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Goal Setting: Crash Test Dummy Edition

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But too often these goals fall by the wayside before the snow has had a chance to melt. With all the writing I’ve been doing recently on goals, I thought it might be fun to put my money where my mouth is, set a New Year’s goal of my own in a public way, and see if I can stick to it. Make small sub-goals. Define Success.

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Master the Habit Cycle and Achieve Your Goals

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It’s easy to set a goal. NOTE: This video and transcript are excerpted from the “ Building Habits that Stick” lesson in my on-line course entitled Goal-Getting: How to Build Your Framework for Success. I’ll use myself as an example. Achieve Your Goals. It’s much harder to actually achieve it.

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Leading Spaghetti – Using Your Noodle to Get Your Pasta to Cooperate

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So how about we decide it’s lunch time at Mama Rosa’s Pasta Palace, and the short term goal is getting that spaghetti into your mouth to satisfy your vision of “ Keeping my tummy happy.” That’s how noodles work – one end of the noodle leads, and the rest follows its example. It’s another mess to clean up.

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Don’t Make Lemonade: A Better Approach for When Life Gives Us Lemons

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Here’s an interesting example worth following. They say we should look for ways to make lemonade when life hands us lemons; I say we can do better. The post Don’t Make Lemonade: A Better Approach for When Life Gives Us Lemons appeared first on RapidStart Leadership.

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How to be a Great Boss: 9 Ways to Get a 5-Star Rating From Your Team

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But with this boss, his goal was to honestly find out how to help. He his goal was to learn how to leverage the resources under his control to help me do even better. Together we set the vision and goals, but there was no doubt I was fully responsible for getting it done. He didn’t do my job for me.

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Grandma’s Law: How to Put the Power of Incentive to Work for You

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There’s a simple law you can apply to your goal setting that will definitely help improve the amount of things you’re able to get done. In his book “Bringing out the Best in People” author and clinical psychologist Aubrey Daniels gives the example of a production team at a Kodak factory. It’s called Grandma’s Law. You Gonna Eat That?

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Leadership Mistakes: 3 Things to Do When You Really Step In It

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It sets a positive example for others to follow – isn’t that how you’d want your teammates to respond? • If the error led your team away from the direction of your vision and goals , pause to review, so that your next steps are forward again. I messed that up.”. Correct the problem immediately if you can.