Setting Goals is Easy - Achieving them is not.

 

Setting goals that work, at work or in any other part of your life, can be a difficult affair.

 

Coaches, managers and your best friend will tell people like you to "dream big and set great goals". We are always encouraging you to create a vision of what you want to achieve.

 

So you do that, then you are surprised and disappointed when things do not turn out just as they were in your vision.

 

Here are just five reasons why you may be having great difficulty achieving those goals and plans.

1. Not your Vision: Your vision was not what you really wanted – you created it to meet the needs of others, not yourself.
2. Your vision was not clear enough. You did not see, hear, feel, taste and smell the reality that would exist when you had achieved your dream.
3. Focussing on the negative. For some reason humans are programmed to focus on negative things. We swear we will stop being overweight, eat less/lose weight rather than that we will love the food we eat and gain the body size we desire. At work this can result in our constantly focusing on putting out minor fires and totally missing the great things that are happening.
4. Fear Factor. It is hard to break out of your comfort zone. and if we are trying to do something new we tend to focus on the fear we feel of doing different things, and ignore the fantastic potential outcomes of taking that action.
5. Break-Down. Finally and most important of all,  ambitious people are good at taking their visions and setting long, medium and short-term goals and action points. What they are not so good at is applying their skills to visualising successful outcomes for those mid and short term goals. In other words they do not programme their brains.

Creating a good visualisation of a successful day, programme, plan, project or action can add massively to your success. Professor Richard Wiseman of Hertfordshire University in his book 59 Seconds: Think a little, change a lotadvises exactly that.

Innovation in Human Resource Management

Do human resource management approaches, and performance management in general result in poor market performance for organisations? Does HR focus on policies, procedures, job descriptions and competencies actually short-circuit the organisation’s attempts to be innovative, creative and change-ready?

Risk Management in Team Performance

Not managing the personalities and relationships in your team risks not developing the motivation and commitment the team needs to achieve its goals.

Performance management is hard, getting the most from our teams is hard; how do we “do” performance management?

There are many strands to good performance management but I want to focus on one specific area – managing ourselves and our relationships with our team members.

Life Plans or Business Plans. Five Ways to Make Sure they Work

Writing Plans Can Be Hazardous to Your Business Online

When writing business plans, or any sort of plans, make sure yours work.

People like me (coaches, advisers and consultants) are always telling people like you (potential and actual e-ntrepreneurs©) to "dream big and set great goals". We are always encouraging you to create a vision of what you want to achieve as a person or in terms of starting your own small business online.

So you do that, then you are surprised and disappointed when things do not turn out just as they were in your vision.

Here are just five reasons why you may be having great difficulty achieving those goals and plans for a small business online.

1. Not your Vision: Your vision was not what you really wanted – you created it to meet the needs of others, not yourself.
2. Your vision was not clear enough. You did not see, hear, feel, taste and smell the reality that would exist when you had achieved your dream.
3. Focussing on the negative. For some reason humans are programmed to focus on negative things. When we are reviewing progress, we notice what has gone wrong, not what has gone right.   This means that people often focus on minor fire-fighting and totally miss the fact that their customers started using their product for something different. Launch the business in the direction you planned, but remember it is your customers that float it – make sure you are not fighting the current they are trying to create.  
4. Fear Factor. It is hard to break out of your comfort zones. Starting a small business online means you are going to have to do things you have never done before. We tend to focus on the fear we feel of doing different things, and ignore the fantastic potential outcomes of taking that action. 
5. Break-Down. Finally and most important of all, I find my friends are good at taking their visions and setting long, medium and short-term goals and action points. What they are not good at is applying their skills to visualising successful outcomes for those mid and short term goals. In other words they do not programme their brains.

Creating a good visualisation of a successful day, programme, plan, project or action can add massively to your success. Professor Richard Wiseman of Hertfordshire University in his book 59 Seconds: Think a little, change a lotadvises exactly that.

Great Truths of Life - Raising teenagers is like nailing jelly to a tree!

Laura makes my life happier!

Laura is a dear friend of mine, who makes my life happier every so often by sending me emails that sum up life.  The contents of her most recent one (and I think the best ever) is below.  I do love receiving them.  Read this and you are bound to be cheered up. 

Thanks Laura, for being my friend, for sending these things though I don't send similar ones back, and for just being who you are.

 

Summary of Life

GREAT TRUTHS THAT LITTLE CHILDREN HAVE LEARNED:

1) No matter how hard you try, you can't baptize cats..

2) When your Mum is mad at your Dad, don't let her brush your hair.

3) If your sister hits you, don't hit her back. They always catch the second person.

4) Never ask your 3-year old brother to hold a tomato.

5) You can't trust dogs to watch your food.

6) Don't sneeze when someone is cutting your hair.

7) Never hold a Dust-Buster and a cat at the same time.

8) You can't hide a piece of broccoli in a glass of milk.

9) Don't wear polka-dot underwear under white shorts.

10) The best place to be when you're sad is Grandpa's lap.

GREAT TRUTHS THAT ADULTS HAVE LEARNED:

1) Raising teenagers is like nailing jelly to a tree.

2) Wrinkles don't hurt.

3) Families are like fudge...mostly sweet, with a few nuts

4) Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground..

5) Laughing is good exercise. It's like jogging on the inside.

6) Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fiber, not the toy.

GREAT TRUTHS ABOUT GROWING OLD

1) Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional..

2) Forget the health food. I need all the preservatives I can get.

3) When you fall down, you wonder what else you can do while you're down there.

4) You're getting old when you get the same sensation from a rocking chair that you once got from a roller coaster.

5) It's frustrating when you know all the answers but nobody bothers to ask you the questions.

6) Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician

7) Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.

THE FOUR STAGES OF LIFE:

1) You believe in Santa Claus.

2) You don't believe in Santa Claus.

3) You are Santa Claus.

4) You look like Santa Claus.

SUCCESS:

At age 4 success is . . . . not piddling in your pants.

At age 12 success is . . . having friends.

At age 17 success is . . having a driver's license.

At age 35 success is . . .having money.

At age 50 success is . .. . having money.

At age 70 success is . .. having a drivers license.

At age 75 success is . . . having friends.

At age 80 success is . . . not piddling in your pants.

Pass this on to someone who could use a laugh.

Always remember to forget the troubles that pass your way;

BUT NEVER forget the blessings that come each day.

Have a wonderful day with many ! *smiles*

Take the time to live!!!

Life is too short.

Dance naked. woo-hoo!