Category: Goals
8 Online Goal Progress Tracking Tools
You already know that if you care to accomplish anything, be it in the short term or long term, setting goals is critical. Now, the thing about goals is that setting them is easy, and losing sight of them is even easier. There have been times when I have setRead More
Effective Sales Presentations for Closers
The Closer is a television show about a police detective who has an uncanny ability to close cases. The secret to her success is how she leads suspects into confessing in the interrogation room. You can have the same success. Not at closing police cases but at closing deals. InsteadRead More
Smart Goal Setting: The Importance of Setting Realistic Goals
I once worked for a boss who wanted us to assign a Big, Hairy, Audacious Goal (BHAG) to every project and proposal. When we created a site for small business owners, it was supposed to be “The top visited site for small business owners looking for solutions to their problems.”Read More
Look Backward, Look Inward, Look Forward for Success
Be it Steve Jobs, Nelson Mandela or any of the other 6 billion or so people in the world, we all have one thing in common. Everybody loses. Beneath all the victory, power and flamboyance lie the painful scars of failures. Failures are the checks and balances put in placeRead More
How to Hone Your Business Skills with a Cribbage Board
One of my favorite ways to kill some time and unwind is by playing cribbage on my iPhone. It’s an addictive way to clear my head. Oh, it’s not all fun and games. There are some valuable business skills to be learned: Pay attention to your numbers: When I pickRead More
Making Your Passion a Higher Priority
Many of us are working at jobs that aren’t exactly horrible but they’re not quite our dream job, either. We might be harboring our own secret goal or ambition, but put it aside for the sake of a steady paycheck, benefits, and a sense of reasonable security. But the moreRead More
Stuck With a Steady Job
It sounds backwards, doesn’t it? How could you be “stuck” with a fairly decent job? In today’s economy, millions of unemployed workers would be delighted to be “stuck” with a steady stream of tolerable work. But does that mean that we should be satisfied with “steady”? The difference between aRead More
Getting Down to Goalsetting: The Freelancer’s Bucket List
Having goals is an automatic tendency for everyone – and the goals will be wide in range and scope. What might be something you find not really worthy of being pursued another may envision as an ultimate achievement. It is the achieving them that is the challenging part – althoughRead More