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Goal Setting Information: Explore. Dream. Discover!

Interested in goal setting information for happier work and life choices? The Happy Manager contains a growing range of material to help you plan, set and achieve your goals.

Whether modest or ambitious, at work or at home, the importance of goal setting is inestimable.

What better way to express this value, than in the wisdom of these four quotations:

"If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes." Andrew Carnegie

“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstance they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.” George Bernard Shaw.

“The highest reward for man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.” John Ruskin

Finally, the future is uncertain, akin to setting out on a voyage of discovery. As Mark Twain put it:

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

Articles on Goal Setting Information

8 Benefits of Goal Setting
What are the benefits of goal setting? We think one way to motivate yourself to set goals is to think more closely about the benefits this activity may bring you. Here, to start you off, we suggest eight benefits of goal setting.

Happiness Goal Setting Tip: Do What You Love.
What we do at work can have a big impact on how we feel about life. The majority of us will spend almost a third of our adult lives in the workplace. There probably isn’t one simple key to happiness, but as we spend so much of our time and energy at work, learning how to be happy during those hours is surely well worth the effort. In the article, the Happy Work Cycle provides an excellent framework to help you get more out of work.

Goal Setting Definition
Developing a goal setting definition can be as simple as deciding what you want to do and planning to do it! But wouldn't it be helpful if we knew what factors are more likely to make setting goals more effective, and encourage success? Here we explore some well researched goal setting tips.

Career Goal Setting: Nothing Great Was Ever Achieved Without Enthusiasm.
An implicit element of doing what you love is enthusiasm. Try to make enthusiasm central to your career goal setting. Enthusiasm is infectious. Often those around us catch that sense of passion, causing a multiplying and magnifying effect.

8 Goal Setting Questions: to make a difference.
Charles Handy and Stephen Covey suggest that what we all really want is to make a difference, to contribute. Asking our goal setting questions matters because they'll help you start thinking about how that might be possible. This article suggests some questions to help you set the goals you really want to achieve.

Barriers to Goal Setting: take it step by step.
One of the biggest barriers to goal setting can be the thought that sometimes our goals can seem beyond our reach. Use the next-mile principle to help you overcome your barriers to goal setting.

Business Goal Setting Using the F-Plan: 6 Steps for a Business Goal Setting Strategy.
Goal setting information is not just for individuals. It's also a vital component of successful business planning. Whether you're self-employed, an entrepreneur, managing a department, or part of a large organisation, read: Business Goal Setting. This article uses the "F-plan" - a planning process which combines "head" and "heart" thinking. Ideas and wisdom adapted from Peter Drucker have been incorporated into this "Six Steps For A Business Goal Setting Strategy".

Business Industry Environment: Know the Business You're In
How well do you know your business industry environment? One of the fundamentals of good management is understanding the business you are in, and the wider industry environment in which your organization operates. But how do you analyse that environment?

Elementary Goal Setting: Make It Up and Make It Happen!
Want an elementary goal setting tip? David Allen provocatively suggests there are only two problems in life. Deciding what you want, and deciding how to get it. Dealing with these two simple decisions is the subject of this article. Fundamental goal setting information!

Goal Setting Activity: 5 steps to self-development at work.
Possibly the most effective goal setting activity is the one that contributes to your self-development. Attending to your personal growth is the most important goal you can set but how do you set your personal goals?

Goal Setting Leaders: Put Their Legacies First.
What separates Goal Setting Leaders from the crowd? Combining love and passion with a desire to make a difference. In any given situation, true leaders are inclined to look at the bigger picture. Leaders might reasonably ask: is true success measured by what we have, or by what we leave behind?

8 Goal Setting Questions.
Here we suggest some questions to help you find goal setting information, and to set the goals you really want to achieve.

Goal Setting Quotes.
A collection of great goal setting quotes. To help you decide what you want to do, then to help you believe you can do it!

Lesson on Goal Setting: stick at it!
Looking for an unusual lesson on goal setting, and an interesting business success story? Sometimes it's better not to have goals. Or at least, to have some time which is goal-free! Lesson on Goal Setting - stick at it!

Personal Goal Setting: Ask Questions of Yourself. Personal goal setting is all about setting and meeting challenges. Quite often though, the first challenge is to ask and answer the right questions. Spend time on these before you take aim and fire!

Tips and Tools

8 Steps in Goal Setting
Discover 8 steps in goal setting in just one minute! What's the most important goal setting activity we can do? Some might say its to think about what we really want to do in life. Use these 8 steps in goal setting to take a good look at yourself by asking some big questions.

SMART Objectives
SMART objectives are those which use a well-known acronym to help us succeed in achieving those objectives. There's quite a wide range of variation in the way SMART is defined, and here we outline one of the most popular.

SWOT Analysis
What is SWOT analysis? If you want to understand the business you are in SWOT is one of the best known tools to help you do that. Here we explore what it is and how to use it.

Work Life Effectiveness: Work to Your Strengths - in a Minute!
Follow these 15 suggestions to help you think about your work life effectiveness. Questions to help you identify your strengths, encourage you to learn more about yourself, then perhaps decide what it is you really want to do!

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