Posts Tagged ‘goal setting’

How to Write a Personal Mission Statement to Make 2008 Your Best Year Ever

“Your actions are your only possessions.”
- Lao Tse

This is an excellent personal development statement to ponder as we watch 2007 dissolve into dust. Most of you made personal, one sentence resolutions like “I want to lose weight” or “I vow to go back to school.” It is a tradition to start the New Year with things you want to achieve, but under the influence resolutions are often unrealistic.

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January 10 2008 | By AJ | Tagged: goal setting, motivation, new_year, personal_mission_statement, resolution, value | 15 comments»

How to Use a Notebook to Make 2008 the Best Year Ever

The notebook has been around forever. Do you remember your first one? It probably had very wide lines and perhaps a spiral binding. You used a fat pencil and traced letters until they became second nature. Before long you learned script. Then you migrated to pens. Some of you, dear readers, are now Moleskine aficionados and are selective and perhaps downright snooty about your pen choice. The lefties here… » Continue

January 7 2008 | By Susan | Tagged: goal setting, gtd, meditation, new_year, notebook, planning, Productivity, success, tool | 30 comments»