Are you reaching the goals you are setting for your company, yourself or others?
If not, or if you want to improve on your current method you may want to work on a process to create SMART goals.
SMART is an acronym, which stands for: Specific – Measureable – Achievable – Results-focused – Time-bound
Creating the right goals is crucial to reaching the target whether professionally or personally.
Here is a process to help you set SMART goals. Read more
Do you want to get more focused and productive? Do you want to accomplish more of what really matters to you in your life? We can stay more focused and accomplish more of what matters with a weekly review process.
Here is a process that can be followed or adapted. I have adapted my process from David Allen’s book, Getting Things Done, as well as from Michael Hyatt. Read more
Do you ever find it a challenge to stay on track in your life or your business? At some point, most of us get off track, and it is easy for this to happen as we have many responsibilities to balance and execute.
Here are a few ideas and a process to help us stay on track and focused in those areas of life we consider most important. Read more
Have you ever wondered what the next step is for your business, or your personal journey?
Have you ever observed the passion with which some people execute their work?
The reason could quite possibly be that they have a clear vision for who they are and where they are headed.
If you have not constructed a vision for your business or for yourself personally, here are some good reasons to get clear about it. Read more
To sleep, perchance to dream. The famous quote from Shakespeare’s Hamlet has never held more stock than in today’s hectic world.
The pace of our lives sometimes feels never-ending. All of those predictions about technology reducing our workloads, and making us a civilization of leisure? Well, it hasn’t really worked out that way.
In fact, it’s been the opposite. The faster and more efficiently we can so something these days, only results in more time to do more things, faster, and more efficiently.
The “glorification of busy” has been written about often. And the first thing that takes a hit when we’re all ‘so busy’? Our sleep. Read more
We’ve all failed from time to time. I know I certainly have.
But failure should never be seen as a negative occurrence. But rather, as an opportunity to teach or learn, and grow.
It’s only when people don’t learn from their mistakes that you begin to have a problem.
As a leader, you should allow your teams room for mistakes and errors, and make sure they know they shouldn’t fear failure.
Writing for FastCompany.com, executive creative director of Doner Los Angeles, Rob Palmer reminds us that when people know they have a safe place to land if they try something different, yet fail, they will become less risk-averse, and more open to new strategies and ideas.
“Next thing you know,” he writes, “you will have nurtured a culture of risk-takers that care as much about the success of their workplace as you do.”
He shares a few things he’s learned about failure over the years, and they apply to most industries or organizations. Read more