Why Traditional Goal Setting Doesn't WorkWritten by Arina Nikitina
If you have a $100.000.000 in bank, drive new Lexus, look like a movie star and have a perfect health save yourself some time and do not read this article. This article is for people, who don't have all these things, but are planning on changing that slight inconvenience.So how do you change it? Every January millions and millions of people decide to start better and healthier life. We plan to change so many things and set so many goals. "I will exercise at least three times a week", "I will spend more time with my family", "I will find a better job", "I will stop smoking" list goes on and on. Now if you know anything about goal setting, you'll know that first thing you have to do is to write down your goals on a piece of paper. Then you have to decide step-by-step how you are going to achieve those goals and form a plan of action as detailed as possible. All you have to do just follow plan. That's a great theory, which hardly happens in reality. In reality your enthusiasm and concentration lasts a couple of weeks and than everyday routine gets to you. You skip an exercise here, get frustrated and smoke a cigarette there, or start jumping from one goal to another and at end of year nothing ever gets done or achieved. Why this theory alone doesn't work. 1. We often have so many goals it is hard to know where to start and how to proceed 2. We continually jump at different goals and as a result nothing gets done 3. It is hard to remember all goals 4. Enthusiasm and excitement wears off 5. We don't have enough time 6. We don't have enough will power to follow through
| | Patience: A Better WayWritten by Maureen Killoran
I believe it! We receive lessons we need to learn . . . and we keep receiving /em until we get it at least half-way right. At least, it seemed this way to me recently, when a trip from North Carolina to Oregon took a total of 50+ hours travel time, there and back. The smart aleck mantra, “Got time to spare? Go by air!” was in my mind as everything that COULD go wrong DID . . . equipment malfunction . . . fog . . . ice . . . crew change . . . lost luggage . . . extended holding patterns . . . emergency rates at an airport hotel . . . except . . . Except that, in end, we DID arrive safely at our destinations. Airline personnel were 100% courteous and friendly. A Travelers’ Aid volunteer pointed us to good-quality food and relatively comfortable chairs for our 12 hours in San Francisco. (Hint: Try sushi in International Terminal!) Patience is a virtue, one hard to come by in a world that counts time in nanoseconds. From soundbites to microwaves, we expect life to come in user-friendly format, and we’re quick to take it personally when it doesn’t. DID YOU KNOW: - The average doctor’s visit lasts 8 minutes.
- Some fast food restaurants promise lunch in 90 seconds or it’s free.
- The optimum height of a highrise is measured by people’s maximum reported toleration of an elevator ride -- 15 seconds.
- Most people spend less than 50 seconds brushing their teeth; most people think they spend 3 minutes each time!
And on other side: - Customer Service is rapidly becoming one of this country’s most stressful job areas. Why? Because, after an average wait of 20 minutes on hold, customers are taking their stress out on human being who takes their call.
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