrive there. Here categories:
Your Goal Settings
Your goals and personnal steps to success.
Need a helping hand?
Make a wish. You never know …
Support and motivation
The communauty will cheer you and shake you until you cross the finish line. Fight the fight.
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April 18th, 2007
I recently met up with John, a good friend of mine that I hadn’t seen for a few months.
The last time I saw him he was bubbling over with excitement about how he was going to turn his life around and achieve his dreams. I guessed (correctly) that he’d recently been to a self-development seminar. His enthusiasm was infectious and we spent a happy evening talking about how we were going to change our lives.
This time I saw him, I popped the question:
"Hey John, still excited about your goals?"
"My goals? Oh yeah…. right…. my goals….. yeah, I guess so….."
This wasn’t quite the response I’d been expecting. We talked a bit more and it turned out that, what with one thing and another, most of his enthusiasm had dissipated within a month of our last meeting. He now found looking back on the list of things he was going to do (and hadn’t done) a daunting and unpleasant task…..
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April 6th, 2007
Every goal-setting guru talks about the importance of visualizing a clear, specific, exciting goal that pulls you forward. Well, there’s a simple technique from our Relevance Coaching System that lets you create your own treasure map to your goal.
What you need to do is get a sense of what you want in each area of your life. One technique for creating a wish list is shown in an earlier article. Once you have this list, get a pile of magazines and set aside a couple of hours. Go through all the magazines and find pictures, headlines and illustrations that capture key pieces of your goals. Cut these out of the magazines and put them in a pile.
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April 2nd, 2007
Goal Setting involves setting specific, measurable and time targeted objectives. In an organizational or business context, it may be an effective tool for making progress by ensuring that participants are clearly aware of what is expected from them, if an objective is to be achieved. On a personal level, Goal setting is a process that allows people to specify then work towards their own objectives - most commonly with financial or career-based goals. Goal setting is a major component of Personal development literature.
The business technique of Management by objectives uses the principle of goal setting. In business, goal setting has the advantages of encouraging participants to put in substantial effort; and, because every member is aware of what is expected of him or her (high role perception), little room is left for inadequate effort going unnoticed.
To be most effective goals should be tangible, specific, realistic and have a time targeted for completion. There must be realistic plans to achieve the intended goal. For example, setting a goal to go to Mars on a shoe string budget is not a realistic goal while setting a goal to go to Hawaii as a backpacker is a possible goal with possible, realistic plans.
One drawback of goal setting is that implicit learning may be inhibited. This is because goal setting may encourage simple focus on an outcome without openness to exploration, understanding or growth. "Goals provide a sense of direction and purpose" (Goldstein, 1993, p.96). Locke et al. (1981) examined the behavioral effects of goal-setting, concluding that 90% of laboratory and field studies involving specific and challenging goals led to higher performance than easy or no goals.
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