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Start Working on Your Goals Today!
The alarm goes off at 6am, you roll out of bed and run down the hall to wake up the kids. You're going to be late again! You shower fast while the kids are getting dressed then you head downstairs to grab nutrition bars because you don't have time to make breakfast.

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Know What You Want Out Of Life
At this point in time you have an opportunity to really analyze your life. Where you are right now and where you want to be in the future.

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Give Bad Habits the Boot!
Everybody has bad habits. Everybody.

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Goal Setting and Interviewing
Before you go on an interview process or even start your own business, you must set goals! As a corporation owner for over twenty years, this is how I went about setting goals for myself. They are as follows:GOAL SETTING'S TOP TEN:If you want to be successful, it is important to set goals for yourself-daily goals, weekly goals, monthly goals and yearly goals.

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Actual Achievement Part 2
In Part 1 I started the discussion on what to focus on in pursuit of a 'time sensitive' goal, a goal you want to achieve right NOW, such as winning an Olympic Medal or closing a major deal you need for the continuation of your business. In other words a goal, which you may never get the chance to attempt again and which requires a lot if not everything of you!The conclusion of Part 1 was that processes are useful and necessary to build the resources and acquire the techniques for the job.

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If You Dont Know Where Youre Going, Any Road Will Get You There
What do you want to achieve?Before you actually set up, decide what you want to achieve with your business. If you are already in business, review where you are going - are you clear about this?Why not take some time out to think about and write down your goals for your business?Write it downResearch shows that only 3% of people write down their goals, and on average these people earn 10 times those who don't have goals.

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How To Find Lasting Goals
If you, just by coincidence, read my short article about pleasure and pain called "The cockroach test", you know already why exhilarating business goals are important. For the major rest of readers here is a brief summary.

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Pretend Interest and Apathy... What To Do About Them!
According to Merriam-Webster's dictionary "apathy is defined as the following: lack of emotion; lack of interest; indifference".Wow, that's pretty depressing.

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Stop Scoring Own Goals
Own goals are actions, things we do, that stop us from reaching where we want to go or what we want to obtain. When we are out of focus, when we are out of tune with what's going on, when we do something which takes us in the opposite direction of where we were going or should be going, we have scored an own goal.

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Its The Ride That Counts
Having goals is a good thing. It means that you're willing to take the first step to achieving those goals.

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Why You Must Stop Setting Goals
My goal in life is to have no goals. They get in the way of true progress.

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It Takes A Lot Of A Little To See The Good Times Roll
Have you ever wondered why some people are just naturally successful? Why success just seems to fall on them with everything they do? You know..

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Planning for Success
The purpose of having an analytical brain is to use it to think and make a plan before we act.Acting spontaneously out of fear, revenge, spite, anger and a host of other emotions is a sure-fire way to set yourself up for failure.

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Forming Effective Habits Leads To Success
You had your new years resolution all set. You knew exactly what you needed to do, maybe you even got off to a fantastic start.

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Breaking Goals Down To The Basics
One of the primary reasons why people fail to execute their goals is they set forth unrealistic or overly complex goals. Most of us have the tendency to look at the finish line without paying much consideration to the distance between the end point and us.

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Are Your Goals Exciting?
This may sound like a strange question, but are you really excited about your goals? Of course, I'm making the assumption that you have already invested the time to think about what you want your life to be like and identified some of your goals in several areas. If not, please do this immediately.

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Under Their Thumb - Tripping The Parental Triggers!
Some of my clients have come to me feeling like their worlds were not under their own control. They felt as though everyone else ran their lives and had some aspect of control in everything that they did.

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Whose Goals Are They?
Many have goals, but few reach them all. Businesses like sports teams aspire to making goals (gaining points) to earn rewards.

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Overcoming Discouragement
We have all had times in our lives where someone discouraged our beliefs or even passions in life. Maybe someone told you that you couldn't do something because of whom you are or where you come from.

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Goal Setting Skills Ensure Success
SO WHAT DOES GOAL SETTING OFFER? It closes the manager-employee gap. Often there are misunderstandings, miscommunication, or even no communication at all between upper management and lower level employees regarding company goals and plans.

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