Archive for the ‘Goals’ Category
The Unquenchable Desire For A “Do-Over”
Sometimes, when you’re young, you call for a “do-over”… an opportunity to go back and attempt the same thing over again. It tends to happen the most in sports, such as basketball (especially when you’re playing H-O-R-S-E)… you take a shot, and something causes you to mess it up. That may be outside interference, or [...]
December 22, 2008
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4 Keys To Making Your Dreams Come True
Everyone has their own dreams… mine is to be supported by my writing. Yours may be something completely different… it may be to travel the world, be a professional chef, or something else. You probably even have more than one dream… I wouldn't mind traveling the world, too.
There are a lot of individual steps to [...]
January 21, 2008
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The Perils Of Being Too Goal Focused
If you read many books or websites about self improvement in general, and success in particular, you will notice one theme, one concept, that appears more often than nearly any other: setting goals. I even recommend it myself, from time to time.
Setting goals can help you to focus your energy and effort, making it far [...]
January 4, 2008
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Six Months Later
Different things are significant to different people, but this month marks something of significance to me:Â I have now been blogging for six months.
A lot has changed in that half of a year, for me… I've gone from 34 visitors my first month to over 50,000 in both October and November. I have had my [...]
November 30, 2007
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Achieving Your Goals – Negative Motivation VS Positive Motivation
When it comes to motivation, it can be broken down into two categories: negative motivation and positive motivation. Negative motivation is "push" motivation… you are trying to push something you don't like away from you. Positive motivation is "pull" motivation… you are trying to bring something that you DO want closer to you.
Each has [...]
October 10, 2007
Posted in: Energy, Feed Your Mind, Goals, Motivation, Perseverance, Planning, Polarity No Comments
I Need Your Help
I need your help with something. I set a goal, quite some time back, of reaching 100 subscribers. As you can see if you look near the top left corner of this page, I've reached that goal. I was talking about this fact with my wife last night, and she asked me what my next [...]
September 27, 2007
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8 Ways To Put Procrastination Off Until Tomorrow
Ah yes, the joys of procrastination… putting off all the hard or unpleasant work that you need to get done until later. Then, when it all piles up until it's over your head, you feel overwhelmed, wondering how you managed to end up so deep in a mess and how to escape.
Some people seem to [...]
September 18, 2007
Posted in: Goals, Motivation, Perseverance, Planning, Priorities, Timetables, Tips Tuesday No Comments
The Most Essential Ingredient Of Success
There are an incredible number of books, articles, videos, and any other kind of media you can imagine selling you "the secret of success". Most of these methods are questionable… after all, if it were easy, then everyone would be successful, and that's clearly not the case. There is one thing, however, that IS critical [...]
August 27, 2007
Posted in: Awareness, Energy, Goals, Patterns, Polarity, Relationships, Subconscious No Comments
Journey VS Destination
When you are headed somewhere, whether in a car or in life, you have two potential statuses. You can be on your journey or at your destination. Which one is a better target upon which to focus your attention?
When you set a goal, you are setting a destination. In order to reach that destination, [...]
July 23, 2007
Posted in: Goals, Learning No Comments
