.

Articles in Home | Self help | Goal setting

Title|Newest|Oldest
  • How We Unwittingly Sabotage Our Goals - The Low Self Esteem Connection  By : Drea
    Which comes first, the self esteem or the goal achievement? Understanding the symbiotic connection between achieving goals and achieving self esteem, will help you be more successful at accomplishing more goals.
  • How to Get Everything You Want  By : Angeloc
    I hear people often say things like, "It's great to be spiritually aware and peaceful, but I still feel there are things I want to achieve, have and do, how do I do that while still being mindful?”
  • Kabbalah: A Path for Self-Discovery  By : Bnei Baruch
    When we begin to feel that there is more to life than just our present existence, how do we go about finding the answers to our questions? Kabbalah is a path that can help anyone find the answers.
  • The Art Of Goal Setting  By :
    The basics of setting a goal are clearly known by top athletes, successful businessmen and women and all types of achievers in many fields. But why do they do it? Setting goals give you short-term and long-term motivation and focus. They help you maintain focus on acquiring the required knowledge to help you plan and organize your resources and your time so that you can get the best out of your life.

    By setting clearly defined short term and long term goals for yourself yo...
  • Self Help Books - Do They Help?  By : Steve Gillman
    Have you ever wondered if self help books work? Do they help you grow as a person?
  • New Year's Resolutions can succeed -- six goal setting traps you must avoid now!  By : Catherine E. White
    New Year's Resolutions often run into trouble by the middle of January. Use these helpful strategies to avoid six common traps that can derail your good intentions.
  • Transition Planning Goals - Clarify Your Vision  By : Cindy Swiantek
    Not everyone has a definite vision of what they want out of life. This article details how goal setting can help you create a unique vision for your life.
  • Ready-Set-Go To Your Goals  By : Cathy Wilson
    Make your goals substantive rather than a mere wish list. Your goals can be reached and accomplished. You can feel the exhilaration of achieving your goals. Be S.M.A.R.T. with your goals and create your goals with confidence in your plan and in yourself to rech them.
  • Part I - Goal Setting Magic -- How to Make Goals that Really Work  By : Stan the Mann
    Helpful ideas about how to set realistic goals that will really work.
  • Make your Goal Planning Successful  By : Winsome Coutts
    You hear a lot about Goals and Planning these days - but is it just a waste of time, or does it really work? Won't just making a quick list of things to do be just as effective, and much quicker? Please consider these ideas.
  • NLP Coaching Goal Setting for Success at New Year Resolutions  By : Rintu Basu
    This article is about the many different ways we can trip ourselves up in setting goals, particularly with New Year Resolutions and what you can do to change.
  • Powerful Family Goals Setting Techniques  By : Vince Shorb
    Setting family financial goals brings families closer together. Learn the S.M.A.R.T way to set family goals. You will find that the more family members that are working toward a common goal the faster you will achieve results. What's more, when the entire family unit is working toward financial goals it can be a bonding experience that everyone will appreciate.
  • Around the Holidays, Be Real with Your Goals  By : Leeann Simons
    It is difficult to lose weight during the holidays, we all know that. So make sure you have a realistic attitude during this festive time. Don't plan to lose weight, try to maintain your weight. Don't set food goals, set activity goals. Be realistic with yourself and your attitude and you won't be disappointed. Have a wonderful season.
  • Goal Personal Planning Setting Success. Step 3  By : Susan Gray
    Achieve your goals and improve your life. Goal Personal Planning and Setting for Success is an important component of success and a powerful process that gives us a clear target to work towards.
  • Goal Personal Planning Setting Success. Step 2  By : Susan Gray
    Goal Personal Planning and Setting for Success is an important component of success and a powerful process that gives us a clear target to work towards. Achieve your goals and improve your life.
  • What Can A 3 Ton Elephant Teach You About Achieving Your Goals?  By : Dax Moy
    Ever wondered what's holding you back from getting what you want from life? Let Dax Moy's encounter with an elephant shed light on the subject...
  • Goal Setting, Time Management and Multitasking  By : Toni Elizabeth Sarh
    Time Management and multitasking are keywords in today's cultural. Why do we feel that we fall so short in fulfilling their inner edict?
  • Timing In Goal-Setting  By :
    When most of us set goals, we hold an expectation that everything will work out as planned. We have this picture in our minds of a smooth process from start to finish, easily achieving our goals without a hitch. This is especially true when it comes to the timing of our desired results!

    Let's face it; we wouldn't be setting goals in the first place if we didn't believe they were possible to achieve. Even if we expect a fair amount of difficulty in reaching our goals, we us...
  • How To Choose The Right Goals To Focus On  By : Raymond Burton
    When it comes to setting and accomplishing your goals, often the first step is deciding exactly what goals you want to accomplish. Sometimes picking the actual goals you want to go after is harder than setting and accomplishing the goals themselves.
  • Got Goals? Get SMART!  By : Bill Zipp
    I have set a lot of stupid goals in my life. Goals made in the rush of excitement with little thought to how they were going to get done or how they fit with the other priorities of my life. Goal setting, however, is still an important part of my life. But a certain kind of goal setting, SMART goal setting. Goals are SMART when they are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant to current business objectives, and Time bound.
  • 5 Easy Steps To Accomplishing Any Goal  By :
    In “Think and Grow Rich”. Napoleon Hill wrote “nothing is impossible to the person who backs DESIRE with enduring FAITH.”. Let’s simplify that by saying “nothing is impossible to the person who establishes a definite goal and truly believes that they can attain that goal.”

