As the commercial says, it’s the most wonderful time of the year. As our children grow older and more is expected of them in school, that last night of freedom before the year begins is spent thinking about what the year will bring. What will they aim to achieve? What teams do they want to try out for? How much effort are they willing to put in? Of course mixed in with other questions as…
You’ll hear this from coaches a lot. “What’s our break-out?” “How do we get the – (whatever sport it is we’re playing) – out of our zone and into theirs?” The same goes for your career. Do you have a break-out strategy for taking that next step in your career? Do you know where you want to go next? Do you know who you need help from? Do you know what you need to get…
Great – start with the end goal in mind. It’s not going to come to you on a silver platter. Forget all the hype, all the articles that are promoting someone else over you, all the followers you don’t have and guest posts you are missing out on. If you want it, go work for it, go make it happen. That’s all. (foot note: this post first started out as “Great – Go work for…
I wish I had better running endurance today. I wish I could bench my own weight today. I wish I had a better wrist shot today. I wish I had better grammar today. But I don’t (and many of us don’t either), where we want to be today we are not and that frustrates all of us to no end. Even if we have put in months and months of effort already. This isn’t about…
For years I’ve searched for the perfect goal setting app with many having very complex systems of reminders, prompts, recording, updating, etc. I’ve been using an iPhone App for the last 4 months that lets me input the goal, target metrics for the month, one click updates on progress and graphing of the results month to month. Best of all, it follows me wherever I go. Simple tools solving Complex problems for $1.49.