Setting goals is something most of us do yet achieving them often proves elusive. Let's try and make our goals into SMARTER goals. Whether it's that New Year’s night fitness goal which faded away by February or the “I mean it this time” career aspiration that never quite materialised, the gap between setting goals and … Continue reading SMARTER Goals Are Smarter Goals
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Personal Success Recipe
This is an article about achieving success with a simple yet highly effective and repeatable four-ingredient personal success recipe comprising goals, strategies, self-discipline, and motivation. Good recipes need good ingredients. Top-class chefs need practice to produce consistently good meals using those recipes. Invest the time and effort to become your own cordon bleu success chef … Continue reading Personal Success Recipe
Work Life Balance – Don’t Believe the Hype
Apparently work life balance is the thing that all modern workers should be striving for. We are led to believe that we should be constantly aiming to balance living as a healthily functioning, societally successful, well-adjusted, and self-actualised human on one end of the seesaw along with being an effective, efficient, and super-productive modern worker … Continue reading Work Life Balance – Don’t Believe the Hype
Motivational Direction for More Effective Influencing
There are many elements in the influencing arena, but motivational direction is an important one to understand and apply early in the process. For a start, there’s your own motivational direction to consider. When you set goals and objectives for yourself, it makes sense to work with your inherent preferences rather than against them. Knowing your … Continue reading Motivational Direction for More Effective Influencing
Interpersonal Skills Are Your Edge
“Excellent interpersonal skills required.” That’s what the job description tells you. You just smile and think, “Yeah right. Just more word salad nonsense from the ‘Big Book of HR Buzzwords’ to pad out the advert.” You’ve got it covered. You didn’t get this far in the business without interpersonal skills – whatever they are. You’ll … Continue reading Interpersonal Skills Are Your Edge
Self-Discipline Drives Success
Self-discipline is the real power driving goal achievement, self-fulfilment, and success. Your goals might range anywhere from losing a bit of weight all the way up to a complete identity-level life transformation. I’ve done both. Self-discipline got me there. However, it takes a lot of self-discipline to develop a lot of self-discipline. … Continue reading Self-Discipline Drives Success
Luck and Rigging Your Own Game
Luck is either something you get or something you don’t get, right? You have no say at all in the luck stakes. It either happens or it doesn’t. It comes in two main flavours. Good luck and bad luck. We all hope for “good” luck of course, and we’re generally happy … Continue reading Luck and Rigging Your Own Game
New Year Resolutions – 5 Sticky Tips
It's new year resolutions time. The last three hundred and sixty-five days have passed in a blur. You hear yourself saying, "After one last drink and the fireworks, I'm off and running on my new mission. And I mean it this time!" The clock strikes twelve, people sing songs and kisses get kissed. You swear … Continue reading New Year Resolutions – 5 Sticky Tips
Work Smart AND Hard
"Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard." Tim Notke Work smart AND hard instead of work smart NOT hard. One small word change, using "and" rather than "not", makes a world of difference to your outcomes. The problem with the "Work smart NOT hard" approach There is nothing wrong with the phrase "work … Continue reading Work Smart AND Hard
Output Leads to Growth
"A dream does not become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work." Colin Powell The hard truth about output and growth There are some things to know about how output leads to growth. To get good at something you must put some hard work into it. To become good at creating anything … Continue reading Output Leads to Growth