Tag: goal-setting
How Ocean Swimming Helped My Personal Goals
Several times in my career I found myself wondering why, despite putting in hard work and long hours, I wasn’t getting more out of it. The reason things weren’t moving as fast as I would like them to was usually related to my personal goals I set, or more appropriately,Read More
How to Manage Time & Follow Through on Your Goals
Several years ago, I moved to Silicon Valley to pursue a healthcare-related postgraduate degree. The first six months or so of school was the most rigorous academic experience I’ve ever had. Forty plus hours in the classroom per week plus study time crammed into short quarters was much more thanRead More
Using the SMART Goals Program in Your Workflow
After you graduate from college and join the workforce, you will begin to develop your own unique workflow. While this workflow will be shaped in part by your preferences, it will also depend on the nature of your work and your company’s deadlines. You will be accountable for working withinRead More
How to Set Goals
For years I was a mentor in a teen mentoring program, and at the beginning of every semester we’d set goals. This was one of the hardest meetings of the year – attendance was poor, the kids were unruly, and there was a higher-than-usual level of whining going on. ItRead More
Goal Setting: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
This year is still relatively “new”, so you’ll find that people have not yet stopped talking about goals and resolutions. However, we’re also at the time of year when the enthusiasm about all that stuff starts to wane. So, to get you back into the goal setting (and executing) mode,Read More
Smart Goals: Put Objectives in Writing for Better Goal Setting
It seems like a silly exercise at first. Of course, you know that your goal is to be successful. However, what does success actually mean? Most people don’t know how to set goals. Less than half of today’s corporate workers could answer that question with what their specific personal andRead More
The Power of Preparedness
With the end of the year rapidly approaching (I know – seems just like yesterday that we were ringing it in) pretty much everyone is taking into account what he or she did achieve in the year speeding by and what he or she hopes to achieve in the oneRead More