• Balance,  Coaching,  Entrepreneurs,  Goals,  Motivation

    Do You Measure the Gap?

    Something that’s been ingrained in me from my dad and my mentors has always been setting my goals for the year. The one thing that always tripped me up was how I measured my success. I always did that based on the goals I accomplished. Often, I found myself being perpetually dissatisfied with my progress because I wasn’t accomplishing all of them. Some of my goals just felt so big and too far away to achieve them. What I didn’t understand is that the problem wasn’t in my success at achieving the goals. The problem was how I measured them. The challenge is that you can be so busy looking at…

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    5 Goals to Achieve This Year

    If you’re up for it — I am going to push the envelope a little today and actually give you five goals to try to achieve by the end of the year. Remember you are never going to know if you are capable of something if you don’t take that first step. 1. Go small This may be a big one to start with but here goes-Downsize.  Look at all aspects of your business whether that includes employees, vendors or service providers.  If you find that there is a way for ONE provider to handle multiple jobs than cut back.  This may sound strange but sometimes less is more when…

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    Quick Refresher on Setting Your Goals for 2010

    I love the first few weeks of January. The weather outside is cold and somewhat frightful. The days are short and the trees are bare. The holidays are over and it’s time to start planning another amazing prosperous year. A time to think about the whole year ahead of us!  What are your plans for 2010? The sky is the limit for the year.  The real fun is realizing that and figuring out your goals, writing them down and then working on creating a plan to match those goals for the year.  Do you know that most people get tripped up because they short change themselves and don’t think big…