Control your mind to achieve goals and get more done.
Why do you pursue goals? Is it to gain wealth, love, health or fame? Happiness is not a goal, so ask yourself why you are pursuing your goals. Whatever the answer is, ask why you want it. If you keep asking you will eventually become stuck. You will probably just say, so that I will be happy.
Should you be living in the present, totally, or should you have goals to strive for? There are two conflicting pieces of advice on how to live our lives, but which is correct? Are they mutually exclusive or can you live with both and if so, how?
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Routine Machine by John Lamerton is chock full of ideas and tips to help you improve your habits in all facets of your life, especially business and health. Here are the 17 key takeaways I got from reading it.
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You can’t sell your goals but you can sell your vision. So don’t just have goals have a vision, which drives these goals.Then you become a visionary. Continue reading “Being a Visionary”
From the Selling Strategy stage, you will have your sales targets to reach. This could be annual, quarter or month. In some cases, it may be week or day. Your target could be financial ie Net Sales or Gross Revenue. It could be numbers of sales. The important first stage of achieving your target is to translate it into daily activities. Continue reading “Sales Targets”
There is a correct way and a wrong way to write out effective goals. Poorly written goals may mean that you fail to achieve them or even worse, you achieve the goal and find out it’s not what you wanted anyway. How bad is that? Continue reading “How to Set Effective Goals”
“A business executive’s habits are amongst the most important factors that determine whether he or she will be a success – or a failure” J. Paul Getty
To start to break my longer-term goals down into manageable projects, I use a method which incorporates several goal-setting strategies. I call it the Monthly COMBINED method. Continue reading “Monthly COMBINED”
Now we are starting to get more specific. You are now going to attempt to translate your vision into long term goals. Later on I will show you how to write a properly worded goal, which will ensure you achieve it. Continue reading “Mission and Long Term Goals”
Why is Goal Setting important? I will be honest with you, sometimes it is just good to go with the flow and let events take you where they will. However if you really want to achieve something in life, you do need to have goals. Continue reading “Is Goal Setting Important”