    Once you’ve established your goal, there are two key elements necessary to accomplishing that goal, a definite date and a definite plan. I’ve learned that it’s easier to accomplish things if we break the...
  • Setting Smart Goals: Get What You Want!  By : Colleen Kettenhofen
    How to set goals and get what you want. We all know what to do, but don't always "do" with what we know. Article on setting smart goals gives easy tips and techniques you can apply immediately. Beneficial for salespeople, business owners, managers, supervisors, team leaders, entrepreneurs.
  • 2 Powerful Secrets About Dream Boards and Your Subconscious Mind  By : Rasheed Ali
    The Universe is understood to have vast powers of helping any being create their own destiny and attract whatever they truly desire. Human beings, over the millenia have found various ways to tap into this powerful energy to achieve greatness in many aspects of life. You are about to discover just one of those methods and the two secrets that lie hidden within it.
  • Attaining Life Goals  By : Marcy Richards
    The Natural Laws of the Universe that we ALL can use to take control of the positive energy in our lives.
  • How to Choose a Great Goal Buddy  By : Andrew Grant
    Choosing the right person to support you on the road to your goals can be tough. Try these five tips to identify what makes the perfect Goal Buddy.
  • Find Your Aim  By : Tyler Benson
    In comparison to those that have no purpose in life, people that know what they live for seem happier and more energetic. They are focused on the aim that captures their thoughts and makes it easier to look at the negative things. Despite the difficulties in the strategy they have established they never stop thinking about the next step. If you attain the aim in your life, it becomes its sense and is the source of motivation. Being motivated you will start your both physical and spiritual development attaining new skills and you always dreamed of. You are guided by the stages you have established to reach the aim and forget about the intermediate problems that might occur on the way to the top.
  • Future Plans or Dreams?  By : Tyler Benson
    Dreams and plans have much in common, on the one hand, and a lot of differences, on the other. The thing that unites both dreaming and planning is that they are anchors a person sets for the future. Sure, a person may cherish some dream without any hope that the dream will turn into reality. But the function of such dreams is that they bring some brightness into the lives of people. Plans are more routine-like, and we all are confident to a large extent that we will realize our plans.
  • The Journey, Realising a Dream  By : James Chapman
    Description of our Journey in Life and How to Realise our Dreams
  • Did you set your Goals when you were young?  By : David Pearce
    I did. Top of my list was flying an aeroplane. I was 14 years old when I joined the “Air Training Core”. I should have been 16 but I lied about my age. After the first year, we where ask if we could go away for a weeks training on an airfield. We jumped at that! On this trip they showed us an aeroplane, and very old one at that. A two winged one, where you sit in the open, one behind the other.
  • A Goal Setting Tool I Taught In School - 5 Lessons Learned  By : M McClure
    While browsing in a second hand bookshop over 20 years ago, I came across Tony Buzan's 'Use Your Head' book. This was my first formal introduction to the concepts and possibilities of mind mapping. I was inspired enough by the ideas in the book to experiment with them while I was a high school science teacher. This article highlights the goal setting lessons learned from those educational experiences.
  • Goal Setting – Stay Positive And Have Faith  By : The Uneducated One
    Two of the most crucial ingredients in achieving your goals are; to stay positive and having faith no matter what obstacles you face.
  • Can You Achieve Anything You Want?  By : Raymond Burton
    "Why do we have to get shaken out of our stupor with a near death event or a tragic event to decide to live our lives the way we want?" If you want to lose weight, you can do it. You just have to be realistic.
  • So where are you headed?  By : Aaron Solly
    If you were driving down a road and passed by what you want out of life, what would you see? Read this story to learn about a book I read that helped me reflect on reaching life goals.
  • Picture How to Reach Your Goal  By : Andrew Grant
    How to support your goals with visual and sensory clues to help you keep taking action.
  • Managing Goals - Leaders Know How To Trim The Tree  By : Andrew Cox
    Too many goals, too little time. Leaders know what to do about that all too common condition. Learn what trimming a tree and goal review have in common.
  • The Trap of Goal Setting  By : Roger Hutchison
    Focusing on the outcome of your business can have the potential for failure built right in. What happens if the outcome is not what you expected? Or what if the outcome does not materialize at all? Was the journey to get there still worth it? Identify the processes that make your business run and make them as fun and rewarding as possible.
  • Are You Stuck?  By : Maurine Patten
    How do you know if you are stuck? There are 5 symptoms of being stuck. Each has a remedy that can help you reach your goal. It is important to have good self-awareness, to be honest with yourself, and listen to feedback from people you respect. Discover if you have any of the symptoms of stuck performance and the appropriate remedy. If noticed at an early stage, there are steps you can take to begin forward movement and ensure your success.
  • Overcome The #1 Goal Setting Barrier  By : Suzanne Bird-Harris
    I'm sure you, like me, are bombarded with emails, conversations and thoughts about goal setting, particularly each new year. If I had a nickel for each email I've received since Jan 1st that talked about goal setting, I'd be a rich woman! Yet, have I set my goals down on paper yet? No, I haven't. Until this week, I have been diligently trying to avoid the whole topic, no doubt because I have had limited success with achieving any goals I'd actually written down in years past....
  • Finding Your Own Stride  By : Sheri Boone
    Pace yourself using your own standards. This article discusses the idea of reaching your goals more easily by doing it your own way.
  • What We Focus On Expands  By : Jennifer Sellers
    Discusses ways of expanding what you want more of by putting your focus there. Achieve your leadership goals by sharpening your focus.
  • To Plan or not to plan?  By : Garry Jacobs
    According to The Secret, the capacity to conceive of the ‘how’ is not essential for accomplishment. But it certainly can help. The only question is whether the visualization of ‘how’ is always essential and always beneficial. Experience confirms that it is not.
  • Eight Step Process For Manifesting Goals And Inner Potential  By : Robert Najemy
    We all have an inherent need to grow, evolve and manifest ever greater realities. This is basic to our happiness and feelings of self-acceptance and self-contentment. Happiness can be created in two ways.

