Posts Tagged ‘goal’

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

July 7 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: achievement, brain, goal, motivation, neurology | 9 comments»

Join Me at 10am PST Today for Lifehack Live! Today’s guest: Arvind Devalia

Join me live for today’s recording of Lifehack Live at 10am PST. Visit the site and listen to the live stream, and call in during the show with your own questions and comments.

Today, I’ll be speaking with Arvind Devalia, author of Get the Life You Love and Live It about finding and pursuing your dreams, giving back to the world, and personal and corporate social responsibility.&nbsp… » Continue

May 8 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: dream, giving, goal, Podcast | 1 comment»

Getting Past Done: What to Do After You’ve Finished a Big Project

There’s no feeling in the world quite like the mixture of triumph and sadness that comes after finishing a project you’ve been working on for months or even years. On one hand, you’re done and can finally release your finished product, whatever it is, into the world. On the other hand, though, completing a big goal leaves a little emptiness in your life, like sending your kids off… » Continue

January 25 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: completion, goal, mission, project, self_development, vision | 13 comments»

How to Use Time to Make 2008 the Best Year Ever

Of all the things people cite as the reason they don’t start or finish something—write that book, lose the weight, build the business, or invent the widget—time lands squarely at the top of the list every time. What clients say time and again (sorry) is that becoming conscious about how they use every hour actually creates space for beginnings to take hold and completion to become routine.
Before you even… » Continue

January 2 2008 | By Lisa | Tagged: distraction, goal, new_year_resolutions, time | 16 comments»

6 Guilt-Free Steps To Review Your New Year Resolutions

(Photo by brungrrl)

The end of the year is always a good time for me to review my resolutions and take stock of what I have done over the past year.

However, for some people, reviewing New Year resolutions can be a painful affair. Some of you may have goals unaccomplished. A resolution review is just a stark reminder of how little you have achieved… » Continue

December 28 2007 | By Lawrence | Tagged: goal, new_year, resolution, review | 15 comments»

14 Tips For Resolutions That Stick in the New Year

Statistics show that only about 15% of New Years Resolutions are kept. With an 85% failure rate, it’s no wonder that the amount of resolutions made is dropping. You wouldn’t buy a product that is defective 85% of the time, so why buy into the annual hype about resolutions? A strategy that fails over four fifths of the time is broken. The question… » Continue

December 27 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: change, commitment, diet, exercise, goal, habit, improvement, new years resolution, Productivity | 35 comments»

8 Ways to Achieve Success in 2008

I don’t believe in resolutions. The idea that a trick of the calendar should be the driving force for real change in my life seems silly. And yet, there’s no denying that a year is a good block of time to think with — long enough to carry out big projects and short enough to keep the end-goal in sight. Plus, a year is a good block of… » Continue

December 26 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: commitment, goal, motivation, resolution, success | 22 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

December 14 2007 | By Donald | Tagged: achievement, goal, motivation, success | 10 comments»

How to Move Forward Once You Achieve a Big Goal

What do you do once you achieve your big goal and make it to the top? This can become a big problem if it looks like the only way you can go is down. Professional athletes and aging celebrities all face this issue. The problem can be one of maintaining the position if this is what you want or figuring out where to go next while avoiding a big… » Continue

December 6 2007 | By Tatsuya | Tagged: goal, motivation | 9 comments»

10 Reasons You Aren’t Achieving Success

A couple of months ago, I asked you not to fear failure, saying that embracing failure — or at least the possibility of failure — was essential to success. But, of course, in the end the goal is to succeed, and fear of failing isn’t the only thing that keeps us from succeeding.

I speak from experience here. Six or seven years ago, I was the picture of… » Continue

November 9 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: failure, goal, lifelesson, success | 44 comments»

Gaining Focus With Certainty

David Seah suggests there are two ways to gain focus in your work: one being danger [deadlines, money etc] and the other certainty.

In certainty, Seah is referring to something that you know is going to make you happy. With this certainty you are willing and able to focus entirely on any given task.

It’s important to make a distinction here: I am using “certainty” here in the emotional, not rational… » Continue

October 18 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: focus, goal, Productivity | 2 comments»

If Goal Setting Affected Reality…

We’ve talked about the benefits of setting and recording goals here, but few articles have explored the concept of goat setting actually directly affecting real outcomes out of your control.

This article from Mr Wang Says So takes a karmic look at things by arguing that when you continuously write out all your goals and aspirations the real world will help you achieve them.

What this might more likely result… » Continue

September 27 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: goal | 10 comments»

Write A Personal Mission Statement In 5 Steps

Mission statements are a great way to define direction and maintain focus. Using one for yourself could make a big difference to how you reach your goals.

Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D. is a fan and has a 5 step plan to writing a good, personal mission statement.

A personal mission statement, is of course personal… but if you want to truly see whether you have been honest in developing your personal… » Continue

September 20 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: goal, growth | 5 comments»

Who Am I Today? The Importance of Roles

If you’re anything like me, life keeps you pretty busy. Sometimes — more often than I’d like, actually — it’s hard just to keep straight what day it is, let alone where I’m supposed to be and what I’m supposed to be doing.

Keeping track of the various roles I play helps keep my head in order and prevent that feeling of being torn into a thousand… » Continue

September 17 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: balance, goal, goalsetting, life, role, timemanagement, work | 4 comments»

Are Temporary Pleasures Preventing Your Long-Term Goals?

The easiest thing to do is get stuck in immediate gratifications; those little things that you keep doing but are inevitably preventing you from getting down to something more important.

Not only those time-wasting activities or instant pleasures, but also the smaller projects that may make you money but actually hold back more profitable jobs. Are you living paycheck to paycheck, or building your dreams?

There is an initial push that… » Continue

July 31 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: goal | no comments»

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