SMART Goals
Now it is time to set your goals, select your destination, chart your course, for a definite, and successful future. If haven’t set goals for yourself before, there is an excellent acronym that can help you. The acronym is SMART, and leads you setting SMART goals.
Studies have shown that all the things we worry about in life:
87% never happen
7% actually occur
6% you will have some influence over the outcome
People Skills
This is a list of some of the most damaging words and phrases you can speak. These phrases appear to say one thing while they in fact reveal the emotions, feeling and prejudices of the speaker. Eliminate them from your own vocabulary because they detract from your credibility.
The 12 Most Powerful Words You Can Use
A study at the University of California shoed the most persuasive words in spoken language are:
People Skills For Life
‘Active listening’ is a remarkable way of encouring others to keep talking and to be sure you understand what hey are saying to you.
To use ‘active listening’ you simply paraphrase what a person says and feed it back to them, starting with the word ‘you;.
Work Life Balance
The key to implementing good intentions is to create and follow an action plan for work and life. Identify your objectives, clarify your goals, discuss your plans with those will be involved in them, and set yourself achievable targets.
“You do not have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
Joe Sabah
“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you never try.”
Beverly Sills
“Anything you can do needs to be done, so pick up the tool of your choice and get started.”
Ben Linder
“The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it, and the faith to believe that it is possible.”
Richard M. DeVos
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”
Mark Twain
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