    a. By manifesting what we want – creating the reality we desire.
    b. By learning to be happy with what we have – with our present reality - until we can create an even more positive reality.

    We effectively manifest our goals with these 8 steps.

    1. Clarify goals
    ...
  • The Secret Of Setting Effective Goals To Empower Your Life  By : Robert Greenshields
    Just about everyone has heard, and most people agree to some extent, that goal setting is a great way to get yourself where you want to go in life. If you feel you can’t seem to reach the life you know you were born to lead, then effective goals can be a great motivating force.

    As you begin to set and achieve goals your self confidence will grow astronomically. But where do you start and what will make your goals worthwhile? This article will help you to start setting eff...
  • Goal personal planning setting success – Where Do I Start With Goal Setting and Personal Planning?  By : Kevin J John
    Goal setting and personal planning are skills that have to be learned, developed and honed to perfection by repeated use. One common question about goals setting and personal planning is: “Where do I start?” You will find out the best place to start in this article.
  • 6 Dangerous Reasons People Do Not Set Goals and Never Succeed  By : Joshua Uebergang
    Goal setting is the framework for personal achievement. However, most people who do set goals have little to no understanding of goal setting and as a result fail to achieve them and never succeed. There are six dangerous reasons people do not set and achieve their goals which act like a road block to their success.
  • Are You Focusing On Your Primary Goal?  By : Ben Franklin
    There are many areas that you can choose as your primary goal but perhaps one of the best methods for choosing one is to ask yourself a simple question. “If I were to focus on just one area of my life, for one year, which one would have the best impact?

    Generally, it is easy to find one area that could stand some improvement. It may be something simple or it could be something that you need to work on a great deal.

    Below is a guide of some areas that you may want to loo...
  • Setting Your Goals - Easier Said, Easily Done  By : Tim Maher
    This article is about goal setting and the things we must do in order to achieve our goals. We start by setting long term goals and then breaking that down into sections that we can achieve bit by bit until we reach our target. We need to have daily and weekly targets, then monthly targets, quarterly targets and finally yearly targets. We need to have the correct attitude and education and family support and we also need leisure time for balance.
  • 7 Great Questions for Discovering Your Passions  By : Cari Vollmer
    Leading a fulfilling life - a life you love and feel great about - is a matter of knowing how to put the pieces of your life together in a way that empowers you. You create a fulfilling life by creatively capitalizing on your talents, passions and values. Self-knowledge is empowering. Once you have the ability to articulate your gifts you gain the power to actively use them, or leverage them, in your life.
  • How To Achieve Your Goals  By : Melina Dean
    One of the main reasons we don't ever seem to actually achieve many of our goals is that we may have more than a few false and negative beliefs. About ourselves and the world. A false belief may be the common thoughts of: "I am not good enough", "I don’t deserve it....", "I always fail...." or "There isn't enough prosperity to go around...." Most of the time these beliefs are based not in reality, but on false assumptions and a low self-image. We always feel inside, act and ...
  • Checklist For Establishing Goals  By : Glenn W. Turner
    Goals must be set in advance! Determine your direction accordingly.

    When you consider setting goals in your life, you are much like the captain of a ship. You have the vast area of the sea of your life before you. You have the ship of your abilities, potentials and desires to carry you to your destination — your purpose or goal-target. A captain considering a navigational chart knows there are many routes to his destination. It is his prerogative to choose which he will tr...

[1] [2] [3] 
Sign Up for author account
Home
Submit Articles
Member Login
Guidelines and Terms
Article RSS Feeds
Search This Site
Contact Us
Privacy Policy
Articles Blog
Get our free daily e-tips:

-> Self Improvement
-> Diet & Exercise
Web Resources

-> NLP