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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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Mindful Mondays: Reflect, Then Project

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It makes sense to set some goals for a new year and to reverse engineer back from those goals to identify the specific actions that will likely get you there. It’s a good exercise for sure. As the Cheshire Cat said to Alice, “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.”

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Ten Questions to Keep You on Track This Year

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While I recommend working with a coach or trusted advisor who will ask follow-up questions, take notes, and help you see the patterns in your answers, taking some time on your own to reflect on questions like these can make a big difference in defining what success looks like this year and keeping you on track towards reaching those goals.

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How to Create a Compelling Narrative That Connects with Senior Execs

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In almost every executive presentation or conversation, you’ll want to start with a quick reminder of what your big goal is and why it matters. A milestone is like the end of a chapter in a project that creates momentum for the next chapter to start. That’s the North Star you’ll keep coming back to.

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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.”. You might think the goal of meditation is to not think, but most of the experts I’ve read and talked to say the goal is really to notice when you’re thinking.

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Five Meaningful Ways to Keep Your Team Engaged

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By that I mean that they’re looking ahead on behalf of their team members to identify assignments, projects, presentations, meetings and other opportunities that will contribute to their career development.

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Don’t Let Your Deficiency Overwhelm Your Proficiency

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When you’re new to a leadership role or new to an organization it can be a challenge to project the right amount of grounded confidence that you belong and can contribute. Over the years, you’ve developed a playbook for how to build great teams, develop talent and accomplish big goals. You’ve proven it out over time.