Knpwing Your Goals Makes Achieving Them EasierWritten by Michelle L. Casto
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5. Develop a Strategy to Get What You Want To achieve your goals, you need to create an action plan. Planning bridges gap between where you are now and where you want to be in future. 6. Measure Your Progress Create mechanisms that will allow you to evaluate your progress. Use charts, write to do lists, track your actions, etc. Use anything that will encourage you to stay on track and to help you to see when adjustment is needed. 7. Develop a Support System Use buddy system. Surround yourself with people who encourage and challenge you to get what you want. Be accountable to someone other than yourself. 8. Commit to Personal Growth Process Success will not come over night, so allow process to unfold. Know that there will be times when you feel like quitting, but remember that "winners never quit." 9. Celebrate Your Success As you achieve smaller goals, stop and acknowledge it! Appreciate yourself for coming as far as you have! Build on your successes, and take bigger risks next time. Now is time to start setting goals for yourself so that you can begin creating life as you would like it!
Michelle L. Casto is a Whole Life Coach, Speaker, and Author of Get Smart! About Modern Career Development. She can be reached at www.getsmartseries.com, coach@getsmartseries.com
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-- "Paralysis by analysis". Our fear often produces an overwhelming need to "figure it all out", to get all of our "ducks in a row". Don't misunderstand me here, I'm not suggesting that there's something wrong with planning and weighing options. However, there's a vast different between strategic planning and in trying to work out every conceivable scenario that may occur. The former is followed by strategic action. The latter is followed by more analysis and ultimately, inaction, meaning," We're 'stuck'." -- Hopelessness. The ultimate enemy that fear can produce in us is hopelessness. It is felling that says, "There's no use." This is enemy that most often deals fatal blow to our dreams and aspirations. When you have hope, you have power to act. When you are hopeless, you are powerless. Are you fighting wrong enemy? Stop trying to overcome your fear and look rather to what it may be producing in you. That is real enemy. "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is courage to continue that counts." - Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill (1874-1965) ********** Vision to Venture, LLC is an executive coaching company dedicated to providing an interpersonal approach to high performance Executives, managers and work teams. Our highly effective and balanced approach to leadership development, teambuilding and action learning get both business related as well as human results. Visit us at http://www.workteamcoaching.com
Monty J. Sharp is a team-development expert who, along with his partner, Laura Terrebonne, have over 25 years of combined experience in team management. Laura and Monty coach clients through change management, business development, visioning and leadership, sales and productivity. Their clients include Fortune 500 companies, regional and local companies, executives and managers, professionals, and small business owners.
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