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From Yearly Goals to a Decade of Purposeful Growth

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As the new year begins, most of us have goals or resolutions for 2024, but how many of us are working on a 10-year plan? For more than two decades, my wife Diane and I have been very intentional and consistent about visualizing our goals for the coming year and outlining the routines and actions that we think will best help us achieve them.

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How to Prepare for Performance Management Conversations

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The point is to identify and then facilitate an emotional state for your team member that leads to productive action. Ideally, the emotional state that you’ve helped facilitate sets them up to take productive action. Once you identify that, consider what you need to say and how you need to say it to help get them there.

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Three Questions That Lead to Better Meetings

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What’s the Goal? – My biggest pet peeve is meetings that don’t have a clearly stated goal as in, “By the end of this meeting, we should have hashed out a, b, and c or decided on x, y and z.” Way too many meetings don’t have any stated goals or objectives. can eliminate a lot of pointless meetings.

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How to Reclaim the Best Part of Your Commute

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packed subway rides or highway traffic jams in virtual reality, users will be prompted by the platform to set goals in the morning and reflect on the day in the evening.”. He reported that it gave him space to think and, more often than not, teed him up for a really productive day. Instead of reliving 8 a.m.

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How to Maintain Your Mojo This Year

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Let Go to Pick Up : Those great mojo plans you have for 2020 likely include picking up some healthy and productive new routines or reinstituting old ones that have helped in years past. A lot of my clients tell me their own versions of these routines are working for them as well. The last glass of wine needs to be finished before 8:00 pm.

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Stop Feeding Your Trolls

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Your trolls may not be sending literal mean tweets but they are likely disrupting and derailing productive conversations with their grousing, complaining and cheap shots. Choose the dignified response by focusing on what matters and the facts that support the goal. You never get constructive input from a true troll.

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Give Yourself the Gift of Unconscious Thought

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And, then, in a couple of weeks, we’ll wipe the slate clean and start pursuing the goals of 2020. Before you officially shut things down for the holidays, frame up a short list of goals, opportunities or challenges you want to take on in 2020. Here’s some advice (for myself as much as anyone) before you dive into next year.

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