Goal Setting Information: Explore. Dream. Discover!

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 three 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

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8 Goal Setting Questions: to make a difference.

Barriers to Goal Setting: take it step by step.

Business Goal Setting Using the F-Plan: 6 Steps for a Business Goal Setting Strategy

Career Goal Setting: Nothing Great Was Ever Achieved Without Enthusiasm

Elementary Goal Setting: Make It Up and Make It Happen!

Goal Setting Activity: 5 steps to self-development at work

Goal Setting Leaders: Put Their Legacies First

8 Goal Setting Questions. Here we suggest some questions to help you 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!

Happiness Goal Setting Tip: Do What You Love

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!

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Goal Setting for Life
Goal Setting in the Workplace

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. This is the theme of: Happiness Goal Setting Tip: Do What You Love. In the article, the Happy Work Cycle provides an excellent framework to help you think get more enjoyment out of work.

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.

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?

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 our article: Elementary Goal Setting - Make It Up and Make It Happen!

Of course, 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".

A successful business goal setting strategy comes from looking to the future, but the future is notoriously difficult to predict. As Peter Drucker pointed out

“we only know two things about the future:

It cannot be known

It will be different from what exists now and from what we expect."

So too for life!

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!

Explore. Dream. Discover!

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.”

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