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Setting Your Goals Knowing What You Want |
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By Vadim Kotelnikov, Founder, Ten3 BUSINESS e-COACH – Innovation Unlimited, 1000ventures.com
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"Rowing harder doesn’t help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction." – Kenichi Ohmae "Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others." – Genghis Khan |
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Effective Goals are:
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Creating Well-Formed Outcomes: Outcome Checklist
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Some Criteria for Setting Your Goal1
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Define What You Want "To know yourself is the first and most important step to pursuing your dreams and goals." – Stedman Graham Defining what you want is the critical first step in almost any situation. "You can have anything you really want but you cannot have everything you want." Top 10 Essential Requirements To Be A Great Strategic Thinker Essential Element #6: You must have clearly defined and focused milestones and goals. And these must be subject to frequent review to ensure your thinking is validated. Great strategic thinkers have an innate ability to identify the potential twists and turns and “potholes or landmines” that could destroy the possibility of reaching the desired milestones... More Behind Every Great Success Is a Great Reason
Do you know what you want? It's pretty hard to develop a powerful reason behind a goal you don't have, which is why the first thing you need is a clearly defined goal.8 The Foundation of Leadership: Achieving Extraordinary Results By: Brian Tracy
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Combine Your Life Vision & Life Strategy To get the most out of life, ask yourself if you have both a vision and a strategy. Think about your vision for your future – Do you really know what you want to achieve? Have you really thought about who you want to become? And what about your strategy for getting there – Have you set goals? Have you made plans for success? Clarifying both your vision and strategy will help maximize your motivation and your success, not to mention your health and happiness… MoreWhat Goals are Worth Achieving? Behind every great success is a great reason. Goals worth achieving are mission-oriented goals. Channeling your grand vision into a specific direction and action makes the difference between being an idle dreamer and being a person with a mission. "The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another" – Alexander Graham Bell Critical Thinking: Socratic Questions Socratic questioning is at the heart of critical thinking – they enhance your critical thinking skills. Socratic questions challenge accuracy and completeness of thinking in a way that acts to move people towards their ultimate goal... More Set Stretch Goals Stretch goals energize and push you to work harder at meeting more difficult targets and to achieve more than if you had set an easier goal. When you set a stretch goal for yourself you know that you may not meet it 100%, but by coming close you will likely achieve extraordinary results. Say, if you set the goal to "120," essentially asking an extra 20% of yourself, and achieve "115", you have managed to achieve 15% more than if you had set an easier goal. Visualize Your Goal Take a few minutes right now to achieve your goals in your mind. Imagine a life that is exactly as you want it. What would you do each day? With whom would you do it? Nothing is too crazy or ambitious. A few seconds is all it takes to put you in a state of excitement and enthusiasm. If you can see your goal in your mind, you can make it a reality. Visualization is the first step to bringing a dream to life. If you can see yourself happy, successful, healthy and loving life, you can make it happen. The first step is to visualize it.6... MoreYour Intention Your intention is a synergistic combination of three elements: desire, belief, and acceptance. It determines your motivation and how successfully you attain your goals... MoreThe Power of Focus Whatever you focus on – you will attract as your subconscious mind will make notes of what you are focused on and you'll start to notice things related to your goal. So if you want to achieve success then define exactly what success means to you and focus on being successful and the ways you can achieve success and achieve your goals. The Low of Forced Efficiency This law says that, "There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing." The key question you should ask is "What is the most valuable use of my time, right now?" This is the question that dominates time management. This is the key to overcoming procrastination and becoming a highly productive person... More Define and Prioritize Your Personal Values and Mission The first step is to clarify your values. You ask yourself, “What values and virtues do I most admire and wish to incorporate in to my life?” If you want to discover your strengths in the work world, first you would define your values as they apply to employment. Often, both companies and individuals will choose values such as integrity, quality, respect for others, service, profitability, innovation, entrepreneurship, and market leadership.2 The second step is to use those values to define your position with regard to your life and work. The values you choose, and the order of priority you place on your choices, will determine your approach to your life and work. Your next step in personal strategic planning is to create your personal mission statement. This is a clear, written description of the person you intend to be. This is often even more important than setting specific financial or business goals... More10 Roles of an Inspirational Leader
Case in Point Kentucky Fried Chicken Why Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants are always packed? "They have outlets all over the world, and they are successful because set a goal and achieved it: they have persuaded people to got there to eat. They are a global brand because they can be trusted to deliver predictable nourishment conveniently and at fair value – and they keep their promise. The very nature of business and branding is that you keep your promise to the customers.
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