These days, most of us rely on GPS to get around a new city or find an unfamiliar address. It’s a lot easier and more efficient than wandering aimlessly. In much the same way, your brain is like a GPS system, more likely to get to its desired destination if it knows...
Goals, by their very nature, are set with the future in mind. They’re what we plan to achieve later on. But what if we told you that by reflecting – right now – on what reaching those goals would actually look and feel like, you’d have a much better chance of...
If you’re a list-maker, you know how gratifying it is to cross things off that you’ve accomplished. But did you know that brain science plays a big part in that satisfaction? Research shows that being able to cross actions off as you achieve them is highly rewarding...
Targets, intentions, objectives, ambition. Whatever you call it, we spend our lives setting goals. How often we reach them – even at work – is something else entirely. That’s because successful goal achievement requires much more than simply setting them. First you...
Let’s get personal. Really, it’s the only way this is going to work. Because here’s the thing: we all want to do what we want to do, right? It’s no fun being told what to do. So why should goal-setting be any different? If you’ve ever wondered why you fail to reach...
Way back in 1996, Jim Collins and Jerry Porras wrote the classic Harvard Business Review article “Building Your Company’s Vision.” In it, they introduced the concept of the Big Hairy Audacious Goal (or BHAG) and it’s still relevant today. What’s changed over the past...
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