Posts Tagged ‘goal setting’

I  saw this on morning television today and I just had to share.  It warms a coach’s heart to hear mainstream media praising goal setting.

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Common Goal Setting Wisdom: Once you have established a specific and measurable outcome for your business or your personal life, write it down.

Here is a well worn myth about goal setting:

Three percent of a graduating class of Yale University responded “yes” to a survey asking them if they had written goals. Twenty years later, the net worth of these three percent, who had written goals, was greater than the combined net worth of the other 97 percent of the their graduating class.

There is no evidence that this survey every actually happened but writing down goals still has some assumed value.  According to research when you write down your goal you will:

• Be regularly reminded of your commitment
• Enlist the aid and encouragement of others
• Begin scanning your environment for opportunity
• Identify any conflicts that might interfere with your goal accomplishment

So, go ahead, write it down. It can’t hurt and it might help.

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Are you ready for the New Year?  Do you know your intentions, your expectations, and your goals?

Now is the time to set your business agenda for the coming year. Now, as you close out your books, it is time to determine your 2011 goals and to develop your strategies to meet those goals.

If you do nothing, nothing good will happen.

My theme for this the last month of 2010 is “Vision and Mission”.  Now during the holiday down time is the time to review your vision (What it is you are doing?) and your mission (Why you are doing it?) and to renew your intentions for the future.

To get started check out these tools in the Working Miracles Library of useful business building tools;

• Vision Statement Worksheet
• Mission Statement Worksheet

My posts for the rest of this month will focus on providing tools and guidance to help you begin the New Year with specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and timely goals.

If this season is about peace and good will, I can think of no better way to generate such feelings than to clarify the value you bring to your clients and customers and to set goals to share that value as widely and effectively as you can.

Sharing the value I have to offer widely and effectively is what I intend to do with the posts I offer this month.  If you find them valuable, please let me know.

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