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Don’t Let the “Shoulds” Get You Down

December 5, 2016 by Robert Middleton 1 Comment

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Note from Cathy: This is a good time of the year to make assessments of your business and your life. Too often, though, those assessments focus only on what is wrong or what is missing and we miss the big picture. I love the approach taken in this article by Robert Middleton. It is published here (with his permission) so you can learn from it, too.

This Saturday I called my youngest sister to wish her happy birthday.

We spent some time catching up before the conversation drifted to the topic of her art business and how she felt bad that she procrastinated a lot, didn’t have goals and overall wasn’t a success.

So, of course, being a coach, I started asking her questions.

“Is it really true you’re not a success?” I asked her. “Yes, you don’t make as much money as you’d like, but does that mean you’re not a success?”
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Filed Under: Goal Setting, Guest Posts Tagged With: goals, planning, Success

The Theme for a New Year

November 29, 2016 by Cathy Stucker 8 Comments

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It is time to start thinking about where you will take your business over the next year. For several years, I have chosen a theme word to keep me focused on what I am trying to achieve. For example, one year the word was “Product,” when I was focused on creating lots of new products. That single word keeps me on the right track, and working toward my goals.

Your theme should be one or two words that relate to your most important goals for the year. Examples of themes might be Organization, Focus, Influence, Visibility, Service, Revenue, Involvement, Delegate, etc. Here is how you can choose your theme and use it to help you achieve more in the new year. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Getting Things Done, Goal Setting Tagged With: goals, theme

New Year’s Resolutions and Goals

January 6, 2014 by Dan Janal 2 Comments

resolutions-and-goalsNote from Cathy: I found this post from Dan Janal interesting. It is a mixed bag of goals, action steps, aspirations and changes in attitude. Taken together, these things can certainly make a difference for Dan—or for you. Some of these are really vague (“Promote my services.”) and would be hard to measure, but others are very specific and actionable. If you want to make a list, I would suggest setting goals (such as adding 3000 people to your mailing list) and focusing on specific things you are going to do every day, week or month to make those things happen. Here is Dan’s list to give you some food for thought.

They say that to keep a goal, you have to go public. That creates accountability. Now it is your job to hold my feet to the fire. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Goal Setting Tagged With: goals, New Year's resolutions

What Are You Doing for the Next 30 Days?

February 7, 2013 by Cathy Stucker 13 Comments

How could you look at that face and tell him you are not taking him for a walk?
How could you look at that face and tell him you are not taking him for a walk?
We are now into February and, if you are like most people, at least some of the resolutions you made for this year have already fallen by the wayside. Don’t take that to mean that you are a failure. Actually, it is more of a flaw in the whole idea of New Year’s resolutions.

Here is what you need to do now to make real changes in your life.

First, stop thinking that all change has to happen at the beginning of something: the year, the month, the week. You can start something new any time you want. It seems cleaner to start on the first of the year, the first of the month or a Monday, but it doesn’t have to be that way. When you decide to make a change, start when you are ready. That can mean any day, including today. (You don’t even have to wait until tomorrow, for the beginning of a new day. Really. It’s okay.)
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Filed Under: Motivation and Inspiration Tagged With: goals, life changes, resolutions

One Resolution? Or Many?

January 3, 2013 by Cathy Stucker 1 Comment

counting-on-fingersWith the start of the new year it seems that everyone is making New Year’s resolutions. While it’s extremely common to set a resolution, it’s unfortunately far less common to actually see it through. One reason is that people tend to take on too many goals at once. But how many is too many?

How Much Time Will Your Resolution Require?

Different resolutions take up different amounts of time. Some may even save you time. For example, if you resolve to limit your time on Facebook to less time than you currently spend there, you will have more time available to pursue other goals. On the other hand, if you resolve that this is the year you will finally write and publish your book, that will require that you devote some time, even if you choose to work on it just an hour or so a day.
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Filed Under: Working Smarter Tagged With: goal setting, goals, New Year's resolutions

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