Quotes About Goals

There are seven essential behaviors that form the first building block of execution: Know your people and your business. Insist on realism. Set clear goals and priorities. Follow through. Reward the doers. Expand people's capabilities. Know yourself.

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The fact that you don't have any money is a result of all your other problems. You have thinking problems. Attitude problems. Self-esteem problems. You are lazy. You lack discipline. You lack goals. Your priorities are out of whack. Your biggest problem is not in your wallet or your bank account. Your biggest problem is between your ears. You will fix your money problems when you fix your other problems.

Rather than dividing your attention between twenty goals and doing none of them well, pick one to three goals and execute them brilliantly. Multitasking works no better for team achievement than it does for individual productivity; you're better off single-tasking in a fierce, focused way.

The great thing about goals is that it's as easy to think big as it is to think small. Thinking big not only tests our reach and abilities; it also stretches our mental boundaries.

Since life comes up and emergencies happen, making success possible hinges on two things: being choosy about each day's priority list, and developing an accountability system that works.

Productivity, we are discovering, is a function of joy. Joy comes not from free M&Ms, but from making progress toward goals that matter to you.

Am I making progress toward things that are important to me?

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el poder de los pequeños logros", que es precisamente lo que obtienes cuando organizas con base en las tareas.

poder de los pequeños logros", que es precisamente lo que obtienes cuando organizas con base en las tareas.

Looking forward to the next week, when could this happen? List at least three times. What obstacles might prevent you from doing this activity three times a week? How can you address these challenges? Implementation questions: What activity did you choose to focus on three times this week? Did you spend more time on your chosen activity this week than in previous weeks? If so, how much more time did you spend on it? What was the impact of aiming to do this activity three times per week?

Create your "List of 100 Dreams." This was the exercise from Chapter 2 that the career coach Caroline Ceniza-Levine does with her clients. Come up with as many answers as possible to the question of "What do I want to do (or do more of) with my time?

Sometimes the answers are profound—for example, win a Nobel Prize—and sometimes they're more basic, such as "cook dinner for my family two nights per week.

Planning questions: What "big adventures" (taking a few hours) would you like to try in the next month? List at least three. What "little adventures" (taking about an hour) would you like to try in the next month? List at least three.

madness. Before the rest of the world is eating breakfast, the most successful people have already scored daily victories that are advancing them toward the lives they want.

At the beginning of the meeting, the meeting leader spells out the goals. At the end, the participants go back through the agenda and review assignments to be clear on what needs to happen.

Any "work" that is not advancing you toward the professional life you want should not count as work. It is wasted time.

It seems backward, but keeping your mind focused on the present will get you further toward your goals than keeping your mind focused on the goal itself.

You have the dreams that you want, and then you have to do other jobs until you can get to that dream.

You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.

Success is the continuing achievement of becoming the person God wants you to be and accomplishing the goals God has helped you set.

The truth of the matter is that our goals are generally very small and unsatisfying compared to the awesome, eternal plans the Father desires to accomplish through us.