How To Set Sucessful Goals

A friend once told me that if we fail to make a plan for whatever then we are planning to fail. Here are few tips that we can use to set goals the we will be able complete:

• State each goal as a positive statement: Express your goals positively - 'Execute this technique well' is a much better goal than 'Don't make this stupid mistake'
  
  
• Be precise: Set a precise goal, putting in dates, times and amounts so that you can measure achievement. If you do this, you will know exactly when you have achieved the goal, and can take complete satisfaction from having achieved it.
  
  
• Set priorities:When you have several goals, give each a priority. This helps you to avoid feeling overwhelmed by too many goals, and helps to direct your attention to the most important ones.
  
  
• Write goals down: This crystallizes them and gives them more force.
  
  
• Visualize Your Goals: First thing in the morning and last thing at night, visualize the Goal as already being achieved. If our Goal is to lose weight, see, feel and experience your new body. Get excited about how you will feel once you have achieved the goal you set.
  
  
• Set performance goals, not outcome goals: You should take care to set goals over which you have as much control as possible. There is nothing more dispiriting than failing to achieve a personal goal for reasons beyond your control. These could be bad business environments, poor judgment, bad weather, injury, or just plain bad luck. If you base your goals on personal performance, then you can keep control over the achievement of your goals and draw satisfaction from them. Spend four hours in Income Producing Activities each day, is a better goal than Earn $5,000 this month. (Linda Stokes Entrepreneur, business manager and success coach)
  

Cool foggy pic

Look at this totally cool picture of skyscrapers in Dubai. You would think that they are up in some high mountain because of all of the fog. This planet is cool.

Make them feel apreciated

To be a good leader we need to let those whom we lead know how much we appreciate them and give encouragement to continue doing a good job. If we continue to let their hard work go unnoticed then we are setting them up for failure. For those of us who are the subordinates we also need to let those who are over us know that they are doing a good job when they do so. " To bring out the best in those around you, give them encouragement and show them loving appreciation." So everyone let those people who are doing a good job know it so that they will continue to do it.

More bank failures?

I was hoping that this banking problem was about to be over, but according to Henry Paulson more banks could fail. This from Times Online by Gary Duncan in Washington.


Henry Paulson, the US Treasury Secretary, attempted once more to soothe the world’s fractious markets, urging calm and patience while reassuring investors that Washington is movingly as swiftly as feasible to implement the $700 billion bailout for US banks under the Troubled Assets Relief Programme (TARP).

However, Mr Paulson also sought to dampen rising expectations that an even more sweeping global “grand plan” to stabilise the world financial system might emerge from Friday’s meeting of the Group of Seven leading economies, and a further “G20” meeting of the G7 with big emerging market nations on Saturday.

“We are moving as quickly as possible to organise and implement the most effective process possible,” the Treasury Secretary said on the US bailout.

He sounded a warning that “even with the new Treasury authorities, some financial institutions will fail”. The rescue scheme “doesn’t exist to save every financial institution for its own sake”, he added.

Adding that it would several weeks before any distressed assets could be bought up from banks under the Tarp scheme, he urged: “Patience is also needed because the turmoil will not end quickly and significant challenges remain ahead. Neither passage of this new law (the Tarp) nor the implementation of these initiatives will bring an end to immediate difficulties.”

Mr Paulson and his key international aide both pored cold water on speculation over a grand plan by the G7.

“When you look at the G7, we have very different economies of different sizes, financial systems with different needs,” the Treasury Secretary said. “I think it would not make sense to have identical policies. I think we are going to have different policies. The key thing is that we continue to work closely together, we continue to coordinate.”

David McCormick, the US Treasury Under-secretary, reinforced Mr Paulson’s caution that no grand plan was expected to emerge. “I am trying to think about what a global plan would look like because it seems to imply that there is a one size fits all for these challenges,” he said, adding that he saw no such likely approach.

Presidential debate

I listened the Presidential debate yesterday on the radio while I was at work and I have to say it was little bit boring. I thought there was to much bashing and not enough answering the questions. One thing that I am disappointed about is the fact that neither one of the candidates can follow directions very well. How can either one of these people be a good leader if they can not follow a few simple rules. The only one following the rules was the moderator and when he would tell it is time to stop they would get upset. What a couple of little babies. I hope that this is not a sign of things to come.