And now a Diversion...

I just read these from the Monday Morning memo from Roy H. Williams...

Ahh, so true...

Step 7: Don’t become an insider.Only an outsider can be objective. Get too close and you’ll no longer see the big picture, only the details. You lose credibility the moment you begin to look, think and act like an employee.

Step 9: Maintain at least 12 clientsYour value as a consultant is that you see more successes and failures than your client. This is why you must consult a lot of different people. If one client ever represents more than 10 percent of your annual income, you no longer have a client, you’ve got a boss.

GOAL POST 5

I liked this thought over at TopAchievement

Develop goals in the 6 areas of life:

Family and Home

Financial and Career

Spiritual and Ethical

Physical and Health

Social and Cultural

Mental and Educational

AND:

A goal you set cannot contradict other goals you set...example - don't set a goal for a $750,000 house if you only make $50,000!

Read more here

GOAL POST 4

SMART Goals:A useful way of making goals more powerful is to use the SMART mnemonic.

While there are plenty of variants, SMART usually stands for:

S Specific

M Measurable

A Attainable

R Relevant

T Time-bound

For example, instead of having “to sail around the world” as a goal, it is more powerful to say “To have completed my trip around the world by December 31, 2015.” Obviously, this will only be attainable if a lot of preparation has been completed beforehand!

Excerpted from MindTools...Its a pretty good article over all...

GOAL POST 3

GOALS SHOULD BE BIG HAIRY and AUDACIOUS!

GOALS SHOULD BE SCARY AND EXCITING!

GOALS SHOULD AIM FOR THE IMPOSSIBLE!

Read all about it here - its another post from a while back on Cultivate Greatness

GOAL POST 2

Over at Cultivate Greatness...a post on Goal Setting says there are 5 proven principles for Effective Goals

They Should be...

1. Challenging (we accomplish more when we challenge ourselves)

2. Specific (Challenging and Specific - best combination)

3. Set with Daily Progress in Mind (they should encourage Daily Progress, step by step)

4. Controllable ( Not I will lose weight today, Because I can't control that - but I will eat healthily today, I will excercise today)

5. Positive ( strive toward positive outcomes, rather than avoiding negative outcomes)

read more

The article was written by Stephen Kraus at ChangePlanet

GOAL POST 1

People looking to motivate themselves or their team members should decide on their goals and get them down in writing. In order to get properly motivated people should know what their goals are. After getting their goals set, people should plan short-, medium-, and long-term goals. The goals chosen need to be practical and attainable. The goals set should not be so high that they prove to be out of reach. Goals should be written down and should be placed in a spot where they are clearly visible.

from Motivation Secrets

WRITING GOALS!

I am not the best at the whole GOAL WRITING thing...or even knowing what Goals I should be keeping track of....!!!!!

So in the next couple posts, I am going to go hunting for what folks are saying about goal writing...and maybe we can all learn together!!!!

"Misused" Quotes

I stumbled on this great post at Mental Floss about Misused Quotes, so I went to the website to check it out...





I about fell out of my chair I was laughing so hard.





Here are a couple of my favorites:





This was on a homemade sign at a flea market: all swimsuits are clean and "sanitized"
At least they're clean!





Seen on a van this morning: Casa Bonita. Taking care of your "beautiful house"


Yeah, they must have seen my house lately.





My mother sent my husband and me a Valentine's Day card. Printed on the front was: To a special daughter and "son."


I'm sure my husband really felt like one of the family after that.





Maybe I just have a weird sense of humor, but I can imagine someone saying these things, and using air quotes to make their point!





If you imagine someone using airquotes you'll appreciate the humor too!





Have a "Great Day"!

Great Quote

"Blame is about the past: A plan of action to fix the problem is about the future"

- from David Niven's Book The 100 Simple Secrets of Happy People that I mentioned in a previous post

ps - its tip number 48 (if you were wondering)