Category: Goal Setting

"Priority #1" written on a piece of paper and circled in red. Written underneath and uncircled: "Priority #2" and "Priority #3"

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Is it Still Your Biggest Rock?

‘Biggest Rock First’ refers to putting your most important priorities on your schedule first and then fitting other, lesser priorities in around

The words "goal", "plan", and "action" written on a chalkboard with checkboxes next to each

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“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

The quote is by the poet Mary Oliver (1935-2019, Pulitzer Prize winner) and the elegant beauty of it always spoke volumes to

Steps of goal setting: set goal, make plan, get to work, stick to it, reach goal

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Practice is a Skill

Or more fully stated: ‘effective practice is a learnable skillset’. It may sound like heresy, but not all practice is good practice

A dictionary page with the definition for "self-discipline" and the words "self-discipline" being highlighted with a green highlighter marker

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Will is a Skill

For many of us and for much of our lives we have absorbed the concept that willpower, along with its close cousin,

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Baker’s Dozen

Recently, I was asked: “What is the most valuable piece of advice you would give to anyone new at TCC who is

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Only the Best Obsess

Obsession has gotten a bad name in some circles but directed and managed, it is the gift of the gods. I think

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Elevate Your Identity

Your identity, your self-concept, is who you think you are, the story you tell yourself about yourself as well as the standards

Photo of a calendar with "small steps big changes" written in one date box

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Build the Chain

We are so much the product of our habits. So how to form habits that take us where we want to go?

Drawing of a flower pot with a large flower growing out. A women is sitting in the flower and watering the pot

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You Are The Project

You are the most important project you will work on your entire life. Think of yourself as a work in progress; approach

Photo of a pen and paper with "goal, plan, action" written on it

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Plan Your Future in Advance

Hey, the future is going to come and if you want a better future, you’d best start doing something about it today.

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The Intolerable Cost of Myopic Perfectionism

Myopic Perfectionism: An excessive focus on a single topic to the exclusion of other important topics; an obsessive interest or preoccupation with