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Successful Goal-Setting

Articles on successful goal setting, planning, New Year Resolutions, changing habits.

* Open to Your True Potential

If you’ve ever tried unsuccessfully to create a bigger vision for your life, you are among the many people who struggle to recognize their full potential.

* How Important Are Your Goals?

No matter what goals you are working toward in life, you must have a strong investment in achieving them. If your goals aren’t important to you and you’ve got nothing to lose by quitting, you probably won’t summon enough motivation to get it done.

* Tips for Overcoming Procrastination

Have you ever found yourself procrastinating on something you didn't want to do? It's no surprise that we want to avoid unpleasant tasks or obligations, but procrastination can also infiltrate other areas of our lives and stop us from doing things we really DO want to do.

* Ring Out the Old Ring in the You: Resolutions into Reality!

The turning of the New Year is a time filled with wonderful expectancy and excitement about what’s possible. There is an energy of vitality and aliveness, of new beginnings and directions.

* The Universe is Waiting for YOU to Take Action

Have you ever held back on something you wanted because you were waiting for the conditions to be just right? And as you sat there waiting for one event or another to shift into "rightness," what happened? Nothing.

* How to Stay Focused on Your Goals

One of the biggest challenges of achieving our goals is being able to stay focused long enough to see results. Most of us feel excited and motivated when we first set our goals, and that feeling can carry us along for several days, or even weeks.

* Overcome Procrastination in 6 Easy Steps

When we decide to make changes in our lives, one of the biggest obstacles we might need to overcome is procrastination. We want to change (don't we?), yet we keep putting off the very steps that will create the desired results.

* Nurturing Your Goals and Dreams

One of the most powerful things we can do for ourselves is make a conscious effort to nurture our goals and dreams. After all, isn't nurturing care what makes everything grow?

* New Year Resolutions Goal Setting Review

If you've ever had a yearly performance review for your job, you know it can be a tense experience that determines whether you receive a pay raise or not.

* Setting Successful New Year Resolutions

Change is hard. Most of us don’t stop to think about that when we set goals. We start out filled with passion, fire and excitement. We feel invincible and know we can accomplish whatever we desire. We see the glorious outcome of our desires shining before us, and we are determined to make it happen.

* Goal Setting and Taking a Leap of Faith

I write a lot about finding your true purpose in life, and about gathering the courage to make your dreams come true, but I want to say a few words about actually taking the leap of faith.

* Timing: When It's Just Not the Right Time

Is there anything more maddening than working hard on a goal and running into constant obstacles that keep us from getting where we want to be? The past couple of weeks have been exactly like that for me.