This is a guest post by Scott Lovingood
Do you have trouble setting your goals and even more trouble accomplishing them?
There is a well known and established method of both setting and accomplishing goals. It is often referred to by its acronym SMART. It will definitely make you feel smart once you understand it and implement in your life. It always helps if you study and use a system such as Getting Things Done. You don't have to use all of it but a system will always out perform random acts of goal setting.
Now on to SMART. Each letter stands for a specific item that needs to be included in your goal. The better you make them the better your chances of actually accomplishing your goal and getting the benefit from it.
S = Specific. Most people say I am specific in my goals. Lets look at some goals and determine how specific they are. In the case of financial wealth I often hear people say I have a goal of being rich. Is that a specific goal? Getting a little better is I want to be a millionaire. Better. At least this one includes a dollar amount. I will cover specifics in each of the next letters so I won't spend a lot of time on it here. Just remember the most specific you can make your goal the more powerful it is to your own mind. In other words the easier it is to visualize the better your chances of actually acting on it and accomplishing.More on Easy 5 Step Method to Achieve your Goals
Filed under Goal Setting, News by on Apr 6th, 2010. 6 Comments. 
Hi everyone, it's been a pretty long time since I posted to the blog or emailed you. 
How is it going with you?
I hope you're having fantastic progression towards achieving ALL of your goals… especially with 2010 approaching. It's a good time to look back at 2009 and see if YOU did something to achieve maximum success. (you desreve it!)
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Filed under General, News by on Dec 2nd, 2009. 2 Comments.
What is the main purpose of a goal? A goal is something that you want to attain and that you will do anything to achieve. Without a goal you have no direction in your life so you are wandering about aimlessly. Whatever you want from your life you can have it, providing you have a plan and take action.
In his video, “Achieve Your Goal: Jack Canfield On Never Giving Up,” Jack explains how he and his partner were trying to get “Chicken Soup For The Soul” published and it was rejected by 144 publishers before it was eventually published. They were told that the title didn’t make sense and that no-one wanted to read short stories.More on Why We Should Set Goals?
Filed under Change, Goal Setting, News, Resources, Success Secrets, Video by on Sep 25th, 2009. 3 Comments.
Stress is one of the most known causes of heart attack and other stress-related diseases. So, what is stress and how can we help ourselves knowing what to look for and knowing how to deal with it?
Stress is usually caused by the pressures coming at us from both our working and and personal lives and can cause irritability, tension, headaches and an inability to concentrate. We all live with different stresses every day and we need stress in our life, but if it gets out of hand, and you feel that there is too much pressure, you will have to make changes in your life. The onset of a major health condition is a sign that you need to seek a different way to live your life.
There are many different treatments for stress and some of the most valuable to use is free software. One such program is “Stress Management & Anxiety Reduction Techniques 1.0” The information contained in this software is described as the following:More on Stress Reduction and Healthy Aging
Filed under News, Stress by on Sep 24th, 2009. 1 Comment.
You’ve probably asked yourself many times why you should stay positive after the death of a loved one. And why should you? Dealing with grief is a hard thing to do, and may take quite some time for you to feel as though you're normal again. Trying to stay positive, especially if you have children, is not easy to do. Putting on a brave face in front of them is not really how you feel, so you must start taking steps to help you overcome the grief and feel positive once again.
The top 2 ways you can stay positive during this time are:
- You have to stop the negative chattering your head which is constantly telling you how terrible you feel. Replacing the chatter with some positive thoughts can be as easy as listening to a CD throughout your day which will have an immediate effect of making you feel uplifted. If you don’t have time to listen to CD’s then spend your spare time reading self-help books from people who can offer you some wonderful words of wisdom that you can use to help get you get back on track.
- Try taking up some form of exercise, whether it's going for a daily walk or going to a gym and doing an exercise program. Exercise is a wonderful way to help clear your mind as you concentrate on your program, and nothing else. If you live near a beach there’s nothing more uplifting than going for a walk, hearing nothing but the sound of the waves crashing. It’s a great way to clear your mind.
Grief is not easy to deal with and it will pass with time, but to help you along the way you have to take some form of action. If you do nothing, the grief will stay with you far longer than it should. Start helping yourself and within a short period of time your grief will be gone and you will be able to get on with your life once again.
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Filed under Depression, Mind Power, News by on Sep 23rd, 2009. 2 Comments.