Perhaps “goal setting for a kid” hits you with the bizarre picture in your mind’s eye of a first grader drawing up “smart” goals in a day planner or on their PlayStation PDA?
Relax! Put your grownup concepts of goal setting on the back burner and start to see possibilities in the world with childlike eyes. This article looks at how goal setting for a kid of junior school age can be woven into the natural fabric of their daily living — and be fun too!
Ordinarily, when we think of “success,” we envision a solid level of achievement that occurs over an extended period of time. Never does it occur to us that success can occur instantaneously, and even infinitely — contradicting our ordinary notions of what is logical and possible.
Such instantaneous vast results can occur when we shift our consciousness to the positive. When we overcome our limiting behaviors, attitudes, and beliefs, life outside ourselves tends to respond with sudden good fortune. Such wondrous occurrences are instances of what can be called as “Life Response”. With that in mind, here are several strategies to help you attract sudden and abundant success and happiness in life.
When it comes to landing the perfect job, most people have in mind what they would consider their “dream job.” It may include the lifelong dream to become a firefighter and follow in your father’s footsteps or perhaps you’ve always loved to paint and wish you could make it a full-time career. While the majority of people have dreams for themselves, it is less often that individuals actively pursue these desires.
Every living person has a Dream:
Years ago, two regular guys got together in their garage and came up with an idea. They wanted to build the world’s first personal computer.
All the “experts” told them they couldn’t do it - and IBM was the “only game in town” - but they listened to their hearts and after a while they launched what became the most successful company of its time - Apple Computer. Those two guys were named Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak - who are now both multi-millionaires. (In fact Steve Jobs is a billionaire!)
One of the biggest obstacles to business success is allowing yourself to feel at the mercy of time.
It’s too easy to say “I don’t have time” but you choose how to spend your time and you can spend it wisely or badly.
Here are 7 ways in which you can take control of your time.
1. Stop inputting and start outputting
It’s easy to be busy taking in new information and ideas but it’s only taking action on them that gets results. If you’re inputting information, you’re not outputting real work and making money. If you’re an info junkie, perhaps you need to go on an info diet.
Do you know what your purpose is? When you lose the sense of purpose, you end up losing the excitement for what it is that you do. When you lose the excitement, you become lazy and apathetic. You then have short-term mindsets that don’t even resemble goals. When you can find purpose in what you do, everything around you becomes more dynamic and exciting. Let’s explore what living with purpose truly means.
Do you know that your thoughts shape your reality?
What goes in your mind has the power to shape your entire present and future.
That is why it is very important that you take care of the ideas that you feed your mind with.
The quality of your life is shaped by the quality of your thoughts.
But how do your thoughts get shaped? There are unlimited factors that shape your thoughts.
One of the most powerful ways to control the quality of your thoughts is by reading high quality books.
Goal Achievers - The Top 10 Strength Exercises For Successful Goal Achievers
By Mark McClure
Goal achievers play to their strengths and minimize or even ignore their weaknesses. Of course it is important to identify and then continuously improve on your specific strengths because as Louis Pasteur, the renowned scientist is reported to have said:
“Chance favors the prepared mind.”
This article recommends 10 goal achieving strengths that can work in your favor.
1: Be Specific
This strength is particularly relevant when setting “Smart” goals because some of your projects will require detailed planning. the more specific you can be on the next step or action required, the more likely you are to take that step and get closer to the goal.
For the last several days I have been in what we used to call, a “funk”. Overall, just kind of mad at the world, no energy, quick to blame, focusing on limitations and completely separated from the positive energy of inspiration.
I tried what I thought was “everything” to snap out of it. “What the hell is going on?”, I thought. Then was even more mad that I was not only in this awful place, but that I wasn’t moving past it quickly by using the very techniques I talk about in The Step by Step Action Guide to Unlocking the 7 Laws of Success .
I believe there are 4 essential steps you must take if you want to succeed with any project. A project is anything that requires a plan. It can be simple like making a plan to go to a movie, or could be complicated like setting up an Internet business. But simple or not, if you want your project to succeed you need to take the these four steps:
Step 1 Picture the Purpose.
Before you start any project you need to ask yourself what you really want. This might sound obvious, but it is amazing the number of people who don’t know what they really want when they start a project.
