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Are Your Goals Ongoing or Projects?

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Are Your Goals Ongoing or Projects?

…and why it matters!

Do your goals feel like they’re never ending?  That no matter how much you do, you never seem to feel like you’ve succeeded?

I know that feeling.

As I was reviewing my goals recently, it suddenly occurred to me that nearly all of my goals are what I think of as “ongoing goals”. In other words, the need for improvement or maintenance of the goal will never end.

For me, ‘ongoing goals’ are the kind of goals that over time you would expect to become habits, like eating fruit every day, walking 3 miles ever day or perhaps learning 10 new words of a foreign language every day.  In other words, ongoing goals are goals that will just keep on going unless and until you call a halt to them.

While clearly, there will be times when I’ll consider the progress that I’ve made on these types of goals as sufficient or adequate at that point in my life, with some things, such as fitness, health etc, these will slip back without continued maintenance of some sort. [Read more…] about Are Your Goals Ongoing or Projects?

5 Phrases You Can Use Now To Get Started

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5 Phrases You Can Use Now To Get Started

They say the most difficult part of getting anything done is to actually start. But whilst that might not hold true for all things, it is definitely something we all experience from time to time.

If you were to google the word “procrastinate” you will get almost 62 million results but if you narrow that down to “procrastinate over starting” then you can almost halve that number and only have to trawl through 35 million results!

Of course, that’s not a scientific result, but it does at least give an indication that starting something (whether new, or something that’s been stalled for a while) poses a problem for a lot of us.

As a human being, I’m not immune to this challenge unfortunately, so today I’m sharing with you another tool from my anti-procrastination arsenal. This one is all about using phrases to trick your mind into thinking that you’re not really going to do the work! It’s sneaky but effective! [Read more…] about 5 Phrases You Can Use Now To Get Started

How To Choose Goals That Are Right For You

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How To Choose Goals That Are Right For you

Have you ever sat down, pen in hand, blank sheet of paper in front of you with the intention of coming up with some goals for yourself only to find your mind goes blank?

Or, have lots of ideas come to you, but when you wrote them down, you just didn’t feel any real enthusiasm for them, or worse they felt so out of reach that you immediately rejected them as impossible?

Having a goal or many goals is about feeling some kind of dissatisfaction about where you are in life now. It’s about wanting change, even if you’re not sure what that change could look like.

Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses and start making changes.
Roy T. Bennett

It’s nigh on impossible to predict the future, but choosing goals is about taking a leap into this unknown land and placing a stake in that future ground anyway.

It’s about being honest enough with yourself to know that whilst your current situation might look acceptable to someone else, it doesn’t mean that you have to stay in that place. [Read more…] about How To Choose Goals That Are Right For You

Structure Your Day For Success

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Structure Your Day For Success

I nearly always start my days by taking the time to write out a plan for the things I want to get done that day. And although the process can take me anything from 15 – 30 minutes, I find it’s time well spent to keep me organised and on track.

This is in stunning contrast to the days when I just used to arrive at my desk and deal with the things that “seemed” the most important, were the quickest or the easiest tasks.

These days my list is carefully thought out and planned and covers all aspects of my life to attempt to not only keep some semblance of being organised, but also allows me to move forward on things that are important but not necessarily urgent.

In this post, I’ve asked and answered a series of questions which may help you decide whether having a more structed approach to your day would be beneficial to you too. [Read more…] about Structure Your Day For Success

Successful People Have These 8 Characteristics – Do You?

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Successful People Have These 8 Characteristics – Do You?

You’ve got big plans for your future, or maybe you just want to make some changes for the better and need to make them stick.

But as we all know, change is hard, and making that change stick is even harder.

So what are the characteristics of people who seem to be able to achieve their goals and make those good changes stick?

Here a 8 Characteristics that successful people live by that you can emulate too. [Read more…] about Successful People Have These 8 Characteristics – Do You?

7 Reasons You Should Do The Hard Stuff First

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7 Reasons You Should Do The Hard Stuff First

How often have you delayed starting a task because you’re basically fearful? That fear can be tangible even if you can’t quite put a name or reason to it. So in today’s post I’m going to attempt to articulate some of those fears and encourage you to do the hard stuff first anyway!

It Gets The Hard Task Off Your To Do List

Let’s start with some common fears: maybe you’re afraid it’s going to take up too much time, afraid you might not be able to do it or maybe it’s just an overwhelming fear of getting started.

I’ve experienced this many, many times. But the irony is that once I start, the task is usually quicker and/or easier than I expected it to be. But let’s break those three thoughts above down a bit further: [Read more…] about 7 Reasons You Should Do The Hard Stuff First