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Archive for Goal Setting
Why I Decided to Publish a Paper Planner
Achieve Your Greatest Goals by Keeping Them in Your Day-to-Day Routine
A few years ago, I read David Sax’s book, The Revenge of Analog. The premise? After years of being pushed aside by digital solutions, analog applications have been making a surprising comeback. That resonated with my own experience. Most of my audience knows me as a techie. But I was in the book business for […]
Why Sandbagging Your Goals Kills Your Productivity
6 Steps to Lead Your Team to Peak Performance
I’m a fairly conservative person but not when it comes to setting new goals for myself or for my business. We may think setting conservative goals is wise, but it actually makes us and our teams less productive. Too many leaders believe they’ll accomplish more if they lower the bar and set goals they can […]
How to Use Activation Triggers™ to Reach Your Goals this Year
A Simple Formula That Virtually Guarantees You Will Finally Succeed
More than a decade ago, I decided I needed to get back into regular exercise. I was overweight and tired of feeling exhausted. I needed to do something. But like everyone else, I was busy. I had a habit goal I wanted to install: Exercise for thirty minutes, Monday through Friday, at 6:00 a.m. There […]
Why You Shouldn’t Bother Making New Year’s Resolutions
They Don’t Really Work. Here’s What to Do Instead
New Year’s resolutions are as old as time, but that doesn’t mean they’re very effective. It only takes a day or two into January before the #resolutionfail hashtag starts trending on social media. Roughly 200 million Americans make New Year’s resolutions at least some of the time, according to research by the University of Scranton. […]
How to Avoid 3 Pitfalls of Goal-Setting
Goals Can Backfire, But Not if You Know How to Use Them
I’ve been an advocate of goal-setting for decades. Most successful people I know are. They set big goals and recommend others do as well. But some people are more doubtful. They point to significant goal-related disasters and suggest goals can backfire. In 2002, for instance, General Motors determined to boost its share of the U.S. […]