Category Archive: Goals

The 11 Step Guide to New Year’s Resolutions

The 11 Step Guide to New Year’s Resolutions

Because 11 is easier than 12.

New Year’s resolutions are an exercise in futility for most. 24% give up within seven days. But you don’t have to. 9% keep them.

This post explains how to achieve your resolutions (Or any reasonable goal).

Avoid These 3 Goal Setting Traps

Goal setting drives progress—but it can also drive burnout, blind spots, and bad decisions.

Before you chase the summit, ask: Are your goals worth the cost?

Discover 3 goal setting traps leaders make—and how to avoid them with clarity, integrity, and sustainable motivation.

Don’t die on the mountain.

4 Secrets of Achievement

If dreaming worked, you’d already be there. I bet you’re already working hard. Here are four secrets to achievement people often miss.

#1. Find the problem you’re built to solve.

People who achieve success create and drive solutions. Who are you trying to help? How?

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Ask 5 Questions Before Setting Goals for 2025

Personal goals make sense when they express and extend your experiences, values, aspirations, and talents.

Ask, “How can I express or extend my talents,” before setting personal goals for 2025.

Ask 5 questions.

Don’t miss the free download of the complete list of questions to ask before setting personal goals.

Performance Goals are Useful, but Learning Goals Transform

Performance goals are useful, but learning goals transform. Learning goals emphasize development. Performance goals target achievement.

A leader told me he was learning a lot. I asked, “What are you learning?” He couldn’t name anything.

You aren’t learning if you don’t know what you’re learning.

How to set learning goals…

4 Reasons Goal Setting Conversations Fail and How To Fix Them

Failure is often the result of something undone.

Goal setting is imagination. Follow through is reality.

This post provides solutions for 4 common reasons goal setting conversations fail.

Are you having the same conversations over and over?