Posts Tagged ‘achievement’

Fear of Flying: Facing the Fear of Success

Believe it or not, one of the most paralyzing fears is the fear of success. That's right, the fear of achieving one's goals. It seems insane, because of course, we want to reach our goals, right? I mean, don't we?The short answer is that yes, we do want to accomplish our goals, but that it's complicated. There are several factors that complicate our relationship with achievement. For example, we may… Continue reading

October 2 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: achievement, failure, fear, goal, project, success | 9 comments»

5 Ways to Set Your Goals in Stone

Most of us set goals for our lives. Whether the goal is to climb Everest or to buy a pair of shoes, setting goals can sometimes seem like second nature to us. Even so, setting a goal doesn't automatically mean getting the result. Sometimes goals are gradually forgotten about and fade away into the back of our minds.Motivation is the biggest goal killer. When we first… Continue reading

June 8 2009 | By Paul | Tagged: achievement, desire, goal, motivation, passion | 19 comments»

How to Wake Up and Instantly Achieve Something Everyday

Imagine this: you wake up and you instantly achieve something. You complete a goal, you make progress, you build momentum and you build self-esteem. You make it part of your routine and achieve something everyday, instantly.All you have to do is tackle a goal when you wake up. Continue reading

May 15 2009 | By Paul | Tagged: achievement, goal, morning, Productivity | 35 comments»

The Five Reasons Why You Are Not Fulfilling Your Potential.

Very few people can claim that they have achieved all that they are capable of. In the Western world most of us do moderately well. We get an education and a succession of jobs; we have some relationships that work; we are well fed; we avoid penury and destitution. We can take comfort in modest achievements. But for many people there is a nagging feeling that… Continue reading

May 12 2009 | By Paul | Tagged: achievement, comfort, discipline, fulfilment, goals, lazy, risk, self-belief, success | 26 comments»

The 80 Best Lifehacks of 2008

And so we arrive yet again at the end of another year. 2008 was at best a mixed bag – while the world was electrified by the US election and it’s promise of change, the global economy was shaken to its core as a decade of financial mismanagement and willful blindness finally caught up with us. Gas prices spiked, leading us all to ask some difficult questions about sustainability, efficiency… Continue reading

December 31 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: 2008, achievement, app, back-to-basics, Communication, creativity, goals, gtd, habit, iphone, networking, new year, Productivity, review, success, web | 39 comments»

Goal Setting – The WHY behind the WHAT

Our Real Goals In Personal Development-speak we are always talking about goals, outcomes, success, desires and dreams. In other words, all the stuff we want to do, achieve and create in our world. And while it's important for us to know what we want to achieve (our goal), it's also important for us to understand why we want to achieve it; the reason behind the goal or some would say, our… Continue reading

December 29 2008 | By Craig | Tagged: achievement, goal, goal setting, happiness, personal-development, self-help | 10 comments»

Get D.U.M.B.! The Value of Unattainable Goals

With the year winding down, many people are turning their eyes towards the future. January 1st looms, and the new year always holds the promise of a fresh start, another go-round and another try at the golden ring.

It’s a time for taking stock, filing away the lessons of our successes and failures over the last 12 months and pinning down our hopes and dreams for… Continue reading

December 12 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: achievement, D.U.M.B., goal, goal setting, new year, planning | 28 comments»

We Need to Challenge our Children

A Personal Story I went to a Catholic boys school in Blackpool in the North of England. In my first year in the senior school I was a nerdy kid, with spectacles and short trousers. For one hour a week the class had elocution lessons from an old, portly teacher called Mr Priestley. He had a hard task wrestling with our flat northern vowels and trying to get us… Continue reading

December 11 2008 | By Paul | Tagged: achievement, challenge, children, education, gratitude, learn, lesson | 4 comments»

The Science of Setting Goals

What happens in our heads when we set goals?Apparently a lot more than you’d think. Goal setting isn’t quite so simple as deciding on the things you’d like to accomplish and working towards them.According to the research of psychologists, neurologists, and other scientists, setting a goal invests ourselves into the target as if we’d already accomplished it. That is, by setting something as a goal, however small or large, however… Continue reading

July 7 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: achievement, brain, goal, motivation, neurology | 20 comments»

10 HARD Ways to Make Your Life Better

Some of the most worthwhile things in life aren't easy. One of the things I dislike most about "power of positive thinking"-style personal development philosophies (such as "The Secret") is the implication that if you just have the right attitude and the right state of mind, the rest will just fall into place. I think it causes a lot of hurt and disappointment in people who invest their time… Continue reading

March 14 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: achievement, growth, life, personal-development | 86 comments»

Key to Innovation: Becoming an Observer

We all need to innovate to stand out from the crowd. But what is the key to innovation? The answer, or at least an important answer, is becoming an observer. By observing how we and other people do things, we will spot opportunities for improvements. The more we observe, the more opportunities we will find. We can then work to provide solutions for some of the problems. By becoming… Continue reading

January 24 2008 | By Donald | Tagged: achievement, business, creativity | 20 comments»

Three Basic Steps to Get Your Desire with the Least Effort

How can we get what we want? The book Simpleology contains five laws to help you get what you want:

The Law of Straight Lines: The shortest path between two points is a straight line. If you want to get a particular result, take the fastest and most direct route. Don't add any extra steps.
The Law of Clear Vision: In order to hit a

January 14 2008 | By Donald | Tagged: achievement, performance, Productivity, success | 29 comments»

20 Questions to Help You Reflect the Past Year

Now we are approaching the end of the year, and it's the perfect time to reflect how we have done in the past year. We can then take some lessons for the new year. One good way to reflect, I believe, is using four facets of prosperity:

Material prosperity
Spiritual prosperity
Physical prosperity
Social prosperity

These four facets give us a complete and balanced view of prosperity. By reflecting on them, you… Continue reading

December 27 2007 | By Donald | Tagged: achievement, health, planning, question, relationship, self, success | 23 comments»

Achieving Your Dream: How to Take the First Step

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.Lao-tzu

Do you have a dream deep in your heart that you want to pursue? If you do, have you taken the first step necessary to achieve it? Taking the first step is perhaps the most difficult thing to do in achieving a dream. There are a lot of mental obstacles that make it difficult to take that first step.

Here… Continue reading

December 14 2007 | By Donald | Tagged: achievement, goal, motivation, success | 14 comments»

How to Get Gutsy

“If you wanna run with the big dogs, you’ve gotta get off the porch.” This was the sage advice given to me some years ago as I considered my first entrepreneurial venture. You’ve got to take risks. Be gutsy. All of which led me to wonder what guts really is. And, more importantly, if you don’t have it, can you get it?What is… Continue reading

December 10 2007 | By Jonathan | Tagged: achievement, business, networking, speaking | 9 comments»

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