Goal setting is big business. There are over 50,000 results for Goal Setting books on Amazon. Every personal development program involves some form of goal setting. In business, you will find entire consultancies dedicated to goal setting in the form of OKRs or MBOs. Whatever the situation, if you want [...]
Discipline Discipline is one of the key contributors to success. If you look behind the external persona successful people portray, you will see how they disciplined themselves to do things day in and day out that led to that success. If success is a result of all the small wins, [...]
Commitment is something required to reach your goals, but what does it mean to be committed to something? If I look back on my life, I can clearly see I didn't understand the concept of commitment. I didn't stick at things, I allowed myself to be distracted, or generally heart [...]
Excuses Being under pressure isn't enjoyable. When we experience stress, our body's natural reaction is to want to alleviate that feeling and give us a break. We believe that if we experience too much tension then something inside of us will break. Deep down, we are scared that we aren't [...]
What is Optimism? Let's say there is a glass of water in front of you that contains 50% water. Does the way you look at the glass as either half full or half empty determine whether you are an optimist, or is there something more to the concept of optimism [...]
Ever feel like your life is on autopilot? Think about it, when was the last time you made a conscious decision to change something significant in your life? Every day is pretty much planned out for us before we wake up. Leave home in the morning to get to work on [...]
Goal setting is one of the most fundamental aspects on the journey to success. Almost every motivational speaker and trainer starts off their program with some form of goal setting exercise, and there are almost 10,000 products related to goal setting listed on Amazon. If you have never set goals [...]
Should salespeople set personal goals over and above their sales targets? I mean, targets are there for a reason, to motivate your sales team to perform and achieve the monetary incentives you have set for them. Many sales managers think this should be enough. So why do so many sales [...]
The Wheel of Life exercise is a great way to focus your attention on the areas of life that could benefit from some development. If you are about to set some goals, doing a general life review or want to know some different aspects of life to explore, the Wheel [...]
Productivity hacks are a great way to improve your personal output. Let's face it, when faced with the question would you rather work more or fewer hours each day, the answer is a simple one. In fact, success doesn't depend on how many hours we put in. Rather it is about [...]
Why New Year's Resolutions Fail At the beginning of every year, people set New Year's Resolutions, only to have them fail a few weeks later. In fact, recent statistics suggest that only 9.2% of people feel successful in achieving their resolutions each year. The reason why New Year's Resolutions fail [...]
Most of understand that our results are a direct reflection of our actions. If we plant the seeds of an apple, then at some point in the future, we are going to be picking apples from the tree in front of us. If we want cherries, then we needed to have [...]
