Category: Goal Setting

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Do You Have a Standard?

Do you hold yourself… and others… accountable? To a high bar? One that calls out to and requires the best of you?

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In Praise of Developmental Discomfort

Developmental discomfort is the ‘awkward zone’ part of significant change, of significant personal and professional growth. Just as a weightlifter needs to

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Bar Raising Behavior

Who do you spend your time with? Do they encourage you, inspire you, lift you, challenge you, believe in you? Do they

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Comfort is a Seductive Adversary

Just as one must strain and push one’s muscles to the limit to grow stronger, so too must you press your mind

A yellow street sign with 3 directions: "Plan", "Action", and "Success" with a blue sky and white clouds in the background

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Next Action Step?

“Next Action Step?” is my favorite way to end a meeting or conversation. A decision without a plan to implement is just

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The Unique Power of Anti-Goals

Sometimes knowing what we don’t want can be as motivational as knowing what we want. Fear is a powerful driving force as

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The Advantages of Adversity

I’ve frequently said that I’d had the “good fortune to experience a period of poverty and chaos in my childhood” because it

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The Superpower of High Achievers

Want to be more, do more, go further, get more accomplished with the same if not less effort? Get ORGANIZED! Structure is

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Are You A Drifter?

I’ve this theory we all go the same distance in life or at least have the potential to do so. Thing is,

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The Goal of Your Goal Is?

We can get so wrapped up in pursuit of a goal that we lose sight of the underlying why or purpose. In

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The Greatest Opponent You Will Ever Face

Go find a mirror. The person you see in that mirror can either be your best ally, strongest advocate, your outstanding champion,