OKR VS SMART Goals: 3 Key Differences

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Up until I was about 20, this is what my goals would look like: “Tomorrow I am going to start. It’s a whole new week and I’ve had enough of getting poor results. I’m serious, everything is changing tomorrow.” This goal-setting strategy applied to many areas of my life, whether I was trying to eat … Read more

Goal Setting Activities of Olympic Athletes (and what they can teach the rest of us)

Shoot for the moon with your long term goals. Most overestimate what they can complete with hard work and dedication in the short term, but they also underestimate what is really possible in the long term.

Olympians can teach us quite a bit about goal setting activities. Olympians are master’s of reaching large, audacious goals, and every single olympian uses the process of goal setting to help them achieve their dreams. What can Olympians really teach us about reaching our goals? Let’s face it.  99.9999% of the people reading this post … Read more

(Kindle) S.M.A.R.T. Goals Made Simple – 10 Steps to Master Your Personal and Career Goals

Wherever your ambitions may lie, goal setting can get you there. On the other hand, the wrong goal can leave you feeling frustrated and unmotivated. When you set a goal that’s too lofty, it’s easy to give up when your dreams don’t turn into reality. We all have important milestones we’d like to reach. The trick is to create a plan and commit to it. SMART goal setting can help you do this.

Setting goals might seem easy. You write down a few milestones.  Then you get busy working on them. The problem? Most people struggle with their goal achievement efforts. That’s because they don’t know how to turn goal into a doable, day-to-day plan. In other words, they’re not good at turning goals into habits. But you … Read more